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Is it a band 9 score?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it's a Rory band 9 score.
Oh my god, you aren't wearing a black shirt today.
I do own more than one color, you know.
Now I do know.
Shall we talk about colors?
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What colours do you like to wear?
Well, I think I always prefer shades of red and blue hues, really.
Never any tints, to be honest.
I wonder if that's a reflection of my personality.
What colour do your friends like?
I can't say I've paid any particular attention to it, really.
I do have one friend who's a bit gothic and he is really into dark tones, although recently his fashion sense has taken a turn for the brighter, with more patterns using primary colours and even some texture in the shirts actually, which is nice.
Were colours important to you when you were a child?
I think I had a pretty simple grasp of colours, if I'm honest.
Probably just primary and secondary ones, like the national colours and those embellishing the emblems of our country.
Do people in your country like to wear bright colours?
I think they tend to be darker.
Actually, if we consider like, for example, most tartans are on the darker end of the color spectrum.
So lots of darker tertiary colors.
Then again, if you saw our family tartan, you would think the opposite.
What colors would you never use in your home?
I was thinking about this recently actually, and I think the really bright ones, like almost luminescent, would make me feel ill.
But most colors, most other colors would be welcome as long as they match the decor.
So a mix of warm and tranquil hues would be good for wallpaper and paint, I think.
Do you think colors influence you?
Well, apparently there's a thing called color therapy, which is based around this theory of colors representing things to people and being able to influence your mood.
So I think there is something... Oh, there's certainly something to that idea, yes.
But at the same time it also depends on the culture, because black and white represent polar opposite ideas in Eastern and Western cultures, for example.
Rory, thank you so much for your colourful answers.
You are bringing colour into our lives.
So, we've talked about colors before, so this is our second episode on colors.
Why?
Why are we repeating episodes and topics?
Well, we are not repeating episodes, we are repeating some topics.
Because now in IELTS Speaking Part 1, you can get asked about colors.
This is a fresh IELTS Speaking Topics.
Well, sometimes certain topics have a comeback.
For example, we used to have this topic about handwriting and now it's a comeback.
They can ask you questions about handwriting again.
The same with colors and pets and also the weather, for example.
Yeah.
That's why we are doing it again.
I mean, this topic.
But we have slightly different questions.
Alright?
Because the questions do vary.
So, Rory, you said that you prefer shades of red and blue hues.
Yes.
So a hue is the name of the color.
It's the color itself.
Whereas the shade is the color with black added to it, varying amounts of black to make it darker.
So, I love blue hues.
So, I love the color blue.
Oh, okay.
If I like red, I can say, I prefer shades of red hues.
Yes.
I prefer shades of pink hues.
Nice.
And then, never any tints.
To be honest?
Yes.
Tints is when it's like the opposite of shades.
Shades have black added to them, but tints have had white added to them.
Oh.
So that makes them lighter.
So, for example, light red is a tint of the hue red because it's had white added to it to make it lighter.
Okay.
If you don't believe me, then look up on a color chart.
Oh, I do believe you.
So if I enjoy darker colors, I prefer shades of red hues.
If I like lighter colors, then I prefer shades of red tints. okay good wow and then your friends could be into dark tones or if you prefer dark colors i guess you can say i'm into dark tones tones like colors Yes.
Cool.
You mentioned primary colors and secondary colors.
So primary colors are, well, red, blue, and yellow.
And they get mixed together to create secondary colors.
So any of these original three colors get mixed together to create that.
So you can say, well, I prefer primary colors.
Secondary colors are also fine.
Or just primary colors.
Were colors important to you when you were a child?
And you said, I think I had a pretty simple grasp of colors when I was a child.
Yeah, so a grasp is like your understanding of something.
Yeah, or I don't have a pretty good grasp of colors.
Well, you can have a good grasp or a poor one.
I have a poor grasp of colors.
I can't tell the difference between yellow or green.
They're all the same to me, to be honest with you.
Okay.
Then we go to the color spectrum, which is another precise word or collocation about colors.
The end of the color spectrum.
Yes.
So the color spectrum is just like a range of colors, from like white, which is no color, all the way to black, which is all the colors mixed together.
And then we have tertiary colors.
Yeah, tertiary colors is a mixture of one primary color and one secondary color, at least.
Wow.
Dilisna, how are you?
Are you okay?
Are you taking in all this color vocabulary?
Huh.
Because if you aren't taking in any of this well, you can just say okay, I like red, I hate blue.
But that's going to be too simple, right.
