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This is an IELTS Energy Podcast,

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Episode 1358, American

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and British Speaking Part 1, Model

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House Answers. Welcome

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speaking questions might be confusing as

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all get out if they're full of

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British English vocabulary. Today, learn how

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to handle this and hear 4 Band

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9 sample answers modeling these

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English. Aubrey,

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what do you think is

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the most common speaking part

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one topic? About

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school or work or where

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you live, your home. You're

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almost guaranteed to get

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asked about those on part one. Exactly.

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Exactly. So guys, in

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IELTS speaking part one, the first group

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of questions. will always be,

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always, always, always be about

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school or work or

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home, hometown, right?

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So you'll have to describe the place you live or

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the city you live in or

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work or school, okay? The first group

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of questions always about those things. So

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today we are going to give you

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sample part one answers about

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house and home. And we're also

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going to point out how

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British English might cause

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some American English learners

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or speakers some issues

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on the speech. Yeah, if you already live

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in the States and you're very used

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to the vocabulary we use in America

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and then maybe you move to

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England and take IELTS there or lots of

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places in the world where they

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would be more likely to use

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vocabulary that would be used in

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England that might trip you up

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if you're not familiar. Yeah, the

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questions are written by British English

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people, right? All of the IELTS

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questions. So even if as an

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American examiner I'll be reading the

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question maybe it says like flat

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instead of apartment. I

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can read it as it is and

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say flat. I think a lot of

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examiners will just read exactly what they

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say. Some examiners will change it to

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American English, okay? But chances are you'll

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be hearing the questions with British English

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in there. Yes, absolutely. So

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you need to be familiar with it. We talk

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about this quite a bit here on the podcast

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today. A couple of the answers

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that we give each other are going to

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have some some British English. So we'll

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see if you're familiar with it. If not we're gonna make

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sure that you are so these don't cause

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you any problems on test day. Well,

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I will show you how to handle it,

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right? Because you're listening to us right now.

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You're learning American English and we get this

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question all the time like can

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I answer an American English? Do I have to

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use British English? So we're gonna show you

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exactly what to say if you are

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more comfortable. comfortable using American English instead

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of the British English like the question.

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So we're going to model this for

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you today, show you how you can

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handle all of this with confidence and

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still get that high speaking score. And

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at the end of the episode, we

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are going to give you two of

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the best phrases that you

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should use in speaking part one. So

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stay tuned until the end, guys, because

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you will have to write down this

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vocabulary so you can use it in

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your own answers. Absolutely. And

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we want to give a shout out

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to a listener, Everson, who wrote in

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asking about speaking. But this is

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an interesting question and we're going to just give

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a shout out, read the question because I want

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to highlight something that I think Everson did that

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was really smart. I'll go ahead and read this.

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Everson Vettoveto, such a fun family

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name, says, I just started my

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IELTS journey. And a thing that

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I have many doubts about is

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the speaking part. But I'll explore

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the library from your podcast before

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asking any questions about that. I

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love this so much. In case

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you guys aren't aware, if you're

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like Everson and you're just starting

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your IELTS journey, we have thousands

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good strategies and vocabulary. Such a

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vital resource for you to dig into. So I

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love that Everson's doing this. I want to make

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sure that all of you guys are as well.

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Still wanted to give a shout out for this.

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Great comment. Yeah, thank you, Everson. So

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there's three different ways you can find specific

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past episodes and materials, guys. You

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whatever. Guys, we have so much material

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for you. Or wherever

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you're listening to podcasts, like Everson said,

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just scroll up and look through our

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past episodes. The most

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recent episode that we touched on

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Speaking Part One was an... episode

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1343, speaking part one

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vocabulary for dithering.

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I love that

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vocab episode guys. You

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have to go back and listen if you

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missed it. And if you missed it, maybe

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maybe it's because you're not following. So hit

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follow right now guys. Yes, that was

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such a great one about what to do if you are kind

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of on the fence, right? If you are dithering,

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if you can't make up your mind, can I

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say both? I can't decide. Don't miss

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that podcast for great strategies when that happens. So

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good. So good. All right, guys.

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So first I'm going to ask Aubrey to

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speaking part one questions and then she will

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ask me to speaking part one question. So

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let's get into it. All right. Here's the

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first question. Do you live

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in a house or a flat? I

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live in a house currently. It would

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be impressive if I could cram my

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gigantic family into a tiny flat. I,

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we used to live in an apartment in New

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York city and I loved that there were a

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lot of benefits, but we only had two kids

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at the time. And now we have doubled that

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number. There are six of us. So we needed

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a little more space. We had to move to

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the burbs. We had to move to the suburbs

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in order to have a place that was big

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enough to accommodate all of us. That

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was so good, guys. I'm going to

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give you a couple vocab phrases to

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take away and then I'll ask Aubrey

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another question. So first, the verb cram.

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You know, even if you don't

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live in a small place, it doesn't matter

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what size place you live in, you're going

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to fill it up with stuff always.

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It's just what happens. So

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no matter where you live, even

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in a big place, you could use

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this, right? Cram just means you're fitting

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a lot of stuff into one space,

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right? So I, I cram

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a lot of artwork into my home. The

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walls are covered. I have a whole section

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that's just for making art, right?

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We cram stuff in. And the

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other slang phrase, guys, was

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The Burbs. So The Burbs, good

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movie, but also it

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just is short for suburbs. So

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if you live outside of a city

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on the outskirts, right, just right around

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the city, you live in The Burbs

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or the suburbs. Nice,

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awesome. All right. All right,

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next question. How long have

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you lived in that house? Ooh,

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we lived, we moved here when

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my twins were new babies. So

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I always gauge how long we've lived

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here from when they were born. So

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we've now been here nine years, which

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seems bonkers because I feel like we

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moved here just yesterday, but they're

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about to turn 10. So that

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means we've lived here almost 10

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years, crazy. You know, I just

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realized today I was talking to Lindsay

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this morning and realized that

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I've been working for all ears English for 10

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years. Wow. Which is also bonkers.

