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Hello, lovely, and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Describe an occasion when you were not allowed to use your mobile phone.
You should say when it was, where it was why you were not allowed to use your super mobile phone and how you felt about it.
Rory, give us your story.
Rory's story.
Well, this doesn't happen very often, since my phone is basically surgically attached to my hand at this point.
But one time that does stand out is actually when I had my IELTS exam.
It was for listening and reading and writing, not speaking.
With regards to when it was, well, this must have been about nine months ago, roughly.
I'd gone through to Edinburgh at the start of the summer for the big day, not only because I like the city, but also because it was the closest IELTS centre as well.
So I had to travel quite far.
When it comes to where it was, I know I already said Edinburgh but, to be more exact, this was almost squarely in the centre of the city where these old Edwardian townhouses are located.
It's actually quite a nice part of the place, regardless of why you're there.
I had to go into one of these converted apartments and hand over all my personal items before taking the test, and that included my mobile phone.
To explain why I wasn't allowed to use it, well...
I think that should be clear.
This is a high stakes assessment.
And having a phone would either allow you to cheat or perhaps worse, be a distraction to others.
And nobody really wants that, do they?
So it makes sense that that would be a policy that they have in these test centers.
And as for how I felt about the whole thing, I wasn't actually that put out about it.
I don't really take issue with rules like that and I think I'd prepared well enough for the test that I didn't feel a really strong need to cheat or anything.
Not that I would do that anyway, but it's good to not be able to do that.
Even if I'd had my phone, I think I'd have put it on silent mode anyway, just to avoid disturbing others, because that's the polite thing to do.
Hopefully I won't have to do it again, though.
I think one time was enough, and even though I survived the tests, I prefer to have my phone on me at all times.
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Right, dear listener.
So, a time when you were not allowed to use your mobile phone, your smartphone, they said no no no no no, you can't use your phone.
Wow, it's a nightmare.
But it's something that everybody who's taking the exam will have to do.
So if you're really lucky, this could be your story.
Some people take the speaking first these days, but apparently you could take it after you're writing and listening and reading.
So this could be good.
Yeah, dear listener, you can just steal Rory's story and imagine that you've taken IELTS, okay?
And now you're just speaking it's for the second time and you just say, oh right okay, so I took IELTS already.
You know, like last week.
I already took these parts of the test and now here I am.
Although their answer might change a little bit.
For example, if it's on the same day, you wouldn't say it must have been about nine months ago.
You would say it was roughly about an hour ago, for example.
No, last week, like an hour ago.
Well no, if they take the speaking and different parts of the test on the same day and the speaking is later in the day, then it makes sense.
Yeah.
So it's your test day and you took like listening reading writing, and then you have the speaking and they say OK, right.
So I've just done an IELTS test.
Yeah.
Or maybe it's your second test.
You can just imagine.
So the beginning of the story is very nice, because Rory told us that his smartphone is part of his hand.
Like, he's attached to his smartphone.
And this means that, like, I take my smartphone everywhere.
I can't live without it.
So, you just say, like, my phone is basically surgically attached to my hand.
Surgically?
Like, surgery.
Like, if... something is not quite all right, you go to surgery in hospital.
Right, dear listener?
Kind of like surgical procedures, like operation.
So it's kind of surgically attached, but it's a joke.
It's kind of...
My phone is not attached to my hand.
It's separate.
But here we are adding drama to the story.
My phone is surgically attached to my hand.
But one time that does stand out, like one time that I do remember, like something stands out.
It's memorable is when I had my IELTS exam, or is when I had my school exams.
Maybe, oh, oh, theater.
Theater, there we go.
Yeah, I went to the theater and they told me I am not allowed to use my mobile phone at the theater, at the museum, for example, in some museums.
You are not allowed to use your mobile phone.
You are not allowed to take pictures.
Really?
Yeah, especially with diamonds.
You know, when you have like gold, diamonds, maybe some documents.
So yeah, yeah.
Some museums.
Well, okay.
Radio listener, just talk about an exam, okay?
At school, at university, IELTS.
Your IELTS exam, exactly.
Unless you do your speaking first, in which case I have no idea what to tell you, because I wouldn't have had any other ideas apart from that.
You lie and you say, I took IELTS last week.
And this is my second speaking.
I'm terrible at lying, so that wouldn't work for me.
But if you're a good liar, then good luck to you.
So you just say like, okay, one time that does stand out is when I took my IELTS exam last week.
