Lovely, 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, your band nine score.
Oh wow, are you tired?
Yeah, i probably need a nap and i'll be fine.
Can we talk about having naps and taking breaks before that?
Let's talk about taking a break, having a nap.
Yay, this is what we all love, dear listener, right?
Having a break, taking a nap.
A nap is just this short period of sleep for like 15 minutes.
Any predictions for having a nap for the episode?
Maybe you will say that you are super productive and you sleep during the night and everything is scheduled.
Like you get up at freaking 5.30 in the morning, then you function, and then at 8pm you go to sleep.
That's all.
No siesta.
You function and then you go to sleep.
You wake up, you function, and you go to sleep.
The predictions are, I will mention being productive, I will not take naps.
Anything else?
You might take a nap on the weekend.
So those are Maria's predictions.
I will mention being productive, I will say no naps, and I will maybe take a nap on the weekend.
How do you feel after taking a nap?
I don't really do that, to be honest, to the extent that I can't even remember the last time I did.
It must have been, oh God, years ago, when I dosed off at summer school because I was knackered and
I doubt it made me feel much better, to be honest.
I remember feeling pretty groggy after doing that sort of thing in the past.
Do you take a nap when you have a rest?
No, usually I just chill out with a book or a video game or something like that.
I like having a defined period for sleep and don't get much out of taking naps.
What do you usually do when you are resting?
Other than what I said before, not much really.
I'm not very original in that regard.
That being said, do I need to be productive and creative when I'm having a break?
How often do you take a rest or take a break?
Well, probably more now than I used to, though I'm far from indolent just yet.
I remember working for hours on end when I first started working and I didn't really think much of resting.
Nowadays I'm much better at that sort of thing and I'm I think I have a rest in the mid morning after my initial classes and then before yoga or climbing.
In the evenings, I like to decompress and read a book then.
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Yoo-hoo, dear listener, taking a break.
Yeah, so a nap is a C1 word, a short sleep, especially during the day.
We take a nap or we have a nap after lunch, okay?
Band 8 vocabulary.
So you can say that I feel great after taking a nap or I feel even more tired after taking a nap.
And you can say like, to be honest, I can't even remember the last time I took a nap.
Yay, I was right.
Did I say that Rory never takes naps?
See, Rory, I know you.
I know you.
No naps.
Any other predictions that came true?
Did I mention having a nap at the weekend?
Wait, wait, wait.
We'll come to that.
No, we're checking the predictions now.
Okay, okay.
When I dozed off at summer school.
Yay.
But I never said anything about the weekend.
That doesn't count.
Summer school is like in the week.
No, no.
I meant holidays.
No, no, no.
No, well, that doesn't count.
I was thinking holidays.
I didn't say it out loud.
Uh-huh, sure.
And then did I mention being productive?
Sort of.
Working hours on end.
Maybe that's part of being productive.
I guessed it all right.
No, you didn't.
You'd guessed some of it right, but not all of it.
So, dear listener, if you can't remember the last time when you took a nap, you can say it must have been years ago.
Which means probably it was a long time ago.
I don't even remember.
So it must have been.
It must have been.
It must have been years ago, when I took a nap or when I dozed off.
Doze off means take a nap or have a nap, just sleep for some time.
When I dozed off during holidays or at the weekend.
Why?
Because I was naked.
I was exhausted.
I was really tired.
I was just like... So I was knackered.
But I doubt that it made me feel much better.
So Rory is the same as me.
If I take a nap during the day, I'm done.
Zombie wakes up.
Seriously.
Just let me sleep forever then.
So I never take a nap during the day.
Only if I'm ill and if I sleep all day.
Other than that I feel horrible.
No, it's just like after a nap I am in a zombie mood, you know, like zombies are coming brains.
Yeah Rory, it's funny.
Aren't you laughing at my zombie explanation?
Because it's not funny, not funny.
Well sorry, Maria turns.
Or you can say like I turn into a zombie after a nap I could say that but I felt groggy groggy, what's that?
Groggy, feeling like a zombie weak, unable to think clearly or walk correctly.
So pretty much yeah, like you wake up a zombie, you can wear my legs.
So you can say i usually feel a bit groggy after taking a nap.
Can you say dazed?
I usually feel quite dazed after a nap.
You might feel quite dazed or light-headed.
I suppose Light-headed.
Yeah, because dazed is C2.
It's band 9.
Ooh, is it?
Could you use it in a sentence about naps?
Dazed.
Oh God no, I couldn't, because usually I associate dazed with being confused and not feeling very well.
I prefer groggy.
It's connected to being tired and not thinking clearly.
Hmm, okay.
Sorry, dear listener, don't use dazed in this context, okay?
Sorry.
You can, but it's not what I do.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I can't think of one.
Every time I think of dazed, I just think of dazed and confused, which is a binomial.
Like after taking an IELTS test, I felt dazed, confused, unable to think clearly.
Or after the accident, I was dazed, like in a shock.
Or you can say like, I was so happy, I was in a daze.
You know, after a long walk, I felt dazed, kind of confused, unable to think clearly.
I usually take a nap during the day or at the weekend.
