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Hello hello dear listener and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 3 about songs and poems. What can people learn from songs or poems?
Oh, all kinds of things!
There's this particularly humorous example of this guy playing the piano and reciting the periodic table that I think helps people remember elements of it, if you'll pardon the pun.
So if they can learn that, then the sky is pretty much the limit, isn't it?
Is it easier for children to learn a song or poem than adults?
That's a good question.
I mean, theoretically, children have more time to learn things like songs compared to adults who've got work and social lives.
However the songs might not be as complex since they can't really grasp the sounds and concepts as easily as adult lines.
So I suppose the jury's pretty much kind of out on that one I suppose.
As always it depends on the specifics.
Why might children like the rhythm of songs or poems?
Well, if it's a particularly rhythmic one, then it's just fun to listen to.
I imagine it triggers all kinds of dopamine and other neurotransmitter releases too which might enhance the feelings they experience.
Adults will get that too, but since kids are experiencing them for the first time, the high is likely greater, I'd imagine.
Do people in your country listen to songs from other countries?
Yes, they do. Because Eurovision is quite popular.
And that's the time when different European countries come together to share different songs they've written for that particular event.
That's just one example of them coming together to share things.
There will be other examples.
But that's the leading one.
When do people in your country sing songs together?
Oh gosh. Well, I suppose the big ones are religious and sporting events.
So for example, football clubs tend to have their own songs as well.
and probably their regional or national teams have their national and regional anthems as well.
And then, if we talk about religious gatherings, of course when you're together in church, people tend to sing different hymns and verses from the Bible.
Where do people in your country go to sing?
Well, other than churches and various other religious establishments.
They also do it in football stadiums when the matches are on.
I think those are the leading ones.
Possibly they would also sing when they have certain school competitions for example, that might be fun for them to join in.
Is it easy for people to memorize songs or poems?
I think that's probably contingent on two things.
The first will be the person or the individual, and the second will be the nature of what it is they have to memorise.
So if we think about individuals, I mean, memory is a very personal thing and some people will have better memories than others.
They might be more musically astute too, so some people are more able to follow a beat and that can aid with the memory retention.
And then on top of that, it's not only about the individual, it's also about the song.
So if a song is fairly rhythmic, or has lots of repetition, or rhyming going on, then that would probably make it easier to remember just through regularity.
But if it's something more complex or abstract, like some kind of contemporary poem where sentences break in half at weird points then I can see that being an issue for memory.
Yay, thank you Rory for your answers.
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To remember the table or to remember how to play the piano?
To remember the table.
He was reciting the elements in order from start to finish.
OK... Yeah, but what can people learn from songs or poems?
Well, in this case, this person is singing the periodic table, and so that combination of things being humorous might help people remember at least parts of the periodic table.
Yeah but what can people learn from songs?
Yeah! The periodic table!
That's one example of things they can learn!
So it's the song about the periodic table?
Yeah! So they learn the song and then they learn the periodic table!
Ohhhh okay dear listener, you see?
So if a song is about the 3rd conditional in the English language, you sing this song about the third conditional and you remember the third conditional.
It might help you. It's not the only thing that will help you.
Learning is like a really poorly understood phenomenon at the best of times.
And if you say that there is no limit to what can be learned from poems and songs, you can say the sky is the limit.
So there is no limit.
We say that we recite poetry.
So we recite poems. So when you learn a poem and then you say it out loud you recite a poem, you sing a song, you recite a poem.
Children have more time to learn things like songs compared to adults.
So just children will have more time to learn poems or songs and it might be easier for children to grasp the sounds of a song so to understand the sounds of a song to grasp it.
It might be like learning and adults and children again, it's very poorly understood.
Or you can say that children usually have better memories as they have a younger brain, and it's like more interesting for children and the children's songs of poems are usually funny, short and easy to remember.
Every song has a rhythm.
Okay, so this rhythm of a song this kind of like strong pattern of sounds.
And children enjoy rhythmic songs, songs like baby shark do do do.
This is the rhythm.
It's like a catchy tune and children are fond of rhythmic songs, they are fun to listen to so don't forget to listen to songs.
And such a song, triggers all kinds of dopamine.
Dopamine is this happy hormone.
Dopamine. On the subject of different hormones and things, do you know that you have a painkiller that's naturally secreted by your body in your saliva?
That's something that's several times more powerful than morphine.
