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I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory.
And we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you 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.
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Rory, your hair is a mess.
Seriously.
I know, I know.
I don't think I'll be going out in public until I can fix it.
Mm-hmm.
Quite right.
Let's talk about your hair.
No, no, no.
Public places.
What do we mean by public places?
These are the places that Rory will not go today because his hair is messy.
Such places as parks streets, shopping malls shops squares libraries museums, post office schools restaurants banks hotels theaters airports, train stations, bus terminals, swimming pools, other sports facilities.
So yeah, anywhere there are people.
Oh really.
So any place with people well, any place with lots of people, and it's shared, it's not owned by someone.
I suppose it could be owned by someone, but the idea is there's lots of people.
How often do you go to public places?
I suppose almost every other day, since I need to go out in the street to shop or walk to my yoga studio or something like that.
I also live close to a public park and the city centre as well, so I'm there for a stroll rather often too.
What are the busiest public places where you live?
At this time of year, probably the centre, since all the shops are there and People are picking up their shopping for Christmas and stuff like that.
Apart from that, I'm not sure.
It's getting colder, so people aren't out much.
I think the park might be more popular in the summer, but it's pretty deserted at the moment.
Have you ever talked with someone you don't know in public places?
Yeah, especially if I bump into someone I know.
It's not happened in a while, though.
Actually, no, that's a lie.
I ran into a friend the other week at the gym.
That was a nice surprise.
Do you wear headphones in public places?
Usually, yeah.
It's either that or listen to the sound of the traffic, and that's not as entertaining as listening to music or an audiobook or something like that.
And with my earphones in, I don't run the risk of disturbing other people.
Would you like to see more public places near where you live?
I'm not sure there's the space, to be honest.
It's a city and it's already a very well-developed area.
And we're pretty lucky to be blessed with quite a few common areas already.
It's not like it's a big city and everyone is rammed into tightly packed buildings.
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So, dear listener, a new topic, public places.
So, as we've discussed, a public place is any place where you have people.
So outdoor places banks parks, shopping malls, anything.
So we usually go to public places and you can say well, i usually go shopping, or i walk to yoga, i go to my yoga studio, or i live close to a public park, i live downtown, so close to the city center, and i usually stroll there.
So that's your word casual walk.
Yeah, so you walk casually in a park, you just stroll in a relaxed way.
You know, listening to our podcast, to my stupid jokes, to Rory's stories,
And like you say, yeah, I sometimes take a stroll in a park or I stroll... Where can you stroll?
Can you stroll in a shopping center?
I suppose you could stroll around a shopping center.
Ooh, is that a phrasal verb?
Ooh, it is a phrasal verb.
Stroll around a shopping centre.
Public places could be quite busy.
So, for example, I live near the street, which is very busy during the week.
All the shops are busy because people choose their gifts or they pick up their shopping.
So they choose their shopping, they do their shopping or they pick up their shopping for Christmas, for example.
And you can say that the shops near the place where I live are quite busy.
But they can get deserted at any moment.
So a nice antonym.
So if there are not many people, the place is deserted.
Or if there are no people, the place is deserted.
See one word.
So it's bent eight.
For example, a deserted street.
Is it?
Yeah, it is c1.
Huh empty, a deserted street or a deserted building, for example.
So empty, an empty building.
A very strange question, you know, have you ever talked to someone you don't know in a public place, like who?
Have you ever talked to strangers in the street?
Yes, all the time.
It's my one of my favorite hobbies.
Yes, like i, my hobby is talking to strange people or just like strangers, people i don't know, random people in public places.
Yeah, you can use the phrasal verb bump into.
So if you bump into people, you just you know you you meet them.
Yeah, but you kind of like suddenly, like you stroll around and then bam, you bump into somebody interesting or not interesting, like it's not planned.
Or, for example, you walk Down the street somewhere in Dundee in Scotland.
And then, bam, you see Rory.
So you can bump into Rory in Dundee.
Dundee is a place where Rory lives.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Scotland.
Like a tiny little village.
I don't live in a tiny village anymore.
No, but seriously, Rory, we don't know where you live.
Dundee, where is it?
I live in Dundee.
It's the fourth largest city.
It's...
What would be the equivalent in Russia?
Volgograd, I suppose?
I don't know.
We just don't know this place, Dundee.
Well, not many people know about Volgograd, but a million people live there.
Anyway, the important thing is that I live there.
That is where I live.
Just Google Dundee, okay?
Yeah, so if you go to Dundee, you can bump into Rory.
So it's like, whoa, wow.
Reason enough to go on a holiday there.
Another phrasal verb is run into somebody.
So you bump into people, or you bump into someone I know, or you run into a friend somewhere in the center.
Yeah, you just like, oh, like see your friend suddenly.
It was a nice surprise, for example.
