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Hello, hello, Dillisna.
Welcome into the world of IELTS Speaking Part 3.
Now we're going to be talking about studying and studying habits.
Rory here is from Scotland.
He's an educated nature speaker and he keeps studying.
All the time, right, Rory?
Allegedly, yes. Yeah, and this summer our Rory worked in Oxford.
Dillisna. So, Rory is the authority to be talking about studying.
Why do some people prefer to learn on their own while others prefer to study with other people?
Well, I suppose you'd have to ask them really.
However, I'd guess I'd say it's a personality thing.
Probably connected to being extroverted or introverted.
So if you get energy and ideas from being around others, then you're more likely to gravitate to big groups.
Conversely, if you find other people to be a bit of a drag, then you probably isolate yourself.
And do you think it's better to study in a group or individually?
Well, this comes down to the individual.
If it's my personal preference, I'd rather do it by myself.
But that's just me, I can't speak for the vast majority of other people.
What's the difference between learning face-to-face with teachers and learning by yourself?
I suppose the main one is the lack of external support and understanding, or at least external human support.
If you're on your own, then you don't have anyone to talk things through it, which is what a teacher is for.
I mean, in addition to having some sort of expert knowledge allegedly.
Why do some people prefer to study at home while others study in other places?
I mean, my guess would be that they feel more at ease in their own familiar surroundings, and so they can focus more.
And that will be especially true of your introverted, like I mentioned earlier.
What are the benefits of gaining work experience while studying?
Well, assuming it's a work placement related to what you're studying, then you would be able to directly apply what you've learned to a studying in a meaningful context.
That might better consolidate what you've learned in theory.
Do most people like to study in a noisy place?
I imagine not. It seems like it would be hard to focus with a million things going on around you and vying for your attention and focus.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of studying with other people?
Well, on the plus side, you can pull your, I don't know, collective intellectual resources and get things done faster.
But on the downside, there's potential to get distracted and fall into group thing, can miss some key details, which could be important.
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Hey, Rory, thank you very much for your educated answers.
Here, do you listen? So here we talk about studying on my own, studying alone, versus studying in a group or with other people.
And to make this contrast, you can use while or whereas.
For example, some people prefer studying on their own alone, while other people prefer studying in a group.
Or whereas, some people prefer studying alone, whereas others prefer studying in a group.
And here, our Rory, our super educated Rory just says, I suppose you'd have to ask them.
You've asked them, not me.
Well, but then Rory continues.
Okay, the list is not enough.
It's a guess. So let me guess.
It's a guess. I'd say it's a personality thing.
It could also be a personal thing.
It's a personal thing. Yeah, like a personal preference.
Yeah. Some people are extroverted, while others are introverted.
Some people are more open, others are more reserved, like closed.
And if you get energy and ideas from being around others, you prefer to gravitate to big groups, gravitate meaning to kind of move towards.
Hmm, like a natural force is pulling you in that direction.
You can say some people gravitate to bigger groups, or some people are attracted, move towards big groups.
But for some people, it could be a bit of a drag.
Oh, studying in a group, studying with other people is a bit of a drag.
In this context, it means...
Well, it just means it drains your energy, or it doesn't make you very happy.
Yeah. It's kind of a bit of a drag.
It's boring. Yeah, it's like it's not pleasant.
It's not convenient or such a drag.
Ugh, boring. And certain people prefer to isolate themselves.
So isolate, they work alone.
The vast majority of people, meaning most people.
Ascension will be talking about people in general, using this kind of word could be quite important.
Learn on your own, or learn by yourself.
What did you mean by external support?
That support that you get from somewhere else, not from you, not internal support.
Support that comes from within.
So external support, we study with teachers, and here, external human support.
But if you're on your own, if you're alone, then you don't have this external human support.
You don't have teacher to rely on, to ask questions.
Talk things through. So if you don't have a teacher, you don't have anyone to talk things through.
Kind of hello teacher. Let's talk this grammar through.
Let's kind of help me understand this grammar.
A grammar, you know, like, press perfect.
So let's talk things through.
Teachers usually have expert knowledge.
They are experts, and they have expert knowledge on certain subjects, so they help.
Allegedly, yes. And here we can say, people feel more at ease in their own surroundings.
So it's easier for people to study in their own surroundings, like at home, in their flats, in their familiar surroundings.
So in the place they know.
Like when I was talking about my office at home.
And many people can focus more when they are in their familiar surroundings.
We gain work experience, gain, like, get work experience, and some people work while studying.
And you can say that if we assume that this work is connected to what you're studying, then it's good.
So if we assume, like if we imagine, assuming.
And if your work is connected to your studies, then you would be able to directly apply what you learn to your work.
So apply your work experience to your studies and vice versa apply what you have learned to your work experience to your working context.
And this helps you to consolidate what you have learned.
So consolidate is a very nice verb, which means...
I best describe consolidate.
When something becomes stronger and more certain.
Yeah, that sounds better.
I was just going to say when you make it better, but that doesn't help.
How does it become better?
It just makes it better.
Just trust me. Yeah, what can we consolidate?
