Hello, Dylistna and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Describe a place that is not visited by many tourists.
You should say what the place is, what people can see there, why only few people visit this
place and explain why you think it's interesting.
Rory of Hidal.
I suppose the place that comes to mind most easily is the McManus Gallery, the centre
of my hometown, Dundee.
That's not to say it's not frequented by tourists, it's just that it's not always the
first stop whenever they choose to come and visit, even though I think it really should
be.
Despite the name, it's actually more of a museum than a gallery, and perhaps that's why
many people don't go since the name is a little bit misleading.
It's full of laws of different artifacts from around the world, which makes sense since
it was built in Victorian times when the British Empire was a real force out in the world,
and explorers were bringing back all kinds of things, rightly or wrongly.
Like I said, the name is a bit unclear in relation to what it actually offers, but it's
not a total misnomer since the walls are fissuned with paintings of all kinds of styles
from across history, including modern and classical art.
I think there might actually be some postmodern stuff in the new exhibits, but I'm not entirely
sure.
When it comes to why not many people go, I'm not entirely sure about that either frankly,
it's not like the building is hard to miss.
It's like a huge Victorian building done in what I think is called a neo-gothic style,
but no architecture expert.
No.
It doesn't seem to be that it's not well advertised and doesn't seem to do much outreach,
or like I say, it doesn't seem to do this anyway, so it doesn't really draw people in.
That's a real shame because I've been a few times this year, and I think it's one of
the best things about my hometown.
It's got a real sense of history behind it, and it's not like you see buildings or
contents like that every day.
My favourite one is this necklace that's made of bare clothes from the Americas.
It's absolutely fascinating.
I have no idea what it's for, or what it symbolises or anything.
I just think it looks really cool.
Whatever the reason is for lack of serious popularity, this is the building in general.
I hope people go there more often.
And what about your friends?
Do they enjoy this place?
I don't know many that go, to be honest.
Hey, thank you, Rory, for your story.
My commandos galleries.
In D&D, they'll say you can just google this place and look at it.
A beautiful place, the Muckamans.
A galleries.
There are eight galleries.
Okay.
The Muckamans, then these art gallery and museum, they'll listen.
Okay.
So here you can talk about a museum and art gallery at Park.
I don't know, a cafe, which is not visited by many tourists.
This is kind of like off the beaten track in your city.
Except in this case, it's not because it's in the middle of my town.
So I don't know why not many people are going there compared to other places.
And here, D&D, you say like not many people go or few people go there.
Few, not many.
You don't say less people, okay?
You say few people.
Or few people go there than to other places.
So not many.
And we can start that, I suppose the place that comes to mind most easily is the blah,
blah museum or blah, blah park or blah, but I need gardens or swimming pool.
I don't know, maybe a restaurant, which is right in the center, but few people visit.
And then Rory uses a synonym.
He says it's not frequented by tourists, by many tourists.
So frequented, yeah?
Yeah, that just means they don't go there very often, but you don't need to frequent a famous
place you could frequent a restaurant or a cafe that you really like.
For example, give us an example.
Well, I definitely frequent the cafe up the road because it's so close to where I live,
it's easy to go there.
But it's very formal, right?
Usually people don't use this word.
Well, I use it.
Really?
How?
To talk about a place I go there, a place I go to regularly.
Hmm, it was about like your gym.
Well, I don't frequent a gym because I don't go to one.
I have my own.
Ah, really?
Ah, okay, have your flats.
My flat is my gym, okay?
They listen to my bed is my gym.
My kitchen is my gym.
Every room in my house is my gym.
Okay, my bathtub is my swimming pool, okay?
Yeah, and my sauna.
Beautiful.
So you can see like, okay, it's not always the first stop for tourists to visit, okay?
They don't choose to come and visit.
Common visit.
So tourists don't usually choose this place to come and visit.
And then you describe the place.
So Rory talks about the MacMannus galleries.
So it's more of a museum than a gallery because actually the full name is the MacMannus,
than these art gallery and museum.
That's the full name.
I do not think you'll find many people using that to describe it though.
And then because the name is confusing, maybe that's why not many people go there.
Since because the name is a little misleading or maybe the address is misleading.
And here we use since to mean because people don't go there since it's far away.
People don't go there because it's far away.
This place is full of loads of different artifacts from all over the world.
Which means there's a lot of them.
Like art objects.
When you refer to what you were saying, you can say, like I said, the name is a bit unclear.
Or the address is unclear.
Or the place is far away from the city center.
That's why it's not visited or it's not frequented by many tourists.
What is a misnomer?
This is a name that's a bit misleading or poorly chosen.
So it's not a complete misnomer because it does have pictures like you would expect
to see in a gallery.
But at the same time, this museum aspect is not captured in its name, which people refer
to it by, which is the Mannus galleries.
You appear the word gallery and you think, oh pictures or paintings.
And then you said that the walls are first tuned with paintings.
It's covered.
Covered with paintings.
I love that word for stuned.
Oh, another example with a word please.
But walls can be for stuned with paintings.
I suppose someone could be for stuned with jewelry if they have a lot of it on.
Yeah, do you listen to it?
So if you talk about a museum or an art gallery or just the walls in your house, you can
say, like, all the walls are for stuned with paintings.
Covered in paintings.
There is some post-modern stuff, different paintings, different styles and lots of exhibits.
Exhibits are objects which are exhibited in an exhibition delisina.
Are you okay?
An exhibit could also be a collection of objects with a specific theme, like a stone age
exhibit or a South American exhibit.
