Hello, hello sunshine and welcome into our IELTS speaking part 3.
Isn't it your favorite part of all?
It's definitely mine.
Let's talk about losing and forgetting things.
Losing my mind. Losing the plot.
When the examiner asks you about losing things, he can say that's okay, I lost my mind.
You cannot say that.
Why not? It's a allegation.
Lose my mind. It's not the time to joke about these things.
It's the time to be serious.
It's part 3. We speak about people in general.
In a very serious way.
What are some common items that people tend to lose easily?
I think keys are the thing I most often hear about.
And I can never understand why.
Right. But then I have one key and my door is almost never locked.
Maybe if you don't have them on some kind of lanyard or peaching it's easier to lose them.
As for other things that could be lost, I actually can't think of anything else.
Why do people often misplace or lose things?
Probably because they're not paying attention.
They might be tired or their focus could be elsewhere.
And it's just not that prominent in their minds as a result.
I mean, if you're leaving work and you have a load of things to do at home, then you may just not have it in your head to check you picked up the keys.
I mean, it seems fairly obvious you would do that almost automatically.
What do people often do after losing things?
Well, we're feeling creatures in the first incident.
So probably the initial impulse is to panic.
Double check for the lost thing.
And then curse when you find out it's really actually not there.
And then you get to work hunting for it.
And ideally you come up with a plan to avoid losing whatever it is again.
But that's not always true, is it?
What should parents do to teach their children not to lose things?
Well, probably highlighting the lengths that they go to in order to avoid it, like using a keychain or a bowl for keys or some sort of routine or inventory in their heads to take stock of everything, including their keys.
What are good ways to remind us not to forget all those things?
Well, some people use alarms on their phones to remind them to pick things up that they might have scattered around.
And if you have a routine in your head, it's kind of like an algorithm that reminds you to pick stuff up before you go to.
Is it important for students to be organized?
It's probably important for everyone to be organized, don't you think?
In the case of students, they could at least attempt to think about things in advance and reflect on what's happened to become more efficient in terms of learning and participating in classes.
If that's the goal of studying, then you'd think it would be important to organize the ideas in your heads, at least the ones that you want to get across at the very least.
How can we avoid losing things?
Well, setting reminders seems to be quite a good idea.
And so does having a routine, as for what else could be done.
Well, if you have fewer things, then there are reduced opportunities for you to lose them, I suppose.
Thank you, Rory, for your answers.
No worries. I hope you didn't lose yourself in all of the vocabulary.
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See you soon! OK, they can't find it.
Misplays, they are not able to find it.
Common items people usually lose, common items or objects, well, keys, documents, smartphones.
Oh, yeah, I never thought of those.
Although, to be honest, what I said would work quite well in the exam if you said as for the other things that could be lost, and then saying, I actually can't think of anything else after a pause would be effective also.
Yeah, that's absolutely fine.
If you can't answer the question, you can say, oh, maybe keys, and then I can't think of anything else.
That's OK. The examiner will then move to another question.
Also, umbrellas. Very often people lose umbrellas, even expensive umbrellas.
Why? Well, because kind of you leave an umbrella, like you go to a restaurant, you leave an umbrella there and then you just forget it, you know, because you don't normally carry an umbrella on you.
So it's not something that kind of you have with you all the time.
Maybe some jewelry items, like rings, chains, diamonds, gold.
People often misplace things.
So misplace, but is it the same as lose?
Because like misplace, I put it in another place and then I find it.
No, misplace can also be used for talking about losing things.
Mm. Misplace is a C2 word, dear listener, bad nine, proficiency.
So to lose something temporarily, according to Cambridge Online dictionary, by forgetting where you have put it.
So for example, your smartphones, you put it on your bed, then you go have lunch and then oh, I forgot where's my smartphone, you kind of lost it, but you didn't lose it because you kind of put it in an interesting place.
And then you forgot where you have put it.
Usually we misplace our keys, our clothes, everything.
