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Our favorite part our abstract part with philosophical abstract questions about everything in general well your opinion about everything and everybody and Rory is an expert on competitions he's an educated later speaker and I.
First of all allegedly and second of all I'm not educated about competition so this is going to be fun.
Rory but you are a writer haven't you entered any writing competitions or just write books?
No, I just write books.
People buy them amazing.
If one person buys them amazing, but if nobody buys them, that's fine too.
This is the problem.
This is why I'm not cut out to answer these questions because I'm just too laid -back about everything, Maria.
As you know, I'm a very laid -back person.
So relaxed. That's true, that's true.
Q. What qualities do competitive people share?
Presumably they all have or share a certain drive to win, though how they go about that might differ dramatically since there are so many kinds of competition.
For example, if it's an athletic competition, then training hard and learning how to optimise your routines and performance will be key to success.
But a kookery competition will require, I don't know, extremely detailed knowledge of the ins and outs of whatever the event demands the cooks make.
What kinds of contests do students like to take part in?
These days, um. That could be anything.
Uh. There are quizzes, sports competitions, chess league tables, I think?
All kinds of things depending on their interests and strengths.
and of course there's the unofficial competition of school league tables.
Some students like knowing that they're the best of the best in that respect too, although I suspect probably their parents prefer it more.
Why don't some people want to be competitive?
Well there's more to life than winning isn't there?
You don't need to win at things to be a good friend or partner or even a good person.
So they have basically prioritized other things over that.
it's also possible, both psychologically and biologically speaking, that some people just lack a competitive drive and therefore lack any impulse in that direction, so they almost naturally don't see the value in it.
How can a person become more competitive?
Well, recognising the value of competing would be a good start and then having a goal or sub -goals to work towards is also handy to have so you can measure progression in a particular direction and then compare it to where other people are in the competition leaderboard or hierarchy.
Do you think parents should encourage their children to take part in competitions?
Assuming it's not to the exclusion of all other things, it should be okay.
At the very least children are going to encounter competitive situations and people in their lives so it's important that they learn how to deal with these things.
um and of course they might be or want to be competitive themselves so it's a great opportunity to cater to that aspect of their personality.
What are the advantages of competitions?
In general it can be an easy way to test your skills and abilities and relation to others in a similar area, or who are of a similar age, so you can understand your place in the pecking order and maybe how to improve over time.
And if it's done right, it can also be a fun way to pass the and of course for the wider society it allows us to find people with great ability in a particular area.
Even people who are runners -up can be offered lots of benefits just for participating in a contest and doing quite well.
Yay! Thank you Rory for your informative, well -developed answers!
Maybe..I don't like competition!
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See you soon! So, first of all, competitions...
we compete and people are competitive.
People are competitive if they like taking part in different competitions.
Like, I'm Come on, Rory, let's play tennis, like I'll...
I'll beat you! I'll beat you, yeah?
Eh, you could beat me at tennis, I think most people could beat me at tennis, to be honest, even a child!
Yeah, so I said like, come on, Rory, let's play tennis, I'll beat you!
Like I'm competitive, I want to win, you know, actually I'm quite competitive.
When I played squash, I wanted to win.
but I ended up losing all the time.
Yeah it just drove me crazy, drove me nuts!
What a weird thing to be warmed up about.
Yeah exactly. It's just...
Yeah, so some people are really competitive.
Yeah, they want to be the winners, they can't stand losing, competitive people.
So they share a certain drive to win, so their motivation is to win.
They have a drive to win.
If you have a drive to do anything, then you are driven to do it, you have that motivation.
And you can also say that competitive people are usually ambitious people.
At least I think they are.
Hard -working, industrious.
And then you can give examples of different competitions.
For example, if it's an athletic competition, like sports competition, people need to work hard, they need to be well -organised.
But if it's a cookery competition, like a cooking competition, this requires detailed knowledge of cooking.
Don't ask me where that idea came from.
I watched a film about that recently.
I can't remember what it's called but it's about this lady.
Unfortunately, she contracts cancer and the one thing that she wants to do before she dies is to compete in this prestigious cookery competition and win and give her daughter some good memories to have. It's quite a sweet film.
Maybe that's where it comes from.
What's the name of the film?
I collect all the films by food.
I have no idea. It's got the guy that plays Spider -man in it.
There are a lot of Spider men.
Yeah but the most recent one...
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Yes! People who cook, cooks their listener.
So they cook. And cooks know the ins and outs of things.
And then there are different competitions.
In part two and three, when we talk about competitions, you can talk about game competitions or artistic competitions, arts competitions like drawing competitions.
You can talk about beauty pageants when you know like miss universe alright or like I know like the the most beautiful woman in your country so they're called beauty pageants, sports competition competitions, language competitions, also different intellectual competitions, the listener, all right?
Cooking shows, cooking competitions and also eating competitions when people eat I don't know pizza to death and like how much pizza can you eat oh it's crazy.
Also you can talk about cat shows like competitions for animals for pets not animals but pets like dogs cats.
At school students take part in different competitions like quizzes like tests, sports competitions, chess league tables so chess competitions, also maybe beauty pageants you know intellectual competitions depending on their interests.
You can say that students take part in different tournaments, in different contests, cooking contests, photography contests, drawing, arts contests..
Some people dislike being competitive.
I am one of those people.
They don't want to compete.
They are not interested in winning.
So they prioritize other things.
They think that other things are much more important so they prioritize.
Winning is not their priority but some people lack a competitive drive.
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For example, having a goal is handy.
Having a goal to win is handy.
So, this is how you become more competitive.
How? By having a goal to win.
Handy, useful. But also recognizing of competing, the value of competing.
If there is any. Which I don't think there is.
But that's just me.
And you can measure progression, so you can measure your success.
