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Hello, lovely. I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory.
And we're the host from the IELTS 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 started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high IELTS score.
Your band 9 score. Mmm, Rory, I like the color of your jacket.
Mmm. Thank you. Shall we talk about colors today?
Let's talk about colors, dear listeners.
What a colorful life we have.
Colors. What's your favorite color?
I'm a big fan of dark colors, especially blue, although I've been known to wear brighter things on occasion.
I quite like black as well, even though I know that's a shade, I'd still consider it a color.
Do you prefer bright colors or dark colors?
Definitely dark ones.
I have a huge collection of black and navy blue shirts.
I have a nice dark green one, too, actually.
I'm not sure why. It just comes more naturally to me.
Are there any colors that you dislike?
I wouldn't say I hated any colors in particular, though I'm not a huge fan of fluorescent colors in any great amount.
I just find it a bit overwhelming.
It's nice when it's just a hint of color, though, to catch the eye at an event, for example.
Are colours important to you?
I mean, I have my preferences, but I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't get to wear or see a particular colour.
I sometimes coordinate colours or colour -code things, and that's helpful, but it's not the be -all and end -all.
What's the colour of your room?
Which one? Most of the rooms in my home are magnolia, or at least the walls are.
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See you soon! bright colors i'm a big fan of yellow or what other colors do we have i'm a big fan of uh pale magenta magenta what's magenta purple um it's just a fancy way of saying purple no i think magenta as far as i'm aware is bright purple i could be wrong though i'm not a big color buff it's reddish
purple magenta nice you can say like oh i'm a big fan of magenta colors or you can say that i'm not a big buff what did you say i'm not a big uh a big color buff it just means that i'm not into colors yeah i'm not into colors i just i just wear black that's all and gray you can say i enjoy different
colors especially blue or navy blue or i've been known to wear brighter colors so people know me and i wear brighter colors i like different shades of black or different shades of gray remember the film or different shades of pink or red we have bright colors and we have dark colors all right so if they're
closer to black then they are darker colors but if they're closer to white then they are lighter colors or brighter colors and you can say that i have a huge collection of black and navy shirts that just means i have a lot of them navy blue oh yeah like navy blue so don't say just like blue i like blue
say like okay I like a navy blue don't say let's oh I like red or pink say I like magenta and then you can say like I enjoy dark green or dark yellow dark red and I don't know why I like this color it comes more naturally to me so that just means it feels natural you can also say like this color suits
my face color it matches my face color or it matches the color of my skin i'm not a huge fan of fluorescent colors you can say i'm not a huge fan of black or i'm not a huge fan of yellow or rory told us about this fluorescent colors this you know like bright neon pink or neon yellow but even then i
just don't think like having a lot of it is very pleasant to look at that's just my opinion though i find such colors a bit overwhelming overwhelming they're a bit you know too much like all this pink and green and red they're a bit overwhelming it's nice when it's just a hint of color like not too
bright not too dark a hint of color to catch the eye so colors catch the eye of other people but that just means they get the attention of them yeah can i say if i want to catch the eye of people the eye of the public people's eye?
You could, I suppose.
So if I want to be the center of attention, if I want to catch the eye, I would wear pink or red or different colors, different bright colors.
I have my preferences.
So I prefer dark colors.
I have my color preferences.
But Rory is not super enthusiastic about colors.
So, I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't get to wear my favorite color.
Okay, so I'm just okay with colors.
It's a nice phrase.
Like, I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't wear my favorite color all the time.
I coordinate colors.
So what do you do when you coordinate colors?
It just means that you match them or use them in a particular way with purpose.
And you can say that I sometimes coordinate colors or color code things.
So when you color code things, what do you do?
Oh, it just means that you associate a particular color with a particular meaning.
So some things in my diary are marked in black, which means they're just normal things.
others are marked in blue, which means they need special attention and something in red is something that really needs to be thought about.
Yeah, we can also color code clothes.
That's super interesting.
And it's about discovering your emotional connection to different colors.
Because when you wear a certain color, you kind of feel certain emotions, you feel good or not so good you are sure of yourself you are not sure so yeah colors are connected to our feelings and emotions sometimes you are in the mood of wearing happy colors sometimes not and you can get a consultation on different
colors and style for just like 250 pounds one hour and a half Rory, what do you reckon?
I'm not paying for that, that's crazy If fashion is your thing eBay is it eBay's where I find all my favourites From handbags to iconic streetwear All authenticated For real This time, a little Supreme Some Gucci I even have that vintage Prada on my watch list That's why eBay's my go -to for all my go
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Yeah. Okay. so color styling is a good business dear listener what's the color of your room and which one i have a house with a lot of rooms usually the examiner means like your room your bedroom where you spend most of your time for example maybe it's a toilet maybe it's your kitchen that you pretty
much sleep in. Rory told us about most of the rooms in his house, which are magnolia.