And here I am again, the examiner, taking the exam the second time.
What a bunch of lies.
Okay.
Okay, so when you change the topic, you say with regards to when it was as for when it was.
It was last week.
It was two months ago.
It was five days ago.
It was yesterday, today.
Rory took his IELTS about nine months ago.
Really?
Nine months ago?
Wow.
I think so.
Like, I'm pretty sure I took it at the end of May last year.
So that's about nine months ago, I think.
Maybe ten months?
I'm not a mathematician.
I went to Edinburgh, one of my favorite cities in the world, Edinburgh.
So Rory went to Edinburgh, or maybe you went to London, you went to Rome.
Again, you can just make it up to listen to Paris.
What a lovely place to take IELTS.
Just go to Lisbon, Paris, and take an exam.
Yay!
A romantic test.
It was the closest IELTS center.
It was the closest place to go to.
Or I just like the city.
You need to comment on the grammar too.
There's good grammar.
Oh, inversion, band 9.
Kind of inversion.
It is not kind of inversion.
It is inversion not only, but also.
Yeah, kind of.
But you didn't say like not only do I like the city, but I also, so kind of like part of inversion is here what?
No, it's complete inversion.
What are you talking about?
For the inversion to be complete, you need not only did I like the city, but it was also the closest.
Not only did I like the city, but it was also the closest, but you didn't.
Oh, I do.
I have not only because I like the city, but also because it was the closest I out center.
I still think it counts.
Yeah, it does count, because not only because I like the city, but also, you see, a very nice linking like not only
Just a nice linking structure.
That's all.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just a nice linking structure.
Like I went to Edinburgh to take the test not only because I like the city, but also because it was the closest IELTS center.
To make it simple, you just say I went to Edinburgh because I like the city and because it was the closest center.
But it's too simple.
So you say I went to Edinburgh not only because I like the city, but also because it was the closest IELTS center.
So kind of, I like pizza not only because I like cheese, but also because it's delicious.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
Yeah, very sophisticated reasons to like pizza.
Then we change the topic with a new phrase when it comes to where it was.
It was in Edinburgh, it was in London, in Paris, in Rome, in Moscow, in Lisbon, in Japan.
My personal items were taken before the test.
So they took my personal items.
Personal items like your bag, your smartphone, your watch everything, your passport.
No, actually, you have your passport with you.
Everything else must go.
Yes, everything like your chewing gum, your chocolate, your burger.
And it goes into a plastic box.
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So they took all my personal items, including my smartphone disaster.
I wasn't allowed to use it.
I wasn't allowed to use my phone because it was a test.
So it's a high stakes assessment.
Assessment is like test, high stakes kind of worry.
What?
What is it?
High stakes, High stakes.
Oh, it just means that there's a lot invested in the result.
So it's a very important test.
High stakes test.
IELTS is a high stakes test.
Involving serious risks, for example, like a high stakes negotiation or involving a lot of money.
For example, if you play cards, so a high stakes poker game.
So IELTS is a high stakes test.
Very important.
Having a phone could either allow you to cheat or could be a distraction.
Again, Rory connects his ideas in a very Ben 9 way.
He doesn't say having a phone helps you to cheat and could be a distraction.
Right.
But he says having a phone could either allow you to cheat.
Cheat is like when you Google something.
OK, this word or like translate this word.
So cheating.
So having a phone could either allow you to cheat or could be a distraction to others.
So could distract other people.
Because if you have your I don't know sound on and your mother calls you during the test, so some some funny music like this, all of a sudden, can you imagine like everybody is like writing a reports graph like, and then you get called by your parents, So distraction.
Something that prevents someone from giving their attention to something else.
It's a C1 word.
Is it?
It is.
A distraction.
I know.
C1 band.
8.5.
Very nice.
So this was a policy at the test center.
It was their policy.
Policy, like not politics, but a policy, a rule, a regulation, dear listener.
So no phones are allowed in the test room.
It's the policy of the test center.
And if you don't have a problem with the rules, you don't take issue with them.
Which means you don't have a problem with them.
I don't take issue with rules like this, which makes sense.
I might take issue with other things that don't make sense.
Yeah, for example, they take your pens away, so you're not allowed to use your own pen or pencil.
Aww.
Yeah, they give you everything.
And then perhaps you are allowed to bring a bottle of water, but just without any words on the bottle.
They check your bottle.
Do you have any words?
What do you call this thingy that is wrapped around the bottle?
Crib notes.
