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Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success Podcasts.
The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening
skills along the way.
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Are you feeling a little bit bored Maria?
Yes, I'm bored out of my mind.
Shall we talk about boredom?
Let's talk about feeling bored.
What are queens to listen to?
Yes, we are talking about feeling bored.
Again, it's a comeback.
What things are boring to you?
Well, I really hate it when people just draw on and on in a conversation.
Like especially if they're talking about something I've lost interest in, or never had any
interest in to begin with, or if they just won't give up their turn in the conversation,
you know, when somebody just goes on and on and on, and you just have to sit there and
listen and wait for them to stop.
Because if you did stop them, then you would be a bit rude.
What do you do when you feel bored?
Well, I'm trying to get better at living in the moment and just feeling my feelings and
dealing with them and coping with them as they come to me.
But even I will admit that it's far too easy for me to just use my phone as a crutch
and whenever I get even a little bit bored, I just sit on my phone and open up a video
on YouTube or a real on Instagram and distract myself.
It's just far too easy to open up a video and do that rather than just deal with the
emotion to be honest with you.
Do you think school is boring?
Well, I just finished reading a book about this and the author was saying that the two
predominantly negative emotions in school are the sense of fear and the sense of boredom.
And I happened to agree with that because when I was at school, I was frequently bored
out of my mind.
And when you think about it, that's not surprising.
That's such a common experience because a lot of schooling is just someone else trying
to get you to follow their plan rather than you picking the plan that you want to have
and want to follow.
Do you feel more bored now than when you were younger?
God, I'm not sure to measure that really.
I mean, on the one hand, I have more choices than I used to and I have more control over
those choices and when to take advantage of them.
But on the other hand, there's not nearly as much novelty in discovering new things
as there was.
So I don't know.
I think I'd have to think about it more really.
I suppose the obvious answer is to say that I'm more bored or I was more bored in the
past because I mean, you're bound to be more bored when you have fewer things to do.
But I have no idea really.
Sorry, I can give you a straight answer about that one and you've just I've just bored
your to death with the answer.
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I've Beyond three times.
There isn't.
Because Maria is bored out of her mind, which is just another way to say you're really bored.
Life can't be all fun in the games all the time.
So good.
Life is not fun all the time.
Sometimes we can get bored.
I've been having a lot of fun with binomials recently and binomials are like these phrases
like fish and chips, fish and shove, and here, fun and games.
And what does it mean?
So fun and games is just a collective term for describing, well, enjoyable activities or
things that you like to do.
It's not always fun in games.
Unless you do our job, then it is always fun in games.
Yeah, I can say like a school is not always fun in games.
Unless you take classes with me or Maria, in which case, it is always fun in games.
No, not all.
My class is no.
The super serious, focused fun.
Oh, well, mine are really good fun.
So check out the link in the description and slide up.
I can run out of things to do.
I don't have anything to do.
So like no more things to do.
I can run out of things to do or I get bored when I have run out of things to do.
Run out of something.
There's nothing left.
Okay, so usually we use it about different food or I've run out of sugar.
So there's no sugar in my kitchen.
There's no fun things to do anymore.
Yeah, like no more fun things to do.
When I've run out of things to do, I usually get bored.
I just have to sit and wait.
Ah, is it another binomial fun in games, sit and wait?
Oh, yes, it's almost like I've planned it out this way so that I can encourage people
to do this better.
You can say that I'm completely bored when people tata tata.
I feel completely bored when I have to sit and wait.
Or you can say I get sick and tired.
Sick and tired, you know?
I'm tired of this.
I'm bored.
Also, can I say I'm disinterested in this topic?
I mean, disinterest is more like a lack of feeling.
Uninterest would be not to have an interest in something.
So it's not the same as getting bored?
No, no, they're there.
I mean, they could be related, but they're not necessarily related, but they are fun.
Like classes with Rory.
I hate it when people drone on at lengths.
So to drone on about something is to talk for a long time in a boring way, you know?
Like for example, a professor could drone on about space.
There they there and you kind of look, uh huh.
Boring, it's dull, it's boring.
Or for example, all Rory was uh, drowning on and on about science.
And we kind of like, oh my god.
So to drone on and on about something, yeah?
So I usually feel bored when my friends drone on and on about, I don't know, famous people.
Or kind of I lose interest.
Well, it's boring when people drone on and on about themselves and their problems.
And you just either didn't have an interest to begin with or you lose interest because
when people complain all of the time, it is very boring.
Yeah, I feel bored when people complain all the time or if they go on and on about, um,
my no, their problems go on and on.
Or if they won't give up their turn in the conversation.
So to give up their turn is kind of like to stop talking and like you talk and then I talk
and then you talk.
It's kind of usual conversation is like ping, ping, ping, ping, but if people just go on
and on and they don't give up their turn for you to speak, yeah?
So it kind of like it's really dull.
Monotonous, you can say monotonous, the same thing.
You know, they talk on and on about this or it could get tedious, which is another
synonym for boring, like a tedious conversation, a boring conversation.
It's turned a band nine word.
Ooh, like my turn in a conversation.
Yeah, my turn in a conversation.
That should be a band playing word and give up as a phrase of her.
Yeah, for example, when you say kind of like it's your turn kind of you speak now,
okay?
Then it's my turn.
But some people just like keep drawing on and on, complaining, boring.
Other things which are quite tedious, according to Google, Delisna and Google is always correct,
okay?
So being on hold.
