Hello, hello dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part 2.
Describe a time you showed something new to others.
You should say when it was, what it was, who you showed it to, how you showed it and explain how you felt about it.
Such a strange question, like what did you show them, how did you show them?
Like an interrogation.
Yeah, so something new, maybe a new dress, a new tattoo, I don't know, a new part of your body, your new hair, anything.
Rory, give us your story.
Well, a few weeks ago I bought a new projector from my living room.
It was my attempt at compromising because I absolutely point blank refused to have a TV in the house but I wanted to have something to display things whenever I had parties or guests and it worked pretty well to be honest though learning how to use it and where to place it was a bit of a learning curve.
In more detail, I brought it out at my second large housewarming for different groups of my friends.
I had already done one before for my really close friends but this was like one for the general public so to speak and the groupings were very disparate so it was probably a good idea to have something that brought them all together like this projector.
In terms of how I did, I just set the thing up with some technical support from my partner and it automatically adjusted to the place it was projecting, in this case that was the wall and people could see it as they came in and asked questions and mess around with it.
It's quite fragile so, or at least it seems it's quite fragile, so I did my best to keep out of the way and keep it out of the way to avoid people tripping up over it.
Aside from some slight anxiety about accidental damage, I was quite keen to show the thing off to be honest.
It was relatively inexpensive and it did a great job in addition to being fairly easy to use.
All you needed to do was plug it in and then find an ideal place to sit it and then you could use the remote to issue instructions and find things to watch since it also has an internet connection and a very user friendly interface especially after a few drinks which is always useful for a party.
I wasn't too happy about the initial position I put it in which was on the coffee table but later on after I moved it to a less precarious place on a shelf rather than the coffee table I think it's much better now.
And I'm really looking forward to showing it off in the future, it looks pretty cool at least I think so and it takes up all of that extra wall space I have just sitting there.
Hey, thank you Rory for your story.
So dear listeners, what can we choose?
You showed something new to others and mind you we say showed.
Show? Showed? Shown? I've shown you things?
Yesterday I showed you my new shoes.
Okay. Rory talked about his new projector.
Projector to show movies.
And dear listeners you can speak about again something easy for you to describe, something that you can describe.
A new dress. Could be a new phone.
A new phone. Yeah, but a dress could be difficult because you should talk about the dress for like a minute.
So a new phone maybe or your new house.
There you go. Imagine that you've bought a new flat.
So yesterday I showed my new flat to my friends or my parents.
And you can start it off with a few weeks ago I bought a new laptop.
I bought a new smartphone.
I bought a new flat, a bicycle, a car.
Yeah, but again, be very careful.
It should be easy for you to talk about.
And it was my attempt at compromising.
So I tried to compromise.
Rory refuses to have a TV in the house.
I hate TVs. I don't want them anywhere near my home.
Okay. But Rory wanted to have something to display things at his parties.
Okay. And what can help me to display things?
A projector. It worked pretty well.
So my idea worked pretty well.
Learning how to use it was a bit of a learning curve.
What is a learning curve?
Curve like turn. A learning curve is just the, well, it's like the shape of the process of learning how to do something.
So if something doesn't have much of a learning curve, then it's easy to learn.
If it has a steep learning curve, then it's difficult to learn.
And if it has a learning cliff, then it's almost impossible to learn.
The rate of someone's progress in learning a new skill.
So you can say it's a steep learning curve when you start doing a new job.
Or it's a steep learning curve when you learn, I don't know, how to drive a car when you learn a new foreign language.
It's kind of difficult to learn.
Then Rory described the projector in more detail.
And you can say in more detail, I brought it out at my second large housewarming party.
And if you want to show something, bringing it out will be important.
That usually just means moving it to a place for people to see.
So if you showed something big, I don't know, like your new bicycle.
So I brought it out. I brought it out and everybody could see it.
Hey, can you imagine the listener like describes something you showed to your friend, something new and you say like, Oh, I bought a monkey and I showed my monkey to my friends.
How can if I bought a G-Ruf, no, not a G-Ruf, no, a lizard or a snake, you know, all that's nice.
And then you can talk about your monkey.
That's a funny story. Yeah, if I want to get this topic in the exam, dear listener, I would talk about, I don't know, like a monkey.
What's exotic pets do people usually have?
A snake, a monkey, a crocodile, a baby pig, a piglet.
Nice. Funny. Not funny to you, Rory, no?
I was just thinking if it sounds insane, what are people more likely to show off?
They might show off a television, actually, or they might show their phone, they might show a computer or a book they bought, something new, something interesting.
I showed it to my really close friends.
And we always show something to people.
It was not for the general public, so not everybody could see it, okay?
And it was a good idea to have something that brought them all together, because Rory projected his photos on the wall and it brought everybody together, so he was showing all his photos and selfies of himself.
Can you imagine? We were watching YouTube videos to be honest.
No, not your photos. My photos are not that interesting.
