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Hello, Sunshine. I'm Mariam.
And my name is Rory, and we're the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast, the official Band 9 podcast that aims to help improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.
We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score.
Your Band 9 score. Do you have much planned for the weekend?
Uh, not really. Though I thought I might make some plans with my friends for it.
Oh, fantastic. Shall we talk about making plans?
Ooh, that sounds like a plan.
Do you like making plans?
Yeah, I love a plan.
Maybe not the execution so much, but I like organising everything and putting it in place so, well, everything is ready.
It makes me feel safe knowing everything has been accounted for.
Do you always make plans?
I try to, yeah. Sometimes it's fun to have a random day trip or something like that, But for the most part I like to know what i'm doing and when since i'm a very orderly person And what do you usually plan?
Oh, I think I have a plan for everything.
Um I plan my day so that it goes as productively as possible And I find my lessons, so they're effective and efficient and I like making plans for my finances and things like that So I always have money to do what I want to do What are the benefits of making plans?
I mean, well, they're pretty much endless.
Financially speaking, if you have a plan, then you can use your money effectively than just spending it on the go or as it comes in.
Then there's the almost psychological security of having everything in order.
I think those are the two that stand out the most for me when I'm putting plans together.
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as you know we now release all of our premium content for free and it's available for one month after one month it goes into our super secret archive to sign up for the archive click the link in the description below see you soon so dear listener we make plans like remember we talked about making lists so make a list and make a plan plan out your life and rory is the most organized person on this planet definitely the most organized person i know i try to be it doesn't always work unfortunately so you can say i love a plan so i just love making plans or i dislike making plans we make a plan and then
we execute a plan so here the execution means how your plan works in real life so the execution it's not about the killing in this context but the act of doing something that you've planned out so the execution of my plan you put the plan into action yeah and the verb would be execute my plan put it interaction.
You can say that I like organizing everything, I like putting everything in place, synonyms for making plans, organizing, putting things in place, and I enjoy getting everything ready.
It makes me feel safe, it makes me less nervous, it makes me feel less anxious.
So usually we are anxious when we don't know what's gonna happen.
I tend to always make plans.
Or you can say I usually make plans.
I don't make plans for everything.
But for most things I do have a plan for.
And sometimes I'm spontaneous.
So I enjoy having a random day trip, which hasn't been been planned so just like i enjoy a random trip once in a while i plan everything or i plan only my working affairs or you plan your trips or i plan my day i plan every day of my life i plan my holidays like what do you plan dear listener i plan my shopping i have a plan of my life So I plan my day because I want it to be productive.
And I plan my work to be effective and efficient.
So when we make plans, we are efficient because we do stuff, we are productive.
I feel like that's the only thing that we can say about the reasons why we make plans.
It's either about being productive or effective and efficient.
Like, I can't think of anything else.
Yeah, but also it's our emotional stability.
like as you've told us like a plan makes us feel safe so it kind of removes our anxiety and nervousness so if you have a plan you're kind of like you are more confident and tend to be less worried we make plans for something so usually people make plans for finances and you can say that I like making plans for my finances so to plan out my finances to plan out my budget where I spend money or on what the benefits of making plans are endless radio listener there are endless benefits of making plans financially speaking if you plan out your finances then you can use your money effectively Yay.
If you don't have a plan for your money, you spend money on the go.
You spend money spontaneously, like bam, you bought five books on Amazon and all books are by Rory.
Or bam, you bought our podcast without any ads.
Then bam, you bought our phrasal verbs course.
Bam, you bought Rory's glasses.
All of these, of course, are purchases you should be making.
Yeah, yeah, you should make a plan for these purchases.
Then there's psychological security.
Dear listener. Okay, so when you have everything in order, psychologically, it's better for you.
When you put plans together, Rory, so like to make a plan or put a plan together, is it the same thing?
Yeah, I think so. When we put a plan together, we make a plan.
maybe when we put things in order that's about organizing the actual material itself and Roy you write down plans in your diary right so like a book of your life yeah or you write down plans in a planner yeah in a plan here but it's like on offline I mean you don't write online but you use like an actual book yes that's right but it could be called the diary or a diary planner or a scheduler oh there are so many names for this yeah and Roy Roy tell me like when When did you start planning out your life?
Because I know you plan out pretty much everything.
Have you always been like this?
Or you started at some point in your life?
Because dear listener, Rory seriously, he plans every day of his life.
He plans everything.
He plans a plan to plan.
I think I started doing this in a written form.
Oh boy, it must have been at least as far back as 2012 just from my work.
This is before I was a teacher.
Oh, before you were a teacher.
What did you do before you were a teacher?
I thought you've always been a teacher.
I worked in publishing.
Wow. I always wanted to be a teacher, but I worked in publishing before.
Okay, so you published books.
Well, not quite. I have published books since I became a teacher, but I worked in a publishing house at a very low -paid job, so I didn't make any of the big decisions.
Dear listener, Rory's secret life before teaching.
What did Rory do? I don't think it was much of a life, to be honest with you.
Wow, interesting. And you lived in Scotland, right, Rory?
Yes, at that point.
yeah and now it's an interview Rory tell us more about your life because we have nothing to say about plans yeah plans is kind of like yeah like you plan out your life that's it make a plan put it into action yeah that's all no like the execution of a plan this one is a good one yeah this part is pretty fast so the examiner usually asks you like four questions three or four questions you use phrasal verbs synonyms you lie you tell the truth you use the financially speaking you know I'm a very orderly person oh yeah like we forgot that Rory is a very orderly person and if you are orderly you are super
organized and the listener will wrap it up with a joke how can there be a joke about making plans oh yeah i found one and i found a good one uh so rory first of all some pre -teaching so what do you call this creature who lives in a haunted castle this like like, this is scary on Halloween, like, what do you talk about?
Something that... It could be anything.
It could be a ghost or a vampire.
I don't know. Yeah, a ghost. Yeah, I was looking for a ghost. So, дело сна, a ghost. The spirit of a dead person, a ghost. So, the joke is about ghosts.
So, here it is. How does a ghost plan his day?
How does a ghost plan his day?
He makes a taboo list Funny, huh?
So, did you get it, dear listener?
So, what does a ghost usually say?
The ghost says like boo, boo When the ghost scares you You say like boo And the person is scared head.
So, how does a ghost plan his day?
The ghost makes a taboo list. Taboo.
So, who the ghost is gonna boo.
Thank you very much for listening.
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Yeah, I love a plan.
Maybe not the execution so much, but I like organizing everything and putting it in place so, well, everything is ready.
It makes me feel safe knowing everything has been accounted for.
Do you always make plans?
Uh, I try to, yeah.
Um, sometimes it's fun to have a random day trip or something like that.
But for the most part, I like to know what I'm doing and when, since I'm a very orderly person.
And what do you usually plan?
Oh, I think I have a plan for everything.
I plan my day so that it goes as productively as possible.
And I plan my lessons so they're effective and efficient.
And I like making plans for my finances and things like that.
So I always always have money to do what I want to do.
What are the benefits of making plans?
I mean, well, they're pretty much endless.
Financially speaking, if you have a plan, then you can use your money effectively than just spending it on the go or as it comes in.
Then there's the almost psychological security of having everything in order.
I think those are the two that stand out the most for me when I'm putting plans together.