Or you can say I usually take a nap before going out.
Ladies, we do have our beauty sleep.
It's called, you know, to take a nap, to have some beauty sleep before going out.
Like we take a nap and then we get dressed and do the makeup and we go out.
You can also say like have a break or have a rest.
Decompress. decompress yeah like what does it mean to decompress it just means to come out of a stressful situation it technically it's for when you take the pressure off something but it can also mean to just come out of a stressful situation as well de-stress yourself to relax yeah i need a week to decompress you can say that i usually chill out with a book so when i have a rest when i'm resting I usually chill out with a book or I usually read or chill out with a video game.
Yeah, Rory's a gamer.
I am not a gamer.
I don't really play many video games like religiously.
Yes, you are.
How?
How much time do you spend playing video games, Rory?
Every day?
How much time do I spend playing video games?
Yes.
I don't know.
Like maybe an hour?
Like a day, maybe?
An hour a day.
Well, when you think about what other things I spend my time doing, which is much more, then that's not that much time, is it?
So if you don't like taking naps, you can say I like having a defined time for sleep at night, which means that I have like eight hours of sleep every night and I don't take naps during the day.
So you can say that I don't get much out of taking naps.
Audio listening.
I enjoy taking naps.
I get a lot.
I get a lot of rest out of taking naps.
I am not very original in that regard.
So I'm not really creative when it comes to resting.
So I just do boring things like read a book, sleep.
No, no, Rory doesn't sleep.
I do sleep.
I go to bed at 10 o'clock and I wake up at 6 o'clock.
Every day, 6 o'clock.
Goodness gracious.
Almost every day.
Rory's like a robot.
When I do yoga teacher training, I wake up at half past five in the morning.
That's fun.
It's painful.
I feel pain.
Wait, wait, I feel pain.
And then you do three hours of yoga from six o'clock until nine o'clock.
It's amazing.
What did I say?
That you get up at freaking 5.30?
Not every day.
Not every day.
No, but I did mention 5.30.
And exactly 5.30, Roy, huh?
Only when I do teacher training.
Only when I do teacher training.
Not at exactly 5.30.
Like at 2, I have an alarm set for 5.20 and 5.25 so that it's like a precursor alarm.
So, Delys, you can say I'm productive without naps.
When I take a rest, or when I take a break, or when I have a rest or when I have a break, I usually read, I usually cook.
And then Rory used this interesting adjective.
Rory, you said something indolent.
Oh, indolent.
Everybody knows what that means.
No.
What do you mean you don't know what it means?
Because it's literary.
It's used in literature.
Is it literary?
No, it's not.
Yes, according to Cambridge Online Dictionary.
It's an adjective.
It means you want to avoid activity or working hard.
It's like it means you're lazy.
You're lazy, I should say.
For example...
What?
Like, just talking about people being indolent?
That just means they're lazy.
It's maybe a polite way of saying it.
For example, I'm an indolent creature.
I'm an indolent woman.
I remember working for hours on end.
Working non-stop.
Working for hours on end.
Without much resting.
In the evenings, I like to decompress and read.
So, decompress to relax.
So in the evening, I like to decompress.
I like to decompress with a book.
Oh, yeah, the predictions.
So, Rory, I was all correct all the way.
I disagree.
I think that you didn't.
You weren't right all the way.
Oh, come on.
Feel free to comment on the episode, everybody.
Do you think Maria was correct with all of her predictions?
Or do you think that she could be better with some of them?
We are ready for a joke.
Is the joke your lack of being able to predict things correctly?
No.
What do you call a male cow who is taking a nap?
A bulldozer.
Well, that was terrible.
Rory, now you explain the joke.
A bull is the word for a male cow and doze is the word for taking a sleep.
So a dozer would be a person that dozes.
Do you remember we mentioned this phrasal verb doze off?
Oh, yes.
So doze off means to fall asleep, and a person who does it right like teach teacher, does dozer right, but here we have a noun bulldozer.
What is a bulldozer?
It's a construction machinery that demolishes, or could demolish buildings.
A heavy vehicle with a large blade, so kind of like a piece of machinery.
Thank you very much for listening.
Hopefully you had a laugh And if you didn't, don't worry about it.
Bye.
How do you feel after taking a nap?
I don't really do that, to be honest.
To the extent that I can't even remember the last time I did.
It must have been, oh God, years ago when I dozed off at summer school because I was knackered.
And I doubt it made me feel much better, to be honest.
I remember feeling... pretty groggy after doing that sort of thing in the past.
Do you take a nap when you have a rest?
No, usually I just chill out with a book or a video game or something like that.
I like having a defined period for sleep and don't get much out of taking naps.
What do you usually do when you are resting?
Other than what I said before, not much really.
I'm not very original in that regard.
That being said, do I need to be productive and creative when I'm having a break.
How often do you take a rest or take a break?
Well probably more now than I used to though I'm far from indolent just yet.
I remember working for hours on end when I first started working and I didn't really think much of resting.
Nowadays I'm much better at that sort of thing and I think I have a rest in the mid-morning after my initial classes and And then before yoga or climbing.
In the evenings I like to decompress and read a book then.
