hello aubrey how's it going hi i'm all right how are you doing it is criminal how much it
rains in portland oh i really like using that as an adjective that way that's really fun
oh guys uh last week we gave you some amazing idioms and one super formal phrase for talking
about crime punishment your opinion on punishments so today we thought we should give you some sample
answers actually about crime um but i do want to point out before we get to these
part three answers um that using criminal like that is very idiomatic it just means like
it's uh terrible yes exactly we do that a lot we'll say it's criminal that and then
we just exaggerate right it's criminal how often i have to make dinner for my family
it's a crime how many dishes i have to wash every day that is a crime it is a
crime arrest all the people eating which is mostly me because i eat all the time
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you guys to waste this opportunity have you been waiting to say that maybe maybe
okay guys so listen up because we are going to answer three speaking part three questions about
crime that you could get on ielts and like we said last week
this is a tough topic and for some reason ielts loves this topic um okay
aubry what do you think the most common crime in your country is uh it's probably i don't know
theft um you know petty crimes those types of things happen more often but i have to
admit here that something happened to me this last week to my sister actually that makes me feel like
child abduction is maybe the most common crime her children were targeted and luckily she was able to
get them away and the people were arrested it was at a walmart actually and i started she and i
started looking up statistics about how often this happens and it's like 800 000 children every year
just in the united states millions throughout the world and it was really eye-opening for me
and absolutely horrifying actually and made me feel like oh this happens way more often than i
realized and i need to be more on high alert all the time that is terrifying yes right oh my god
that makes me so scared yeah they were just like people were following her in the store and like
watching she could tell they were like watching for her to be not watching her kids closely enough
like it was very clear to her so she left and she looked up on there's like a neighborhood facebook
and she saw other parents had posted about these same two individuals
and they ended up arresting them good yes so she called the police and then the police arrested
them or how did they get around like contacted someone else who had actually taken photos of
them okay they were able to i think that person called the police and they had enough information
and i don't know specifics as far as if they actually had someone because i don't know if
you could be arrested just for following people right i don't know you know so they had enough
on them whatever happened they were able to arrest them oh my god oh my god that's right terrifies me
in a small town a tiny town in the middle of nowhere yeah that's always just the worst
thing anybody could ever do is a crime against a child like that is the number one worst i always
want the harshest punishment for anyone right that that is that messes with a kid in any way it's
just like your god agreed and i think trafficking is becoming more and more of a problem i think
all people not just parents but all people need to be aware of how much of a problem
this is so this is now a psa a public service announcement um okay i'm going to move on from
this because i don't want to get angry and i am going to point out a couple of cab phrases
so at first you mentioned theft and described it as a petty crime so a petty crime is a crime
that's not super serious like nobody is you know very injured it's not a life or death situation
it doesn't have a big punishment so like stealing five bucks or whatever like that's a petty crime
um abduction so that's a high level phrase for like stealing a person usually it can be
used in other ways but let's teach it how you used it today right kidnapping or abduction
um so those are two phrases two crime phrases that you guys should write down
um okay were you asking me a question please yes all right jessica should police in your country be
stricter or less strict oh this is a minefield ah this is so hard to answer i mean there are
so many factors right i mean what what crimes are you asking me about first of all um let's see i i
so okay they should be less strict when it comes to disturbances public disturbances
that are due to mental illness especially if nobody is in danger but the person themselves
because these people cannot understand they might not be capable of understanding what the police
need them to do or what they are doing wrong and so the punishments need to be adjusted for the
level of understanding and uh mental stability and ability of um the quote-unquote criminal
um but i think they should be stricter on people who litter on i think they should be stricter on
people of means who commit crimes they should face the same punishments as anyone else um so
yeah that's that's the best i can do in a short amount of time nice oh these filler phrases at the
beginning go back and listen to this again because you are going to be asked especially in part three
questions that are they're complicated like this there's so many factors so much to think about
so jessica said this is a minefield which is a great metaphor for imagine a big open field where
there's lots of landmines that you could step on very complicated questions are like that there's
it's going to be controversial whatever you say could potentially anger someone right yeah and
then just to say this is so hard to answer there are so many factors these are great filler phrases
to use for a more difficult question like this that you may need a couple seconds to think how
do i actually want to answer this what can i say here you need fillers like that really really good
and then really high level vocabulary talking about punishments that
should be adjusted mental stability talking about the level of mental health that someone has
and then a very good phrase to instead of saying someone who's rich or wealthy to say people of
means is another way to say that that i've never heard a student say it that way so very high level
that's a great paraphrase for just saying instead of saying rich people or wealthy people um because
that again like that idea you might have to write about or speak about on ielts i feel like
i see these phrases used a lot from students so that's a great paraphrase people of means it just
means they're rich they have a lot of resources um okay so i'm gonna ask one more question today
to miss aubry okay this is fascinating uh i i would love to just talk about this uh off mike
because i love it okay um do you think criminals can change absolutely i think anyone can change
i don't think anyone should be blamed for mistakes in their past when they're a different person
i made quite a few mistakes when i was younger that i would like to be forgiven
i would like to hope i have changed it makes me think of jean valjean in les miserables
where he had committed a crime in his youth and he became the mayor he became
this wonderful person and then he still was persecuted and punished for it how tragic
that was so good oh my gosh can you imagine students watching or listening to this can you
imagine how impressed the examiner would be if you brought up les miserables in your answer i mean
be able to name sean beljon yes i wouldn't know that guys that is a great example of how
if you listen to um our tuesday show from last week guys and we talked about ways to learn
english and why it's so important to do these things for ielts ideas right i mean how many
of you know the story of les miserables like just knowing even fictional stories gives you examples
that you can put in specific details you could add to strengthen your speaking and writing answers
again they could be fictional it's totally fine um okay i love how like our today in our last two
episodes totally connect um guys i want to remind you one more time to get in on this special offer
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right now and check that out um all right aubrey whoa it's a heavy uh episode today
it was it was very charged like you said there are some minefields i know a lot of people who
disagree with me who sort of believe that people can't change they wouldn't trust someone who
maybe was a criminal i am willing to fight that fight with people i i've had this argument before
because i want to believe people can change me too i want to but i don't always know if i do
believe it but i want to believe it all right guys thanks for listening today and remember to
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you