👧🏼 Describe a time when you felt proud of a family member (Part 2) + Transcript

Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part 2. Describe a time when you felt proud of a family member. You should say when it happened, who the person is, what the person did and explain why you felt proud of him or her. Rory, give us your story. Rory's story. Well, there are lots of times this has happened really. My family are a bunch of high flyers in a lot of ways, but one time that particularly stands out in my mind is when my cousin Rina was accepted into the JED program, which is a prestigious English teaching course in Japan. When it comes to when it happened, it must have been about two years ago, I think. She had been working really hard on organising her acceptance and everything related to it for about a year and it had paid off rather nicely. As I understand it, it's not an easy program to get on and you have to jump through a lot of hopes to get in in addition to being an ideal candidate. So it's impressive that she managed to do that or both of those things really. To guard to who she is, like I said, she's my cousin, but she's not just any cousin. She's several times removed from me, but that doesn't make a difference as our family is quite close. So an achievement by anyone is always a good thing. She's in her early 20s now, but at the time, I think she would have been in her late teens, at least I suppose so. And she speaks several languages, so she's not on a custom to with getting a lot done. In terms of what she did or what exactly she did, as I mentioned, it was with the aim of being accepted, but she had to do things like prove her credentials and qualifications, in addition to going to interviews to demonstrate her suitability for the position on the program. It wasn't smooth sailing, like with most job interviews these days. And I suppose that's why I'm proud of her when it comes to that side of things. Even with all the hassle involved, she still managed to reach her goal and didn't let anything stop her. She's a real class act, and I hear she's been doing very well since she started. If she hadn't got that position, I think we still would have been pleased with her trying, but obviously it's even better that she succeeded. And what about your cousin, did she feel proud? I don't know, I certainly hope so, it's a big achievement. As you know, we never 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. Yay, thank you, Roy, for your story. So, there is no more, it's an interesting topic. Describe a time when you felt proud of your family member. So that could be anybody from your family, or you can make this person up. Okay? So maybe a cousin, a sister, a brother, you don't have your son, your daughter, anybody. All right? So when we feel proud, we feel satisfied. You feel pleasure, satisfaction, because somebody has done something good. So I'm proud of Rory. Okay? Rory has written many books, so I'm proud of him. So I'm proud to have something, or I'm proud that my son has done something. Okay? Or I'm proud that my grandfather, who died, did something. Right? So you can talk about a person who is alive or not alive. Rory talked about his cousin. My cousin several times removed, but that just means it's not like a cousin of my aunt or uncle, sorry, it's not a child of my aunt or uncle. It's a child of another cousin from a different part of the family. Right, Rory, that doesn't matter. You know, distant cousin, close cousin. Oh, distant cousin's good. It's okay, just a cousin. All right, sister, brother, doesn't matter, do you listen? Again, you can make up the story just lie. And we can start off with one time that particularly stands out in my mind is when my cousin was tata tata or is when my cousin did something, entered university, graduated from university, got married, traveled to Africa, jumped with a parachute. I don't know, there's no, took IELTS, all right. Yeah, you can talk about taking out. So the phrase is one time that I particularly remember that particularly stands out in my mind. If something stands out, in your mind, you remember it very well. And Rory talked about Rina, his cousin. She was accepted in some teaching program in Japan. So a prestigious English teaching course in Japan. Wow. And is she Scottish, right? She is, yes. And she went to Japan to kind of complete the program. Yes. And she's still there, I think. Oh, nice. From Scotland to Japan. Oh, la la. Yeah, and Rory felt proud of her to be proud of somebody. So I feel proud that my cousin went to Japan. I feel proud of my cousin who went to Japan. Again, we start a new topic with when it comes to when it happened. It was about two years ago. If you're not sure, like 100%. You can say it must have been two years ago. So probably it was two years ago. It must have been two years ago. But that's like C2 grammar. Super advanced. Is it? Yeah, must have been. Who could have C1 C2, yeah? So probably it was two years ago or it must have been two years ago. I'm not completely sure, but I'm pretty sure. And then you say, okay, she was working hard. She wanted to go to Japan. She wanted to be accepted onto this program. She had to jump through a lot of hoops to get in. So that's a very nice expression. If you talk about a situation when you have to do certain things to get something, jump through hoops. It's an idiom. I have to do a lot of things that are difficult, but you need to do them to achieve something. For example, to get a degree, we have