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My name is Chris, and I'm Jay.
Fantastic!
We're going to answer some recent questions from part one of the speaking test.
Are you ready?
Sure I am.
Let's start.
Fantastic,
So today, Jay is going to be asking me some questions.
And I am going to be asking Jay some questions.
We have two topics which are recent topics from the IELTS speaking test.
What are those topics?
Laughter, and pens, and pencils.
Laughter, and pen, and pencils.
So, I'm going to ask you some questions about the topic of laughter.
OK,
and this comes from the word to laugh, "hahaha".
Yeah,
Can you tell us any other ways to talk about laughing?
First of all, before we start, so the words for laughing?
Chuckling,
snickering,
giggling.
Excellent!
Right. So here's my first question It's a recent question from the exam: What makes you laugh?
Lots of things.
I have a very humorous,
a sense of humor.
And I laugh at a lot of things.
So, I don't know... The sun coming out from behind the clouds,
I laugh at it.
And if someone says something witty I would laugh at that.
Cartoons make me laugh, funny movies.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
Are you the type of person who makes people laugh?
I think I am,
I think. When in my classrooms,
My students have for many years said that I'm quite a humorous teacher.
And they enjoy coming to my classroom because I do make them laugh.
Wonderful!
And do you enjoy watching comedy shows?
Absolutely!
I think laughter adds year two years to your life.
You just feel better when you laugh,
so watching comedy shows or comedy movies, I think it's really beneficial
and it's fun too.
Great!
And do your friends have the same sense of humour as you do?
My friends back home in the States, yeah.
I would say they do.
We get each other,
we understand what each of us are saying.
And yeah.
When you're in small groups of friends,
sometimes you have to know those people...
in order to get their type of humor. So they do absolutely.
Amazing!
There were your four questions.
They're often part one of the test.
Remember in part, one you have to talk a little bit more about the question.
Don't just give yes or no answers.
So we'll talk about some of the things that you said.
you talked about sense of humor, right?
You said the word witty.
What does witty mean?
Witty means,
someone who is pretty quick with responding to something,
and usually, the response is sharp and very clever.
And say somebody has a sharp sense of humor here,
or you could even say they have a sharp wit.
Yes,
you're a rapier's wit.
Interesting! Rapier is really a high-level language.
And that's the end for me.
So if you want to ask me some questions...
Alright, Chris.
So I'm going to ask a few questions related to pens and pencils.
How does that sound? Great?
Alright.
So do you prefer to write with a pen or a pencil?
I suppose it depends on the situation.
Most of the time I use a pen.
In fact, nowadays I just use my keyboard most of the time.
Or I make notes on my phone.
If I prefer a pen or pencil, probably a pen
because if I,
you know,
I want to make something last.
But if I'm just making notes,
might I want to use depends on so I can rub it out.
OK,
sounds good.
What type of people use pencils in their job?
Creative people.
So I'd say artists,
engineers,
people are architects who need to design something.
Anybody really who's in an office.
They could just be making notes all day,
using a pencil.
All sorts of people.
Alright.
How would you feel if someone gave you a pen as a gift?
I'd be happy.
I mean, there are other things that I would prefer because I don't use patterns as much anymore,
but I'm always happy to receive gifts.
But how would I feel? I would feel happy and grateful.
OK?
Are pens and pencils becoming more or less common?
What would you say?
Oh, definitely less common nowadays.
We have an access to all our digital devices,
so we usually make notes nowadays on our phones,
our computers.
So I would say that that pens and pencils are probably going out of fashion.
When you think about the use of digital devices.
All right, thanks!
So Chris did a really good job answering these questions.
Obviously, he's not just giving it yes or no answers.
He's giving a lot of substance behind it.
And saying why he feels these things.
And one of the things you said at the end was going out of style.
What is going out of fashion?
Going out of fashion, yes. What does that mean?
It's becoming less popular.
So you could talk about something going out of fashion or going out of style.
Both of those are useful idioms, and I use a word scribble.
Yeah, you did.
To scribble something down.
What does that mean?
To write something really quickly,
and we can also say to jot something down or to note something down that something that you do with a pen or pencil.
You also said, "rub it out".
To rub something out means to erase something with a rubber.
And it has to be a phrasal verb, "to rub something out".
Can you rub it out?
And this is a recent question from the test.
How would you feel if you got a question on pens and pencils in the test?
I would feel quite strange.
It's strange topic to talk about for sure.
In the test, I had to talk about the sky.
It was a bit of a...
That was a strange topic as well.
I hope you found this lesson useful.
Did you find it useful?
Absolutely! Good.
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