hey there Aubry I'm excited to be on IELTS energy podcast I know you guys might be surprised to hear
Lindsay's voice this is exciting it feels like you're a special guest these days when you join us
special guest I love to be on here try different shows I haven't been on outs energy since I don't
know episode 700 or something like that it's been a while I know we're so lucky to have Lindsay here
today because we have a very special episode today because we are sharing a very exciting
package that we are offering right now so we'll tell you all about that and we're also going to
get some very important vocabulary for the IELTS exam we're talking about the vocabulary score
today how you can score seven or higher what keeps you from getting that score and we're
giving you some very important business related words to help you avoid repeating words I love
the idea of mixing IELTS with business because the reality is for many of our listeners as soon
as you guys pass your exam you will be moving to an English-speaking country and probably
working or going to school in English right absolutely right some of you might be working
in English now but most of you will be in the future if you're not right IELTS is not
the end goal you guys are likely moving to an English-speaking country or trying to get you
know a master's degree to work in English and so you need the English to make make it work right
to be successful at work exactly it's not the end goal that's an important point and it's also not
the dream right IELTS is not the dream the dream is moving your family abroad making more money
providing a better environment for them whatever you dream of for your family for your children
that's the dream and this is one of the missing pieces guys is the business English skills and
we're going to learn too how to apply it on the test as well so we're going to hit a lot of goals
today Aubry exactly I know this is really fun guys a common IELTS topic is work and business
you will likely be asked about your job or maybe about running a business this there could also be
part 3 or task 2 questions about the difficulties of running a business in general or things that
are specific to corporations and you have to have topic specific vocabulary so we're going to talk
a lot about that today but this is very related to this exciting new um opportunity we have for
you guys so Lindsay tell us all right so let's talk about it so guys until February 7th which
is coming up very soon we're offering a special bundle Aubry what is a bundle just to make sure
our listeners know yes right it's a package of more than one either course or offering right so
when you have them combined together we call that a bundle yeah so this is our business and social
English online course bundle you guys are going to get access to our business English course which
is super popular and our social English course on how to conduct yourself at cocktail parties
how to open that conversation how to keep the conversation going all the skills you guys need
need in work social situations Aubrey how much are they going to be able to save before February 7th
you guys are going to save a hundred dollars if you sign up before February 7th so get in there
I'm going to share the link where you need to go it's allearsenglish.com social at work these
courses are both so helpful for two reasons first of all for preparing for IELTS you're learning
tons of vocabulary you're practicing the vocab you need for on every part of the exam but also like
we said IELTS is not the end goal these are also going to help you prepare to be successful at work
in English you got it Aubrey so good so good so let's get into the test the details on the test
are we talking about speaking part three a little bit first yes this is especially going to come up
in speaking part three but also speaking part one where you're often asked about your job so we're
going to share some speaking part three questions and we want to remind you when it comes to the
vocabulary score you cannot repeat vocabulary you have to avoid that repetition or you cannot score
higher than a seven for your vocabulary score and you can't repeat the vocabulary in the question
more and more I'm hearing students do this when I do a mock speaking test so for example in speaking
part three if you get the question why do some people decide to set up their own business a
lot of students will immediately respond with some people decide to set up their own business because
your vocabulary score and your fluency scores are immediately going down because that is signaling
to The Examiner you don't have enough vocabulary to say this another way you have to paraphrase
you have to have more vocabulary to avoid that repetition oh my gosh that is so good to know
and that really tells us why it's so important to understand the test and what the examiner is
looking for right it's not just about going in you know even a native speaker could make
that mistake they could go in and sit in the speaking test and just say it's because right
this happens because that's sort of intuitive right exactly it's sort of just like your brain
shuts off because you're thinking of your answer so you find yourself sort of just rotely like a
robot repeating the question while you think of the answer it's so important not to do that
on IELTS so these questions all about business you're going to need synonyms paraphrases other
ways to talk about business and we are going to share that with you today but first let's talk
about a couple of other questions you might get on speaking part three about business Lindsay you
want to share a couple yeah here's one so why do some people decide to set up their own business
great and maybe what are some of the dangers involved in starting a business or what are
some things you have to do when running your own business that might not appeal to everyone so