So when you call a bank or you call a non-align company and you are on hold, please, your
call is very important to us, just wait.
You kind of like sit in there waiting or getting stuck in traffic.
When you get stuck in traffic, when you are in a traffic jam, it's really tedious.
Or when you cue in a bank, so queuing up, yeah, standing in a line could be really boring,
dull, tedious.
Or, for example, tidy up your flat, can you say like I'm bored out of my mind?
I love that expression.
That's one of my favorite ones, actually.
And as talking about favorite expressions, you might have noticed that I used my old favorite
doesn't everyone to answer the question.
If the examiner asks you, do you ever get bored?
You can answer back.
Doesn't everyone.
And not just because it's a question and it's a good chance to use this kind of intonation
with the question structure.
It's also a way to stop yourself from repeating the question in your answer.
Because what was the question again, Maria?
Do you ever get bored?
And then you might repeat some parts of the question in your answer like saying, I get bored
when or yes, I get bored when and that's not really very natural.
So in order to avoid doing that and bring up the level of the answer that you give, try
this instead.
I'm trying to feel my feelings.
Rory, what's this?
Feel my feelings?
Huh?
Are you like a Buddhist monk?
Like, was feel my feelings like touch my touch?
I like face my face.
Feel my feelings as an expression for just accepting the feeling and not trying to distract
yourself from having the feeling.
So it's like appreciating things in the moment, living in the moment.
So Rory is all mindful now.
There is mindfulness, not being in the moment.
Rory is trying to be mindful, but that is difficult to do at 11 o'clock in the morning
when you haven't eaten that much.
Are you eating now?
No.
Here's your heart.
Jesus.
When I feel bored, I open up a video.
So open up a video, okay?
To distract myself.
You can use Instagram, Facebook, to distract myself and deal with this emotion.
I am deal with bored.
Feel bored and the noun is bored.
My bored.
You can also say when I'm bored out of my mind, when I'm completely bored, I do this
and that.
So like, when I'm bored out of my mind, I try to feel my feelings.
All is boring, school is dull, lessons are tedious, monotonous, you know?
And Rory told us that there are two main emotions at school, like fear and bored.
I'm not sure boredom is an emotion though, but well.
Really?
Well, maybe we could talk about it being an emotional state then.
But I should say, this is not what I was directly saying.
I was talking about the book I read, which is another fun thing to do, because you should
be reading anyway.
And so, if you read a book about a related subject, this might be another good way of avoiding
repeating the question in your answer and also showing a more advanced structure at the
same time.
And if you haven't read any books, you can just lie.
Okay?
Like, I would just read a book about this.
Actually, no.
You see, no, listen.
I used to get bored when I was younger, or I felt bored when I was younger at school,
for example.
But now I have more ways to entertain myself.
To entertain, like to go to cinema, to read books, to hang out with friends, entertain
yourself.
But there is now less novelty.
Okay?
As we grow older and older and older, we kind of all, I've done this, I've been there,
nothing new, so like less novelty, don't listen.
Discover things for the first time, so there is less novelty of discovering things for
the first time, because like you've done all the things already.
Right, don't listen.
Hopefully, you didn't get all bored.
Let us know in the comments, three things that are super boring for you.
And what do you do when you feel bored?
Like I eat, Rory is on Instagram.
Okay, so nothing really, you know, interesting.
So let us know.
Maybe you'll do some interesting things in your life.
That will keep us entertained.
And if you want to take your learning to a slightly higher level, then you can always
do a reflection task from today.
What that task is, I don't know.
Oh yes, it's how would you grade the answers that I gave and why?
You can send me a message on Instagram, or you could leave it in the comments depending
on how you are viewing or listening to us.
Bye.
Bye.
What things are boring to you?
Well, I really hate it when people just drone on and on in a conversation.
Like especially if they're talking about something I've lost interest in, or never had any
interest in to begin with, or if they just won't give up their turn in the conversation,
you know, when somebody just goes on and on and on.
And you just have to sit there and listen and wait for them to stop.
Because if you did stop them, then you would be a bit rude.
What do you do when you feel bored?
Well, I'm trying to get better at living in the moment and just feeling my feelings and
dealing with them and coping with them as they come to me.
But even I will admit that it's far too easy for me to just use my phone as a crutch.
And whenever I get even a little bit bored, I just sit on my phone and open up a video
on YouTube or a real on Instagram and distract myself.
It's just far too easy to open up a video and do that rather than just deal with the
emotion to be honest with you.
Do you think school is boring?
Huh?
Well, I just finished reading a book about this.
And the author is saying that the two predominantly negative emotions in school are the sense
of fear and the sense of boredom.
And I happened to agree with that because when I was at school, I was frequently bored
out of my mind.
And when you think about it, that's not surprising.
That's such a common experience because a lot of schooling is just someone else trying
to get you to follow their plan rather than you picking the plan that you want to have
I want to follow.
Do you feel more bored now than when you were younger?
God, I'm not sure to measure that really.
I mean, on the one hand, I have more choices than I used to and I have more control over
those choices and when to take advantage of them.
But on the other hand, there's not nearly as much novelty in discovering new things as
there was.
So I don't know.
I think I'd have to think about it more, really.
I suppose the obvious answer is to say that I'm more bored or I was more bored in the
past because I mean, you're bound to be more bored when you have fewer things to do.
But I have no idea, really.
Sorry, I can give you a straight answer about that one.
And I've just bored your death with the answer.
