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Hello, hello dear listener, and welcome into our IELTS Speaking part 3!
We are talking about food and celebrations.
Mmmm. Rory here is a super expert on food, cooking, in the microwave, and celebrations.
Right, Rory? Yes, all of these things are accurate.
Is any food in your country eaten at particular times or on special occasions?
Aside from birthdays probably things like Easter eggs which are rolled at Easter to symbolize the boulder being pushed away from Jesus too.
Oh and people often get together to eat haggis on night since that same is a quintessentially Scottish food so it's suitable for the national poet.
Plus I think he wrote a poem about haggis which is often quoted at the celebration so it fits the mood perfectly.
What are the differences between traditional food in your country and other countries?
I think with all food like that it's a reflection of what was considered a staple food in the distant past. So in the case of Scotland, sheep meat or mutton and oats play, and well, they play a central role and they played a central role, especially in making haggis.
We still have lots of sheep now, and also oats, but they aren't the key types of livestock and crops they once were.
So it's more about the connection to the past than anything else.
I'm not sure those foodstuffs play such a central role in other cultures, but I could be wrong.
Why are some people willing to spend a lot of money on meals on special days?
Well, culturally speaking I suppose it's considered crucial to have the wherewithal to celebrate such days as they should be, or at least as is considered appropriate, whether it's financially sustainable or not.
So the perception might be if you don't have – if you don't spend the money, you're not seen to be doing it right and some people can't stand to be seen in such a way.
So they shell out a ton of money to demonstrate they can do it.
Do you think it's good to communicate when eating with your family?
Well, maybe not at the exact moment you are eating.
I mean, medically that might pose a risk of choking to death.
Also, in some cultures I think it's considered rude to talk with your mouthful.
So not in the moment from that perspective.
However, between chewing and swallowing seems an ideal time.
It would be awkward to just sit in utter silence otherwise, in what seems like a good chance to socialise, especially if everyone is gathered around a table.
And how can we encourage people to eat together, especially families?
That's a good question, I suppose.
Just by making it the norm.
So if it's something that's seen as culturally appropriate, generally people will move in that direction.
So things like government awareness raising campaigns might work, especially if they highlight the benefits of doing so.
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And here Rory is very specific.
He gives an example, with Easter, during Easter people eat Easter eggs.
Or for example traditional Scottish food is haggis.
And usually people eat haggis on Burns night.
But different foods can symbolize different things for example here You got this boulder being...
well, the eggs which symbolize the boulder.
What do you mean the boulder?
There is a boulder rolled in front of Jesus too, so to symbolise it being rolled away, people roll eggs die in hell.
Traditional food in your country.
What is it? Here you can also mention a phrase, a collocation, a staple food.
For example pasta is a staple food in Italy.
So in Scotland it's meat, sheep, meat, mutton, mutton is meat from sheep.
But it's probably not now.
And also oats. Oats play a central role.
For example potatoes play a central role in our diet in our country and that's a staple food.
Do they play a staple role in your country?
Yeah, different grains.
crops if they are food for eating variety for vegetables, meat, is our staple diet the staple diet here is mutton and boiled potatoes it sounds so appetizing and when we talk about sheep, different cows, they are livestock livestock is like farm animals that you have in your country Animals for eating.
And birds. Yeah which are kept on a farm, usually cows, sheep or chickens.
Another synonym for food is food stuffs.
So I'm not sure that such food stuffs are popular in other countries.
I think there's a very famous quote about that.
So oats are not traditionally eaten or were not traditionally eaten by English people.
And there's this quote from this English a Dutch lord that was saying, oh, in Scotland you feed your people oats, but here we feed them to horses.
And the response is, yes, but the people there are amazingly strong.
So they're like horses now.
Oh, all right, that's true.
Scottish people are strong.
Allegedly. Have you seen the braveheart?
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Factual documentary.
This is exactly it.
like everything that is in this film is 100 % accurate.
Some people spend a lot of money on meals, on special days, special days, holidays, celebrations, and you can say that it's considered crucial to have a big celebration.
like people consider that it's important to kind of to spend so much money on a birthday party for example on a wedding so usually we talk about birthdays weddings anniversaries I will never understand why people feel the need to spend a tremendous amount of money on weddings you've got the rest of your lives together calm down well yeah but like it's someone's dream with somebody else's dream.
And we can say that it's financially sustainable or it's not financially sustainable because if a young family spends all their money on their wedding and then they have nothing left, it's not financially sustainable.
It's not healthy. It's not healthy for your bank account.