In terms of how I did it, so how I showed it to them, so I set the projector up with some technical support.
I had some technical support from my partner and it automatically adjusted to the place it was projecting.
Are projecting to her on?
Yeah, but the projector is connected to the computer, right?
It's connected to the computer and then projects everything onto the wall.
Yeah, well, it actually just is self-contained, so it connects itself to the internet and then it displays things.
Throwing a little computer inside.
Oh, I see. Nice. Yeah, and my friends asked questions, they messed around with it.
So if it was a new phone that you showed, my friends messed around with it, they touched it, they dropped it, they broke it.
Well, I hope they didn't drop it and break it because it was expensive, even well, relatively inexpensive, but still quite expensive.
Yeah, you can say that it's quite fragile.
Fragile means it can break easily.
Please tell me that is a band name word.
C2, yes. Yes, it is. It's amazing.
A fragile object is easily damaged or broken.
So for example, usually vases.
A fabrige egg. Yeah, fabrige egg.
I don't know why, like all of that fabrige egg that people have lying around, all those fabrige eggs people have lying around.
I did my best to keep it out of the way.
Okay, so I did my best to kind of save it from everyone.
I did my best to keep it out of the way.
I did my best to keep it safe, to avoid people tripping over it.
So if you trip over something, your feet touch the object and you fall over.
What can we trip over? Trip over what usually?
Well, you could trip over a cable, for example, or something, some kind of material perhaps.
I was quite keen to show the thing off.
So we show it off, dear listener.
And this task is about an object, a new object you bought and now you show it off like, oh, look at my new car.
Isn't it great? It's so expensive.
So kind of you. You are very happy that you have it and you show it off.
So you can say I was very keen, I was very happy to show the thing off, to be honest.
We show it off to people.
So I was very happy to show it off.
But I was a bit anxious. So I had some anxiety.
I was nervous that it could break down or people might damage it.
I did a great job keeping it safe.
It's easy to use. You can say, oh, it's difficult to use.
All I need to do is to plug it in.
So you plug it in to electricity and then it works.
I have a remote. So a remote control is this thing that controls your TV or a projector.
It has a friendly interface.
A user friendly interface or very user friendly.
Yeah, I know what to do with it.
What's a precarious place?
Well, if it's precarious, then it's dangerous to have it there because it could fall over, for example.
I wonder if that is also a bad nine level word.
Precarious. Precarious in a dangerous state because of not being safe or not being held in place firmly.
Could you give us another example?
Precarious. Sometimes children get themselves into precarious situations and don't realize it.
They just go into the dangerous situation and they don't even know that they're in danger.
I cannot. And what else could be precarious?
Anything that puts something in danger.
It could be rather precarious if you're driving a car under the influence of alcohol or if you take an IELTS exam without appropriate preparation.
So you can say I moved it to a less precarious place on a shelf.
So to avoid people tripping over it, because if a projector is on the floor, so people can just just like this.
This can happen. So I moved it to a less dangerous place on a shelf to a less precarious place.
It's the listener. What would you like to talk about?
Something new? I would talk about my new piglet, a baby pig that I've just bought.
What about you? Think about what would you like to talk about as long as you can describe it.
Thank you very much for listening.
See you next time. Bye. Describe a time you showed something new to others.
You should say when it was, what it was, who you showed it to, how you showed it and explain how you felt about it.
Well, a few weeks ago I bought a new projector from my living room.
It was my attempt at compromising because I absolutely point blank refused to have a TV in the house, but I wanted to have something to display things whenever I had parties or guests.
And it worked pretty well to be honest, though learning how to use it and where to place it was a bit of a learning curve.
In more detail, I brought it out at my second large housewarming for different groups of my friends.
I'd already done one before for my really close friends, but this was like one for the general public so to speak, and the groupings were very disparate.
So it was probably a good idea to have something that brought them all together, like this projector.
In terms of how I did, I just set the thing up with some technical support from my partner and it automatically adjusted to the place it was projecting, in this case that was the wall.
And people could see it as they came in and ask questions and mess around with it.
It's quite fragile, so, or at least it seems it's quite fragile, so I did my best to keep out of the way and keep it out of the way to avoid people tripping up over it.
Aside from some slight anxiety about accidental damage, I was quite keen to show the thing off, to be honest.
It was relatively inexpensive and it did a great job in addition to being fairly easy to use.
All you needed to do was plug it in and then find an ideal place to sit it, and then you could use the remote to issue instructions and find things to watch since it also has an internet connection.
And a very user-friendly interface, especially after a few drinks which was always useful for a party.
I wasn't too happy about the initial position I put it in, which was on the coffee table, but later on after I moved it to a less precarious place on a shelf, rather than the coffee table, I think it's much better now.
And I'm really looking forward to showing it off in the future, it looks pretty cool, at least I think so, and it takes up all of that extra wall space I have just sitting there.
