Hey everyone! Welcome back to IELTS daily.
I'm Jay, one of the resident IELTS experts here.
And today we're going to look at IELTS speaking questions.
So, hop along for the ride.
In today's lesson,
we're going to look at part two of the IELTS speaking exam,
and with me is always is my good friend, Chris.
Chris. how are you?
I'm wonderful!
How are you doing?
I'm good. Any exciting news?
No, just same old, same old.
So, we're going to continue with part two as usual,
a difficult part of the test.
And today's topic is a tourist attraction.
I've just sent that question to your iPad.
So if you can have a look at that,
we'll take a look at the screen.
It says:
Describe a tourist attraction you once visited.
You should say when you visited it,
where it is situated,
who you went with, and explain about...
explain what about it you liked the most.
Now in the test,
make sure you make lots of notes.
But make sure that they're not long sentences.
This is not a reading exercise,
so I would be really grateful
if you could explain some of your thoughts and ideas to us, Jay.
Your one minute starts now.
Yeah, I've traveled quite a bit
so this one's pretty easy.
I think I'm going to go with Uluru, or Ayers Rock...
Which is a famous monolith...
or a large stone...
in Central Australia.
Very, very
important location.
And I'll explain in my response why, and it's an out in the outback.
So it's a really difficult area to get to.
It's really cool,
so I think I will talk about that.
in my response.
When did you go there?
Last August,
2019.
That's about four seconds.
OK,
that's your one minute.
Obviously,
in this part of the test,
many students get nervous.
Just speak as much as possible.
Tell us many stories.
Your time starts now.
So one of the tourist attractions that I really remember is
Ayers Rock or Ayers Rock, I might be pronouncing it wrong.
It's also known as Uluru in one of the indigenous languages of Australia.
So, it's a big, big,
massive stone rock or monolith,
as we could say in the central part of Australia,
in the outback or the desert.
And it's just a really remote area to get to.
So it took about a week's worth of driving
slowly to get up there from where I currently reside.
And it's just a really grueling and long adventure to get up to
where this rock is situated.
And one of the cool things about the rock as its religious or maybe not religious,
but its sacredness to the indigenous population of Australia.
And there are lots of historical creationist stories that are
told by the indigenous population, that are connected to this rock,
And so, I guess,
is probably similar to maybe a Christian
would consider a church being a really important location to them.
Ayers Rock,
or Uluru is similar to the indigenous population or the indigenous people of Australia
in that respect.
And I just like to do the solemnity there,
and it was really quiet.
And you just felt the strength and the gravity of this location.
I really recommend going there if you ever visit Australia,
but it's really remote,
so make sure that you figure out
your path or the way you're going to travel
because it's too difficult to get to sometimes.
Super!
You are one minute fifty-five.
Ok.
Let's talk about a few different words that you said, "in the outback".
Yeah,
What does that mean?
So the Outback is the term that Australians use for kind of like...
Pretty much,
I think the technical usage of it as anything that is
beyond the urban areas of Australia,
going into the inland parts so the...
the desert areas of Australia.
Because most of the people in Australia,
don't live in the center part of the country
because it's so arid and such a desert.
They live around the perimeter along the coasts.
So if other students wanted to use another word - the countryside...
The countryside,
but I think even the desert is more apt or closer in meaning.
A week's driving, that was great,
sacredness and something which is sacred,
indigenous people who originally
come from that country right?
Yup.
Strength and gravity of the situation, I like that.
And you said somewhere,
is very remote.
What does remote mean?
Remote just simply means very,
very far away from other things.
So as I said it's in the center of the country,
there isn't much around it.
It's quite isolated.
Another word, "isolated".
I love the answer.
Thanks very much.
That's all for me.
Thank you guys.
I hope this has helped a little bit.
We'll see you in the next episode.
Take care.