hi I'm Jessica Beckwith IELTS energy TV
and I was inspired today to give you
guys some native speaker slang for
talking about how excited you are about
stuff on the IELTS test speaking part 1
part 2 part 3 you are expected to give
your opinion often so hopefully you are
giving a lot of positive opinions
especially when you're talking about
yourself in speaking part 1 and part 2
so let me give you the phrases first and
then I will use them in some examples so
the first one is and I say this one a
lot
I say I dig it totally so this is kind
of an old phrase but again these days
guys things that are old are suddenly
cool again so I know I use this a lot my
friends use it a lot and it was even
something my mom used to use when she
was young but again that idea of like
vintage you know it also exists in
language so this is something we use
today I dig it totally uh so I dig it
means I really like it Khem you can also
say and this is what I use most often
honestly I'm super stoked about bla bla
bla
so these phrases also have the benefit
of working in this native speaker
emotion okay the the intonation and
stress
listen I'm super stoked about bla bla
bla so that one's awesome again it just
means that you're excited about
something you're happy about something
um if the level of excitement is so high
for you like above the stars for you to
the moon you could say I am literally
freaking out right now this is so
amazing okay
this is what is just fun to say and
again I'm not teaching you anything that
I don't say and native speakers don't
say ok this is all stuff that you hear
people in real life say and you don't
get it in your textbook so guys remember
if you use phrases like this on the exam
that is how you impress the examiner
that is how you get a seven or higher
for vocabulary and as I just noted a
higher pronunciation score all right the
fourth one and this is kind of a
throwback but it's not something I use a
lot but to be honest a lot of my friends
say this they say um that's Totally Rad
that's rad my brother says is a lot -
that's totally rad for sure okay so all
these are used to describe things that
you're excited about that you really
like you think are really cool so for
example on the IELTS test you're asked
about your free time you could say um
you know what I'm totally digging hiking
right now this is my favorite free time
activity in fact next weekend my dog and
my son and I are going on a beach hike
we're gonna hike from one beach to
another beach I'm so stoked about this
it's gonna be amazing alright so I just
used two of the phrases there um what if
you're talking about like a play you get
to go to or a movie you get to go to for
example there's an author I really like
that's speaking in a bookstore in
Portland next week and when I heard that
this author was coming I was like
literally freaking out I am her biggest
fan and I can't believe I get to meet
her in person
okay that was a lie I just made that up
but that's how you would use it chem
museums another common topic
I love armsie that's the local Science
and Industry museum because it has
everything as hands-on lots of stuff to
play with
it's seriously it's totally rad it's
like the raddest museum I've
ever been to okay guys with those four
phrases you can sound like a native
speaker and impress the examiner if you
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a totally rad day you guys