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I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory.
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We started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score.
Your Pantene score.
Rory.
Rory, what are you eating?
Are you eating something?
Oh, this?
Yes.
It's just an apple.
They grow them locally here.
I see.
Shall we talk about growing things?
Yes, let's talk about growing things.
Are you interested in growing vegetables and fruits?
Not overly.
I barely have an interest in cooking or growing a house plant for that matter, let alone doing anything like I don't know cultivating a cucumber or a tomato plant.
I just don't have the time or the patience for that.
Do many people grow vegetables in your city?
I imagine so.
There are lots of plots of land and allotments on the outskirts and in the suburbs, so they must be growing something there.
Is growing vegetables popular in your country?
I'm not sure.
Well, it might be less common than before since people usually just go to the supermarket.
But when it comes to how popular it is, I have no idea.
I'm not sure it's something that you can derive that much pleasure from.
So I'd say no, but that could just be my own bias talking there.
Should schools teach students how to grow vegetables?
I don't see the harm in it.
It might be a nice way to bring together different concepts and subjects like biology, for learning about growth, and maths, for calculating how much water they need, for example, and how much soil.
Do you think it's easy to grow vegetables?
For me personally, no, it would be a nightmare.
I know nothing about it, and it would be such a waste of money to attempt it now.
I used to think it was all just soil and seeds and water, but it's way more complex than that and I just don't have the willpower.
Other people might be fine, though.
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Yay!
Thank you, Rory, for your answers.
So, dear listener, we are growing vegetables and fruits.
This is a brand new topic, okay?
We haven't had it before.
So, yeah.
Is it strange for you?
Well, it would be strange for me to grow anything.
Yeah, you're a plant murderer.
You just murder anything as we speak.
The big plant in my house it is withering away, which would also be a good way to talk about growing things.
Actually, if something is withering, it means it is well.
Its condition is getting worse and worse and it's slowly dying.
And Rory's plants are like Rory, please give us water.
Water, Rory.
I do give them water, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Yeah, you should talk to them, hug them, touch them, talk to them, love them.
Oh, that's crazy.
So, dear, listen.
Growing vegetables or veggies or veg or fruits.
Fruits.
Not fruit, but fruits.
Because lots of different kinds of fruits.
And Rory told us that I barely have an interest in growing something.
So, barely.
I have no interest or very little interest in growing something.
You said growing a house plant.
No, it's pretty much like a plant or vegetables.
Well, this is just to say what would be even less work.
Really, i don't have an interest in growing a house plant, and then let alone the other things as well.
So, compared to growing fruit and vegetables, i think a house plant is quite easy to grow, but you have to put in much more effort to grow a cucumber or a tomato.
So i wouldn't put in any effort for that either, and i said let alone, which is highlighting the fact that these things are much more difficult.
We can also say cultivate, cultivate a cucumber, cultivate a tomato or a tomato plant right, cultivate or grow like when you cultivate, you take care of it, you grow it.
You can say that i don't have patience for that.
I don't have enough patience for growing vegetables.
Usually, people grow plants vegetables, on the outskirts or in the suburbs.
Sorry, on the outskirts, but in the suburbs.
Not in the city, but outside the city, where you have beautiful fields and people have special I don't know vegetable gardens, special spots where vegetables grow.
And you can say, like, people usually have plots of land Or allotments.
Allotments is just land.
Well, it's an area of land used for something.
It's usually something small and personal.
Growing vegetables is not really popular in Scotland.
In the Royalist country, for some reason.
So, no, but you said, like, I'm not sure.
I know.
I don't know either.
I said it might be less common.
Oh, but I used a modal verb.
That's nice.
Yeah, maybe it's common, but today it's less common than before.
People just go to the supermarket, and Rory has no idea, like, I have no idea.
It's okay to say that, so... I think that's something important to highlight for any kind of topic.
If you don't know, you can just say, I have no idea, and then speculate.
But maybe, or it might be the case that... People derive pleasure from something.
You can say, I derive pleasure from growing fruits.
I derive pleasure from growing cucumbers, potatoes.
And people in my country derive pleasure from growing vegetables different.
What do you call this lettuce herbs?
Plants?
Plants, like different green stuff that's, you know, spices like rosemary.
Well, I think rosemary is a herb.
And things like lettuce, like a leafy plant, a leafy vegetable.