People do it because they don't pay attention.
So they're not focused.
They might be tired.
They might lose their focus.
That just means they're not focused on it, though.
They have a load of things to do.
A load of things means a lot of things.
Bessie, Bessie, Bessie.
First, people feel panic.
So they they can start panicking like, my phone, I've lost my phone.
Like this, it's time to panic or maybe just go, oh, I lost my phone.
Yeah, but panic is something like you are panicking.
Well, yeah, but there's different levels of panic.
There's like, and then there's like, oh, God.
So it's not just like lose your mind.
Yeah. Then double check for the lost thing, like check your bag three times.
Make sure it's not there.
Then you curse. Curse, you use bad words like beep, beep, beep, beep.
In your mother tongue, you use bad words to kind of to get it out of you, right?
To get this panic, frustration, shock, anger out of you.
Then you get to work hunting for it.
Then people start hunting for the lost object, hunting like, where is it?
Where are you? Where are you?
My phone. Come on. Come on.
Where are you? Go hunting for it.
And then you come up with a plan, how to find it.
Come up with a plan.
You create a plan and then you come up with a plan how to avoid losing it again.
Avoid losing, avoid doing something.
So I've lost my passport several times.
For example, I've come up with a plan how to avoid losing it.
Now it's it's in a special bag.
Is that true? No, no.
Okay. Yeah, it's quite dreadful to lose the documents.
Yes, I know because I have lost my passport and it was horrific.
Yeah, I've lost my passport, I think, what, two or three times.
Wow. I know, look at me.
Maria now has nerves of steel after all of those experiences.
Parents usually teach their children not to lose things.
They teach their children not to be absent minded, to be more focused.
How? Well, parents should highlight the lengths, lengths that they go to in order to avoid What do you mean?
The lengths you go to are the things that you do and usually very intensive things.
The lengths you go to in order to avoid losing something.
There is nothing wrong with that.
It's the difficult things you do or the very intensive things that you do to avoid losing things.
For example, I have to force myself to set a reminder on my phone whenever I have my USB with me in a new school.
Because I am terrified, I will forget it.
So I set like five alarms, which seems excessive, but I need to remember my USB because it's got everything on it.
Wow. Nice. As examples, parents teach their children to use a key chain not to lose their keys or a ball for keys.
So when they come home, they put the keys in a special place in a bowl, like a bowl of rice.
And teach them to follow a special routine.
Routine, you go home, you put the keys there, you put your hats here in a special places.
So to be organized.
What does it mean to take stock of something?
It just means to review and reflect on things and realize what is there and what is not.
Take stock of something is an idiom to examine a situation carefully.
For example, take stock of the damage, you examine the damage after the storm.
Something could remind us not to forget or lose things.
For example, Roy told us that he set a reminder on his phone to remind him to take his USB.
So we can set reminders on our phone or ask some people to tell us to take things with us.
Use alarms on our phone to pick up things.
So you go to a new place, you leave your umbrella and then you set up an alarm on your phone.
Take your umbrella, take your umbrella.
This is actually a genius thing to do.
I've never done it myself.
Wow. I honestly I've never forgotten anything because of that.
Nice. Very nice. It's usually like I've just leave lots of things.
But the thing is, you have to remind yourself to do that.
So it's like you have to set a reminder to set a reminder.
But I haven't written in my diary, so that's OK.
Nice. So your things might be scattered around.
So if you go to a birthday party or if you go, I don't know, to visit your friends.
So your things get scattered around.
So your things cover a wide area.
For example, like my books were scattered around the room.
So they were all over the room.
Yeah. See two words again, dear listener.
Really? Yeah. My God, the criteria for C2 must be wild.
No, but scattered is an advanced word or proficiency words.
Yeah scattered. It's very rare.
Like English learners don't usually use this word.
It's OK for native speakers.
Yeah, because it's natural.
Oh, no, it's it's for everyone.
For everyone. Give us another example with scattered around.
