🏛 Museums and collections (Part 3) + Transcript

Hello, hello, Dillisna and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 3, we're talking about all the things in general. Me, I am an old thing. No, Rory, you're what, like, 34, 33, 36. Old. Before we get into the episode, though, there's a theme. And the theme this time is talking generally about things. What three questions are about things in general? We are talking about old things in general, so specialist vocabulary for old things and specialist vocabulary for talking generally. Keep an eye out or an ear out to try to listen for them. Can you hear them? Why do people keep old things? I suppose generally there are two main reasons. It's either the money value or the sentimental one. Lots of antiques are worth a great deal, having been around for so long and assuming they're in a good condition. And of course, there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations. What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep? In general, it seems to be fernet tour and jewelry, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals. Lots of people keep and inherit their parents engagement rings, for example. I'm not sure about the reasons why, but those are the ones you tend to hear about. What can people learn from a museum? I often find myself wondering that, honestly, especially in the age of the internet when information is just there for free and close to hand. But generally speaking, they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for or searched for. For example, the Ashmolian Museum in Oxford has this coin display and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history. Most people wouldn't have learned anything about that if they hadn't seen it. I certainly wouldn't. It's not really something you think about, is it? What can people see in the museum? It's probably easier to talk about what they don't see, really, but by and large, it's a collection of things, usually old things related to a particular theme or area. So anything in the collection that relates to that will be there. What are the differences between the things that people keep today and the things that people kept in the past? I'm not sure. I mean, well, conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value and the forms these things take haven't changed much. Maybe the sophistication of the depictions of materials they're made from has evolved with time, but largely they seem more similar than different. What are the differences between the things old people keep and those young people keep? Well, largely, they will probably be a difference in the age of the things they want to keep hold of since older people have been around longer. So you'll have older things. I imagine young people will have more stuff that's just random bits and pieces since they pick things up all over the place and are less discerning. Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too. 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. So pretty much money and emotions, right? Lots of antiques, antiques like old things are worth a great deal. So antiques, items, things cost a lot. Antiques things are worth a great deal. And things that have been around for a long time usually cost a lot of money. And another value is a sentimental value like symbolic value of something that has been in a family for generations. People usually keep a furniture, jewelry, old rings, necklaces, jewelry made with various precious metals like gold, silver, and jewelry with precious stones. Like diamonds, emeralds, so you can learn the names of some special stones. Emerald, a nice stone, bright green, a valuable stone. For example, emerald necklaces. And lots of people inherit these things from their relatives, from their grandparents, for example. Lots of people inherit their parents, engagement rings. And usually they are rings with diamonds, like antique rings, old rings. Then some questions could be about museums. You know, like, "Oh, what about museums?" "That's where we keep old things." Yeah, yeah, it's the same. You know, like, "Where do we keep things in a museum?" And if you don't know the answer, you can say, "Oh, I find myself wondering that." I often find myself wondering that. But I'm thinking about it. Like, why? Like, what can people learn from a museum? Especially in the age of the internet. Yeah, like, what can you learn in a museum? Generally speaking, people might find out things that they usually don't see. And out, like, learn about things, and then you can give us an example of a specific museum. Rory told us about the Ash-Mollian Museum in Oxford. But you can say, for example, in the Louvre, for example, in the British Museum. For example, in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Just pick your favorite museum. Yeah, and talk about it. Pick a museum. Anyone. There's hundreds of them. Like, what's the most famous museum? What's the most famous museum? Or do you know? I don't know. What is probably the natural. I want to say it's the Natural History Museum. No, the British Museum is more popular. Oh, the Vatican. There we go. Oh my God, is the Vatican counting in some museum? Oh, yeah, yeah. The Museum of Vatican. Yeah. Yeah, so the Louvre, okay? Vatican Museums. National Museum of China. Well, I mean, that makes sense that would be popular there because China has a billion people. So I imagine millions of people go there. How do you say the Louvre? Louvre. Louvre. I don't know. It's a French word. The Louvre. The Louvre. The Louvre. That's what they say in America. Oh, I know. Just where I were cracking jokes. Tell us something. So the Louvre. And this museum has a coin display. Or a display of paintings or portraits. That shows the evolution of money over human history. I love the Louvre and I enjoy the collection of Egyptian mummies. That was quite impressive. They have a collection of Egyptian mummies. No, but kind of like they do have this several holes dedicated to Egypt. And there are like mummies. There are like lots of exhibits from ancient Egypt. That's crazy. Do the Egyptians know about this? A good question. People usually see different exhibits in a museum. Exhibits like items, things, objects. So they go to an exhibition and see different exhibits. A collection of things. A collection of coins of paintings of mummies from Egypt. A collection of ancient things, ancient means very old or a collection of antique things. Or antics, antique furniture or vintage clothes, for example. You can say that these things seem more or less the same. So what people keep today and what people kept in the past seem the same. Which are very similar. It's just all things basically. Yeah, you can say like materials have evolved with time. So now we might use different materials. Less durable materials or like eco-friendly materials. But you know, jewelry paintings, furniture, I don't know, gold diamonds. That's the same thing. Kind of what do people keep? What do people keep in? Memories. Memories, not things, do you? Things that remind them of anything, really. Close furniture books. Yeah, books, for example. Some rare books. icons. Do we call them icons? It's religious paintings. Anything that's got value, people will keep. Otherwise they wouldn't keep it, that just makes sense. Yeah, some people like keep coins, vinyl records, for example, vintage toys. A comic books? Oh yes. Some comic books are very, very valuable these days. Yeah, comic books, and antique furniture, antique tools, also vintage clothes are pretty expensive. Cars, DLS, some people collect and keep cars. So the things have stayed the same, we can say. I think it's always been things that had some kind of value. People keep hold of different things, so old people keep hold of everything. They might tend to hoard things. So if I hoard things, I collect items in large amounts, so I don't throw anything out. I hoard things. So all my house is full of plastic bags and clothes and boxes and flowers and everything. So some older people might tend to hoard things, which is not good. Young people might collect, might keep some random stuff, some random bits and pieces. You know, like jewelry, makeup, keys, souvenirs, pens, it could be anything that reminds the most of things. Chewing gum, photos, bags, shoes, other people's bags and shoes. So random bits and pieces. They pick them up all over the place. Which makes sense. They're young people. There shouldn't be any sort of principle behind things. Yeah, we think that it's much better to collect memories, happy moments, rather than things, because the material world, DLS, everything in the world disappear. Right, but you have yourself, you have your memories, your happiness. What an end to this podcast. Right, DLS. Thank you so much for listening. Sending love and hugs and lots of valuable items, diamonds, gold and money. Bye. Bye. In general, it seems to be fernet churn jewelry, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals. But generally speaking, they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for, or searched for. For example, the Ashmolian Museum in Oxford has this coin display, and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history. That's probably easier to talk about what they don't see, but by and large, it's a collection of things, that usually old things related to a particular theme or area. Anything in the collection that relates to that will be there. I'm not sure. I mean, well, conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value, and the forms these things take haven't changed much. Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too.