Hi guys, welcome back to one-minute English. You know the drill. I'm your host, Jay, and today my contestant is Maddie.
Hello...The tables have turned. The tables have turned. Are you ready? No.
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Alright, so some quick rules, uh, Maddie is gonna have to speak on a topic for one minute with no prep.
So it's similar to part two of your speaking test in IELTS.
Um, except that you're, she's not going to be able to prep at all. So you ready to do this?
Yes, yes, hit me. Hit you. Not literally. So gather around and get ready for some amazing English.
Alright, Maddie, I'm going to give you your topic. Here's your topic. Modern fashions and trends. Okay.
Well, I am not super fashionable.
Although sometimes I am I have like whims where I'm like, yes, I'm gonna have a style, and I'm gonna go out there on a friday night and make a real like really big choices.
But other times, I just feel like I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and I'm like, who put your outfit together.
So with that being said um and I think lockdown has had an effect on what people are wearing because everyone was in there, like trackie dacks and their oversized jumpers, for so long.
I think people are now coming out into the world, and they're confused as to like what is appropriate for outside wear and what is appropriate for inside your home.
Like I have a friend who is particularly judgmental of people who wear pajamas to the supermarket because that is indoor wear.
That is not for public arenas such as a supermarket and even hogg boots they cross that line between.
Is that something that you should be wearing at home or is it okay to wear it out? Because they are sort of like a boot like I have in particular. Stop!
Well, that was awesome. Thank you for having me. Well done. The hot seat is hot. I'm not worthy.
No. So, you, you use some really interesting language in that one minute.
Care to talk about it? Yeah, hit me up. All right so um, you said you're not super fashionable.
what is, what did you mean by that?
I guess I have some friends who are like they, they see an outfit and they really can visualize a full outfit. They know the shoes they're wearing, they know exactly what that should go for.
They know their skin, what color their skin like what goes really well with their eyes and their hair and their skin. Yeah.
Whereas, I just sort of look at clothes. I'm very pragmatic. Yeah. Which means I'm you know just what I need to wear for that day.
Okay, yeah and, and nowadays, um, super can also be used similarly to the word "very". Yes, that's, that's true.
So you know you're super excited about something you're very excited. Very excited. Yeah. Yeah, all right. You also used a word that isn't used quite often "whims"
Whims, I know. Yeah, what's that? I meant that sometimes I get these bursts which is another strange word I get these moments.
So sometimes I'm, I'm like this, and then other times I'm I don't care.
So sometimes I really care. Sometimes I don't care. It's almost like a random idea or a random thought. Yeah.
Like yeah, rhyme random. Impulsive. Impulsive. Yes, okay, um you.
You had a really nice expression in the middle of your talk where you said, "you catch a glimpse of yourself".
It's actually kind of an idiomatic expression because you're not really catching anything. Yeah.
So what explain that, please. Well, when you say, like I catch a glimpse of myself, it's when you see yourself in the mirror.
So it's like you're not intentionally going to look at yourself in the mirror, it's like you're walking past a window or something, and you see your reflection.
Um, yeah, um another expression that you used was "with that being said". I started speaking
That's just, that was a "filler". So I said that like okay, now that I've said that let's move on to the new.
And you just used another filler, "like". I did these are, these are used in English quite often.
Yes, trackie dacks. What on earth is a tracking dack? Even I don't know that one.
That is Australian. I think it's very Australian and it means, um, tracksuit pants. Okay. So like tracksuit trackie and pants.
Dark. Cool, alright, Trackie dacks it's very Australian. Very Australian. alright, and finally, you used an example.
Which is really useful for the part two of the IELTS you get you talked about your friend.
So well done on that one. Oh, thank you. Yeah, thank you.
So guys as you, as you, as you saw, Maddie did a wonderful job talking about a difficult topic for one minute without any preparation whatsoever.
So, thanks for watching, guys as always, keep practicing, and we'll see you in the next video. See ya.
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