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hello lovely i'm maria and my name is rory and we're the host of 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 fabulous vocabulary for your high
ielts score your band nine score oh maria i love that hat yes it's cool isn't it And today it's our topic.
Let's talk about hats.
Finally, hats. Why finally?
Have we never done hats before?
You know, I was trying to find the episode about hats and I didn't find one.
Oh wow, okay. And you know what?
At university they called me a hat lady or a hat girl.
Why? Because I just, I wore ten different hats.
like every day i would have a different hat it was i was like like stylish and super hat so he's like hats so yes dear listener if hats are not your thing well it should be because hats are cool hats are style rory how many hats do you have off the top of my head i think i have three Three.
I used to have four, but one of them has gone missing.
Okay. Okay, well done you.
Let's talk about hats.
Do you like to wear hats?
Sometimes. If it's freezing, or maybe there's an event that has a particular theme or something, but they're not things I would do or wear regularly.
What kind of hats do you like?
I have a few baseball caps and I used to have a beanie that I bought a while back, but I've lost it which is a real shame since it had a lot of sentimental value.
Are heads popular in your country?
I suppose so, especially in the winter when it's really cold and you need to keep warm.
And of course you lose a lot of heat through having exposed heads, so by covering your head you prevent that from happening.
Why do people wear heads or caps?
Well, when it's a bit chilly, like I said, and sometimes it can be a fun fashion statement.
Aside from that, I'm not really sure, though I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons.
Where do you like to buy hats?
I've never gone out of my way to shop at a specific place, truth be told, but I liked where I got my beanie in Paris.
I think that was just because it was Paris, though.
I've never been to a special hat shop or anything like that.
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See you soon! so dear listener hats okay first of all how do we say this hats hats hats hates hats yes so this soft hats and the sound is like like bats like a rat hat hats okay dear listener we wear hats What else do we do with hats?
We buy them. We keep them.
I'm trying to think of what else.
We display them, perhaps, if they're, like, if they look good.
Yes, dear listener, and if you don't like hats, if you have only one cap, you should say that, yes, I like hats, and then lie, and use all this lovely vocabulary.
Because if you say, like, well, I don't have any hats, I hate hats, well, like, what will you talk about?
the examiner needs vocabulary from you and fluency and english so here imagine that you love hats you're a hats maniac oh hats give me hats if you're not a hat maniac then we'll talk about alternative things that you can do but it would be good to be interested in hats or at least look at what you might call
some of your hats so rory chose a boring approach so when it's cold i wear a hat i didn't say when it's cold though i said when it's freezing oh freezing it's very cold freezing but hats are for style they're not for like you know to warm your head that's not true you can use them for practical purposes
as well that two purposes yes practical and style but i don't wear hats regularly okay oh also the The third reason is protection from the sun.
Oh really? Oh well I suppose yeah people wear like wide -brimmed hats for sun protection.
So the brim of the hat is the part that sticks out from your head as opposed to the part that covers your head.
Yeah and sometimes we need to cover our face.
So you need to have this like wide brims.
Brims. They surround the hat.
so you can say that in summer i wear what hats why hats with wide brims yes or a sun hat you could just say no no dear listen you need this word brim okay a hat with wide brims and here you just go to google images and put down b -r -i -m brims so this is a part of a hat that sticks out what kinds of hats
so there are different kinds of hats and you should remember maybe two or three types of hats not just a cap i wear a cap well it's boring and simple like okay rory told us i have a few baseball caps like regular caps that boys usually wear and a beanie rory what's a beanie Well, if a baseball cap is something
that's tight -fitting and has something sticking at the front of it, like in one direction, then a beanie is just something that is a bit looser, it's a thicker material, and it sits over your head.
It's usually used to keep your head warm, I think.
Some people wear it as a fashion statement, though.
Yeah, a very popular kind of hat, a beanie or a beanie hat.
Please Google it. You need to see a picture, okay, a beanie.
