🤳 Describe a program or app on your computer or phone (Part 2) + Transcript

[Music] Hello, Dillis and welcome into IELTS Biggin' but to describe a program or app application on your computer or your phone. You should say what it is, how often you use it, when how you use it, when and how you found it, and explain how you feel about it. So much detail. I know, Rory, give us your story. Rory's story. [Music] I'm going to talk about Instagram when it comes to what it is. It's a social media site with an app that you can download onto your phone so you can connect with your friends and family in a variety of ways. In terms of how often I use it, I think it's pretty much on a daily basis, really. I'm on it when I go to the gym or just walking to and from various places. So checking it is a fairly regular occurrence throughout the day for me to tell you a bit more about when and how I use it. I like to check it at least once a day, just to see if I have any messages or share different memes and short films called Reels with my friends. Oh, and if I'm ever bored, it can be a fun way to kill time. Like if I'm on the bus and reading a book is difficult because sometimes I get motion sickness. Oh, and well, like I said, I also look at it at the gym between sets when I'm waiting to use equipment, for example, as for when and how I found it. I think I started using it about six years ago when my friends and colleagues suggested I downloaded and set up a profile. Since then, it's been a bit of a mixed bag at times. On the one hand, I've been able to meet with people in my life and have fun. But on the other hand, there's a lot of misinformation and weird behavior that I've seen. So you have to be selective and not overload yourself with it, I think, or at least that's true for me. So to explain how I feel about it, despite the downsides I mentioned, I'm still reasonably glad I have the app on my phone since it's still a useful tool for finding out what people close to me are interested in and staying abreast of their personal lives. If I didn't have it, then I'm sure I'd have found a similar app that does similar things. This is just the easiest one for me to use. And what about your friends? Do they use it? Oh yeah, I think all of them are on there. [Music] 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. Design up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. Right, do you listen? So the task is describe a program or an app application on your phone or on your computer. The easiest option is to talk about Instagram. Do you listen? Do you have Instagram on your phone? Maybe not on your computer, but definitely on your phone, right? Or Facebook, okay? Do you have Telegram? But again, you can steal Rory's story and steal all the words about Instagram, all right? Easy. You can talk about your banking app, but then you should use banking vocabulary, all right? You can talk about, I don't know. Talk about your calendar app or something like that. There we go. Your email app. Email app, Gmail, for example, or some transport app. But seriously, do you listen to why would you do that? We can talk about Instagram, right? And the ideas will help you for the essays as well, social media, all right? Speaking in general, speaking part three, and you can say, I'm going to talk about Instagram. I'm going to talk about Facebook. We don't read the card, we don't paraphrase the task, we just say, I'm going to tell you about Instagram. I'm going to talk about an app that I use all the time and I'm going to tell you how I feel about it and how I found it. When it comes to what it is, it's a social media site with an app. Well, it's a social media app application. So it's an app that you can download onto your phone, you download an app on your phone. So you can connect with your friends, you can keep up with your friends, you can stay in touch with your friends or family. Seriously, Rory, you just don't download an Instagram to connect with your friends, you just download an Instagram to post to kind of to look at stupid wheels and stories and like. Yeah, I said, share them with your friends. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, share stupidness, stupid everything and funny, funny things with your friends. Yeah, there we go. And also, you follow your friends, you look what they're doing, what they're up to, you know, like, my ex-boyfriends, I was going, you know, do you do that? No, I have a life and I'm not following what any of my former partners are doing. No, no, but some people do that. Some people, you know, follow. I know some people are crazy. This is the part where Maria says this is what she does. In terms of how often I use it, so again, we are changing the topic and we are using a link. In terms of how often I use it, it's pretty much on a daily basis. So I use it daily, I use it every day, I use it on a daily basis. I think people use most of their apps on a daily basis, so that's a fairly safe collocation to use. I use it non-stop. Oh, that's good. I'm always using it. I'm always using it. I'm scrolling and scrolling. I can't stop scrolling. So what you do, you scroll. I'm on it. So I'm on Instagram. I'm on Facebook. I'm on Telegram. I'm on it when I go to the gym or when I commute to work. When I'm just walking home. Right, Roy. You're walking physically and you're using Instagram, right? Yes, and I'm just looking at my messages and my bills. That's it. Yes, so I just check my messages. I check what my friends are doing throughout the day. So like during the