Listening to the sound of the traffic is not entertaining.
So it's not fun.
It is not.
Yeah, entertaining.
That's why I prefer listening to an audiobook or or to IELTS Speaking for Success podcast while commuting to work or on my way to school.
And I wear headphones.
Maybe not for me.
No, Rory, don't listen to our podcasts.
I like to listen to the sound of my own voice.
No?
Yeah, because Rory listens to our premium episodes.
Speaking part two and three.
And you can say I have my earphones in in, like inside my ears, or you can say i usually wear headphones or i wear earbuds, so like what what, what do you have?
I don't like disturbing people, that's why i wear headphones.
Disturbing must be an advanced word surely, and if not, then bothering people, so i don't like playing loud music.
Oh c2 rory proficiency benign, a disturbing yeah, a very nice word nice, so actually.
Disturbing as an adjective is c2, so listening to loud music is disturbing, so making people feel worried or upset, so it's disturbing to people.
Well, i have never made anyone upset or disturbed them on purpose.
Disturb as a verb is b2, so like interrupt somebody, Like I don't want to disturb people.
So, CD listener, you should use disturbing.
But here Rory used it as a verb.
Like, I have my earphones in, so I don't run the risk of disturbing other people.
So, interrupt other people.
Here Rory's answer is pretty nice.
Like I'm lucky to be blessed with quite a few of public places where i live.
Well, we're lucky to be blessed.
I'm lucky to be blessed.
So that means that i do have some public places where i live.
So i have like facilities right shops banks hotels theaters museums squares parks, all this jazz, so.
But instead of saying just yeah, i have some public places rory, as an educated, super native speaker says, i'm pretty lucky to be blessed.
I'm just lucky to have many public places.
And Rory, what did you mean by saying everyone is rammed into?
Well, if you're rammed into a place, it's like you're crammed in there.
There's not much space for you.
So, for example, in a huge city where you don't have much space, everybody is rammed into packed buildings.
Could you give us another example with the verb?
Phrase of verb ram into.
Well, if we talk about crowded places, for example, around about Christmas time, everyone is rammed into shops.
Or everyone is crammed into shops because they are trying to get the deals and they're trying to prepare in advance.
Yeah, also, Delisa, you can talk about public toilets.
They are also public places.
Maybe you don't want to talk about the people you meet in public toilets, though.
Why not?
Yeah, you can bump into some interesting people.
In public toilets?
I hope not.
Yeah.
Also, public baths or public pools, for example.
Have you ever been to a public pool?
Yeah, but not for like a long time.
There's one in my hometown, but I cannot remember the last time I was there.
On the subject of not being able to remember things.
I had difficulty remembering the last time I bumped into someone, but then I suddenly remembered.
And if you do that too in your exam, you can say, oh no, that's a lie.
Or, oh no, actually.
And then change the story.
I ran into a friend.
I bumped into a friend.
I did that when I took my exam because I realized I was talking absolute nonsense about something.
Yeah, dear listener, if you find yourself talking nonsense, you just say okay sorry, I'm talking nonsense.
Let me rephrase that.
Yeah, and just continue.
I don't know.
I like to say that's a lie.
It's funny.
My yoga teacher does that all the time.
Whenever he makes a mistake, he always just goes, and I'd like you to do this.
And then he realizes the mistake and goes, oh, no, that was a lie.
And then moves on to the real.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
If you said something stupid, you say, oh, sorry, that was a lie.
The truth is the actual truth.
Sweet.
Thank you very much for listening.
And we'll get back to you in our next episode.
OK.
Bye.
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How often do you go to public places?
I suppose almost every other day, since I need to go out in the street to shop or walk to my yoga studio or something like that.
I also live close to a public park and the city centre as well, so I'm there for a stroll rather often too.
What are the busiest public places where you live?
At this time of year?
Probably the centre, since all the shops are there and people are picking up their shopping for Christmas and stuff like that.
Apart from that, I'm not sure.
It's getting colder, so people aren't out much.
I think the park might be more popular in the summer, but it's pretty deserted at the moment.
Have you ever talked with someone you don't know in public places?
Hmm?
Hmm?
Yeah, especially if I bump into someone I know.
It's not happened in a while, though.
Oh, actually, no, that's a lie.
I ran into a friend the other week at the gym.
That was a nice surprise.
Do you wear headphones in public places?
Usually, yeah.
It's either that or listen to the sound of the traffic, and that's not as entertaining as listening to music or an audiobook or something like that.
And with my earphones in, I don't run the risk of disturbing other people.
Would you like to see more public places near where you live?
I'm not sure there's the space, to be honest.
It's a city and it's already a very well-developed area.
And we're pretty lucky to be blessed with quite a few common areas already.
It's not like it's a big city and everyone is rammed into tightly packed buildings.
