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Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into IELTS speaking part 2.
Describe an energetic person that you know.
You should say who the person is, how you knew this person, why you think this person is energetic, and explain how you feel about this person.
Rory here knows a lot of energetic people.
Rory, give us your story.
I know a lot of energetic people about being phenomenally lazy myself.
Right, let's get cracking.
So, I have a brilliant friend called Sean, who I go climbing and bouldering with, in addition to other sports.
We've been friends for about a year and a half now, having met through the wild swimming club we both go to.
we also have several mutual friends as it turned out so that was an extra reason to get to know each other actually just so we could all go out together.
I like to think of myself as having a lot of energy actually but he's on a whole other level and does things like hiking and walks and kettlebell workouts and all of these other really sort of high intensity activities.
I've honestly I have no idea where he gets the energy for this from.
Although I suppose he's a little younger than me, so that could be one of the advantages that he has over me in that sense.
But I don't like to dwell on that because it reminds me how old I am.
The other thing is, he seems to be quite optimistic and not prone to getting terribly stressed out about stuff.
So that's perhaps how he conserves his energy for more intense things like exercise and sports.
That's in contrast to myself.
I tend to like hyper focus on things and get very stressed out very easily.
So I suppose I could learn a lot here.
And then when it comes to how I feel about him, I'm very happy to have a new friend or I was very happy to have a new friend.
Now I consider him like just a regular friend, especially one who wants to do different things to stay healthy and positive.
I think that's actually super important these days, especially when we're all leading such sedentary lifestyles and if you don't move around that can be really bad for you.
If we hadn't come friends, I suppose I'd still be quite active but not as active as I am now and well, I don't think you can ever have enough friends like that, can you?
And what about your other friends?
Do they think that Sean is energetic?
I haven't really spoken about it to be honest, I wouldn't know.
And how old are you, Rory?
We forgot. That's not one of the questions.
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soon right dear listener describe an energetic person an energetic person is somebody who is what full of energy all right what synonyms do we have to energetic grow.
Oh, to have energy, to be full of beans.
I didn't use that one, I should have actually.
Yeah. Yeah, you can say like this person is active, lively, full of life.
Can you say like this person is dynamic?
I think being dynamic is more to do with being able to do lots of different things.
But a lot of a lot of the time actually, and that's a good point, people use this word dynamic or to have dynamism to mean people are quite full of life and ability you can say like he's full of energy, he's active, he's lively also you can say this person is restless so they are always on the go, doing
something they're kind of all the time so restless and also you can say that this person is hardworking Being enthusiastic is another good example.
And you can start off with I have a brilliant friend called Tata -Rory.
I should point out, I've said this before, but it's worth saying again because I keep getting this with my students when I'm preparing them for part two.
And they always say like, I'm going to talk about or I'm going to talk about a friend who is very energetic.
I should stress, you do not need to do this in the exam because the examiner has a copy of the task in front of them.
They know you are going to talk about this friend full of energy.
So you can just say, I'll tell you about my friend and then just move into I'll tell you about my friend or have a friend and what their name is and what you do.
So you don't need to be very super formal with this presentation about your friend.
Yeah, don't repeat the task.
So say exactly who or what you are talking about.
So I have a friend called Rory.
So we go climbing, like mountain climbing together.
And then you said like we go bouldering.
What was this? Bouldering?
Oh, bouldering is like when you hold on to different handholds on a wall.
This can be indoors or outdoors.
And you have to climb and not fall to the ground.
It's good fun, actually.
Oh, so kind of like climbing is outdoors, right?
And if you go bouldering is when you go indoors and there's a wall with this thing is and you kind of do climbing, but indoors.
Yeah, yeah. Well, we go.
Actually, I should say I'm using climbing as shorthand for indoor top rope climbing, which is just climbing up a rope and coming down one or abseiling down one indoors as well on these walls that are quite tall.
And they also have things to hold your hands on and your feet to.
we've been friends for about a year so present perfect we've been friends for a long time or we've been friends for a month or we haven't been friends for a long time for example I should say it's important because no one knows exactly how long they've known people and sometimes I see candidates calculating
in their heads like how much time did I know my friend and and that's not really what people do in real life like you don't talk about you don't count the number of days you've known your friends you just say oh it's been about a year or around a year and a half something like this yeah and this is approximation this is quite
good this is quite good for your vocabulary so about roughly and then past simple we met through some friends of ours or we met through the swimming club.
We met through our mutual friends.
Friends we both know.
We have several mutual friends.
And we got to know each other.
So we met, we started kind of talking to each other.
We got to know each other.
So Sean does a lot of things like hiking, walks, kettlebell workouts.
What are they? Kettlebell.
Oh, no. I'm going to grossly oversimplify this.
A kettlebell is like a weight that you hold with one hand or that you can hold with one hand.
And the idea is that you are using it in various ways to work various muscle groups or muscle groups, I should say.
Yeah, you can just Google image kettlebell, kettle double T.
Just go to Google images, dear listener, and look at this kettlebell.
so a heavy rounded object so he does weight training with a kettlebell nice i have no idea where he gets the energy from so i've honestly no idea where he gets all this energy from so it's absolutely okay to say like i don't know i have no idea where anyone gets their energy from these days.
Yeah, he's like super active, really energetic, super enthusiastic.
I super enthusiastic.
I have no idea where he gets it from.
He's a little younger than me.
The age. But that's not saying much because most people are younger than me.
My watch says we've gone three miles.
This app is like having a personal trainer.
Yeah, but those apps collect a lot of your personal data.
Aren't you worried?
