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Oh sorry, I was just using the camera as a mirror to check my hair.
Oh, you were using a mirror!
Hmm. Shall we talk about mirrors?
Yeah. Yes, dear listener, it's a comeback!
You know, we used to have mirrors in speaking part one, and now we have mirrors again.
You know, like, you have a mirror, so you look at yourself in the mirror, huh?
Right? Let's talk about mirrors.
Rory, do you like looking at yourself in the mirror?
Well, it's hard to answer that question without sounding narcissistic or self -hating, isn't it?
I don't particularly enjoy it, but I don't mind doing it to check that i'm presentable.
Have you ever bought mirrors?
Well, luckily my apartment came to its own, so...
really, I shouldn't have had to, but did have to buy a small vanity mirror for the bathroom and a full body one for my bedroom just to make getting dressed slightly easier.
Do you usually take a mirror with you?
Not really. I can always quickly check my appearance in the reflection of windows or other surfaces and it's not a big deal.
But then I don't wear makeup or anything that needs a bit more precision so it's easy for me.
Would you like to use mirrors to decorate your room?
I wouldn't say they were decorative things, to be honest.
I'm a more practical person, so I have one opposite my wardrobe to make it easier to see how an outfit is working.
I have seen ornate mirrors but they've been in museums or other public places like that, not in homes.
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Hey, Mirrors! So, Dio, it's not what a strange topic.
So welcome in to the Weird World of IELTS topics.
Mirrors. Do we have any synonyms for a mirror?
No, I think... I think that's all it is.
It's like the concrete object.
What else could you have?
I don't know. but we can use different names for mirrors like we have different types of mirrors yes, we have full body mirrors vanity mirrors whole other ones I think you have improved doors to different wardrobes for example so you can see yourself after you take the clothes out wall mirrors also like
a wall and mirror like almost the door mirrors like mirrors on doors.
Yes yeah we can also have like custom designed mirrors like beautiful mirrors.
Yeah and what is a vanity mirror?
I think well the way I see it it's just a mirror that you use to check your appearance when you apply makeup or it's it's directed at the face or the upper part of the body, so I have a small one in my bathroom and a large one that I think about it actually.
Listen you can go to the IKEA website and take a look at different types of mirrors, Remember, well, one or two names.
Maybe you have like elegant furniture mirrors or at home you have antique mirrors, like old beautiful mirrors.
Or maybe walnut mirror.
Walnut is this. not the kind of material that your mirror has or doesn't have you can imagine and when we Talk about mirrors.
We look at ourselves in the mirror Okay, so I look at myself in the mirror and if you do it too often, you could sound narcissistic Yeah, but that's just a way of describing people who are obsessed with the out well the external appearance rather than um well not obsessed with but balancing that with being
a good person internally as well.
So a narcissistic personality has too much interest in themselves so they admire themselves.
A person is a narcissist, someone who has too much admiration For themselves, okay?
Well, it's a kind of like a negative thing.
Well, it's definitely a negative thing.
And you can say that, well, yes, I use a mirror to check if I'm presentable.
So, I look at myself as a mirror, to check if I'm presentable.
Presentable, like, do I look okay?
Yeah. Reasonable. Not like fabulous, not beautiful or gorgeous, but just presentable, you can go night in public and it's okay.
You don't have messy hair, or maybe your makeup is on your face, I don't know how that works Yeah, I look at myself in the mirror to check if I don't have messy hair Or to make sure I look presentable so I am good enough and in the way I'm dressed so I make myself presentable in front of the mirror we
buy mirrors for our apartments, flats houses and here you can say, something about a small vanity, mirror in the bathroom a full body, mirror in the bedroom even if you don't have any mirrors at home just lie and, you can say it when I get dressed its easier to look at myself in the mirror and then
you can say that oh, I have some round mirrors like shapes you know maybe framed mirrors like a mirror and then there's a beautiful frame okay.
Or maybe a rectangle mirror.
