Hello dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part three.
We're talking about old things in general.
Me, I am an old thing.
No, Rory, you're what, like 34, 33, 36?
Old.
Before we get into the episode, though, there's a theme.
And the theme this time is talking generally about things.
Part three questions are about things in general.
We are talking about old things in general.
So specialist vocabulary for old things. and specialist vocabulary for talking generally.
Keep an eye out or an ear out.
Try to listen for them.
Can you hear them?
Why do people keep old things?
I suppose generally there are two main reasons.
It's either the money value or the sentimental one.
Lots of antiques are worth a great deal having been around for so long and assuming they're in a good condition.
And of course, there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations.
What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep?
In general, it seems to be valuables.
Furniture and jewellery, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals.
Lots of people keep and inherit their parents' engagement rings, for example.
I'm not sure about the reasons why, but those are the ones you tend to hear about.
What can people learn from a museum?
I often find myself wondering that, honestly.
Especially in the age of the internet, when information is just there for free and close to hand.
But generally speaking, they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for or searched for.
For example, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has this coin display and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history.
Most people wouldn't have learned anything about that if they hadn't seen it.
I certainly wouldn't.
It's not really something you think about, is it?
What can people see in a museum?
It's probably easier to talk about what they don't see really, but by and large it's a collection of things, usually old things related to a particular theme or area.
So anything in the collection that relates to that will be there.
What are the differences between the things that people keep today and the things that people kept in the past?
I'm not sure.
I mean.
Well conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value and
The forms these things take haven't changed much.
Maybe the sophistication of the depictions of materials they're made from has evolved with time, but largely they seem more similar than different.
What are the differences between the things old people keep and those young people keep?
Well, largely they will probably be a difference in the age of the things they want to keep hold of, since older people have been around longer, so you'll have older things.
I imagine young people will have more stuff that's just random bits and pieces, since they pick things up all over the place and are less discerning.
Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too.
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Yeah, dear listener, like, think old things, like vintage... Ancient things, things from the past.
We keep old things.
Usually for the money value, like paintings, diamonds, jewelry...
And the sentimental value.
So pretty much money and emotions.
Lots of antiques.
Antiques, like old things, are worth a great deal.
So antique items, things, cost a lot.
Antique things are worth a great deal.
And things that have been around for a long time. usually cost a lot of money.
And another value is a sentimental value, like symbolic value of something that has been in a family for generations.
People usually keep furniture jewelry, old rings necklaces, jewelry made with various precious metals like gold, silver and the jewelry with precious stones like diamonds, emeralds.
So you can learn the names of some special stones.
Emerald.
A nice stone.
Bright green.
A valuable stone.
For example, emerald necklaces.
And lots of people inherit these things from their relatives, from their grandparents.
For example, lots of people inherit their parents engagement rings and usually they are rings with diamonds, like antique rings, old rings.
Then some questions could be about museums.
You know like oh, what about museums?
That's where we keep old things.
Yeah yeah, it's the same.
You know like, where do we keep things in a museum?
And if you don't know the answer, you can say like oh, i i've find myself wondering that.
I often find myself wondering that, but I'm thinking about it like why, like what?
What can people learn from a museum, especially in the age of the internet?
Yeah like, what can you learn in the museum?
Generally speaking, people might find out things that they usually don't see.
Find out, like learn about things.
And then you can give us an example of a specific museum.
Rory told us about the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
But you can say, for example, in the Louvre, for example in the British Museum, for example in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Just pick your favorite museum and talk about it.
Pick a museum.
Anyone.
There's hundreds of them, but like um, the most famous museum, what's the most famous museum already?
You know, i don't know what is probably the natural.
I want to say it's the natural history museum.
No, the british museum is more more popular.
Oh, the vatican, there we go, is it?
Oh, my god, is the vatican counting as a museum?
Oh yeah, the museum of vatican yeah, yeah.
So the louvre?
Okay, vatican museums.
National museum of china.
Well, I mean, it makes sense that it would be popular there, because China has a billion people.
So I imagine millions of people go there.
How do you say the Louvre?
I don't know.
It's a French word.
The Louvre.
The Louvre.
I say the Louvre.
The Louvre.
That's what they say in America.
We are cracking jokes.
And this museum has a coin display or a display of paintings or portraits that shows the evolution of money over human history.
