Hello, and welcome back to IELTS daily. My name is Maddie, and I'll be your host for this evening, and I'm with my contestant.
Jay. Jay, welcome back, Jay. I'm back, thank you.
Well, it's so good to have you back, and we are doing a new series called "One Minute English".
So one minute, English is a bit like IELTS part two, but there's a difference.
With one minute English, we get no time to prepare. No time!
So I'm going to put Jay on the spot, and I'm going to give him a topic, and he has one minute to speak continuously about this topic.
What did I sign up for here? How do you feel, Jay? Uhh, quite nervous. Well, I'm excited to grab a friend, sit down, and watch Jay sweat.
Yeah, grab some popcorn, too, while you're at it.
I'm excited this is a lot like your IELTS speaking part two, but Jay has no prep, so it's even harder.
Maddie is excited, I'm nervous. I'm the evil host. Alright, your topic is "mobile phones."
And your minute starts now. Okay, mobile phones, umm, mobile phones. Uhh, so I have a Google Pixel six.
Umm, it's a SmartPhone, and it does a lot of cool things. Uhh, for example, I can take photos.
And it's got this nice little feature on it, where if you have something that's unwanted in the photo,
it's called "Magic Eraser", and it automatically gets rid of some of the background noise in a photo that you take.
But I'm not, don't want to just talk about the phone or the the camera feature of the, of my mobile phone.
Umm, it's also quite useful for keeping track of social media and staying connected with friends and family.
I'm from the United States, and it's really easy for me to jump onto WhatsApp,
or Facebook, and I can stay in contact with my family back home.
Uhm, also, I use it for work I have a very various apps that I use to connect with work.
For example my email app. Oh I did it. You did so well, Jay.
Thank you, thank you. Alright, It's always tricky when you get the topic; at first, you think oh, my mind is blank, I know nothing.
But you did really well, but you did hesitate at the beginning. What were you thinking about in that moment?
Yeah, I was, I was using the hesitation to kind of gather my thoughts,
and try to figure out what I was going to say essentially.
Yeah. Especially because you don't have that, I didn't have that one minute to prepare. No.
So I kind of ju st used that little bit of hesitation at the beginning to help myself prepare.
Yeah. Quickly. Order your thoughts, and you definitely, it got easier as you went on. Yeah it did. Yeah, now you use the word "smartphone".
Hmm. I guess what's the difference between a phone and a smartphone. Or a smartphone and a dumb phone.
Oh I haven't heard that one. Well I think, well yeah, we don't really use that term.
But smartphones I guess that they're given that name because they're connected to the internet
Umm, and you're able to use them to do a variety of tasks.
Where as old phones, you know whether they have whether they were mobile,
or uhm, house phones you couldn't do those things like check email or message people that type of thing.
So another thing you said was, uh, this has "a nice little feature" Uhm.
Why would you say nice little feature instead of: little nice feature. Do you think?
Well that's a really good question um I think that it just has to do with the ordering of certain adjectives in English.
Uhm. And the way that this is sequenced is you want to put, umm,
I think it's where you describe the how nice or how not nice something is.
Yeah. And then you go to size. Yeah. Of the thing. It's like extra adjectives.
It's quite yeah, amazing. Now you use the term "get rid of". Hmm. What, what does that mean.
Umm, to remove essentially. Yeah, rid of. Yeah, great. Well, thank you so much for watching, and thank you so much Jay for playing.
Yeah, no worries. It's stressful, but we love to see it. Thanks.
Umm, we'll keep in touch with more videos. See ya. Bye.
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