these are all questions we might find did you say on speaking part three I'll Breaking part three
exactly right those are all questions that are not as much personal they're about you know Society in
general or the business World in general and you have to have topic specific vocabulary so imagine
if the only word you know for business is the word business you might find yourself saying it
over and over and having a difficult time avoiding repetition of vocabulary so Lindsay let's share a
few Alternatives a few other ways to answer this question without saying the word business and I
like the idea by the way Aubry of just banging it out right at the beginning by rephrasing the
question you immediately score points we get that endowed progress effect and we get a confidence
boost because we can smile exactly I'm starting this question off in a strong way absolutely good
point right it's very there's multiple benefits here so and when you're ready when you realize how
important that is just right off the bat as you go to answer that question you're going to be ready
to paraphrase paraphrase and be ready to answer in a new interesting way yeah that is huge okay let's
get into the first uh alternative word I love this one number one guys it is Enterprise so write that
one down in your notebook this is a business or a company I think usually in my mind I think of a
larger company exactly right this won't be a brand new tiny business it's going to be quite a large
corporation but often when we're using just the word business this is going to apply almost always
right so let's give some example sentences of sentences we could use to answer those questions
we shared so for example any CEO of an Enterprise has to be willing to make Cuts where necessary
this is such a great way to answer that question right why do some or what are some things that
dangers involved in starting a business or things that are difficult about running your own business
right writer or what are some things you have to do that might not appeal to everyone exactly yes
yes yes or you might say running an Enterprise can be fraught with difficulty so again we're
using that word Enterprise instead of running a business yeah and that's a great bonus by the way
I just want to highlight that one oh okay you are already going to do that no yes of course I agree
right that's a very high level word fraught that means what does that mean Lindsay oh so filled
with put in a negative way right exactly right it's likely to result in something but definitely
has that negative connotation so we often will say fraught with difficulty with disaster
right I love that it's just more expressive right it makes your answer a lot more interesting one of
our goals of course will be keeping the examiner awake especially if they've done 25 other tests
that day and that's better than nine vocabulary I don't think I've ever heard a student use the
word frat in a speaking exam so anytime when you use a word that the examiner doesn't hear
often that is boosting your vocabulary score 100 and when you use it at the beginning of
your answer like that it's just so much better mentally because you get that confidence boost
all right exactly so what's the next one yeah the next one both words company and corporation which
are just direct synonyms for a business right okay and these are very interchangeable so if
you find yourself about to repeat business which was said in the question just stop yourself and
instead say Corporation or company just so you're not saying that same word over and over yes I love
it so here's an example sentence guys some people people just have entrepreneurship in their DNA
and they get really excited about the prospect of starting a company and that's that keyword company
instead of business exactly or you might say it's immensely risky to invest personal funds in a new
Corporation these are such high level phrases if you have these already you know the synonyms you
know the paraphrases you're boosting both your fluency and vocabulary scores yeah immensely
risky I love that is on IELTS here's a question Aubrey because I haven't been hanging out in the
IELTS World much is it valuable to put something kind of an adverb like that immensely risky uh on
the speaking test as well as writing or do we avoid those flowery words on writing or is it
just speaking fill me in here good question they're especially necessary for speaking
because not only are they giving you higher level vocabulary they're giving you those opportunities
for interesting intonation every time you have an adjective or an adverb you want to emphasize
that word to give variety to your intonation which is vital for your pronunciation score but you do
also want to use it on task two just to boost your vocabulary score right right they definitely will
be more formal for your writing we're not going to use you know the super way totally these things
adjectives and adverbs that we use on part one of the speaking exam okay immensely is a perfect
example of one that you would want to use on an essay to boost your vocabulary score okay good to
know so that works in writing test two or speaking part one or three or two I guess right exactly
right well this that's a really good point if you think about a word like immensely it's not wrong
on part one but you do have to have a variety of vocabulary and so to use slaying more informal
adjectives on part one is ideal that's what you do want to say like you know okay and then on
part three when we're it's um more formal topics more less personal that's when you'd say this is
immensely risky and you see now the examiner is seeing a difference in the type of vocabulary you
use when answering personal questions on part one and then more formal questions on part three I got
it so you're saying it's kind of just a missed opportunity if you go and put a fancy word like
