Hello, hello, Dielisna and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Describe and indoor or outdoor place where it's easy for you to study.
You should say where the place is, what's it like when you go there and explain why you'd like to study in this place.
Rory Hiem loves studying.
Yes, Rory? Yes, I do. It's part of my job.
Give us your story. Well, I quite like to sit in my office and I feel the need to power through some homework or, well, it's better to say research, isn't it?
That's more grown up. And it's a pretty simple affair to be honest with you.
Just a desk and a chair in my home.
Although I really like the layout of the room and the way I have everything set up in there.
Yeah, it was actually one of the first things that I ever put together when I moved into my new place since I was still working at the time and everybody or crack open a book and, well, crack on with whatever I meant to be looking at or doing.
Even though it's not completely finished, now all the main things have been done.
It's just this ideal space for me to work and study in.
And so, when it is ultimately finished, it will be even more ideal for this kind of...
different cafes, like co-working spaces, they have the veerandas outside, you know.
So, you can start it off with, I quite like to sit in my office.
And my office, meaning in my flat, I have a special room and it's my office.
Sometimes it's called a study.
So I have... Make a big effort to get something done or finished.
And I've got a desk in my office, so not a table, but a desk to study on.
And I have a chair, so nothing special.
I like the layout of the room, so I like the design of the room, the shape of the room.
I have everything set up in there.
So everything is set up, my furniture, my computer, my technology, maybe the light, is set up.
I moved into my place, I moved into this new place and my office was the first thing I put together.
Even before the bedroom.
Oh wow! Okay. So, when I moved in, my office was the first room I put together.
I put together you organized your study or you organized your office first.
Or you organized a special place where you study in your flat.
So you put it up, you set everything up.
Which one did you use something like a cool hormone?
Oh, a quadramon, they're just part.
What? They're just the things that you would expect to have with something.
It is, well, it's originally French, but it's also word in English.
It just means an additional item of clothing or equipment.
A kutramon's, de la suna.
How crazy is this? A kutramon's.
A kutramon's, usually plural, the equipment needed for a particular activity or a way of life.
Whoa, Rory, could you give us another example?
Well, I don't wear any kutramons because...
Things standing up. Okay.
So a standing desk. So you stand and you use this desk.
And you can say that I often replace certain things and I have an...
What kind of chair do you have?
An ergonomic chair. Why can't you know what an ergonomic chair is?
You'll do in your back. So it's designed for efficiency and comfort at the work.
That's what ergonomics means.
A chair can be designed this way, a mouse, a keyboard, anything you need to work.
I have an ergonomic chair and I have some good sound proofing because I record things for my podcast.
So I have a good sound system.
I have a good mic. It leads to that if you're studying using a computer so you can talk about resting your eyes.
I like to take a break from working.
What is plastering? A plastering is just what's used to cover the bare walls in the house to make it more presentable and then you paint over that.
You wouldn't paint on bare walls because that would...
It's all the walls were painted black.
Magnolia. The world's most boring color.
Magnolia? Magnolia is just the color of the flower magnolia.
It's like a very basic color to have for both paint.
And it's in every room of my house apart from my bedroom.
Because I am basic. Is this kind of like a beige color?
Light beige perhaps. So you can see that all the walls were painted white to take advantage of the lightness of the room.
Okay. But the lightest of the room is just how bright it is and how the light comes in, how much light comes in.
A very good word is to always say the lightness of the room and then we have the ample lighting.
Lighting meaning like lamps and like the light not from the window but from electricity, right Rory?
Or everything. Lighting is everything.
Lighting is everything.
That's just like a design slogan.
Is. Like it is easy for me to study.
I don't have any difficulties or you can say I feel at ease.
Next. At ease or ease? At ease.
I think that's how I would say it.
Yeah. I feel completely at ease.
I feel comfortable. Right.
Everything is comfy. My chair is comfy.
And I really get into the studying mindset.
So when I'm there, when I'm in this place, I get into something.
I really get into the studying mindset, you know, like this studying mood when you kind of sit down and then you kind of okay.
And now I'm going to study.
Bam, bam, bam. And you start studying.
And what do I say? I sit at the desk.
I sit by the desk. Hmm. It could be.
Well, if you sit by the desk, it's like you're not sitting there with the express purpose of using it.
You're just, it's just next to you.
Whereas if you're sitting at the desk, you're there for a reason, but the desk is by the window.
It's near the window. So this space has been designed for me to study in.
Okay. Correct. On. So you go in the office, you sit down and you crack on.
Meaning what's like you start studying.
Yes, you just get on with the work.
Yeah. Get on with your work.
Start doing your work. Like, meaning studying.
And you can say that, oh, the place is so good and welcoming.
So it's, it feels natural to just go in, open up a site or open your laptop or open my laptop and crack on with whatever I need to study.
But also you say like crack a book.
Open. Crack open a book.
Open a book. Crack open a book.
Yeah. Like, you know, like, are we crack a joke?
We make a joke. We crack open a book.
We open a book. You can even notice that I laughed slightly because our things that I ever put together when I moved into my new place since I was still working at the time and everything was coming together.
So it made sense to work on this first.
Originally, it was a bedroom with the usual control modes, but then I had that all taken out and replaced with just the standing desk in the ergonomic chair.
And some signal layer just to take advantage of the lightness of the room.
And again, it's got ample lighting.
I don't have anything distracting on them.
Although I think this will change in time.
I think the main reason I feel so at ease in there and really get into the studying mindset is the feeling that it's what the space is for.
It's...