Welcome to this session on the common IELTS speaking questions, part one.
Today, we're going to improve vocabulary, and give you ideas. I have Pesh to help me with some vocabulary.
So today's topic is "writing".
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Hello Pesh. Hello. So, when do you write? Well, I write whenever I need to record any information.
As well as communicate with anyone they need to as well.
Whether that be my friends or in University as well. I write all my thoughts down, all my communications, and such.
And as a result, writing is a big part of my life. Hmm, and do you write things like notes or emails.
Maybe shopping lists or birthday cards or even letters. Mainly for me, it would be the first two things.
I think notes for my University classes, um, is very important for me to write down.
And as well as emails mainly to communicate with my teachers. As well as just organize any errands and activities for my subjects.
And those are the main things I write these days. Unfortunately, letters aren't too big a part of my life.
And even though they are really cool as all mechanisms for communicating for me as well.
Hmm, and, and it... Let's look at some higher-level vocabulary. So that was great. Can you talk to me about "stationery"?
What do you think stationary is? Stationary to me are those items,
and like utensils you find in a classroom, that helps with the process of things such as writing.
Um, in my mind, I have examples of pencils, pens, um, a ruler, erasers, all those day-to-day items
that you'd find and use in the classroom setting and the business setting as well to help with fighting of those activities.
Hmm, yeah, things that you might use to make notes and also a notebook as well. Yes.
So on that, what do you think the difference is between "make notes and take notes"?
For me even though they are very similar concepts.
To make notes, I feel like is putting your version of spin of information you've been given.
So when I am making notes it's probably when I've heard, um, some new details or facts, and then I put my interpretation of how it's relevant.
Um, in contrast taking notes is probably just directly taking the information from another source and writing it down so you can look through it later.
Hmm, although sometimes I do, and I know people do use these words interchangeably.
So you can make notes or take notes. Yes absolutely. Great, now this is a tricky one.
When people say I just need "to jot something down". What does that mean?
Ooh, to jot something down to me is like, when you have an idea or a thought, and you really don't want to forget it.
It's really good idea to jot it down and make sure you have a, an official record of it somewhere.
So, you can look back on it later, or you can look at it when you're actually relevant to you.
So jot something down to make sure you have some record or some documentation of that, I think.
Hmm, and to jot something down, is to do it quickly. Like I'm quickly going to write it down.
Great, so I know this is an old saying but what does it mean when someone says "to write a check".
To write a check, as you said it is a bit of a more old saying.
Um, but it means to just write out a sum of money to someone in order to um facilitate an exchange of money or facilitate a transaction.
In that sense. Yeah. So, right now we usually have cards. Hmm. Great now "to get something in writing".
So maybe someone says; oh, we need to get that in writing. What does that mean?
To get something in writing is to have an official document of something. Um usually you'd want to get something,
in writing in order to make sure that there are no disagreements about the specifics or details
about the agreement that's been reached, as well as just to get official documentation of the event
to make sure that everyone is aware that some agreement or some decisions being met and that
getting and having gotten that in writing means that there'll be no disagreements in the future.
Hmm. Great and now this is a bit trickier. "To see the writing on the wall".
That's a phrase. So, sometimes people might use it in a, in a situation and they might say;
ohh she didn't see the writing on the wall that she was going to get fired.
Now, what might that actually mean? Well, to me to see the writing
on the wall is to see the signs or like potential evidence for certain things are about to happen.
Um, for instance to see the writing on the wall that you may get fired,
it may be seeing maybe how your boss interacting with you or seeing your performance reviews.
So, seeing pretty much the signs of the universal world is giving you that something may happen in the future.
The red flags what they say. Hmm, and often it seems obvious to other people. Great, so it's now time to ask some questions.
So Pesh, "how often do you write with a pen and paper? Unfortunately, I must say I don't often write repellent paper these days.
Because most of my learning, studying, communication is done online.
It's usually done through a laptop or an iPad, where I can just type away,
and as a result, I haven't used a pen paper too much in my day-to-day life these days.
Unless my teacher specifically asked me and write down notes or do a paper with my hand.
Right, and "do you prefer writing on paper or typing?". I mean I think we know but what do you, what do you prefer?
Honestly, I do prefer typing, just because I feel like there's way more control over editing past mistakes,
because you can just hit backspace and go backward. There's way more flexibility with your um style,
writing, changing your fonts, the color, the Bolding, the underlining.
Meanwhile, when you're writing by hand, it's much more difficult to make changes, and you have to be much more conscious about
how legible, I guess your writing is. Hmm hmm, and do you have good handwriting on that topic. It definitely depends on who you ask.
I personally think that I do have good handwriting, but then again,
I guess it's all up to the person reading and writing if you actually do. Yes very true.
Well, great, I loved your vocabulary Pesh. And I hope you guys learned some interesting vocabulary.
Don't forget to leave some of your ideas on our, in our comments and I'll see you in another ideas video. Bye.