I love the Louvre and I enjoy their collection of Egyptian mummies.
That was quite impressive.
They have a collection of Egyptian mummies?
No, but they do have several halls dedicated to Egypt.
And there are mummies, there are lots of exhibits from ancient Egypt.
That's crazy.
Do the Egyptians know about this?
A good question.
People usually see different exhibits in a museum.
Exhibits like items, things, objects.
So they go to an exhibition and see different exhibits.
A collection of things.
A collection of coins, of paintings, of mummies from Egypt.
A collection of ancient things.
Ancient things means very old, or a collection of antique things or antiques antique furniture or vintage clothes, for example.
You can say that these things seem more or less the same.
So what people keep today and what people kept in the past seem the same, right?
Or they are very similar.
It's just old things, basically.
Yeah, you can say, like, materials have evolved with time.
So now we might use different materials.
Less durable materials or, like, eco-friendly materials.
But, you know, jewelry paintings, furniture, I don't know, gold, diamonds.
That's the same, you know, old stuff.
Kind of, what do people keep?
What do people keep?
Memories.
Keep memories, not things.
Things that remind them of anything.
Really?
Clothes, furniture, books.
Yeah, books, for example.
Some rare books.
Icons.
Do we call them icons?
Religious paintings.
Anything that's got value, people will keep.
Otherwise, they wouldn't keep it.
That just makes sense.
Yeah, some people keep coins, vinyl records, for example.
Vintage toys.
Comic books.
Oh, yes.
Some comic books are very, very valuable these days.
Yeah, comic books.
And antique furniture, right?
Antique tools.
Also like vintage clothes are pretty expensive.
Cars, dear listener.
Some people collect and keep cars.
So the things have stayed the same, we can say.
I think it's always been things that had some kind of value.
People keep hold of different things.
So old people keep hold of everything.
They might tend to hoard things.
So if I hoard things, I collect items in large amounts.
So I don't throw anything out.
I hoard things.
So all my house is full of plastic bags and clothes and boxes and flowers and everything.
So some older people might tend to hoard things, which is not good.
Young people might collect, might keep some random stuff, some random bits and pieces.
You know, like jewelry, makeup, keys, souvenirs.
Pens.
It could be anything that reminds them of something.
Chewing gum, photos, bags, shoes.
Other people's bags and shoes.
So random bits and pieces.
They pick them up all over the place.
Which makes sense.
They're young people.
There shouldn't be any sort of principle behind things.
Yep.
We think that it's much better to collect memories, happy moments, rather than things.
Because the material world, dear listener, everything, you know, will disappear.
Right?
But you have yourself.
You have your memories, your happiness.
What an end to this podcast.
Right, dear listener?
Thank you so much for listening.
Sending love and hugs and lots of valuable items, diamonds, gold and money.
Bye.
Why do people keep old things?
I suppose generally there are two main reasons.
It's either the money value or the sentimental one.
Lots of antiques are worth a great deal having been around for so long and assuming they're in a good condition.
And of course, there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations.
What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep?
In general, it seems to be valuables.
Furniture and jewellery, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals.
Lots of people keep and inherit their parents' engagement rings, for example.
I'm not sure about the reasons why, but those are the ones you tend to hear about.
What can people learn from a museum?
I often find myself wondering that honestly, especially in the age of the internet, when information is just there for free and close to hand.
But generally speaking, they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for or searched for.
For example, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has this coin display and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history.
Most people wouldn't have learned anything about that if they hadn't seen it.
I certainly wouldn't.
It's not really something you think about, is it?
What can people see in a museum?
It's probably easier to talk about what they don't see really, but by and large it's a collection of things, usually old things related to a particular theme or area, though anything in the collection that relates to that will be there.
What are the differences between the things that people keep today and the things that people kept in the past?
I'm not sure.
I mean.
Well conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value and
The forms these things take haven't changed much.
Maybe the sophistication of the depictions of materials they're made from has evolved with time, but largely they seem more similar than different.
What are the differences between the things old people keep and those young people keep?
Well, largely they will probably be a difference in the age of the things they want to keep hold of, since older people have been around longer.
So
You'll have older things.
I imagine young people will have more stuff that's just random bits and pieces, since they pick things up all over the place and are less discerning.
Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too.
