🏎 Cars (Part 1) + Transcript

[Music] Hello lovely Emoryeem! And I am unofficial Academy Award winner Rory Duncan, 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 Super Grammar and Fabulous Vocabulary for your high-IELTS score. We're Band-9 score. All Rory, what are you now? Academy What? Unofficial Academy Award winner. Oh, unofficial. Why are you unofficial? Because if you're unofficial, then you don't need to prove it. Right, award winner. So it's kind of like an Oscar winner. Yes, it's exactly that, except it's unofficial. Okay, right. It's a joke. Rory is a teacher, but every time he just makes up a new profession for himself because he's bored and just wants to add more fun into our episodes. Okay, do you feel like you're having more fun? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, like you were an opera singer last week. Today you are like an award winner unofficial. What was that noise, Rory? Oh, it's just cars on the street outside. Shall we talk about cars? Hmm. These coincidences are driving me up the wall. Ah, ah, ah, driving you up the wall. Right, do you see that? If you say it's driving me up the wall, it means it's annoying. It annoys me. Okay? For example, cars drive me up the wall. They annoy me. They irritate me. I don't like it. Right, mosquitoes drive me up the wall. Loud noises drive me up the wall. They are annoying. Let's talk about cars. What type of cars do you like? Ah, ones that work. I don't really know much about the different models and makes and brands. Really, my main priority is that they don't break down so I can get from A to B. Do you prefer to be a driver or a passenger? I'd much rather be in the passenger seat. For me, driving is like a really nerve-wracking experience and I absolutely hate it. I always worry about other people in their own lane discipline and how they flout all the rules of the road with pretty much reckless abandon. It's not for me at all. I don't know how other people do it. Did you enjoy traveling by car when you were a child? I think so. I remember getting car sick once or twice, but that wasn't a regular thing for me, so I didn't mind much. And it usually meant we got to places faster than we had used public transport. Do you think cars are important? It depends who you ask, really. They're not terribly important for me at the moment, but then I live in a place with decent public transport infrastructure like buses and trains and taxis. If you're in the countryside, then it's probably a different story altogether. Do you think car colors are important? I don't know. I mean, they might be important if certain colors reflect heat more effectively in a warm country or in a warmer time of year. But for me personally, that doesn't matter because I'm rarely in cars long enough for that to make a difference. What do you usually do when there's a traffic jam? Well, since I'm usually in the passenger seat in these situations, I just sit tight and wait them out with a book or by plastering about on my phone or something like that. There's not much else to do in those situations, but kill time, is there? As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free and it's available for one month. After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. Right, delis. If you drive or if you don't drive, well, cars. You can say I enjoy toy cars, for example, if you don't drive, Rory makes a joke like "ha ha, I enjoy cars that work." I don't know much about models and brands. I'm not into cars. It's not my thing. Yeah, it's not my thing. But if you do enjoy cars. Then you're in luck. You could talk about the mate or the model. Exactly. My favorite one is BMW or I enjoy crossovers. I enjoy pickup trucks, hatchbacks. How do you say "Cidan"? "Cidan"? "Cidan"? But again, I don't know what those things are. Yeah, I enjoy sedans. A car with seats for four or five people, two or four doors, and a separate area in the back for bags, boxes and suitcase. Why do you enjoy them? No, but for example, okay. But why would you enjoy something? I don't know. I'll listen and might enjoy them. Maybe I'll listen and enjoy the mini van. My listeners are very sensible people. I refuse to believe that. Okay, delis. So there are mini van, crossovers, sedans, hatchbacks. So if you enjoy cars, you know what I'm talking about. You might like trucks. Okay. Yeah. And then you say, "Oh, BMW is my favorite." Or I enjoy Lamborghini. I would love to have a Ferrari. Yeah, and we say, "I'd love to have a Ferrari." I enjoy sports cars. Feel free to lie, delis. All right. I enjoy sports cars. I enjoy luxury cars. Oh, you could just say, "I don't know much about the difference models in brands." Rolls Royce. How do you say Rolls Royce? Rolls Royce. That's a British brand, but God only knows what, like, the differences. Also, they don't just do cars. They do jet engines as well, I think. Yes, BMW. Mercedes luxury cars, luxury