So what is a rectangle mirror?
It's in the shape of rectangle but you are the resident mirror expert because I didn't know that was a thing until you said it.
Yeah like different shapes like round, rectangular, square also like you can mention antique mirrors and very often we have door mirrors.
So if you have a wardrobe.
So the full door is a mirror.
Or a thing now is like to have lighted mirrors.
It's when kind of your mirror is lit.
So you have some light in the mirror.
Some people have Bluetooth mirrors with speakers.
And they play music through them.
And I was just thinking who is this for?
How much time are you spending looking in the mirror?
Yeah, you can also have a magnifying mirror, delicious new music.
Maybe it's more for ladies.
So, ladies, we have a mirror and then it's kind of like aโฆ It provides a close up view, okay?
or it's like a double sided mirror, for makeup, so once has a close -up view, it kind of enlarges your face and the other side is the usual mirror, so a magnifying mirror, delicious new music.
Okayโฆ Yeah, we can also have a floor mirror.
Floor Mirrors are very large.
They are kind of like stand alone mirrors.
So a kind of massive mirror, full body, and you can put it there.
You know, like a painting.
I would be so scared of knocking that kind of thing over.
Oh, can you imagine that?
So they are ideal for checking your full reflection.
So you're kind of full body.
You're full. Look. so a full length reflection of yourself, like a floor mirror or full length mirrors, it doesn't mean that they are on the floor, they are just large yeah and compact mirrors, yes compact mirrors, kind of portable mirrors, they are small.
You put them in your purse or pocket.
So compact mirrors, I have a compact mirror.
do you usually take a mirror with you?
what a strange question and actually rapping what about men?
do men carry mirrors?
Well, no, this is it, I was just thinking about my experience, I was thinking I just have a quick look in the reflection of a window or...
maybe some kind of reflective surface and that's enough for me but then, of course, I don't do anything with my appearance that requires something to be exactly in place.
I imagine if you're wearing makeup, up then you probably do have to carry a compact mirror, like you said.
But that's not really something who worry about.
So I wrote this question on the Internet.
So do you think it's OK for men to use a pocket mirror?
Initially people asked a question on some forums.
Is it OK? And what was the response?
OK, OK, OK. Th... Check it out.
Oh, okay. Regular masculine man..
Office workers, yes!
So for office workers, yes, you do need a mirror, to check yourself.
Oh, you are in an office.
Narcissist, yes! Haha.
Yes! Like, uh, narcissists love themselves very much.
So, they, yes. Teenagers, yes!
Yes. She said, depending on like, what kind of men are you, the listener?
What about you? Like, if you're a man, have you ever had the mirror?
Like maybe in your car.
You look at yourself in your car and kind of like, Oh, yeah, I was thinking about that.
Check it out. Amazon .com Miracle for men.
How what, how does that differentiate or sorry, how does that differ from like the mirrors that women use?
Because surely this is a fairly unisex experience.
raises and knives. So, interesting.
Okay. We usually decorate our rooms with mirrors.
So, mirrors also having a kind of decoration, right?
Or accessories. Oh, or they could be decorative?
Decorative mirrors just, you know, like for the interior design?
And again, we can talk about antiques mirrors.
If you don't have anything, You can say, oh, I wish I had an antique mirror to improve my interior design.
If I could I'd buy an antique mirror, so you can kind of speculate about the future, use the second conditional and the structure.
I wish I had a floor mirror.
So it was a kind of design.
But is more practical.
So you can say that I'm a practical person.
I don't need any decorations.
So I use a mirror to check if my outfit is OK, if I look presentable.
So I have some mirrors in my wardrobe.
OK, but just that's it.
And you mention ornate mirrors, what are they?
Yes. Ornamental mirrors, but basically that's the same as decorative, to be honest.
Yes, like ornate having complicated decorations.
decorations. For example a room with an ornate ceiling and gold mirrors.
I thought you were going to say a ceiling mirror there.