B -E -A -N -I -E, a beanie hat or a beanie cap.
A small hat, it fits closely to the head, and sometimes it's made from wool.
It can be warm, or it could be just, you know, like a hat, and you wear it as a fashion statement, like, yeah, you're super hat, you know, and then you go inside and you keep the hat on inside.
Like indoor glasses, your indoor hat.
OK. And your hat could have a lot of sentimental value.
Rory. Sentimental value meaning?
Just it brings up memories or reminds you of a particular time in your life.
Maybe it's important for not the money that you can sell it for or the money that you paid for it.
But it's important for how it fits into your life and what it reminds you of.
Right, dear listener.
them. You should also go to Google and google types of hats and there you have some pictures of different hats types.
And you should choose maybe like two, three words.
For example, you can say that I usually wear a beret.
What's a beret? I think it's tight around the sides of the head, but it's looser on top.
Yeah, it's kind of like you go to France and this is like a stereotype like oh you wear beret and beret is not just a French thing though it's also something that you see people in the military wearing oh that's true that's true b -e -r -e -t but it's a French word so we don't pronounce t at the end so the pronunciation is wild
and crazy beret dear listener well it's for men as well why not is it okay okay then we can say like a floppy hat i wear a floppy hat or a straw hat this uh hat which is made from straw maybe you have this um derby hat even if you don't wear any hats you just say oh yeah i have a derby hat what's that it's
a hat with a narrow brim oh okay i didn't know that um i've never felt the need to wear one before.
You can also say that I wear beach hats with wide brims, which are made from straw.
You see, so I sometimes wear berries and I have a boater hat.
A boater hat, Rory.
What's that? I've never heard of that either.
But then like I say, I don't usually buy hats like probably most people.
Kind of like a type of a summer hat, but you can wear it in the autumn as well.
Sometimes it's warm, sometimes it's not.
For style. Really nice.
Boater hat, bucket hats.
Ladies are quite popular.
Bucket, like a bucket of water.
Bucket hat. I assume that's because it's shaped like a bucket.
Yes. um i think i just won my taxes yeah i just switched to h &r block in about one minute all i had to do was drag and drop last year's return into h &r block and bam my information is automatically there so i don't have to go digging around for all my old papers to switch nope sounds like we just leveled
up our tax game switching to h &r block is easy just drag and drop your last return it's better with block Hats are popular, especially in winter.
People usually wear wooly hats, beanie hats to keep warm, because you lose a lot of heat through having an exposed head.
So, if I don't wear a hat, my head is exposed.
It's not covered. so you should cover your head in winter and you should cover your head in summer to protect your head from the sun so your head should not be exposed another synonym for cold is chili so when it's like chili it's cold or it's chili like a little bit cold so i usually wear a hat when it's
chilly and i think that hats are a fun fashion statement are a fun fashion statement well they could be but if it's a fashion statement when you wear a hat you kind of you tell people okay look at me i'm cool i'm into fashion so it's style you know like sunglasses like hats are a nice accessory we buy
hats at a special hat shop right yes it's called a milner however most people don't know what that is so if you just say a special hat shop then you will be fine milner a milliner yeah what what how do you spell it uh oh god good question that's a hard one isn't it i'm pretty sure a milner is the person but a millinery
is the name of a shop is the name of the shop yeah so m -i -l -l -i -n -e -r -y yeah it's difficult so it's just like hats .com that's mental why would anyone say that no it's crazy yeah i don't buy it from a special hat shop yeah like um i briefly thought about saying it but i was just like just when is anyone
gonna need that word really you say is there a hat shop nearby or a place i can buy a hat hat shop yeah or just like a hat store or maybe you buy hats at the market like every weekend you have a market you go there and you buy hats or for example at an exhibition like a fashion exhibition all right
or just at a local shop at a local store or online dear listener and roi told us that i've never gone out of my way to shop for hats which i'm pretty sure is but either way it's an expression that means to make a special effort to do something because i do go out of my way to shop for hats i search
for interesting hat shops i travel for a long time to get there and i know some designers who design nice hats i pay a lot of money for hats you know so i search for hats so i i go out of my way truth be told that's a nice one but that's just saying um to be honest yeah if you want to say to be honest
in a band line way you say like, well, truth be told, I'm not a fan of hats.
