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Hello, lovely.
I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory.
And we are the hosts of the I Health 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.
Your BAD9 score, which Maria and I have in speaking.
Oh, Rory, what's that pile of books behind you?
Oh, they're the ones I borrowed from the library.
The library?
Online library?
No, a physical library.
There's one next to my house.
Seriously, Rory, you go to a library, you go to your library? local library?
Huh?
Yeah, I mean, my local library is probably fewer than 250 meters from my home, so I think there's no excuse not to visit it.
Shall we talk about libraries?
Let's talk about libraries.
Do you often go to the library?
Well, not as much as I used to, sadly.
I have a big backlog of books of my own to work through, so I don't really have the time to add even more to that.
When I have got through them all, though, then I might go.
It's cheaper than buying new books.
And probably more sustainable than getting second-hand ones, too, now that I think about it.
What do you usually do in the library?
Well, whenever I've gone, it's almost always been to pick up books I've reserved or to check out a particular genre that I'm interested in.
Though I know that a lot of them act like community hubs.
So I could go there for different events and services, like citizens advice or local history talks, as well as various leaflets about other services elsewhere.
Did you go to the library when you were a kid?
Well, I must have done, though I don't really remember it.
Oh no, that's actually a lie.
We went a fair bit when I was in primary school.
I think my parents thought it would be a good idea to learn where to take out books and support the use of libraries in general.
Do children in your country often go to the library?
Nowadays, I don't think it's a very common thing.
I mean for one.
You have most information at your fingertips these days, including things like e-books.
So there's a reduced need to have physical book access.
That's a shame, though, since libraries can offer more things than that.
But it's the most obvious reason that might serve as a gateway to other things.
And they'll miss out on that, perhaps.
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Oh libraries wow, i know.
The last time i went to a physical library was, i think, at university.
Oh wow, ages ago.
Now everything is digitalized, you know.
You have a massive library in the middle of moscow, would you not go there?
Yeah, i went there, but it was like ages ago.
Yeah, it's like a museum.
And then I went there on an excursion because our library is so massive and it's like a museum.
So at night you can go there and visit all the bookstores and halls.
And what do you call the collection?
The rooms where books are stored.
Would you call them collections?
I think so.
Archives?
Archives, yeah, there you go.
Archives.
So we say go to the library.
Roy, can I say go to a library or go to library?
Or I should always use library with an article?
I'm trying to think of a time when you might not use it with an article, but I cannot think of one.
So I think it's always the library or a library, unless it's an adjective adjective from a library.
Yeah, you talk about um, library time or library opening hours, for example.
Oh okay, yeah.
So we say i went to the library, or i often go to the library, or i never go to to the library.
Or you can say i go to my local library, i go to a local library, a local library.
Or you say i used to go to a library, to the library, when I was at university, when I was at school.
It's cheaper than buying new books.
Yeah, these days books are pretty expensive.
So you can say it's much cheaper and more sustainable than getting secondhand books, so you can get secondhand books.
Or you can just go to the library and be more sustainable, so more environmentally friendly, and reuse the books.
We usually say i get through books, so i read books, or i get through books.
For example, you borrow three books from a library, borrow books from a library, and when i get through them, i go there.
Again A funny question like what do you usually do in the library?
Rory, what do you do there?
You take out books or check them out.
Take out books, borrow books, check them out.
You can just go to a library to check out books.
Or you may have reserved a book.
Reserve a book.
Book a book.
Yeah.
So if, for example, a book is super popular, so you can reserve it.
Yeah, I'm reserving this book.
I'm going to take it out like next week.
And you choose a book, you pick up some books or you actually take books from a library.
Like I go there to pick up some books or to check out new books, new books or check out new journals magazines, for example.
I don't know who does it these days.
Seriously, you know me yeah, rory does it.
Wow okay, i know one person who does it.
That's all you need.
No, i know you and another person, so i know two people who actually go to physical libraries, wow.
And also you can say that my local library is a community hub.
Hub is like this place where people go to to have fun, to talk to each other.
They have some events.
So it's kind of like a hub, a central part of something where people go to.
Usually we say an airport hub.
Hub airport.
That's one of the central airports.
So you can say that sometimes I visit different events.
They organize some events, talks and concerts.
Well, i don't know about concerts, but they definitely have free events of like certain kinds yeah, like reading clubs, for example, or they invite different speakers and everything's for free.
So, like um, local libraries serve as community hubs for locals.
When you talk about the past, you say I used to go to a library when I was a child or, as a child, I used to go to the library.
When I was in primary school, or when I was in secondary school, when I was at university, and it was a good idea to take books out.
Oh, I just realized there are We have school libraries as well.
So maybe that counts.
Yeah.
Actually, yeah, school libraries and also university libraries.
Yeah.
I think every university has a physical library.
So, yeah, I took books out from our university library.
You might take a book out to get ready for your IELTS exam.
Really?
And what book would it be?
I wonder.
Yeah.
Any book, I think.
