Hello, hello, Dielisuna, I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success Podcast.
Podcast the Deams to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listing
skills along the way.
We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your
high-IELTS score.
Your bad night's score.
What's that noise, Rory?
Oh, that's just the rain.
I'm just going to be staying at home today, it seems.
Oh, I see, it's staying at home.
What shall we talk about today?
Staying at home?
Yes, why not?
Staying at home, Dielisuna, is our topic.
Are you excited?
Rory is super excited because he stays at home like every day.
I love staying at home.
Do you like to stay at home?
Well, now it's all done up.
I absolutely love being at home.
It's very comforting to be surrounded by all your possessions and appreciate the hard
work you put into making a place feel like home for lack of a better term.
What do you do when you stay at home?
Oh God, what don't I do?
I put my feet up, reads, watch TV and write.
I mean, since I work and work out from home, I'll often do that too.
Aside from the sports I do that need a course or a dogeo, I can pretty much do anything
I like.
How much time do you spend at home?
Now, oh, probably 90% of it really, I even have a treadmill so I don't have to go out
for a walk of it to cold or rainy day.
Of course, I like going out to see my friends and stay over at places, but the vast majority
of the time I spend in my own space.
What's your favourite place at home?
Hmm, either my couch or my office.
I have a favourite perch on the edge of the couch on one of the arms.
Even though it's massive, I feel most comfortable there when I have people around.
My office has this great desk and gear set too that I spent a fortune on so I could sit
there and work away all day.
But at the rims of really light and airy too, which I also like a lot.
Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future?
I'm not sure I can stay at home much more than I already do, really, to be honest with
you.
But on the one hand, it would make life a lot easier, but on the other, it might be good
to go on word ventures.
I'd need to think about it more.
Hey, Dielisna, stay in at home.
It means like you don't go out, you stay in.
Now Rory has a new home and he said that now my new home is all done up.
Yes, it's finished.
The decorating is done or finished, so it's all done up.
Yes, so Rory Rupeds, his home he decorated it and he says like now my home is all done
up.
So it's kind of it's ready to live in.
And you can also say this, even if you didn't move into your house, you can say like
all it's all done up and I absolutely love being at home in my house, at my place.
It's comforting.
Okay, it's kind of it's comforts me, comes me down.
It's comforting to be surrounded by all your possession.
I'm surrounded by my furniture, by my decorations, by my stuff, by everything you put the hard
work into getting.
And if those put work into doing something or put hard work into doing something, you
worked hard.
I've put a lot of effort into making this place feel like home.
Okay, so you put efforts into something.
And my place feels like home.
It feels like home or I feel at home in my home.
Nobody's very strange to say that's why we say kind of I love my place.
I feel at home in my place.
Yeah.
And even I was running out of words to do you describe the word home.
So at the end, I was like feel like home for lack of a better term.
So if you run out of words, you can always say for lack of a better term, like all of
a better term.
And then a funny question, what do you do at home?
Okay, so what do you do?
What do you do at home?
What do you do in your bedroom?
What do you do in your toilet, worry?
What?
I love that.
What do you do at home?
It's a very personal question.
But worry.
Here is an educated native speaker.
He is super professional.
He answers with a question.
What don't I do?
Okay.
I do pretty much everything, you know, you can't even imagine.
So he goes like, oh, what don't I do?
Hmm, what don't I do indeed?
What don't I do?
Like, I put my feet up.
Is it an idiom?
I don't know, because if you put your feet up, you're relaxing.
And in my case, I literally put my feet up on my exercise bowl.
So for me, it's not an idiom.
It's like a physical action.
It's a phrasal verb.
Oh.
According to a Cambridge Online Dictionary, it is an idiom, means to relax, especially
by sitting with your feet supported above the ground.
So you go home and put your feet up.
But worry, I put my feet up by putting my feet up.
Like I put my feet up on the exercise bowl.
It's so comfortable.
I work out from home, aside from the sports, I read books, I watch TV, I cook, I sleep,
and then worry you use this...
Ehh, dojo!
What's a dojo?
Oh, a dojo is where you do jiu-jitsu or any kind of martial art.
So you don't have it at home?
No, or like a dojo is a padded room, or at least it's got a padded floor, so if you
fall on the ground, you don't knock yourself out when you get thrown around.
So no, most people do not have this in their home.
If you have this in your home, you are a millionaire.
So you probably will not be checking IELTS.
We don't know.
Maybe you have a swimming pool in your place, you know, like a tennis court inside.
Why would I have a swimming pool where I live when I have a river next to my house?
Oh yeah, wild swimming, Dalyson, I just worry.
When he wants to swim, he just goes to the river.
Raha, raha!
Like a true Scottish man.
Raha!
This other noise is so that Rory makes when he's swimming.
Raha!
I can do pretty much anything I like at home.
Okay?
Pretty much anything.
That means almost anything.
Well, aside from is good to note as well, because people often say besides from, or
besides, but it's not the same thing.
The whole phrase is aside from, and then whatever the exception is.
For example.
Well, aside from the sports I do, or if people don't work at home, they could say,
oh, I do pretty much anything at home aside from work because I need to go to an office
or apart from work.
Yeah.
I even have a treadmill.
Dalysona Rory has a treadmill in his house, so a treadmill is this thing you run on.
It's cool.
I'm not doing it now.
I'm not using it now.
I'm using it though in recordings to be honest.
That might be quite a nice thing to be able to do while I'm sitting in the chair, but
it's a nice chair as well, so it's no great loss.