That's why you should say, oh, I prefer shades of red and blue hues, even if you don't. okay so make sure that you do use some phrases not all of them some phrases and surely luminescent luminescent is just like bright they almost grow in the dark So it's kind of like toxic green or toxic yellow.
Yeah, luminescent colors.
Rory would never use anything luminescent in his home.
It's not my style.
Not his style, no.
The colors he wants to use in his home should match the decor.
So the decor, we've talked about this before.
It's just how your house is decorated.
And then if something matches, it means that it goes with.
It doesn't stand out.
They blend together naturally.
Yeah, you can say I wouldn't use any colors which stand out.
But as long as they match the decor, why not?
I wouldn't use luminescent colors.
But a mix of warm and tranquil hues would be good.
A mix of warm and tranquil hues.
Yes, so warm colors are like connected to red, but tranquil colors are blue, I suppose.
So warm makes you feel good inside and tranquil calms you down.
Then you talked about color therapy.
We have cat therapy.
We have yoga therapy.
What else?
We have maybe hugging therapy, Scottish therapy, Russian therapy.
Color therapy.
Puppy, oh yeah, dolphins, dolphins therapy.
We have what?
Paint a picture with your body, kind of like paint therapy.
Where they give you paints and you just go over all around and about using this massive poster and you paint with your body.
Anyway, color therapy.
Yeah.
Colors are used to help your mood.
Yeah, you can cheer up wearing bright colors.
And if you feel blue, you can just put on some gray or black and feel even more depressed.
But if you want to cheer yourself up, you can put on some yellow or orange.
Yeah, they say orange is a color for crazy people for some reason.
Is it?
Yeah, I've read somewhere that orange is crazy.
I love orange.
Do you love orange, Rory?
That's a simple test.
I'm not a fan of oranges.
Are you crazy?
No.
They say purple is a luxury color and navy blue is what politicians wear.
So you said that black and white can represent polar opposite ideas.
Polar?
Polar opposite.
Yes.
Yeah, so that just means that they're located on opposite and equal sides of the spectrum.
Of the spectrum.
And if you were to buy a car, what color would it be?
Your car.
That's a very good question.
I'd probably rather not buy a car in general, to be honest with you.
Probably something blue.
I'm a very blue person.
Okay, so a blue calm.
All right, cool.
And what about the color of the walls?
What color would you choose to paint the walls in your room?
Well, since we're sticking to the subject of blue, I think something like dark blue, maybe even navy blue, just to dampen down any fiery feelings at the end of the day before bed.
Oh, that's nice.
So to dampen down any fiery feelings, when Rory is on fire, literally, he needs to just cool down.
That's why he would use navy blue to just chill, to dampen down.
Right.
How are you, listener?
Are you okay?
Are you done with these colors?
So, we have two episodes on colors for you.
I'm sure it will be enough for you to know the words synonyms, some good, precise vocabulary about colors.
Romy, if you were a color, which color would you be?
I would be blue.
What color would you be?
Pinky.
Pinky.
I'll be pinky.
Pink.
Pink.
Pink, pink, pink.
Pink.
Pinky pink.
Thank you very much for listening.
We love you and hug you.
What colours do you like to wear?
Well, I think I always prefer shades of red and blue hues, really.
Never any tints, to be honest.
I wonder if that's a reflection of my personality.
What colour do your friends like?
I can't say I've paid any particular attention to it, really.
I do have one friend who's a bit gothic and he is really into dark tones, although recently his fashion sense has taken a turn for the brighter, with more patterns using primary colours and even some texture in the shirts actually, which is nice.
Were colours important to you when you were a child?
I think I had a pretty simple grasp of colours, if I'm honest.
Probably just primary and secondary ones, like the national colours and those embellishing the emblems of our country.
Do people in your country like to wear bright colours?
I think they tend to be darker.
Actually, if we consider like, for example, most tartans are on the darker end of the color spectrum.
So lots of darker tertiary colors.
Then again, if you saw our family tartan, you would think the opposite.
What colors would you never use in your home?
I was thinking about this recently actually, and I think the really bright ones, like almost luminescent, would make me feel ill.
But most colours, most other colours would be welcome as long as they match the decor.
So a mix of warm and tranquil hues would be good for wallpaper and paint, I think.
Do you think colors influence you?
Well, apparently there's a thing called color therapy, which is based around this theory of colors representing things to people and being able to influence your mood.
So I think there is something... Oh, there's certainly something to that idea, yes.
But at the same time it also depends on the culture, because black and white represent polar opposite ideas in Eastern and Western cultures, for example.