I feel like any exposure to reading will be useful for building up your vocabulary, for reading skill practice, maybe even for pronunciation as well, if you have to think about how the words are said.
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Rory, would you like to have your books in the library?
Rory has written like five books.
I think I do already.
In your local library?
Really?
No, I... I... Maybe.
I think it's a legal thing that there must be a copy of every book that's ever made stored.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we have that too, yeah.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Maybe.
I'd like to... I think, I hope that's true.
If it's not true, I will not be too disappointed.
Find Rory's books in the Central Library of Scotland.
Oh, there is a queue.
You know, you have to reserve one of his books to take it out.
Or you could buy a copy.
Just go to my Instagram.
Children often go to the library.
Oh, I don't know.
In your country, dear listener, do children go to the library?
Maybe to their school library, university, but well...
You know, I don't know.
What about you, dear listener?
How many people do you know who actually go to physical libraries?
Also, you can talk about online libraries, because universities and schools, they do have their online libraries.
Well, university, for sure.
I'm not sure about schools, though.
And you can say that in my country, it's a very commonplace.
You have most information at your fingertips.
So, to have something at your fingertips.
Like, what did you mean here?
It's easy to access if something is at your fingertips.
At your fingertips is an idiom.
And what level is this?
Is it C2?
It is C2.
Band 9, band 9.
Yes, we...
We have our Band 9 moment, so at your fingertips.
If you have information at your fingertips, you can get it and use it very easily.
So you go to a library and you have everything at your fingertips.
Could you give us another example?
Of my fingertips?
Well, I mean almost all the information in the world is at our fingertips because we have phones which are connected to the Internet.
Yeah, it means that something is convenient and easy to find.
Like we have all the facts at our fingertips.
You can say that today there is a reduced need to have physical book access.
So fewer people prefer to have physical books.
Physical books or printed books or hard copies.
We usually read e-books.
We read books online.
So we have, can I say soft copies?
No, they're hard copies.
You have hard copies of books when you can physically touch them.
I don't think we call them soft copies.
I think it's digital copies. yeah exactly digital copies okay so hard copies or physical books or digital copies or electronic books ebooks the same as like digital libraries for example online libraries miss out on something is a nice phrasal verb how did you use the phrasal verb miss out on something oh okay um well here i talk about young people missing out on the experience of Well, being able to access a library and all the things that you might be able to access through it.
Miss out on something means fail to use an opportunity to enjoy something.
So don't miss out on this sale.
All right.
Or, oh, I missed your birthday party.
I missed out.
So I didn't have an opportunity to enjoy this event or a show or some experience.
And many people these days are afraid of missing out.
They have a fear of missing out.
A FOMO.
Yeah.
If they don't go somewhere, if they don't see something, they have this.
Oh, I'm missing out on many things.
I don't have any opportunities to enjoy these things.
And you can say that well, these days, people in my country don't go to the library and they miss out on lots of things.
Oh, yeah.
Maria doesn't seem to think this is very exciting.
No, no.
Actually I've been thinking about going to my local library because, you know, they've digitalized everything.
And I remember times when they didn't have any computers.
Those were the days.
And our local libraries were very old and poor.
But now everything is digitalized.
New buildings, new things, new books.
So I wonder how it's all organized now.
So I might go.
Are we ready for a joke?
Very.
Yeah.
Are you ready?
Okay.
Here it is.
Rory, you don't interrupt the joke.
You just listen and laugh.
I just do as I'm told.
A man walks into a library.
He sees the most beautiful librarian lady behind the counter.
And he says, will you go on a date with me?
She answers back.
Sorry, no.
I'm fully booked.
Very funny.
Thank you very much, Maria.
Thank you for listening.
And we'll see you next time.
We'll come back to you in our next episode.
Bye.
Bye.
The road is calling.
Do you often go to the library?
Well, not as much as I used to, sadly.
I have a big backlog of books of my own to work through, so I don't really have the time to add even more to that.
When I have got through them all, though, then I might go.
It's cheaper than buying new books.
And probably more sustainable than getting second-hand ones, too, now that I think about it.
What do you usually do in the library?
Well, whenever I've gone, it's almost always been to pick up books I've reserved or to check out a particular genre that I'm interested in.
Though I know that a lot of them act like community hubs.
So I could go there for different events and services, like citizens advice or local history talks, as well as various leaflets about other services elsewhere.
Did you go to the library when you were a kid?
Well, I must have done, though I don't really remember it.
Oh no, that's actually a lie.
We went a fair bit when I was in primary school.
I think my parents thought it would be a good idea to learn where to take out books and support the use of libraries in general.
Do children in your country often go to the library?
Nowadays, I don't think it's a very common thing.
I mean for one.
You have most information at your fingertips these days, including things like e-books.
So there's a reduced need to have physical book access.
That's a shame, though, since libraries can offer more things than that.
But it's the most obvious reason that might serve as a gateway to other things.
And they'll miss out on that, perhaps.
