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Hello, lovely.
I'm Maria.
And I am professional dance instructor Rory Duncan.
And we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way.
We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score.
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Dear listener, of course, Rory is not a professional dancer.
He's lying.
Absolutely lying.
I'm just going to do this in every episode, because no one pays attention to the opening credits for this.
So if we change it a bit, maybe that will make people laugh.
Yeah, dear listener.
So Rory is bored.
So he decided to just... I've decided to start lying.
Yeah, he decided to start lying, number one.
And every time we say hello to you, Rory will say a different profession.
So today Rory is a professional dancer.
Okay, Rory, what's the dance?
The Tango Argentino.
Argentinian tango, it's called, okay?
Right, you see, dear listener.
But, oh, by the way, happy Easter, Rory.
Do you have any steak?
What a segue!
What a transition!
I don't, actually, but chocolate is not my favorite food anyway.
Oh, what a shame.
But let's talk about food.
Maybe, dear listener, you are celebrating Easter and you have like an Easter bunny or Easter eggs, or what else do they do?
Like special Easter cake?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe not in your culture, but well, in some countries people celebrate Easter.
And even if you don't, food is the topic.
You could be asked about it in the exam.
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What's your favorite food?
I'm torn between steak and pizza right now, to be honest.
Steak is great because it helps me hit all my macros as part of my diet.
But while I normally don't do junk food, I do love a big pizza to celebrate the end of a hard week.
So it's kind of a toss up between those two.
Do you eat different foods at different times of the year?
Not particularly.
I pretty much stick to the same select food choices all year round.
I think the closest thing to seasonal foods would be strawberries in the summer, but that's only because my parents tend to buy and share them at that time of year.
Has your favourite food changed since you were a child?
I don't think so.
I've always been a big fan of any meat dishes or products.
I've definitely developed an appreciation for salad as I've gotten older.
It's far from my favourite thing in the world.
What kind of food did you like when you were young?
Aside from what I said, I was, well, I was quite a large kid.
And it was fairly obvious that I liked chocolate, burgers, all kinds of junk food.
I'm far healthier these days compared to before.
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So, dear listener, food, what a lovely topic.
Food, you know.
We all love food.
Food.
So, what's your favorite food?
Rory can't decide.
Perhaps it's a steak or pizza.
So if you are in between, you can say it's a toss-up between steaks or pizza.
It's a toss-up between steak or pizza.
What a choice.
What about you, Maria?
Oh, yeah, pizza.
Yeah.
Italian food.
Only pizza?
No, pasta, pizza, gelato, cappuccino.
Just Italian food is my favorite here.
Also... So it's not really a toss-up between two things.
It's just like a massive list of food.
Absolutely.
Italian food.
I love Chinese food.
But not spicy.
Chinese food.
So, dear listener, you can say I love Chinese food or I love Chinese cuisine.
Cuisine, like food, italian food, or you can name a special dish, not like a specific dish, right?
So i'm torn between steak and pizza.
I'm torn between is another synonym.
It's a toss-up between because, like uh, torn is the third form of the verb, tear.
The bear tore him apart.
Oh lovely, since we're talking about food or like something like my dress was torn, right now kind of destroyed, so tear is the verb.
I'm torn between steak and pizza, like I don't know which I prefer more, steak or pizza.
Maria is not torn between two things.
She just has food.
Yeah.
And, Roy, you said, like, all my macros.
Yeah, macronutrients.
So...
Broadly speaking, there are three macronutrients, fat, protein and carbohydrates.
And you need to keep them in a kind of balance as part of a diet.
That would be something that you or the things that you eat regularly.
A diet is not just about removing food.
It's also about regulating what you eat.
Macronutrients, dear listener, is a specific term from biology.
So macronutrients yeah, like fiber and protein, are key macronutrients.
Macronutrients, macronutrients yeah, big things.
There are micronutrients too.
I imagine specific carbohydrates or specific kinds of protein work that we do.
And you can say that steak helps me hit all my macros as part of my diet.
Diet, like as part of my food, all the food I eat is my diet.
And steak helps me hit all my macros, all my macronutrients.
Nice.
But pizza doesn't help.
Pizza is just for happiness, you know, for good mood, happiness, joy, happiness.
Positive energy.
I stick to the same food.
Stick to.
I choose the same food.
Yes.
And you can say I pretty much stick to the same food.
It's the same select food choices.
If it's select, it's focused.
You missed out the best collocation.
Very sad.
Select food choices all year round or during the year.
All year round is a nice one.
And you can talk about seasonal foods.
Here we can say foods, not food, but foods, like different products.
Seasonal products, like what are seasonal products?
Things that only grow at specific types of year.
For example, maybe specific vegetables grow in your country at a specific time so they are cheaper that time of year because they can grow more readily.
In my country, that is, well, in the summer it's strawberries, blueberries, raspberries.
That's because that's when those things grow.
Yeah, and it's quite healthy to eat seasonal foods.