to jump through hoops. To get this position at Google, you jump through a lot of hoops. So she had to jump through a lot of hoops to get in this program. But as do you have to jump through hoops to do, probably to get a visa? Well, to take a yield. Hmm. Do you have to jump through hoops to do that? Well, you have to learn how to write essays. You have to practice. You have to do practice tests. You have to listen to this podcast, you know? That's not jumping through hoops. That's a pleasure, everybody loves doing that. With regards to who she is, again, we are jumping to another bullet point. So who the person is? With regards to who she is, well, she's my cousin. And then, Roy said that she's several times removed because we have different cousins. Yeah, Roy, you can just explain. I don't know how to explain it. It just means a cousin that's not from the immediate family. Yeah, because usually a cousin, like you have your father and your father has a sister. So your father's sister's daughter is your cousin. Are you with media listener? Are you following? Yeah, that's it. Like, I can understand that. But then your father's aunt's daughters, children, and then like their children. And then somebody else says, "Oh, what?" Do you feel like you need a flow chart to understand it, Marie? Yeah, so exactly. So there are cousins who are distant cousins. Like, maybe they are not your family, but somehow they are related to you. We can say that she's my cousin once removed or twice removed. It's very strange to listen to. So like you can say, she's not my close cousin, but I love my family and everybody's achievements are good. So achievement, right? So the thing that Roy's cousin went to Japan is an achievement. In terms of what she did, she was accepted onto this program or like she jumped with a parachute. She graduated from Oxford. It wasn't smooth sailing. Again we talk about this process that she did something and she succeeded, but it was difficult. So instead of saying it was difficult, you can say it wasn't smooth sailing. It's an idiom. So to be smooth, Sailing means to be easy without problems. Sailing is when you go sailing. You have your sea and your sail like a boat and you just take your boat and you kind of oh yeah it's smooth. Everything's fine, the wind, the sea, everything's beautiful, yeah no problems. So it wasn't smooth sailing, it wasn't easy. So taking ails isn't smooth sailing usually because people have problems with writing, speaking, you know, listening, reading. Would you practice it with us and listen to our podcast which is useful and if you're very, very good then you can book classes with me. Oh yeah, yeah, roaring these classes there you have to listen. So I feel proud of her because blah and blah. I feel proud of her because she went to another country like she was very organized, she managed to reach her goal. So it was her aim, her goal. So she managed to succeed. She didn't let anything stop her, she didn't let anything stop her, nothing stopped her. She was determined, she wanted it and she got it. And I'm very pleased that she's done it. I'm very pleased, happy, glad that she has succeeded. Rory and what are the topics can our listener talk about? Or it could be anything, a wedding day or someone being accepted into university or maybe you one of your relatives passed their ails test. You could talk about that. Yeah, you know, I want to talk about my grandfather. He took ails last week. Yeah, deal with it. You can, you can imagine, you know, you can talk about your cousin Rory who lives in Dandee, you know, or your cousin Maria, yeah, who has like 10 bags and he's crazy about shoes. The examiners won't know. Yeah, the examiner won't know. And then, but maybe the examiner go, are you talking about Rory and Maria who are doing ails speaking for success podcasts? You go like, yeah, yeah, I'm lying to you. And you'll say absolutely not. Exactly, yeah, you say absolutely not the examiner. I am, I wonder how many ails examiners actually know about our podcasts. I think they're very busy. They won't have the time It's a secret. Yeah, they're busy people. They're too cool for school. Right, Delaissam. Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you in our ails speaking part three about feeling proud. Bye. Bye. My family are a bunch of high flyers in a lot of ways, but one time that particularly stands out in my mind is when my cousin Rina was accepted into the jet program, which is a prestigious English teaching course in Japan. She had been working really hard on organizing her acceptance and everything related to it for about a year and it had paid off rather nicely. With regard to who she is, like I said, she's my cousin, but she's not just any cousin. She's several times removed from me, but that doesn't make a difference. The Zarb family is quite close, so an achievement by anyone is always a good thing. And she speaks several languages, so she's not on a custom to with getting a lot done in terms of what she did or what exactly she did. As I mentioned, it was with the aim of being accepted, but she had to do things like proof her credentials and qualifications in addition to going to interviews to demonstrate her suitability for the position on the program. If she hadn't got that position, I think we still would have been pleased with her trying, but obviously it's even better that she's exceeded. And what about your cousin? Did she feel proud? I don't know. I certainly hope so. It's a big achievement.