When you move to another topic, you can say, when it comes to why not many people go,
I am not entirely certain.
So when it comes to blah, blah, blah, I'm not sure.
And here you can say, well, I'm not sure why people don't go there.
Like I'm not entirely certain.
I'm not completely sure.
To be certain or to be sure.
The building is not hard to miss.
So people see it.
It's right in the center.
So it's not hard to miss.
Or you can say, it is hard to miss because it's located in a small street.
It's very hard to find the building, to locate the building.
Or maybe like, it doesn't have a name.
Or the door is hidden.
So you can say, it's very easy to miss.
But this one is not because it's huge.
Yeah, it's huge.
And actually it's quite like my beautiful building.
It is, yeah.
I don't know what style the building is.
I think it's called Neogothic.
And if you want to guess about that as well, then you can't.
Because no one is an architecture expert.
Except for actual architecture experts.
Yeah, you can say, well, but I'm not an expert.
I'm not a tour guide.
Yeah, I think it's this, but I'm not an expert.
And then you can say, the real reason might be that this place is not well advertised.
Okay.
So even if it's a great museum, it's not well promoted.
It's not well advertised.
So very few people know about it.
And this place doesn't do much outreach.
What is an outreach?
It just means work taken to contact the public and make it aware of the things that are
happening at the museum.
There are no posters, there are no ads.
So we just don't know about this place.
They don't have an Instagram account.
So we don't know about it.
So very few people know about it.
So they don't do much outreach.
And they, I mean, people who work for this building, for this museum in this building.
So they don't draw people in.
Okay.
So they just like don't attract people inside.
So they don't know what blogging is, obviously.
Not that I'm aware of.
They might have an Instagram page.
But they don't really know how to promote themselves, how to advertise themselves.
Yes, so they don't draw people in.
And that's a real shame.
That's a pity because this place is great.
I've been there a few times, you can say, oh, I haven't been there myself.
It's one of the best things in town.
You can say it has a real sense of history behind it.
Okay.
It's beautiful.
And then Rory not talks about this necklace made of bare cloths, de-lisena.
Yeah, there's a bare cloth necklace.
It's so cool or at least I think it's cool.
It's absolutely fascinating.
So you can mention some exhibits that you like in this place if you talk about an art
gallery or a museum.
So whatever the reasons for its lack of serious popularity.
So it kind of, it's not popular.
Rory, how did you structure your aunt?
Just like how it wasn't a task to be honest, although I did add a little bit at the end
about my favourite part of it.
I don't think that that's quite what the people were looking for when they were saying
explain why you find it so interesting.
But I did explain it at other places and I wanted to draw attention to this particular
exhibit which I think is cool.
So it's still okay.
So I added that little extra bit there and I guessed a lot about the style because I was
talking about what kind of place it is and what people can see there, not just on the
inside but on the outside too.
So you should mention that as well when you're describing this place.
Of course you talk about what's available on the inside but what does it look like?
Because that's part of what people can see there as well.
But what I didn't do was round off with my usual conditional ending.
Just instead I did a little bit of free promotion for them and said I hope what people go there
more often.
Like if they could promote themselves more effectively or more people would go there.
Remember DLSN for you people, for you people.
Okay, here not many people, few people go there.
Please make a smart choice about the place.
Make sure you can talk about it and describe it.
Okay, you know things about it or just you can talk about the Macamena's galleries.
Just tell the example that you're from Scotland, okay, you're living done.
You are, your name is Vory, okay.
You can't.
You can't spread the Macamena's galleries to a new location.
Yeah, my passport, it says like Boris Petrov but actually my name, everybody calls me
Vory.
Can you imagine Vory?
Actually I can do that.
I can.
Yeah.
Thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode.
Bye.
Bye.
Describe a place that is not visited by many tourists.
Hmm, you should say what the place is, what people can see there, why only few people
visit this place and explain why you think it's interesting.
I suppose the place that comes to mind most easily is the Macamena's galleries and the
centre of my hometown, Dundee.
That's not to say it's not frequented by tourists, it's just that it's not always the
first stop whenever they choose to come and visit, even though I think it really should
be.
Despite the name, it's actually more of a museum than a gallery and perhaps that's why
many people don't go since the name is a little bit misleading.
It's full of laws of different artifacts from around the world which makes sense since
it was built in Victorian times when the British Empire was a real force out in the world
and explorers were bringing back all kinds of things, rightly or wrongly.
Like I said, the name is a bit unclear in relation to what it actually offers, but it's
not a total misnomer since the walls are fissumed with paintings of all kinds of styles from
across history, including modern and classical art.
I think there might actually be some postmodern stuff in the new exhibits, but I'm not entirely
sure.
When it comes to why not many people go, I'm not entirely sure about that either frankly,
it's not like the building is hard to miss.
It's like a huge Victorian building done in what I think is called a neo-gothic style,
but no architecture, X-word.
No.
The rail reason might be that it's not well advertised and doesn't seem to do much outreach,
or like I say, it doesn't seem to do this anyway, so it doesn't really draw people
in.
And that's a real shame because I've been a few times this year and I think it's one
of the best things about my hometown.
It's got a real sense of history behind it, and it's not like you see buildings or
contents like that every day.
My favourite one is this necklace that's made of bare clothes from the Americas.
It's absolutely fascinating.
And I have no idea what it's for or what it symbolises or anything.
I just think it looks really cool.
Whatever the reason is for a lack of serious popularity, this is the building in general.
I hope people go there more often.
And what about your friends?
Does they enjoy this place?
I don't know many that go, to be honest.