Really? That's creepy.
How do I stop that?
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You think they could help us get up this next hill?
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He seems quite optimistic to this.
So energetic people are usually quite optimistic and he's not prone to getting stressed out about stuff.
A very good collocation.
To be prone to doing something.
That's a weird one, isn't it?
Because you have prone to plus ING.
Yeah. C2 level, proficiency level.
Yes. Yeah. To be prone to something or to be prone.
Oh, no. Actually, it's to be prone to do something.
To do something? Really?
Really? According to Cambridge, another edition is to do something.
It's very strange. Not prone to get stressed out.
Hmm. Ah, there we go.
That's the problem.
So, prone to plus the infinitive describes a tendency.
But prone to plus the gerund describes a habit or a tendency to do something.
So if we're talking about someone's character, it's about what they do regularly.
So I am right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dear listener.
And so when we talk about habits, what a person usually does, then we say he's prone to getting stressed, right?
It's his habit, right?
Or not prone to getting stressed.
Yeah. and to be prone to do something or to doing something is pretty much like um you kind of you you do it for example uh he is prone to headaches so he usually gets headaches or like he's prone to depression okay so he gets depressed once in a while so that's a fun one that must be why it's c2 then
he conserves his energy conserves you mean like he saves he saves up his energy right yes you can conserve energy i suppose it's most appropriate here we can also conserve our money or conserve our enthusiasm yeah so he conserves his energy for later or for intensive workouts he conserves his strength
so he is strong his strength he conserves his strength for kind of competitions for physical activities beautiful when it comes to how i feel about him i'm very happy to have him as a friend so a nice uh linking phrase like as for how i feel about him when it comes to how i feel about him about him
about him not about him but about him about her he does a lot of different things to stay healthy which is super important yeah so he's quite active right super enthusiastic and um like i'm not as active as he is not as active as nice.
Rory, what helped you to organize your ransom?
I really did follow the task.
However, usually I have signpost phrases about this person.
I just said when it comes to how I feel about him, I didn't really do this for the other ones.
I just did what I said, what I was supposed to talk about.
So when you talk about who the person is, this is my friend who I go climbing and bouldering with.
that's an important thing actually to mention because usually we think about this idea of who we know as just their name but we could also comment about what we do with them and the role they play in our lives as well and then for how you know them well i talked about the mutual friends and how long
we've known each other as well so this is why we've known each other so long and this is how long we've known each other as well and then why the person is energetic well again I talked about him in comparison to myself which is a good thing to do because usually we're talking about our friends and well
they fit into our lives in some way it might not be that they're 100 the same person so we can compare and contrast here and then we come to the end and it was just a case of asking the rhetorical question I don't think you can ever have enough friends like that can you if you had a little bit more
time you might want to talk about uh the alternatives if you didn't have friends in your lives but i didn't have that option sweet thank you very much for listening dear listener no don't thank them yet don't thank them yet it's quiz time rory's vocabulary show it is my vocabulary quiz time so follow
us as i ask maria some questions about the different vocabulary that i used as we go so not just the vocabulary actually we could talk about the grammar too i'm just focusing on the vocabulary because that's more memorable so maria some questions for you i mentioned three or four different kinds of sport
and exercise in my answer but all i'm asking you to do is to remember two of them what two do you remember So we go climbing together, we go bouldering.
Fab, all right. You could also have said things like wild swimming and kettlebell workouts too.
And now, this is a focus on a particular word which is used to describe when we save things for a particular purpose or time.
We conserve our energy, we conserve our strength.
Yes, very nice. And then, another phrase which talks about, or which is used to talk about, are tendencies.
To be prone to doing something.
Yes. And the last question is another collocation, which is used to describe it when you share friends, or if you have friends in common.
To have several mutual friends.
Oh, yes. Well done.
Once again, Maria has got 100%.
Amazing. We should keep talking about friends and energy.
Absolutely, yes. Join us in Part 3, when we will talk about friends and energy.
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Describe an energetic person that you know.
You should say who the person is, how you knew this person, why you think this person is energetic and explain how you feel about this person.
So I have a brilliant friend called Sean who I go climbing and brilliant friend called Sean who I go climbing and bouldering with in addition to other sports.
We've been friends for about a year and a half now, having met through the wild swimming club we both go to.
We also have several mutual friends as it turned out.
So that was an extra reason to get to know each other actually, just so we could all go out together.
I like to think of myself as having a lot of energy actually but he's on a whole other level and does things like hiking and walks and kettlebell workouts and all of these other really sort of high intensity activities.
I've honestly no idea where he gets the energy for this from.
Although I suppose he's a little younger than me so that could be one of the advantages that he has over me in that sense but I don't like to dwell on that because it reminds me how old I am.
The other thing is he seems to be quite optimistic and not prone to getting terribly stressed out about stuff, so that's perhaps how he conserves his energy for more intense things like exercise and sports.
That's in contrast to myself.
I tend to hyper -focus on things and get very stressed out very easily, so I suppose I could learn a lot here.
And then when it comes to how I feel about him, I'm very happy to have a new friend, or I was very happy to have a new friend.
Now I consider him like just a regular friend, especially one who wants to do different things to stay healthy and positive.
I think that's actually super important these days, especially when we're all leading such sedentary lifestyles.
And if you don't move around, that can be really bad for you.
If we hadn't come friends, I suppose I'd still be quite active, but not as active as I am now.
And well, I don't think you can ever have enough friends like that, can you?
And what about your other friends?
Do they think that Sean is energetic?
I haven't really spoken about it, to be honest.
I wouldn't know.