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Guys, and that is the vocab

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I want you to take away

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from that specific answer. Whenever you're

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saying something is just crazy, right?

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Don't just say crazy, that's boring

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as all get out. Say bonkers or

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bananas. I love saying bananas. Bananas is

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really fun. Crazy. And a little

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bonus phrase there to say something is

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blank as all get out, boring as

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all get out, which is a much

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more native and interesting way instead of saying

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very or extremely boring, right? Or

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fun, fun as all get out.

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We can use that for, this is

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an adverb phrase for anything guys. Let's

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take it back to the word

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cram. You can be like, my

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house is crammed as all get

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out. Like just anything, instead

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of very, just say as all get out.

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And you were guaranteed to need to say

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very on IELTS. Often the feedback I give

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to students is you said the word very

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18 Times. Let's think about

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all of the higher scoring ways

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you can say that, right? Ashley

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Part One: Where you can use some

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flaying like super way. Totally right. So

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absolutely are you ready for your questions?

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your i think so or eight years

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of her son. What do you like

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about where you live? I

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love that I can see trees

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from every window I'm I live

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in a tiny place, edges be

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able to glance green to read

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no matter what window I'm looking

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out of. It really does help

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me to feel like knock crammed

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into a small space space that

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gives me a connection to the

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wider world. Being able to see

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nature. From really anywhere. I

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stand in my place, right? So that's the

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best thing as I still feel close to

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nature even though I'm in like a small

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place on a city. Who. Nice!

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I want to point out she was able to

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use crammed. Again, there are no yeah because

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she said not crammed like think about

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how useful this is, You can absolutely.

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Useless Somewhere in your I'll speaking exams

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either. Talk about how you're cramming. South

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cramming information into your brain. or like

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Jessica used it to say, you're not

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crammed somewhere, right? Amazing. And

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then also the verb glance to

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say you can glance greenery instead

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of saying look I received right

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this a just or less. Common.

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I rarely hear students use the

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suburb glance, so that's a lot

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gonna tell you the the two best phrases

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to take away from today. Or.

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It last one is there a

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garden in the Coahuila? Okay,

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so this is. This is tricky

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because I know garden in British

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English as more like a like

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a yard and like having i'm

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like grass or a yard outside

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your domiciled. But to me a

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garden is like a specific place

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for growing vegetables and herbs and

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stuff like that. So us I

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have neither. is. Vitally

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and ask of my limited caught out

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so I have a yard or a

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guard and I'm I'd to. Put

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plan plan for my balcony

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though and I try to grow

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some food every summer. Nice

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around really nice if if and we

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are going to try and as the

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second to about how we've handled this

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British English and these questions but first

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they want to highlight the word domicile

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you are likely to get question. about

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your home or your apartment and you don't

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want to say apartment over and over or

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house or flat, right? You

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need higher scoring parallels synonyms

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and domicile is a really good

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one. I've never heard a student say domicile

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So it'd be bad night, right? So if

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you catch yourself about to say apartment again

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or home again Instead say

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domicile. So good. So useful for

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speaking and writing that word Guys,

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so we've shown you two ways

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you can sort of handle and

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incorporate the British English into the

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American English that you are most

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likely more comfortable using So

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the first question I asked Aubrey was do you live

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in a house or a flat? She

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just said flat like you just use the

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word from the question. That's fine. Like you

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don't have to stop and say oh well

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flat means apartment, so You

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can if you want but you don't have to

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right? No, you just say I mean, you know

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flat is apartment This is a basic like British

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English word, right? So you just said it. That

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was great And then when you asked

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me about the garden That's

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kind of that's a little more specialized

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than just knowing flat, right? So I

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I talked it out I narrated my

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thoughts right and I could be like,

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oh well, I know British English.

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It means this And in

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American English, it means this Yes,

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both of those strategies work great And

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if you're not aware of that like say you

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didn't realize that in British English Garden

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means more of like a yard like just

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the grass out front and you answer about

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your vegetable garden or your flower garden That

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is also going to be an acceptable answer

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this examiner realizes what garden means in American

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English You are not going to be docked for that

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Exactly. Exactly. And that's probably

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a very Very important

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takeaway guys today is that it

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doesn't matter if you're using British

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or American English It doesn't matter

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if you interpret the question in

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the American English way or the

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British English way Either

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way is fine. Okay, you are not

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scored on using one or the other.

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Okay, as long as what

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you're saying is correct in one of

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those American or British English, you are

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fine. Yes. Alright, let's

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share our two best vocabulary

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phrases from today that you definitely want

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to add to your notebook, practice using

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in IELTS sample answers.

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The first one is as all

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get out. This is a band

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9 replacement for saying very or

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extremely, right? If you can instead

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say amazing as all get out

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instead of very amazing, that is

16:36

pushing up your vocabulary scores. Yeah,

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so the phrase goes after any

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adjectives guys instead of saying very.

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Exciting is all get out, boring

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is all get out, whatever it

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works. And then the second phrase

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guys is cram. That means put

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a lot of something somewhere. So

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put a lot of information into

16:57

your brain, cramming vocabulary

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into your head, cramming

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stuff into your apartment,

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whatever it works. Yes,

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and for both of these use interesting intonation.

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It would sound really strange to be like

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I cram a lot of things into here

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or that was boring as all get out.

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Yeah. These phrases are interesting. They're unique. So

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give them the space they need to hit

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them a little harder, get some varied

17:22

intonation there to help your pronunciation score as well.

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