Previously we had magenta, but magnolia is a tree, and the flowers of this tree are kind of like a pinky so it's like a pale cream color actually it's not pinky magnolia color um deal is that we need to google it like go to google images and just type magnolia color it's just a plain white color it's
like the standard color from most rooms to be honest i am not very imaginative yeah magnolia it's kind of like a beige kind of color really nice one pleasant Magnolia, so you can say like most of the rooms in my house are Magnolia, but the walls in my bedroom are painted blue.
So, what do I say? The walls are painted in blue?
The walls are painted blue, or just the walls are blue?
Well, I had the walls painted, so it wasn't me that did it.
It was someone else.
So, you say that I had my walls painted Oxford blue?
Yes, I had my walls painted Oxford blue.
I hired special people, and they painted my walls.
Oxford blue is just this, like, dark blue color.
Very nice one. Not too dark, Rory?
Yeah, it's on the darker side, probably, I would say.
Okay. And also, if you have white, you can say that some walls are sheer white.
Sheer meaning, like, they are only white.
Like, almost brilliant.
white yeah they're like super white white white white you know like um they used to em sheer is used to emphasize how very great important or powerful a quality or a feeling is it's kind of it's sheer nonsense it's like true nonsense it was sheer coincidence that we met like i was walking in rome and then
like whoa rory hey hello rory you could just say that about our normal work place it was a sheer coincidence that we met because it was huge right now rory's showtime rory's vocabulary show yes it's the part of the episode where i asked maria questions about the grammar and vocabulary i used you can play
along we'll leave a pause before maria answers and you'll find out if you're right so an easy start maria what did i say or what phrase did i use to show that i really liked something in the first question about my favorite color i'm a big fan of dark colors yep so if you're a big fan then you really
like it then in the next one there is a special collocation that i used to say instead of a lot of something i have a huge collection of Fantastic.
We're back on track.
In the third question about the colours that I dislike, I mentioned that sometimes colours can be too much.
But I didn't say they were too much.
I used a different word.
I just find some colours a bit overwhelming.
Yes. And then we talked about if colours were important to me.
And I again used another special collocation to describe I have what might happen if I thought it was too much and I really hated the situation and I was emotionally unstable about it.
To have a nervous breakdown.
Yep, but I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown.
And in the last one, I talked about my room, which is almost all Oxford blue, but there are some parts that are not.
But I used a special word to talk about the parts that are not blue.
What did I call them?
they are sheer white oh no no Maria you have fallen at the final hurdle what word did I use to describe the ones which are not blue frames and shelves no that's three words exceptions exceptions exceptions oh Marina oh but you got most of them right which is the most important thing so we have recovered
from our previous disaster however That's it for today.
Thank you for listening to our colorful answers.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The joke, the color joke.
Now it is my turn to suffer.
Oh, okay, let's go.
Okay, okay, again, like two jokes for you and Rory, your job is to assess them.
IELTS style. So from band one to band nine.
The first joke. What's a cat's favorite color?
Purple. Oh my God. Band five, Maria.
That was cringe. It made me laugh, but only because it was so bad.
Okay, okay. Here's another one.
What color is the wind?
The wind, you know.
What color is it? What color is the wind?
What color is the wind?
Below. Okay, that's like a band six because that's a funny language joke.
That's a pun. Yeah, because we know that the wind blows, dear listener.
And in the past, yesterday, the wind blew.
And the wind blew sounds like blue, blue color.
Hey, hey, hey. So, what color is the wind blue?
Thank you very much for listening.
We'll get back to you in another episode.
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crew unleash your senses with nerds gummy clusters what's your favourite colour?
I'm a big fan of dark colours, especially blue, although I've been known to wear brighter things on occasion.
I quite like black as well, even though I know that's a shade, I'd still consider it a colour.
Do you prefer bright colours or dark colours?
Definitely dark ones.
I have a huge collection of black and navy blue shirts.
I have a nice dark green one too, actually.
I'm not sure why, it just comes more naturally to me.
are there any colors that you dislike i wouldn't say i hated any colors in particular though i'm not a huge fan of fluorescent colors in any great amount um i just find it a bit overwhelming it's nice when it's just a hint of color though to catch the eye and like an at an event for example are colors
important to you i mean i have my preferences but i wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't get to wear or see a particular colour.
I sometimes coordinate colours or colour -code things, and that's helpful, but it's not the be -all and end -all.
What's the colour of your room?
Which one? Most of the rooms in my home are magnolia, or at least the walls are, but the walls in my bedroom I had painted Oxford blue to let me relax and sleep better.
The only exceptions are the window frames and the shelves, which are sheer white.
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