So, we don't usually eat berries in winter because they don't grow in winter.
They grow in summer.
So in summer we usually eat seasonal foods such as strawberries, different berries apples, veg vegetables.
My favorite food has changed since I was a child.
So here we are using the present perfect.
My food has changed or my food choices have changed since I was a child, since I was young.
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And you can use the present perfect in this one.
I've always been a fan of meat.
I've always been a fan of fish.
I've always enjoyed fish.
I've always been a fan of Italian food, Italian cuisine.
Just like meat dishes, fish dishes.
And I've recently developed an appreciation for salads.
So recently, I started enjoying salads.
And appreciation is something, it's a nice word.
When you like something.
I have an appreciation for Maria.
I have appreciation for Rory.
We like each other, yeah.
Because I'm such a good dance teacher.
Oh, you're a teacher now.
Oh, did I say that?
I thought I meant to say professional dance instructor.
Right, so you see, it's just lying.
So much lying.
Rory can't.
If you don't understand that joke, it's because you were not paying attention in the introduction.
In the introduction, Rory told us that he is a professional dancer.
Now he's... Lying again.
He forgot his lies and said that he's a dancing teacher now.
Hmm.
Right, dear listener, where were we?
So I've developed an appreciation for meat, for fish, for salads.
And now, for example, chocolate is my favorite thing in the world.
Or maybe dark chocolate.
When you talk about your childhood, you can say, I used to like chocolate.
I used to like fried eggs.
I used to eat a lot of burgers, but not anymore.
You know, like as a child, I used to eat a lot of junk food, fast food, McDonald's.
Yeah, McDonald's.
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So you can say I used to eat a lot of junk food, I used to eat a lot of burgers.
I used to be fat, I think is what we're trying to say.
Okay, yeah, like I used to be unhealthy, right?
No, as for me, for example, I used to eat quite a lot of bread and sugar and uh donuts sweets biscuits, you know all that stuff.
But now i'm far healthier.
So you don't say i'm well, you can say i'm more healthy, it's okay.
But if you want to say like definitely i'm just, i'm much healthier, you can say i'm far healthier.
You know like to intensify like.
Or you could be super informal and say I'm way healthier these days.
I wouldn't say I was way healthier, just far or much healthier.
I still do some unhealthy things.
For example, I stopped, well as for me, I stopped eating bread and sugar.
No more sugar for me.
I'm sweet enough now.
So I am saying about myself, I'm far healthier.
And I'm looking at Rory now and he looks really healthy.
His face is shining.
The camera is not working.
It's all that professional dancing.
That's what it is.
Oh, yeah, it's just Argentinian tango and hugging a lot of people, beautiful people.
All right, dear listener.
So, as we are talking about food, we are ready for a joke.
Are we?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay, so the joke is, what do you call a fake noodle?
Okay, what do you call a fake noodle?
An impasta.
Rory explains the joke.
Go ahead, Rory.
So, a fake person or someone who is doing something they shouldn't be is an imposter.
But of course, it sounds similar to impasta... which is a kind of, well, pasta is a kind of food.
So if anyone ever complains about my joke about being a professional dance instructor or dance teacher, I refer you to this joke and see who comes out better.
Yeah, but it's funny.
Come on, like a pasta, you know, imposter, imposter, you know, a fake person, fake, like not real.
Then noodles, they are kind of kind of pasta, but not really like Chinese noodles, for example.
Right.
So like it's not a real pasta.
So it's imposter.
Right.
Just remember, dear listener, there's no love more sincere than the love for food.
Okay?
So, our love for food is the most sincere thing in the world.
Yum, yum, yum.
Pizza pasta, pizza pasta.
And, dear listener, also remember that everything that is not water is food.
Tea is food.
Coffee is food.
Juice is food.
Okay, so we have water.
Everything else is food.
Bon appétit.
Enjoy your meal.
And we'll get back to you in our next episodes.
Bye.
Bye.
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What's your favorite food?
I'm torn between steak and pizza right now, to be honest.
Steak is great because it helps me hit all my macros as part of my diet.
But while I normally don't do junk food, I do love a big pizza to celebrate the end of a hard week.
So it's kind of a toss up between those two.
Do you eat different foods at different times of the year?
Not particularly.
I pretty much stick to the same select food choices all year round.
I think the closest thing to seasonal foods would be strawberries in the summer, but that's only because my parents tend to buy and share them at that time of year.
Has your favourite food changed since you were a child?
I don't think so.
I've always been a big fan of any meat dishes or products.
I've definitely developed an appreciation for salad as I've gotten older.
It's far from my favourite thing in the world.
What kind of food did you like when you were young?
Aside from what I said, I was well, I was quite a large kid and it was fairly obvious that I liked chocolate burgers, all kinds of junk food.
I'm far healthier these days compared to before spring.
Just slid into your dms.
Grab that boho, look for that rooftop dinner, those sandals that can keep up with you and hang some string lights to give your patio a glow up.
Spring's calling ross.
Work your magic.