day, throughout the day. This is where I encourage people to follow me on Instagram, but really don't. It's very boring. Yeah, do follow Rory on Instagram. Sometimes he posts interesting things about the books he reads. Hardly ever, you actually post photos. Oh, I don't do that much now. I should probably do it more, but there's nothing interesting happening, really. You go outside, right? You go shopping. Just take a picture of what you can buy in a squatter shop. Like, how listeners I think it will be interesting to know. People don't know what I want to spend my money on. Rubbish. It's all very boring. No, but the grosser is, you know, like food. Oh, okay, so this is my breakfast. This is my lunch. Yeah, okay, let's do it. Like a challenge. Rory, a challenge. You post what you eat. I will think about it. Breakfast lunch dinner. Yeah, do you listen to it? If you're listening, write a message to Rory and ask him to just post his food, all right? I promise I'll consider it. Rory's food. And, though, there is now we're going to discuss it in the comments. On Rory's Instagram. Yes, let's do that. An amazing plan. Oh, I can't think of anything worse, but okay. I check it at least once a day or I check it 10,000 times a day. Yes, you can crack jokes, do you listen? You just make jokes, make the examinal off. I'm addicted to Instagram, so I check it every five minutes. To see if I have any new messages, I share memes with my friends and the strangers. I share memes with people I don't know. I write root comments or I comment on my friends. Stories, posts. Yeah, I share memes and reels with my friends. If I'm bored, I always check Instagram to kill time. So it's a fun way to kill time. If I'm on the bus, if I have nothing to do, if I've left my book at home, I'm on Instagram. I'm on Instagram before I go to bed, so pretty much every hour of my life. Well, apparently you shouldn't be doing that. No, no, no, no, no, no. You should try to come off social media an hour before bed. Yeah, but who does it? I do. And then I read the chapter of my book and I go to sleep. It's nice. Ah, look at you. Well done, you. I started using it about six years ago or ten years ago. Or I don't remember when I started using it. It was ages ago, a long time ago. One of my colleagues told me to download it. Rory uses suggest. So one of my colleagues suggested that I should download it and set up a profile. You can say, I said, set up a profile 10 years ago. Or I don't have a profile, I just have an account and I just like, I'm a secret ninja. I just like a comment. Or I do nothing, I just look at the photos. I look at the stories and wheels and never comment, never like anything. I don't have any pictures of myself or no pictures, maybe you have this account. I try to be selective. So when you choose the material, you read or look at on Instagram. So I try to be selective. I don't overload. I don't overload myself. - But that just means filtering what you see. - Hmm, I filter what I see. Yeah, I try not to overload myself with Instagram. So when you overload yourself, it's a bit too much. You put too many things in your head. And that's C2, band 9. - Is it? - It is. Overload, try like give some, somebody more work or problems that they can deal with. And we say, don't overload yourself with work. How I feel about it. So despite the downsides I mentioned, so despite some negative things about the Instagram, so is it the Instagram or Instagram? - Just Instagram or the Instagram app. - Yeah, the Instagram app, but I use Instagram. I use the Instagram application. So despite the negative sides, despite the drawbacks, despite the downsides, minuses, I'm glad I have the app on my phone. Because it's a useful tool. It's a useful tool. I took a deal with them because it's a tool. Yeah, it kind of, it helps us to do things, but it's not our life. But now we have turned this tool into our life. And it's a useful tool for finding out what people are doing, what people are interested in, what kind of what my friends are interested in. And you can stay abreast of their personal lives. That just means you can stay up to date. - Yeah, it's a useful tool, which helps me to stay abreast of people's personal lives. Nice one. Sit sit too. - I really hope so because I think that's a brilliant word. - Yeah, so keep stay remain abreast of something. To make sure you know all the most recent facts about a subject or a situation, I try to keep abreast of any developments. Mm-hmm. Right, it's now how are you doing? You okay? Yeah? Are you gonna be talking about Instagram? Yes? Good, good for you. If not, then think about what you're gonna be talking about. We'll get back to you in our next episode. Speaking part three, where we talk about applications, computers, people, likes and dislikes, and all the jazz. Bye. Bye. (upbeat music) - Describe a program or app application on your computer or your phone. - I'm going to talk about Instagram. When it comes to what it is, it's a social media site with an app that you can download onto your phone so you can connect with your friends and family in a variety of ways. So checking it is a fairly regular occurrence throughout the day for me, to tell you a bit more about when and how I use it. I'd like to check it at least once a day, just see if I have any messages or share different memes and short films called Reels with my friends. So you have to be selective and not overload yourself with it, I think. Or at least that's true for me. Do they use it? Oh yeah, I think all of them are on there.