However, if you don't have a treadmill at home, you can always say, probably about 70% of
my time, but I have to go out for a walk, even if it's cold or rainy.
So you could still use some of the vocabulary.
You just need to change it a little bit.
You can say I spend a lot of time in my own space to paraphrase at home, yeah.
Also, you can say that I enjoy staying over other places.
I enjoy going to my friends places to visit my friends.
Your favorite place at home.
Hmm, it's my couch.
It's my bed.
For me, it's my mattress.
So my God, I love my mattress.
Is it a special kind of mattress?
Oh, yeah, it's super special.
I think it's one of the most expensive things I've ever bought in my life, but it's so
good, delicious, this luxury kind of mattress.
Even in a super expensive hotel, the mattress is not as good as mine.
Wow, it's amazing.
Sometimes I just miss my mattress.
This is so good.
But Rory, you told us about your couch or your office.
Yes, it's a massive couch, which just means it's very big.
But if you sit in one of the arms, the arm of the couch is part of the very end.
It's on the left side or the right side.
It's usually a space where people put or rest their arms.
Some people call it the arm rest, and I just sit there and work, which is funny because
of course there's this huge three-seat area that anybody could sit on, but I sit on
the place that does not have a seat.
I feel most comfortable on the mic couch.
It could be sitting on my couch.
Or perched on my couch.
A perched is a place to sit by the way.
OK, when you have more information, perched is a verb or a plate?
Well, it's both.
Here, if I say it's a favourite perched, then it's a favourite place to sit in a cozy
manner.
But you could perched on the edge of the couch and that will be a verb.
But you give us another example with this word.
Well, I perched on my couch, where else do I perched?
I'm perched on this chair right now, making this recording.
When I have people around, I usually sit on my couch, so when I have people around, I
invite them and they come to my place.
I spend a fortune on my couch.
I spend a fortune on my mattress, oh yeah.
I spent a fortune on this desk and chair.
It was worth it when I would do it again.
My room is airy.
It just means there's lots of air, there's lots of space.
Yeah, you can say, oh, this room is spacious and airy, okay?
I have very high ceilings, which I'm told is a cool thing to have.
Yeah, do you listen to me please?
Now choose your favourite place at home.
Yeah, I've been talking about a mattress, but it's not a place.
It's like a thing.
But you can also talk about your favourite thing.
Why not?
You know, add details, okay?
My favourite place is bedroom and super mattress.
If I had the choice, I'd stay at home every day.
Or if I had the choice, I'd stay at home less, okay?
The second conditional, if I had passed, so we're imagining, I'd, I would.
But in my case, I have absolutely no idea.
It might be good to go on more adventures, okay?
So maybe, you look, it might be good for me to go on more adventures in the future,
instead of staying at home.
It might be not good.
What's your situation, Dielisynam?
We'll wrap it up with a joke.
But it's going to be a proper joke.
This time, not one sentence, but it's kind of like, what do you call it?
And any jokes, like a short joke.
Okay.
And Dielisynam, understanding jokes in English is important, okay?
Yeah.
You can tell to your friends, you can write it to your friends.
So, at school, the teacher asks, what do you do after school children?
The first student says, I always go and buy cigarettes from Josh.
The second student, I go and buy drugs from Josh.
The third student says, I go and buy drinks from Josh.
The fourth student says, I always stay at home and do my homework.
The teacher says, you are a great student.
So I appoint you as the class monitor.
You are a good example to other students.
What's your name?
The fourth student says, my name is Josh.
Josh.
Oh, Dielisynam.
So they explain it.
Rory will explain it.
Rory will explain.
Josh is selling drugs and drinks and cigarettes from his home while he does his homework.
But responsible and enterprising young man.
I know that we've said that.
We're going to be cancelled or censored heavily.
And it's funny because the teacher says, oh, you said a good example.
So you're going to be the leader of the class.
Like a school monitor is like the boss of the class, the main person in the class.
And it's funny because the system, the school, the teacher appoints this student as the
monitor as setting a good example to other people.
Funny.
A real life Dielisynam, ha ha joke.
Okay.
Did you understand it?
Did you understand the English?
Yes, you did.
Well done.
The enthusiasm.
I love it.
Anyway, thank you very much for listening.
Bye.
Well now it's all done up.
I absolutely love being at home.
It's very comforting to be surrounded by all your possessions and appreciate the hard
work you put into making a place feel like home for lack of a better term.
What do you do when you stay at home?
Oh God, what don't I do?
I put my feet up, read, swatch TV and write.
I mean, since I work and work out from home, I'll often do that too.
Aside from the sports, I do that need a course or a dogeo.
I can pretty much do anything I like.
How much time do you spend at home?
Now, oh, probably 90% of it really, I even have a treadmill so I don't have to go out
for a walk of it to cold or rainy day.
Of course, I like going out to see my friends and stay over at places, but the vast majority
of the time I spend in my own space.
What's your favourite place at home?
Hmm, either my couch or my office.
I have a favourite perch on the edge of the couch on one of the arms.
Even though it's massive, I feel most comfortable there when I have people around.
My office has this great desk and jeer set too that I spent a fortune on so I could sit
there and work away all day, but at the rims of really light and airy too, which I also
like a lot.
Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future?
I'm not sure I can stay at home much more than I already do, really, to be honest with you,
but I mean, on the one hand, it would make life a lot easier, but on the other, it might
be good to go on word ventures, I'd need to think about it more.
