Aubry happy New Year Happy New Year to you Jessica I'm excited for 2023 this is going to be a good
year I can feel it it's gonna be a fantastic year guys and this will be the year that you
all listening are going to get amazing scores on IELTS uh so that's something to look forward
to and this is a year where we continue to share our best IELTS advice and Thoughts with you guys
I love what you did there Jessica Aubrey could you explain that uh um awkward yet appropriate
segue that is amazing yes we are talking about part two a specific part two question we received
um a listener question about and it's interesting we're talking about this verb share what can be
shared if you're asked about something you shared with others on IELTS how flexible is that does it
have to be an object can it be advice or feelings so you very well could get this part two question
we're going to talk about it and give you a sample yeah this is this is such an amazing
example of a part two card where you assume there is like a right way to answer it right you know
what I mean like at first glance this seems like it has to be you know something like an like how
we teach children to share like a toy that you share with someone else you know what I mean
um but that is just one interpretation and I think these other options are actually a
lot better because this is a very vague and open question Aubry what is the part two question yeah
the question is describe a time when you shared something with others and you're right super vague
there are so many things that you can share I agree that I think our first thought is share
with your brother right with some kind of toy or something and we're told all the time to share as
children but as adults it's going to be a lot more top of Mind something else that we share right
maybe sometimes you shared your feelings some advice you shared recently we also use that verb
with these to share all of these things I love it so yeah and we are going to give you a sample
answer here in a little bit guys but um it could be uh feelings advice and I don't think that every
student knows the collocation of the word share with these other non-tangible things you know I
have a question for you Jessica what do you think about sharing illness disease germs could you
answer this a time you accidentally shared a cold or like the flu that would be the most hilarious
answer but yeah yeah I mean it could any any time we use the word share with other things that is an
answer to this question it completely it sticks to the topic the topic is just sharing and yeah
oh my God you can share anything hear anything yeah so let's uh look at this question first this
is from a listener Muhammad awais thank you for writing in guys you can send us your questions at
support all earsenglish.com and we might give you a shout out and do an episode about your question
in the future so definitely send us your questions guys so Muhammad said um I have a query uh if an
IELTS speaking part two they ask about something I shared with others and I speak about sharing my
feelings with a friend does this impact my IELTS score so fantastic question first of all it shows
that you know what it means to share your feelings which I love and it's there's not a right answer
as we said so no this doesn't lower your score it depends on how you speak but it it's a great idea
yeah and this is the case for a lot of part two speaking questions that they are flexible there
are a lot of different ways you can answer a lot of different ways you can interpret it so as long
as you make sure you understand the question you understand what's being asked there's often not
one right way to answer it and so it's best to really think about it and what's going to be the
easiest way for you to answer it exactly what can you talk about the most I think a very easy way
to answer this question would be to talk about a time you've shared a meal with another person or
other people because then you could talk about the people the food the experience the location
you know like there's so much to say I love that idea it could be a holiday meal that you
share with a big group or a date maybe a first date with someone where you shared a meal or a
dessert and you're right then you can tell a story describe the people describe the place you would
have so much to say so on this show guys we we always encourage you to be very direct and clear
um so if you are not 100 sure that your idea matches the topic just say that in
the beginning of the answer you know so for example here Muhammad could have said
um so when I think about sharing something with others honestly the first thing that comes to
mind is sharing my feelings right just to make sure that the examiner knows you understand the
topic and you're sticking to it you know what I mean absolutely right you need that vocab to
show The Examiner that you're aware right that there are lots of different things we share I'm
choosing to talk about sharing my feelings because if you don't make that obvious you
could sort of make it sound off topic if you aren't really clear about that all right so
Aubry do you want to do a sample answer sure all right all right so let me get out my timer here
um and Aubry I would like you to describe a time you shared something with others this was
a result of a bit of a disaster that I had the other day I bought these Frozen rolls and they
were supposed to go in the freezer but somebody whose name I will not mention I don't want to