I don't see the harm in it. should schools teach students or should students be taught something and you say yes why not like i don't see the harm in it there's no harm in it so it's um i don't see any bad things in this and children can learn about growth how things grow and maths because they will calculate how much water plants need I suppose so.
This is just when I was a primary school teacher.
That's the kind of thing I would consider when I was teaching this kind of subject.
You can say that for me, growing vegetables would be a nightmare.
Like a total nightmare.
It's of my thing.
I'm a plant murderer.
I kill everything.
So, let alone vegetables.
Oh, dear listener, maybe you are very good at growing stuff.
So then...
You say, I have green fingers, which means I'm very good at growing things.
I enjoy growing this and that.
I enjoy cultivating this and that.
But you should give specific names.
So if it's lettuce rosemary, different herbs, but please make sure you name at least three different types of vegetables.
Like aubergines.
Say something interesting, not just potatoes.
Okay?
Okay.
What interesting vegetables do you have?
Oh, my God.
What do you mean interesting vegetables?
What makes a vegetable interesting?
Like less common.
Broccoli.
Aubergine.
Aubergine is less common.
Or maybe like Brussels sprouts.
Who is growing aubergines?
I don't know.
Nobody.
That's why you're going to be interesting.
Radish.
There we go.
Pumpkin.
Pumpkin.
You can grow pumpkin.
Corn.
Cabbage.
Celery.
Sweet potato.
So, just, I mean, pick something interesting.
Spinach.
Is spinach a vegetable?
I thought it was a herb.
Yeah, but it's okay to say herbs, vegetables.
You can say growing vegetables is difficult.
You might assume that it's just soil, seeds, and water, but it's way more complex.
Soil is ground, is what a plant lives in.
So I don't have the willpower.
The willpower means Well, the motivation, or i do have a lot of willpower and i'm very good at growing anything, so there are people who are just good at growing.
Oh willpower, c2 bad night, is it?
Yeah, it is.
I know the ability to control your own thoughts and the way in which you behave.
So it's when you control your thoughts and also behavior, Like it took a lot of willpower to stay calm.
Or I don't have the willpower to keep to a diet.
When they tell you don't drink Coca-Cola, but you continue drinking Coca-Cola.
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So willpower, right?
So I don't have the willpower to grow anything.
Or I have a lot of willpower, so I can manage.
Now, we focused a lot on the vocabulary there, but shall we go back to Maria's predictions?
So Maria said I would not talk about bananas, i would talk about berries and i would talk about herbs.
So, let's see, i didn't talk about bananas.
That's right, because why would i grow something that i don't like eating?
Well done, maria.
However, any mention of any berries no nothing rory, you give just boring answers.
Nothing uh, is a tomato a berry according to botany?
Yes, according to botany yes, it's a berry, but according to, like usual people, it's a vegetable.
But I didn't talk about herbs.
So, two out of three for Maria.
Nicely done.
What about you, dear listener?
How accurate were your predictions?
Did you hear any of these things?
And if you didn't this time, don't worry.
We'll try this in the future as well.
But for now, Maria, shall we say goodbye?
Right.
Thank you very much for listening.
And we'll get back to you in our new episode.
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Are you interested in growing vegetables and fruits?
Not overly.
I barely have an interest in cooking or growing a house plant for that matter, let alone doing anything like I don't know cultivating a cucumber or a tomato plant.
I just don't have the time or the patience for that.
Do many people grow vegetables in your city?
I imagine so.
There are lots of plots of land and allotments on the outskirts and in the suburbs, so they must be growing something there.
Is growing vegetables popular in your country?
I'm not sure.
Well, it might be less common than before since people usually just go to the supermarket.
But when it comes to how popular it is, I have no idea.
Um...
I'm not sure it's something that you can derive that much pleasure from, so I'd say no, but that could just be my own bias talking there.
Should schools teach students how to grow vegetables?
I don't see the harm in it.
It might be a nice way to bring together different concepts and subjects like biology, for learning about growth, and maths, for calculating how much water they need, for example, and how much soil.
Do you think it's easy to grow vegetables?
For me personally, no, it would be a nightmare.
I know nothing about it and it would be such a waste of money to attempt it now.
I used to think it was all just soil and seeds and water, but it's way more complex than that and I just don't have the willpower.
Other people might be fine though.
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