When you take part in different competitions, you can measure your progress, or you measure your success.
You track your progress.
And then Rory uses the word hierarchy.
The hierarchy is just, the, I don't know, The way of ordering people based on their level of social power, for example.
See 2 band 9 word hierarchy.
Try spelling it. It is, because hierarchy, come on, like, how can you spell it?
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Roy, could you give us an example with the word hierarchy by 9?
Well, in a competition there is an obvious hierarchy, the people that win are at the top and the people that lose are under that, but there's different scales of losing.
We could also talk about a social hierarchy too.
For example, in the UK, fortunately or otherwise, depending on what you think, we have a class hierarchy with high or upper class people at the top and lower class people at the bottom.
There's also different hierarchies in other countries where there are people at the top who control everything and there are people at the bottom who have less control.
That is a very general statement.
I will not go into details about which countries because I do not want to get in trouble.
Also, we can talk about different companies at work.
So, he rose in the corporate hierarchy.
He became, I know, director very fast. Social hierarchy as Rory told us.
For example, some monkeys have a very complex social hierarchy.
Monkeys. Yeah. Political hierarchy.
And what's the adjective?
Hierarchical? There are some people in a hierarchical structure, yes of course it is, because it's crazy.
Hierarchical organization or hierarchical structure is crazy.
Hierarchical... Hierarchical...
Huh? Like hierarchical model of management.
The mafia has hierarchical structures.
So, monkeys have hierarchical structures.
Let us not dwell on this idea of hierarchy for long because otherwise we will get in trouble.
A more neutral topic would be measurement of progression.
That's how much progress you are making and how you measure this progress.
That surely must be a C2 collocation as well.
And the idea of measuring progress is very neutral, very uncomplicated, very unlikely to land us in a whole load of trouble.
Parents should encourage their children to take part in competitions or they should not.
They shouldn't do it.
Children can encounter competitive situations in life encounter come across like they kind of could be in a competitive life situation.
At school, children compete, well, children compare their grades, maybe they can compete in different tests, sports, right, who is the best, who is the winner, who is the loser, and actually children do know, like, okay, this is the winner, he's cool, this child is not cool, he's a loser.
Well, depending on how they won, if...
of sometimes. No, I think actually a lot of the time, if a child has used underhand means to win, meaning they cheated, then I think children are very quick to call that out too.
So it's not all awful for children.
There are some things which are not ...
which they do not tolerate.
Rightly so. Good for you, children.
And, taking part in different contests, children learn how to deal with competitive life situations, so they can become more competitive themselves, and the benefits of competitions, the advantages, the benefits, positives.
We develop different skills and abilities.
We understand our place in the packing order.
Packing order, Rory, do you mean hierarchy?
I do mean the hierarchy.
I didn't want to say the word hierarchy again, so I said packing order.
Bandai -ing paraphrasing!
It is. Is it an acceptable idiom for IELTS?
Absolutely. Yeah, because the examiner will understand what Rory is on about.
Rory has already used C2 word hierarchy to pay a phrase it he is using pecking order pack like an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others.
Oh a hierarchy, how about that?
Yeah hierarchy is a synonym, for example there's a pecking order in this office So, bosses, not bosses, losers, winners, you know, and for example, he started as an ordinary manager in the pecking order.
But gradually rose in the pecking order and then gradually he became a director.
Competitions could be fun, exciting, engaging.
and for people who are not winners, for people who are runners -up.
So who is a runner -up again?
The people who do not win, but they maybe come in second or third. Yeah, so a person who comes second in a race or competition, but usually second, all right.
So we have the winner and then we have a runner -up, and if there are two people who go to the second place, you call them runners up, two runners up.
So usually in the olympic games they use this word. And the runner up, and usually it's a race or a competition, we take part in a contest or we participate in a contest. So contest participants is another synonym for you dealing with our own.
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Presumably they all have or share a certain drive to win, though how they go about that might differ dramatically since there are so many kinds of competition.
For example, if it's an athletic competition, training hard and learning how to optimize your routines and performance will be key to success.
But a kookery competition will require, I don't know, extremely detailed knowledge of the ins and outs of whatever the event demands the kooks make.
What kinds of contests do students like to take part in?
These days? That could be anything!
There are quizzes, sports competitions, chess league tables, I think.
All kinds of things, depending on their interests and strengths.
And of course there's the unofficial competition of school league tables.
Some students like knowing that they're the best of the best in that respect too, although I suspect probably their parents prefer it more.
Why don't some people want to be competitive?
Well, there's more to life than winning, isn't there?
You don't need to win at things to be a good friend or partner or even a good person.
So they have basically prioritized other things over that.
It is also possible, both psychologically and biologically speaking, that some people just lack a competitive drive and therefore lack any impulse in that direction, so they almost naturally don't see the value in it.
How can a person become more competitive?
Well, recognising the value of competing would be a good start and then having a goal or subgoals to work towards is also handy to have so you can measure progression in a particular direction and then compare it to where other people are in the competition leaderboard or hierarchy.
Do you think parents should encourage their children to take part in competitions?
Assuming it's not to the exclusion of all other things, it should be okay.
At the very least children are going to encounter competitive situations with people in their life, so it's important that they learn how to deal with these things.
Of course they might be or want to be competitive themselves, so it's a great opportunity to cater to that aspect of their personality.
What are the advantages of competitions?
In general it can be an easy way to test your skills and abilities and relation to others in a similar area, or who are of a similar age, so you can understand your place in the pecking order, and maybe how to improve over time.
And if it's done right it can also be a fun way to pass the time as well.
And of course for the wider society it allows us to find people of great ability in a particular area.
Even people who are runners -up can be offered lots of benefits just for participating in a contest and doing quite well.
