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Aubrey! What are we doing in today's episode?
We are describing places.
I'm excited about this.
When I started looking for part two questions, there are so many speaking part two questions where you have to describe a place.
It is very, very common. There's really four main types of speaking part two, right?
Describe an event or occasion, describe a person, describe a place or describe an object.
And describing places, I would say is one of the most likely ones.
Yes. And so if you look some of these up, you get describe a place you often go, describe your hometown, describe a place you would like to live in.
There are so many different ones.
We're going to need related vocabulary.
The vocabulary we taught you in the episode just a few days ago.
And we'll say yes today.
So scroll up if you missed the last episode and get some of that vocabulary.
Today you're going to hear it in some band -9 sample answers.
Yes! So in the last episode guys hit follow if you missed it so you don't miss another one.
But in the last episode we talked about dividing up the places into two categories.
There's indoors and there's outdoors, and then we gave you a lot of ideas and some great vocabulary for how to think outside the box.
How much can you say or write about these places?
So we're gonna challenge that notion when we do a couple speaking part twos today.
Awesome, very excited for these.
I'll go first Jessica if you're ready to time me, I'll do my best with a part two question, Give me one for an indoor space.
I'm gonna describe inside a space.
Okay, you're gonna do great.
Aubrey, I would like you to describe a museum that you have visited.
I have to go with the Louvre.
When I was 18, I was first in Paris, and it was mind blowing.
Of course it's gigantic hallways and hallways of art.
a little maze like a labyrinth inside but honestly it was quite disappointing.
Don't get me wrong there were still things that were very impressive but there was so much renaissance art that was very dark and somber not that impressive to an 18 year old and I'm walking forever we sort of started just looking for the Mona Lisa and once we hit it that was the most disappointing of all because It was tiny and there were a million people and you're in a line in a huge crowd and you have to just walk past it, they won't let you pause.
And so you couldn't even stop to appreciate it at all.
You just get a drive by glance of the Mona Lisa and then that's it, and it's very anticlimactic.
So we were trying to make the best of it.
We, there was no internet at the time.
And so we couldn't look up like, what should we be seeing here?
what is impressive.
So we started trying to be impressed by the architecture of the space.
The ceilings were so high.
The columns, giant windows, down these really long hallways and all of that was very impressive.
A lot of tapestries that we were able to look at up close to see the fine threads, the beautiful colors, even though some of those were also quite dark, There's nothing that colorful in the Louvre compared to the same museum or the Met in New York, where there's a lot of bright modern art.
Most everything I saw in the Louvre was so sombre and kind of depressing.
I guess I'm just not the hugest fan of Renaissance art.
Would you go back to this museum?
I would not go back to the Louvre.
I've been there done that.
Which a great answer.
You know what? Like 100%, I could agree with you.
I thought exactly the same.
Even when I went to the Lube.
The Lube could agree with me.
Like the Lube was amazing.
I'm like, okay, I've greeted this agree.
No, totally. I thought exactly the same.
Okay, but some awesome things that you can do in your answers, guys, that we can learn from Aubrey's answer.
Introducing the topic of what you're saying.
I have to go with the lube.
So I have to go with noun, or verb, I, and G, like what's your favorite, or describe an outdoor activity.
I have to go with snowboarding, right?
Hmm. So awesome way you can introduce a part two.
Incredibly expressive intonation, Aubrey didn't just say big.
No, she said, gigantic, like really just making a meal out of that word. She said maze.
You probably know the word maze guys, but she followed it up with a better synonym, labyrinth.
A labyrinth is a more intricate maze, right?
It's not just that you're going to get lost in a labyrinth.
And there are probably like puzzles and things you have to figure out.
Yes, like the minute or in the labyrinth in the Greek story.
Anyway, aside. No, by boy, if you haven't seen Labyrinth, the movie with Jennifer Conely and David Bowie, I love it so much. It's kind of weird. So get ready for weird, but it's, it's old.
It's so good. I have seen that so many times.
I chose James to see it in the theater because we have like, you know, a theater that shows old movies.
Anyways, yes, Labyrinth, great movie, watch it, talk about it on Iles.
Describing Renaissance art.
First of all, knowing the word Renaissance and describing it as dark and somber, right.
Somber is like sad and quiet.
Right. Exactly. Nothing really bright and exciting and happy if it's somber.
Totally. So I could go on.