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And you can say that if you don't spend the money you are not seen to be doing it right so you are not doing it right.
Or you can say if people don't spend money they are not seen to be doing it right.
So they are not doing it right.
And people just hate to be seen in such a away.
They can't stand to be seen in such a way.
They dislike the idea that other people think that they are strange or they have a problem.
So they have to share out money, shell out money, to demonstrate that they're super cool.
Shell out a ton of money, so spend a lot of money.
So we say shell out on something, spend a lot of money on something, or for something, shell out for a new car, or you can say splash.
Splash out. or splurge splash out on or splurge on some new technology for example, spend a lot of money and you can say that some people prefer to shell out a ton of money to demonstrate that they are super cool and super rich. But it's not necessary.
Well, yeah, for some people it is, yeah.
I know, I don't know why they feel that way.
Some questions could be about communicating with your family when you are having dinner, for example.
So, family members should communicate while having a meal, or when you eat with your family, you should kind of talk to each other.
And the Rory here is very practical.
he says that well you can't talk while you are eating while you're actually eating you're kind of chewing your food move all your boys when you and then you choke to death and die yeah choke is when something gets into your throat and then you like in films you know they can they can't breathe because like a huge piece of steak got into a person's throat.
And medically, from a medical perspective, this pose a threat.
So this, like talking while you are eating, might pose a risk of choking to death.
Poses just create. Yeah, create a risk.
In other countries it's rude to talk with your mouth full.
So, that's a nice collocation.
Some people prefer to talk with their mouth full.
So, do not talk with your mouth full.
Unless you're okay with taking a risk.
And usually it's like it's small talk, like what you call this kind of conversation.
You are having a meal, Table talk, maybe!
Table talk, really?
Okay, because we have small talk about the weather, like how are you, How's the weather, ta ta ta.
And then we have something nice to talk about during a meal, not religion, not politics.
Something light. Not social hierarchies.
No, we don't discuss hierarchies.
Do not discuss the social hierarchy.
And it would be awkward, it would be very strange to just sit down in utter silence a very good phrase to sit in utter silence complete silence utter silence so nothing yeah so you need to socialize with people you know like be nice when your family is gathered around a table everyone is gathered is kind of placed around and a table.
Having a meal and everybody's happy.
Delicious pizza. No one is talking about something wrong.
Like the social hierarchy.
Everybody's cracking stupid jokes.
They learned from Maria.
You know, remember the joke about the snake?
Do you listen to her?
Huh? Huh? Remember?
Shall I repeat it? Thank you very much for listening!
Revise your jokes. Seriously you should remember at least like 2 or 3 stupid jokes to tell the examiner, you know.
And the examiner will understand that yes, you are like a native.
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Aside from birthdays, probably things like easter eggs, which are rolled at easter to symbolize the boulder being pushed away from Jesus too.
Oh and people often get together to eat haggis on Burns night since that thing is a quintessentially Scottish food, so it's suitable for the national poet.
Plus I think he wrote a poem about haggis which is often quoted at the celebrations so it fits the mood perfectly.
What are the differences between traditional food in your country and other countries?
Well I think with all food like that it's a reflection of what was considered a staple food in the distant past. So in the case of Scotland, sheep meat or mutton and oats play a central role, especially in making haggis.
We still have lots of sheep now and also oats, but they aren't the key types of livestock and crops they once were.
So it's more about the connection to the past than anything else.
I'm not sure those foodstuffs play such a central role in other cultures, but I could be wrong.
Why are some people willing to spend a lot of money on meals on special days?
Well, culturally speaking, I suppose it's considered crucial to have the wherewithal to celebrate such days as they should be, or at least as is considered appropriate, whether it's financially sustainable or not.
So the perception might be, if you don't spend the money, you're not seen to be doing it right, and some people can't stand to be seen in such a way.
So they shell out a ton of money to demonstrate they can do it.
Do you think it's good to communicate when eating with your family?
Well maybe not at the exact moment you're eating, I mean medically that might pose a risk of choking to death.
In some cultures I think it's considered rude to talk with your mouth full, so not in the moment from that perspective.
However, between chewing and swallowing seems an ideal time.
It would be awkward to just sit in utter silence otherwise in what seems like a good chance to socialize, especially if everyone is gathered around a table.
And how can we encourage people to eat together, especially families?
That's a good question, I suppose, just by making it the norm.
So if it's something that's seen as culturally appropriate, generally people will move in that direction.
So things like government awareness raising campaigns might work, especially if they highlight the benefits of doing so.