Ornate mirror has some beautiful decoration ,y's the difference.
Gold silver ornate mirrors.
Beautiful. Like, we see them in the museums, right?
We see them in museums.
And you can say oh I don't want my house to look like a museum, so I don't have any don't Right, RaAMEO and would you like to know the most expensive mirror in the world?
Can we talk about the grammar first?
oh, yes, go ahead I just wanted to highlight people, sometimes you're asked if you enjoy something unusual like, do you like looking at yourself in the mirror, which is a strange question.
You could say, I don't mind doing, don't mind plus ing and then there was another one.
Yes, I said, my apartment has its own mirrors.
So I shouldn't have had to.
So there we go. Model Verb shouldn't, with the past and what was the other one that I really liked as well?
Yes, there we go. Another unusual question.
Would you use mirrors to decorate your room?
And then here I wouldn't say or I wouldn't say that they were.
So here again Model Verb wouldn't just to express the opinion I wouldn't say so or I wouldn't say they where, then giving your opinion.
So there we have some more complex grammar as well.
Now the Expensive mirror.
Tell us more. So, the most expensive mirrors are in museums, Jallis.
And according to some websites, the most expensive mirror is in the Louvre, in Paris.
Oh. And it's likeโฆ It's how expensive?
And it costsโฆ Like ten million euros.
Wow! Yeah. so European monarchs use to look at themselves in that mirror in the 17th century.
Yea, do you listen?
But some mirrors are kind of like a piece of art really.
Wow! Like jewelry, we have like fixed stand mirrors so you can just like put them on the table or hanging mirrors so you hang them on the wall and and they're like beautiful.
Wow. And they're like jewelry, like fits of painting, something like Mona Lisa kind of mirror.
That's crazy! So basically, just because this thing is old, and I assume it's quite big, how big is it?
You know, 17th century.
Ooh, I don't know, it's 14 and 16 centimeters.
So what, it's 14 by 16 centimetres, that's tiny?
Yeah, 14 by 16 yeah, tiny yeah?
Oh, but then NemonBLese's Tiny is worth a fortune as well!
Yeah, deliverance. So now you know everything about mirrors there you came, yeah if you're interested just google the most expensive mirrors in the world and then educate your examiner, okay?
And just don't be boring don't just go like oooh, yeah, I don't like mirrors I don't have any mirrors in my house just like imagine like what if you lived in a museum you know, like Ooh imagine that your house is surrounded by different mirrors and just tell the story and examiner is gonna be like Whoa really?!
You have this like antique mirrors and ornate mirrors and floor mirrors Whoa and magnify mirrors So pretty much you will educate the examiner on different types of mirrors And then after you, the next candidate will take the exam The examiner will ask them about mirrors They will go oooohh...
I don't look at myself in the mirror, mirror -mirrors and examiner will give them a lower score because examiner will know now different kinds of mirrors OK, do you get the point?
Do you? I get the point, but I still think this is a crazy topic Thank you very much for listening We'll get back to you in our next episode with a crazy topic Bye!!
Bye!! Roy, do you like looking at yourself in the mirror?
Well it's hard to answer that question without sounding narcissistic or self -hating still, isn't it?
I don't particularly enjoy it but I don't mind doing it to check that I'm presentable Have you ever bought a mirror?
Well luckily my apartment came with its own so really I shouldn't have had to, but I did have to buy a small vanity mirror for the bathroom and a full -body one for my bedroom just to make getting dressed slightly easier.
do you usually take a mirror with you?
uh, not really. I can always quickly check my appearance in the reflection of windows or other surfaces and it's not a big deal.
but then I don't wear makeup or anything that needs a bit more precision so it's easy for me.
would you like to use mirror to decorate your room.
I wouldn't say they were decorative things.
To be honest I'm a more practical person.
So I have one opposite my wardrobe to make it easier to see how an outfit is working.
I have seen ornate mirrors but they've been in museums or other public places like that not in homes