Really? Yeah, it's in very small amounts though.
But it's the reason why you can bite your tongue and then you don't feel as much pain afterwards.
Oh wow, that's exciting.
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People sing songs together usually at the football stadium, when they watch football together.
And people sing national anthems. Okay, listen up?
A national anthem is a national soul.
Usually there's one national anthem, and people sing it together.
And also add some sporting events, national teams, sing a national anthem.
You can also speak about religious gatherings.
So people go to churches, it s a religious gathering, so people get together for religious purposes and they sing different hymns.
yeah, like hymn is a song of praise that the Christians sing to God and anthem is a song that has special importance for a particular group of people or country.
Usually, we say the national anthem.
In churches people usually recite verses from the Bible, so they sing them.
So, lines or verses from the Bible.
Did you listen to the article?
What do you call a group of people who sing together, for example, in a church?
A choir. Yeah, a choir has an interesting spelling.
C -H -O -I -R. A choir.
A group of people who sing together.
So you can say that people could sing in a church choir, for example, or they just sing in a choir because they learn how to sing, For example, if you want to say it depends on, you can say it's contingent on different things.
Astute is a nice adjective, which means to be able to understand a situation quickly and see how to take advantage of it.
So, for example, an astute investor, an astute businesswoman.
And Rory you use this adjective about what?
Did I say musically astute?
I can't remember now!
And some songs are easy to memorize because they are rhythmic and they have rhymes So like Rory story, you see, it's a rhyme.
Rory story rhymes. I've just checked, word astute, it's a C1 level word so it's still band 7 or band 8.
Yeah yeah yeah, could you give us an example about songs, music and the word astute?
Well, I suppose… musicians have to be musically astute.
Successful musicians have to be musically astute.
Of course, this is just according to an AI on Google, so take from that what you will.
Other websites seem to think it is a C2 level.
I want to believe it's C2 level because that means I said something that would give me a band -line score.
Yay! Right, dear listener.
So from songs and poems we can learn about different cultures.
Thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode.
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What can people learn from songs or poems?
Oh, all kinds of things.
There's this particularly humorous example of this guy playing the piano and reciting the periodic table that I think helps people remember elements of it, if you'll pardon the pun.
So if they can learn that, then the sky is pretty much the limit, isn't it?
Is it easier for children to learn a song or poem than adults?
That's a good question.
I mean, theoretically, children have more time to learn things like songs compared to adults who've got work and social lives.
However, the songs might not be as complex since they can't really grasp the sounds and concepts as easily as adult lines.
So I suppose the jury is pretty much kind of out on that one, I suppose.
As always. It depends on the specifics.
Why might children like the rhythm of songs or poems?
Well, if it's a particularly rhythmic one, then it's just fun to listen to, isn't it?
I imagine it triggers all kinds of dopamine and other neurotransmitter releases too, which might enhance the feelings they experience.
Adults will get that too, but since kids are experiencing them for the first time, the high is likely greater, I'd imagine.
Do people in your country listen to songs from other countries?
Yes, they do! Because Eurovision is quite popular, and that's the time when different European countries come together to share different songs they've written for that particular event.
So that's just one example of them coming together to share things.
There will be other examples, but that's the leading one.
When do people in your country sing songs together?
Oh, gosh. Well, I suppose the big ones are religious and sporting events.
So for example, football clubs tend to have their own songs as well, and probably their regional or national teams have the national or regional anthems as well.
And then, if we talk about religious gatherings, of course when you're together in church, people tend to sing different hymns and verses from the bible.
Where do people in your country go to sing?
Well, other than churches and various other religious establishments.
They also do it in football stadiums when the matches are on.
I think those are the leading ones.
Possibly they would also sing when they have certain school competitions.
for example. That might be fun for them to join in.
Is it easy for people to memorise songs or poems?
I think that's probably contingent on two things.
The first will be the person or the individual and the second will be the nature of what it is they have to memorise.
So if we think about individuals, I mean, memory is a very personal thing and some people will have better memories than others.
They might be more musically astute too, so some people are more able to follow a beat and that can aid with the memory retention.
And then on top of that, it's not only about the individual, it's also about the song, so if a song is fairly rhythmic or has lots of repetition or rhyming going on, then that would probably make it easier to remember just through regularity.
But if it's something more complex or abstract, like some kind of contemporary poem where the sentences break in half at weird points, then I can see that being an issue for memory.