Well, usually there's nothing scattered around my house because I'm very organized.
There we go. That's an absolute lie.
My house is a tip during the week and then on Friday I tidy everything.
Then if you have a routine in your head, this could help you not to forget all those things.
Yeah, it's like an algorithm.
Like an algorithm in mathematics that reminds you to pick stuff up.
So pick stuff up, pick up my things before I leave.
We can also talk about being organized.
So plan everything to be in a well organized person and students should be organized.
Here, Rory uses a tag question.
Do I? I don't know.
You just use a question, don't you think?
Yeah. So kind of ask a question.
We don't usually ask examiners any questions, but here it's like a rhetorical question.
It's like, I think everybody should be organized, don't you think?
And then you continue answering the question.
Yeah. So it's a good one.
It's kind of a tag question.
Oh, yeah. Like, don't you think?
You can have a tag question if you say it's important for everyone to be organized.
Isn't it? It is very important.
Muy importante. That is Spanish for very important.
It's not muy. It's muy importante.
Oh, whatever. Spanish is like very, you know, like you should pronounce the sounds.
I'm like unlike any other English, any other language you don't need to pronounce.
No, no, no, because like in English you go like that students are organized.
Important. You do this.
Well, in Spanish, it's pretty much the same.
I said very importante.
Why is that? Oh, that's well, OK.
Spanish speaking people who are listening, I apologize.
Students could attempt to think about things in an organized way.
They could make attempts.
If they are not organized, they can attempt to be organized.
They can try. It would be important for students to organize their ideas in their head so they can organize their things and also they can organize their ideas to achieve a goal, for example.
Yeah. Nice. So they can set reminders.
They can write everything down in a diary or online diary or on a notebook.
Literally anything.
Anything to organize your ideas will be helpful.
Sweet. Dear listener, are you an organized person?
Have you ever lost your documents?
Maybe umbrellas. No.
Yes. Do you have a diary?
An English diary for your IELTS classes from some.
Or are your things scattered around the room?
Thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode.
OK. Bye. Bye. What are some common items that people tend to lose easily?
I think keys are the thing I most often hear about, and I can never understand why.
But then I have like one key and my door is almost never locked.
Maybe if you don't have them on some kind of lanyard or peaching, it's easier to lose them.
As for other things that could be lost, I actually can't think of anything else.
Why do people often misplace or lose things?
Probably because they're not paying attention.
They might be tired or their focus could be elsewhere.
And it's just not that prominent in their minds as a result.
I mean, if you're leaving work and you have a load of things to do at home, then you may just not have it in your head to check you picked up the keys.
I mean, it seems fairly obvious you would do that almost automatically.
What do people often do after losing things?
Well, we're feeling creatures in the first instance, so probably the initial impulses to panic.
Double check for the lost thing and then curse when you find out it's really actually not there.
And then you get to work hunting for it.
And ideally you come up with a plan to avoid losing whatever it is again.
But that's not always true, is it?
What should parents do to teach their children not to lose things?
Well, probably highlighting the lengths that they go to in order to avoid it, like using a key chain or a bowl for keys or some sort of routine or inventory in their heads to take stock of everything, including their keys.
What are good ways to remind us not to forget all those things?
Well, some people use alarms on their phones to remind them to pick things up that they might have scattered around.
And oh, if you have a routine in your head, it's kind of like an algorithm that reminds you to pick stuff up before you go to.
Is it important for students to be organised?
It's probably important for everyone to be organised, don't you think?
In the case of students, they could at least attempt to think about things in advance and reflect on what's happened to become more efficient in terms of learning and participating in classes.
And that's the goal of studying.
Then you think it would be important to organise the ideas in your head, at least the ones that you want to get across at the very least.
How can we avoid losing things?
Well, setting reminders seems to be quite a good idea, and so does having a routine as for what else could be done.
If you have fewer things, then there are reduced opportunities for you to lose them, I suppose.