I made a list of a bunch of stuff there, but guys, I recommend practicing this answer.
Find the English vocabulary for the art period, like Renaissance art.
find interesting adjectives to describe it.
And as we learn from Aubrey's answer, it's okay to not be a fan, right?
You can describe a not -great experience as well, and maybe even have more to say.
Yes, and where I didn't have much to say about the art, I'm like describing the hallways and the columns and the windows, because like, it's just start describing the inside of the building.
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all right it's a my turn and i'm gonna do an outdoor place alright here we go let me get my timer ready describe a recreational place well the first place that comes to mind you know honestly i tried to think of a place around Portland because there are so many and i thought like i should be able to think of one more quickly than this but what i ended up going with was i see straight -point alaska because this is one of the most stunning and just incredible places that my son and I have been to in the last year.
So last summer we went to Alaska for two whole weeks, and I see Straight Point was magical and expensive as heck, but magical.
So we get to I see Straight Point, we get off the boat, and it's just you know we were on a cruise, to be honest. So there were like just of tourists everywhere but the first thing you notice when you look up as soon as you like walk on to the beach is this incredible zip line that you can't even see the top of it because it starts up so high it's like above the cloud cover and of course my son 13 it's like we have to do that we have to do that and so we and I'm like okay well you know let's check it out so we walked in the office and I asked a very nice woman that was working there through like
gritted teeth, how much is it?
And, what did you do with me?
It was the multiples of hundreds.
I, we couldn't decide right away I was like, okay, give me a minute.
James just give me a minute.
And I took like five minutes, just to like walk around by myself, and I was weighing the pros and cons in my head.
And I'm like, what is the next time you're gonna be an icy straight point Alaska?
Maybe never, so, you know what?
totally did it. And it was amazing.
I think this is one of those core memories that James and I are going to have forever.
And that was just the beginning of I .C.
straight point. So after this applied you walk through this forested path and there's this really cool like American Ninja warrior type thing in the forest for kids.
But oh thank you! Oh my God!
There's so much Or to say.
Are you glad that you forced over the cash for that experience?
It was amazing. Well, it was awesome.
Wow. It was so much great vocab and so many good strategies here.
So first, notice how Jessica started her answer.
You can do this, right?
Say, you know, I first thought about talking about this, but then and she says, what I ended up going with was and then she says what she's gonna talk about.
You can have so much great expressiveness and details in a few sentences before you even start describing the thing, right?
And this is a good way to do that.
Say what first comes to mind when you heard the question and then whether you're going to talk about that or not and why, right?
Such great details can come out of that.
And similar to what I had said, right?
What I am going with and you said what I ended up going with which means sort of like what decided to talk about was these are great, native, natural phrases.
And then I love the adjective magical, to say something is magical.
You can't say this about something that's boring right, it has to really be very cool.
But I mean cool is ban six magical and especially if you emphasize it.
And then I love you said expensive as heck, but magical, right?
Say it again. emphasize it.
That was really great." And then the way you organized to say the first thing I know, yet the first thing you notice as soon as you step onto the beach and you describe that and then continuing on as soon as we write these transition phrases to describe the place you're seeing, what you noticed first, what you noticed next.
That was a really good way to organize that answer.
You know, something we haven't noted yet that both of us did automatically was turn these answers into stories.
And listeners, if you've been with us for a while, then you know, this is the best thing you can do in part two to fill that two minutes in an organized, impressive way.
And to have enough to say.
So I think today's both of these answers were really good examples of part two stories.
yes, if I started describing the Louvre, like well, there's a glass triangle out front and then there are hallways and paintings, it would be hard to fill two minutes and have interesting details and cool pronunciation, but telling a story about what I experienced and saw, that two minutes went by in a flash.
And right, like, in telling a story, so in describing a place, right, if you just say there's this and there's this to theirs.
This first of all no great linking words, but secondly, like the intonation is going to be terrible because you're not including any feelings, right?
And when you turn it into a story, explaining how you felt in the story, that's just a natural part of a story.
Yes, exactly. Uh, such great answers today.
If we do say so ourselves.
I go excited now I get help on the back.
Ourself is on the back, but there is a really good chance you'll get a question describing a place so definitely practice these speaking part two questions so that you are ready.
Awesome, awesome. All right, everyone.
Thank you for being here with us and we'll see you next time.
See you next time. Bye.
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