Truth be told, truth be told, I don't wear hats every day.
Or for example, truth be told, I'm addicted to hats.
Okay. Oh, hats, hats.
So, truth be told is an idiom and we use it just like this.
Truth be told. I've never been to a special hat shop.
There you go, dear listener.
Or I've been to a special hat shop thousands of times or I go to a special head shop every week.
I'd love to meet the person who is like this.
And now, dear listener, Rory's show.
Yes, I have a quiz for you.
So, let's go through my answers and I'll ask you some questions about the grammar or the vocabulary.
Starting off with question number one.
What's the word I use to describe very cold temperatures?
It's freezing. It is, yeah.
Then, with question number two.
what's the phrase I use to comment on something being important not because it costs a lot of money but because it's got special personal or emotional connections it has a lot of sentimental value and then when we were talking about if hats are popular I used a special word to describe something which is uncovered
and vulnerable to be exposed or to have an exposed head yes then getting back to words to describe the cold in the next question i used another word to describe the cold but it was not freezing what was it it's chilling perfect and then the very last one was a special phrase that i used to say that i
never make a special effort to do something or i have never made a special effort to do something i've never gone out of my way to do something perfect well done maria good for you congratulations and we should wrap it up with a joke come on it's like a hat episode without a joke what no no no and actually
I have two jokes and I want you to grade the joke so do you give it like band 7 band 9 0 band 1 according to IELTS band scores okay so maximum it's band 9 minimum it's 0 so if you don't go to the test you just get 0 so the first joke what a strange day first i found a hat full of money then i was followed
around by some guy with a guitar okay that's quite good oh it's a good one so dear listener so you know when you see musicians playing in the street so you see a guy with a guitar who is singing, who is playing, and then in front of him usually there is a hat for money or there is something where people
put money in, and usually it's a hat.
Or like people go around and collecting money using a hat.
So, I found a hat full of money.
So, some guy was walking and just took the hat, but it was the musician's hat where he was collecting money.
Ha, ha, ha. So I was followed around by some guy with a guitar.
So the musician was like, wait, it's my hat.
Just give it back, put it down.
So how would you assess this joke, Rory?
Well, I don't think that's like a band seven or a band eight joke because I always think the funniest jokes are based in real life, whereas that's obviously just a funny story, but it's still funny.
So that works. okay well do listen now you can tell a joke about a hat so you can say like oh like the examiner goes like do you like to wear hats you know truth be told i don't wear hats but i know a joke and you just crack a joke the examiner loves his head off and he's natural you're funny you made
the examiner laugh ha ha ha ha ha ha thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode.
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Do you like to wear hats?
Sometimes. If it's freezing or maybe there's an event that has a particular theme or something, but they're not things I would do or wear regularly.
What kind of hats do you like?
I have a few baseball caps and I used to have a beanie that I bought a while back, but I've lost it, which is a real shame since it had a lot of sentimental value.
Are hats popular in your country?
I suppose so, especially in the winter when it's really cold and you need to keep warm.
And of course you lose a lot of heat through having exposed heads, so by covering your head you prevent that from happening.
Why do people wear hats or caps?
Well, when it's a bit chilly, like I said.
And sometimes it can be a fun fashion statement.
Aside from that, I'm not really sure.
Though, I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons.
Where do you like to buy hats?
I've never gone out of my way to shop at a specific place, just be told.
But I liked where I got my beanie in Paris.
I think that was just because it was Paris, though.
I've never been to a special hat shop or anything like that.
Thank you.