Is that what they're called?
The thing on the bottle is the label.
Label.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No label.
But the things that you would use to cheat would be crib notes.
That's like summarized notes.
You write something on the bottle of water, you know, to cheat.
Yeah, like no label.
Like if you bring water with you, so make sure that there's no label on it.
That's kind of clever.
If I caught someone doing that, I would be like, just have the bottle if it's so important to you.
Although I don't really understand how you're going to use that to cheat in an exam.
I don't know, maybe like remembering the letters of the alphabet.
Oh, it's a K. It's, you know, but, you know, we change the topic again.
And then we say, as for how I felt about the whole thing, I was OK with this.
So the first time we changed the topic with regards to when it was, When it comes to where it was, As for how I felt about the whole thing,
I wasn't actually that put out about it.
A super phrasal verb, band 9.
Rory?
Oh, if you're put out about something, then you have a problem with it.
Put out.
Yeah, you don't feel very happy about it.
Yeah, like to be put out about something.
You don't have it.
If you're put out by something, then it's something that bothers you.
For example, I was not invited to the party, so I was quite put out about it.
Yeah, put something out.
Actually, like we put out a fire.
You have a fire and then you put it out.
Yeah, and put someone out means to annoy or upset someone.
For example, he ate my cake and I was really put out about it.
So I was upset, I was annoyed.
Yeah, and she was very put out when they were late for her birthday party.
I was put out when I got my IELTS scores.
I was upset.
They gave me a 9 and I wanted 8.5.
Okay, I was upset.
Yeah, I complained about the situation.
So you can say, I was okay with this.
Or you can say, I was annoyed.
I was really upset.
I was irritated.
What?
I couldn't use my smartphone during the test?
How dare they?
Yeah.
No, no, don't say that because you're going to be talking to an examiner, dear listener, right?
So you can say like, I don't really take issue with rules like that.
Yeah, I'm okay with policies like this.
So it's a good policy.
I was prepared for the test.
I didn't need to cheat.
I didn't need my phone, okay?
I had my brain.
Yeah, I just, I don't need my smartphone, you know?
I'm precious.
Then we can use the third conditional.
So if you are aiming for an eight or nine, it's a very nice strategy.
To finish off with the third conditional.
We're imagining something which was in the past but actually didn't happen in the past.
But we are imagining
So, if I had used my phone, let's imagine that I did have my phone on me.
If I had used my phone, I... would have been taken out from the test.
Okay?
Because people would have noticed and would have carried me out of the room.
Because you are not allowed to use anything like smartphones.
Actually, there's no paper IELTS anymore.
Maybe in some test centers there still is dear listener.
But now iOS people decided to keep only computer-delivered tests.
So you're using a computer, not even a pen or a pencil.
A computer.
But no phones.
That's the rules.
Sweet.
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Describe an occasion when you were not allowed to use your mobile phone.
You should say when it was, where it was why you were not allowed to use your super mobile phone and how you felt about it.
Well, this doesn't happen very often, since my phone is basically surgically attached to my hand at this point.
But one time that does stand out is actually when I had my IELTS exam.
It was for listening and reading and writing, not speaking.
With regards to when it was, well, this must have been about nine months ago, roughly.
I'd gone through to Edinburgh at the start of the summer for the big day, not only because I like the city, but also because it was the closest IELTS centre as well.
So I had to travel quite far.
When it comes to where it was, I know I already said Edinburgh but, to be more exact, this was almost squarely in the centre of the city where these old Edwardian townhouses are located.
It's actually quite a nice part of the place, regardless of why you're there.
I had to go into one of these converted apartments and hand over all my personal items before taking the test, and that included my mobile phone.
To explain why I wasn't allowed to use it, well...
I think that should be clear.
This is a high stakes assessment.
And having a phone would either allow you to cheat or perhaps worse, be a distraction to others.
And nobody really wants that, do they?
So it makes sense that that would be a policy that they have in these test centers.
And as for how I felt about the whole thing, I wasn't actually that put out about it.
I don't really take issue with rules like that and I think I'd prepared well enough for the test that I didn't feel a really strong need to cheat or anything.
Not that I would do that anyway, but it's good to not be able to do that.
Even if I'd had my phone, I think I'd have put it on silent mode anyway, just to avoid disturbing others, because that's the polite thing to do.
Hopefully I won't have to do it again, though.
I think one time was enough, and even though I survived the tests, I prefer to have my phone on me at all times.
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