Hi there I'm Andrew and this is a video all about how to use idioms phrasal
verbs less common words and collocations in English why might you want to do this
eh because it will help you sound more like a native speaker and B if you're
taking any kind of English test such as the IELTS exam or the FCE
or the CAE the more you can sound like a native speaker the better the score you
will get in your examination now I'm Andrew and here on this slide are some
of the expressions that we're going to look at today we've got idioms in a kind
of gold color phrasal verbs in green less common words in purple and there'll
also be some collocations that we're going to look at in blue what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna present these idioms phrasal verbs less common words and
collocations in the context of some answers to typical questions from the
IELTS exam today's lesson is going to feature a part two and a part three
question about sports from the IELTS exam but you should be aware that many
of the expressions that we'll look at can also be used in all kinds of other
contexts they're not specifically necessarily about sport so you can use
them widely so we're going to look at the part two and part three answer then
we're going to look at the meanings and finally I'm going to give you a few
other examples of sentences using some of these expressions so those are some
of the words that we're looking at I expect you're wondering what some of
these mean I hope you'll be able to work it out from the context let's see shall
we so here's the first question it's a part
to IELTS question talk about a sport that you played as a child well I was
really sporty when I was young in fact I was often in trouble for staying on the
playing field or lunchtime to play football rather than going in to eat my
lunch that was until the powers that be decided to ban football on the playing
field all because somebody broke their leg in
a game as you can imagine that went down like a lead balloon with me and my mates
I was the same at home too I was always making up excuses to get a halts of
doing homework just say that I could spend more time scoring goals I was a
striker and I played for the school team I once scored a hat-trick as we ran up a
cricket score against our rivals school if memory serves then I think the score
was 11 2 or something outlandish like that
so that's a part two example answer to this question and I'm going to leave
that there for a few seconds to see if you can work out the meaning of some of
these expressions from the context in which I presented them if you can that
will be good for you you're more likely to be able to
remember something that you've worked out for yourself rather than simply me
telling you later on so now we're going to look at a part three answer from the
il-6 sample here's your question do you think that the type of sports that are
popular will change in the future
definitely apart from anything else we've already seen that contact sports
are becoming less and less popular as society gets more and more risk-averse
for example in America fewer and fewer people want to play American football
too many people have been put off by concussion stories after collisions and
now they are voting their feet and playing non tackle versions of the sport
or just playing other sports so again I'll leave that there for a few seconds
in the hope that you can work out for yourself the meaning of some of these
expressions we have our collocations in light blue less common words in purple
our idiom in the kind of gold color okay so let's find out
or any of these expressions that you couldn't work out the meaning of let's
find out what they do in fact mean so to go down like a lead balloon means to be
very unpopular to vote with your feet means to show by being absent or not
present that you no longer want to do something you're no longer interested in
something for example in taking part in something in buying something etc to run
up a cricket score this is a native English expression and it's based on our
national summer sport of cricket it's a great sport and you should probably try
it sometime and it means to score a huge number of points or goals in a sports
match to make up is a phrasal verb meaning to create or invent a reason
story excuse something that isn't true to get out of doing something means to
avoid doing that thing it means you do your best to make sure that you don't
have to do it to be put off something or someone means to be made to feel as
though something or someone is best avoided as though you don't want to
spend your time with that person or in that place ok some more words for you
sporting this is simply an adjective that describes somebody that plays a lot
of sports so if you're doing a spoken exam in English rather than saying I
like sport I strongly advise you to say instead I'm really sporty because that
will create a better impression with the examiner because it's a much less common
word it's a word that most students don't know the powers-that-be
this means the people that are in charge of something mates is just another word
for friends again this is a good word to news in your speaking exam for the IELTS
instead of simply saying friends all the time a hat trick if you
score a hat trick then you score three times in a sports match if memory serves
this is a kind of noun verb type of collocation and it means if I remember
correctly so it's a good little expression that you can use in your
speaking exam if you have to talk about something that happened in the past
which you almost certainly will in your IELTS speaking exam outlandish means
that something is crazy or unbelievable contact sports or sports that involve
physical contact such as American football rugby boxing sports of that
nature if you are risk averse then you prefer to avoid risk this word adverse
if you are averse to something you don't like to do it
concussion is a type of head injury that results from a collision what's a
collision it's another word for when two people or things so it could be cars it
doesn't have to be people bang or crash into each other so finally a few other
examples in context for you his new yacht cost an outlandish amount of money
a yacht is a type of boat that is owned by very rich people I don't gamble
because I'm risk-averse
the supermarket tried to sell a new type of ketchup but shoppers voted with their
feet in other words they stopped going to that supermarket because they didn't
like this type of ketchup they went to a different supermarket instead when I was
a child I'd do anything to get out of washing the dishes I thought it would be
great to go to Brazil but then I heard that there's lots of crime there and
that put me off okay so I hope those extra sentences
with a few of those expressions were helpful for you it would be really good
if in the comment section you could add your own examples of some of these
sentences to show me that you have understood the vocabulary that I've
shown you in this lesson also if you have any questions for me please do ask
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screen okay so that's all for today thank you and goodbye