Could you give us another example about studying, working?
Well, we usually consolidate gains.
So it's important to eat the appropriate amount of food after you exercise, to consolidate any gains you make from that.
A very strange question.
Like, do people like to study in a noisy place?
Well, yeah, people usually go to a concert and they just study there.
Go to a nightclub to study, yeah?
Um, yeah, why not? If you're really bored, find out crack open Wikipedia.
It would be hard to focus with a million things going on around you.
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Which verb did you use, which starts within me?
Oh, vying. That means that they're competing to get control of, or to, yeah, to get control of your attention in this case, but you can vie for power, or you could vie for attention, or you could vie for dominance, which is connected to power.
Wow, vie, de listener, such a strange verb.
Is it C2 level by nature?
Well, you know, it doesn't say, I guess it's probably C2.
To vie means to compete with other people to achieve or get something.
For example, six people are currently vying for the presidency.
Oh, for example, there are two children in a family, and the older child tends to vie with the younger one.
So tends to compete with the two companies, vie to get funding for their projects.
Rory, could you give us another example in the context of, well, studying?
Well, different things are vying for your attention when you want to study.
There's the thing that you can, well, should be studying, but there's also all the other distractions, like your phone or other people.
They're all vying for your attention.
Yeah, so things can vie for your attention, or people can vie for your attention, yeah?
When you speak about advantages, you can say, on the plus side, on the plus side, you have many ideas.
If you talk about disadvantages, Rory, can I say on the flip side?
I don't see why now, if we're comparing in contrasting.
Yeah, on the plus side, you get all the ideas if you study in a group, but on the flip side, it could be messy and chaotic, like a group of people, everybody says a different thing, and then like, you don't know what to do, or no one does anything.
Hey, and Rory said that you can pull, Zore, collective intellectual resources.
So it's not a swimming pool, it's a verb to pull.
To bring together. Yeah, so when you pull, pull like double O, you collect something such as money.
For example, children pulled their money to buy a present for their mom, okay?
And if we study in a group, we pull our collective collective like everyone's, so we pull our collective intellectual resources, so we pull our ideas, and we get things done faster, okay?
But on the flip side, or on the downside, on the downside, there is no on the plus side, on the downside, there is a potential to get distracted.
So when you study with other people, you can get distracted.
Or you could fall into a group.
Oh, group think. Group think, think like group think?
Yeah, the group think is like when everybody thinks the same way, and it places limits on the flexibility of thoughts, usually in an organization.
Oh, Delaissana, group think it could be written as one word, group think, or two words.
And it's from management, from meetings, group think, the process in which bad decisions are made by a group, because its members do not want to express opinions, suggest new ideas.
So for example, most people thought that the product would not sell, but nobody said anything, that's the danger of group think.
So group think is an noun, it's one word, it's an idea, okay?
And it's dangerous. Like when everybody agrees with the group, it could be dangerous.
And they don't air out their own opinions, okay?
Or when you study with other people, you can miss some key details.
It could be messy, it could be chaotic, chaotic like chaos.
Rory, what about you? Are you a low-nah, or are you a group person?
I'm very much a loner, even ironically, because of course a teacher teaches classes, but whenever I study myself, I study by myself.
Yeah, but at university you had to study in a group, right?
Like group projects. Hmm, yes, and I absolutely hated it.
Okay, right. Because I was the one that did all of the work, and a lot of other people were just writing along, doing nothing, and it annoyed me.
Right, thank you very much for listening, Delis-nam.
Oh no, we need to end on a positive note, I've just finished by saying it was awful.
Is there nothing that happy we can talk about?
Okay, happy, happy, happy.
Um, there is no happy. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no They see, right, Rory, live and learn?
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Oh, I suppose you'd have to ask them really however I'd guess I'd say it's a personality thing probably connected to being extroverted or introverted So if you get energy and ideas from being around others then you're more likely to gravitate to big groups Conversely if you find other people to be a bit of a drag then you probably isolate yourself and do you think
it's better to study in a group or individually?
Well this comes down to the individual if it's my personal preference I'd rather do it by myself but that's just me I can't speak for the vast majority of other people What's the difference between learning face-to-face with teachers and learning by yourself?
I suppose the main role is the lack of external support and understanding or at least external human support If you're on your own then you don't have anyone to talk things through it which is what a teacher is for I mean in addition to having some sort of expert knowledge allegedly Why do some people prefer to study at home while others study in other places?
I mean my guess would be that they feel more at ease in their own familiar surroundings and so they can focus more and that will be especially true of your introverted like I mentioned earlier What are the benefits of gaining work experience while studying?
Well assuming it's a work placement related to what you're studying then you would be able to directly apply what you've learned to a studying in a meaningful context that might better consolidate what you've learned in theory Do most people like to study in a noisy place?
I imagine not it seems like it would be hard to focus with a million things going on around you and vying for your attention and focus What are the advantages and disadvantages of studying with other people?
Well on the plus side you can pull your collective intellectual resources and get things done faster but on the downside there's potential to get distracted and fall into group thing and miss some key details which could be important