immensely in speaking part one because you need to spend all your valuable minutes filling up that
range of vocabulary at the Casual end in speaking part one and save the really fancy words like a
mentally for speaking part three for sure and then just think about the questions you're being asked
if you're asked you know Lindsay what do you like for breakfast might be a part one question if you
use the word immensely right if you say it's immensely important that I eat breakfast every
morning it just sounds a little strange because it's such a personal informal question right but
then anywhere on part three it's going to sound very appropriate it's the appropriate tone okay
so we don't want to sound tone deaf right exactly yes that makes sense I love that all right Aubry
I'm excited to get into the third alternative word what is that yeah so our third is startup
and this is a little bit different it's not as interchangeable for every business for every
corporation because the meaning is a little more specific this is a smaller company that's focused
on a single product or service and the founders of this startup are trying to bring that product
to Market so you're going to be talking more about new companies small companies if you want
to use this word startup as a synonym yeah it's a great word I think the technical definition of
a startup is a company that is searching for a business model they haven't figured out how to
monetize yet and they're in that they're still in that stage of searching so they're trying
different things so it is a very different kind of setup than an Enterprise exactly so
imagine if you're using the word startup to describe Walmart or Amazon or one of these
giant Behemoth companies that is not it doesn't make sense it's gotcha going to lower your score
so you do have to know specifically you know which of these words are interchangeable which ones
can you use in which context is very important I love it so here's a sample sentence an inventive
individual who has an idea for a new product often ends up running a startup nice exactly right so
that question we shared why do some people decide to set up their own business what an amazing way
to start the answer to that right using this high level vocabulary yes you can absolutely get more
specific you're asked sort of a general company about starting businesses you definitely can talk
about someone who might start a startup yeah and I love inventive individual that sounds kind of
cool so it does right what a great adjective to describe someone as inventive love it love it okay
do we have a second one yes so and entrepreneurs often find themselves breaking new ground with a
startup so we have this great vocabulary to talk about starting a business and using this breaking
new ground to describe that means just doing something new creating something that didn't
exist before Oh yeah and it makes me think about the new new AI business models especially the
new thing that came out chat GTP I wonder if you guys on IELTS energy are going to be doing some
I wonder if there are questions yet do you know Aubrey if there are questions yet about Ai and
about chat GDP on IELTS do you think there are definitely questions about AI but IELTS is very
careful to not talk about anything too specific about very new news so that it can be a little
more Evergreen right so it's usually a little more General but you can absolutely use chat GTP
as your examples what you talk about right if they ask a little something a little more General about
AI yeah being as specific as we can is just more interesting Keeps The Examiner awake and increases
your score exactly every time we can use specific details then yes all of your scores are going up
both on speaking and writing I love it so good so as we finish out today's episode let's remind our
listeners about the special offer and when it expires again when does it end Aubry when do we
have until February 7th guys this is very exciting our business course if you haven't signed up yet
it's amazing you've got to check it out and today you get a bundle with our social English online
course as well you save a hundred dollars if you sign up before February 7th yeah and imagine all
the vocabulary our listeners are going to get inside that course to generate vocabulary for this
course do you remember what we did Aubry we didn't go to lists online we surveyed all the people we
knew that are active in the business World native speakers and we said what are the words that you
use every day at work those are the vocabulary words that we put into the course so it's so real
yes it's so real we had interviews with real business Professionals in so many different
Industries and the vocabulary the phrases that came up in that will be so useful on the IELTS
exam and for you guys to be successful at work it's so true so guys go to all earsenglish.com
social at work just spell that out all right what's the takeaway for our listeners yes you guys
need topic specific vocabulary for IELTS speaking and writing and you need to be able to understand
this vocabulary when it comes up on reading and listening so today's synonyms are going to help
you avoid repeating that word business so you can get seven or higher on your vocabulary scores I
love it so good so important to broaden that vocabulary and just go do deep into that vocab
be specific be different be more interesting than the candidate that walked in the room before you
right exactly absolutely especially for these very common questions right business the economy you
know there's a good chance you'll get a question related to this you want to make sure to focus
on this vocabulary and have the words it has as um Your Arsenal right the weapons you need
this vocabulary so you're ready on test day so good Aubrey thanks for having me on IELTS energy
it's always good to be here and have a good day see you next time all right bye foreign [Music]