throw anybody under the bus put them in the fridge and so unbeknownst to me they had been rising in
the fridge and became a giant dough ball and so I realized I had this massive dough that I had to do
something with so I woke up at 3am and discovered this and in the middle of the night two days ago I
made four giant batches of cinnamon rolls and we can't eat that many cinnamon rolls my family and
I so I ended up sharing them they Rose the rest of the night and we put them on cute little Christmas
plates delivered them to friends and neighbors and it ended up being a blessing in disguise because
I had no plan for a little gift to take to you know any of my loved ones so it was so nice early
Christmas Eve morning to be able to take these hot cinnamon rolls around everyone loved them they
were like this is the best idea they were assuming that I had planned this for some time and there
was a little bit of a white lie involved because I didn't tell anybody that there was no forethought
here and that it was the result of an accident that had gone wrong and I you know took the lemons
I had and made Lemonade by making these cinnamon rolls and so I got all this credit for having this
wonderful idea and being so thoughtful about making gifts for all of the people I know when
really it was just because we accidentally didn't put the dough in the freezer and yeah I'm actually
quite proud of myself that I was able to instead of having this disaster on my hands that I was
able to create this thank you treat for everyone thank you okay guys oh my gosh that was so amazing
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of our episodes are on our YouTube channel IELTS energy TV um because the way Aubry tells a story
and the intonation that she uses to emphasize I think will come through even more when you can
see her facial expressions and her body language yeah and I also want to let you know that before
we started recording today guys we didn't decide who would answer that question so Aubry had zero
planning all right and she was still able to fill the two minutes because she told a recent story
clear in her mind top of mind all of the details everything that happened and so she could fluently
fill that two minutes what did that seem like a long two minutes no that went by in a Flash some
of the answers part two answers I've had feel so long yeah but this one yeah it went by so fast
because I had a lot of details I needed to tell the whole story absolutely exactly all right so
some vocab guys that you could also use when you practice this answer um so when you said
who's whose name I I will not mention and then you said um I don't want to throw anybody under
the bus so this is such a great idiom to throw someone under the bus now quite a violent idiom
all it means is to like say the name of whose fault it was right like oh it was
my husband he put it in the fridge or it's to say who did something wrong that's throwing
somebody under the bus right he did it she did it you threw them under the bus
um another great word unbeknownst to me that is such like English but it's this weird leftover
from Old English that we still say we still do use that in spoken English all it means
is I didn't know but like what a fun word do you do you use the word unbeknownst do you use
that a lot yeah a lot if instead of saying like I didn't know this and so this happened I'll say
that all the time unbeknownst to me this was the situation I use it a lot I think it's so fun it
is so fun and that is another thing that we do here and on ollers English is we want you guys
to have fun speaking English that's one of our main motivators in what we choose to teach you
um all right so one last note there that I want to highlight because everyone I want you
to use this in your speaking answers in part two especially when you're telling stories and you
say what someone else said quoting other people okay how do we introduce that Aubry said when
she's talking about delivering the cinnamon rolls to her neighbors she said they were like this is
the best idea so instead of saying they said right because we don't say that very often we
introduce a quote by saying they were like she was like and then this is amazing whatever they said
or you could also say and they were all she was all this is amazing so they were all or they were
like introduce quotes I love it yes oh that's such good advice that's so much more native and natural
instead of the quite a bit more formal thing then they said and I quote like we just don't talk like
that we were saying they were like and I quote no yeah I say that to be funny just like a joke
um this is how much I love um quoting other people as jokes everyone if you're watching on YouTube
you can see that I have uh two um quotation marks tattooed on my fingers for air quotes because I
love joke tattoos so definitely watch this on YouTube so you can see that I also have a to-do
list on my hand because again I love funny joke tattoos on my hands apparently I love it so much
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IELTS all right awesome Aubry that was a great answer and a really good story thank you I'm
glad I was able to share that story because if I'm gonna be up from three to five a.m making cinnamon
rolls I should at least be able to of the story please get a podcast episode out of it exactly
yeah all right uh thanks for listening guys thanks Aubry I'll see you next week see ya bye [Music]