brands. But you can talk about the model or the make or the brand, and that will be okay. I'd rather be in the passenger seat. An nice structure. I'd rather drive. So I choose to be the driver. I'd rather be a passenger. I'd rather be a driver. I'd rather be, I would rather be. Driving is nerve-wracking for me. So it's like I get nervous. It's nerve-wracking. It's difficult for me. It causes a lot of worry. So I'm worried. I'm stressed. So driving is the most nerve-wracking thing for me. I hate it. I dislike it. Or you can say, "I really enjoy it. I'm into driving." Okay, I'm a good driver. Right. What else can I say? I have no idea. I'm a terrible driver. No, I mean, I enjoy driving. I'm very much a passenger princess. That's someone who likes to sit in the passenger seat and tell the driver what to do. I'm a passenger princess. Yeah, but if our listener is a man. Same idea. Oh, seriously? Like, I'm a passenger princess. Uh-huh. It's not supposed to be a compliment. Okay. All right. I used to enjoy traveling by car when I was a child. So, you used to? Maybe you don't enjoy it now. Or I didn't use to travel by car. I took a bus or a train. I didn't have a car. Or I always traveled by car. I remember getting car sick. So usually. Oh, no, usually sometimes children get car sick. Sick is when kind of your food gets out of your body in a car. Well, a classical situation. Yeah, so to get car sick, you have a child. He's just eaten and then you drive and then. lose happens. Right. Oh, well, um. That could be part of it. It's not always just eating though. It could be part of motion sickness, which is also the more complex we have describing that. Yeah, so people sometimes get sick, sick, air sick. So they get sick on a boat, on a plane, in a car. Yeah, so I didn't enjoy it much. I usually use the public transport instead. Or again, I always use the car. I started driving when I was 18, 21. I just drove a truck, a tractor. I don't know, a helicopter. Yeah, and different colors are important because. the listener. Colors. have an effect on safety. Do they? For example, yeah, yeah, the safest cars are. once not driven by me. So the safest cars are white, silver or yellow. Because they are easier to spot in low light, heavy rain or fog. Yeah, so that car colors influence the safety of passengers and the driver. No, I didn't know that, but that's because I don't drive. So what else influences this safety? Not driving. So car colors directly impact safety. And maintenance of the car. So you take care of your car. Maintenance like darker colors, black, show dirt scratches. Very easily. Yeah. But lighter colors, are better at hiding dirt and imperfections. There you go. Yeah, just like give these two ideas, they listen now, you know. But also you can say car colors reflect personal style and psychology. And if you don't have a car, what does that reflect the fact that you don't like driving? Yeah, for example, like I would opt for a red car. It kind of suggests energy, you know, black suggests power and elegance. White implies like it's clean, it's modern, it's stylish. Yeah. Right, in a traffic jam. So if I'm stuck in traffic, I'm blastering about on my phone. So I'm fapping about. I'm blastering about. So blaster about is a phrase of a, which means like, okay, I do nothing. I fap about. Now, blaster about like chemical, so magnesium doesn't have this word. Oh, really? It's slang, worry. We say fap about. Fine, fap for fapping about. Plastering about. Fap about like do nothing, spend time doing a lot of unimportant things. So I just, I fap about on my phone. I scroll through my social media. So just to kill time. Love them. Now we're ready for a joke. Have we not had enough jokes? No, no, of course not. We already talked about being driven up the wall. No, Rory. No. So please tell us we do need a word. So what do cars have? There are four wheels. And on these wheels, we have. Tires. Yeah, tires. Okay. T-I-R-E. Tires. What do you call a car that makes you feel like a car? That never stops. Tireless. Oh. Right, do listen. So a car has four tires. Right? But tireless means working energetically continuously. So not being tired tireless. So for example, like Rory is a tireless worker. He works energetically non-stop. So what do you call a car that never stops tireless? So it doesn't get tired. Oh, wow. And on that fun note, let's drive off into the sunset. Bye. Bye. One's that work. I don't really know much about the different models and makes and brands, really. My main priority is that they don't break down so I can get from A to B. I always worry about other people in their own lane discipline and how they flout all the rules of the road and abandon. I think so. I depend. So you ask, really? They're not terribly important for me at the moment. But then I live in a place with decent public transport infrastructure like buses and trains and taxis. I don't know. [BLANK_AUDIO]