hey guys
i am laughing already because we had some technical difficulties
and um we and aubrey was frozen for like a minute when we recorded just now and it
was really funny so anyway guys we are back on camera or if there's like a snapshot thumbnail
it's always the craziest face guys it's always like just like that it's never never appealing
oh man that is true around the world i am sure aubrey we can connect to everybody
um based on bad freezing pictures so guys we are back today to talk about math again because in
yesterday's episode we gave some sample part one answers and after we finished recording
aubry said she actually had a really funny math story and i was like what that exists so we are
going to do a model part two answer today yes this is going to be good you guys will see how
long that is to speak for two minutes we're going to time each other you'll hear two band nine part
two answers and this is really the tricky thing if you're not timing your answer it's crazy how
long two minutes feels yeah when you're trying to tell a story and you're trying to use interesting
vocabulary so make sure that you're timing your part two it is tough you know um i remember when i
first started recording this podcast with lindsay and then when we first started started recording
together um even natives guys it's tough like the first time that all of us would give sample
part two answers it's like it's no joke like even for natives it's hard and we're good at talking
and it's still hard i know i remember one of my first ones it was something about shopping at
costco if you guys have been listening to ielts energy for a while you might remember it if not
go back and listen to past episodes they're so funny but i remember feeling like it was forever
i was like are you sure is your timer broken you know it's been like way longer than two minutes
so guys that's why listening to our model answers are so is so beneficial um because you can hear
that we know what we're doing we have practiced a lot we can easily show you how to fill the two
minutes guys so definitely take some notes today and then practice these answers yourself um of
course i just said it was easy for us to fill two minutes so we better do a good job hey aubry oh
you've set the bar really high jessica all right guys so before we get to aubrey's answer she's
going to do the first one i will do the second one on two different topics by the way before we
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as soon as it's available all righty um so aubry is going to answer this speaking part two cue card
describe a time you used math in your daily life guys this could totally be on ielts okay go ahead
as i'm sure everyone who's ever cooked anything is aware there's so much math when you're following a
recipe and often you're having to change fractions and this is no joke it's not the easiest thing to
do and this happened to me just last night where the recipe called for maybe a cup and three
quarters of butter but i was cutting the recipe in half and i am so happy no one was there to witness
my attempt at cutting one and three quarters cups in half because i was trying to think through it
and think about how i would divide the fractions and change the numerator and the denominator
and realized i had no idea so then i just took the butter cubes and with my knife i tried to figure
out what would be half of that and i'm glad my kids weren't around i'm glad my math teachers from
high school weren't around to be so embarrassed at how little i remember of what they taught me
because it was a hot mess and i do think that i was successful in the end because i was making
a crust for a chicken pot pie and it turned out fantastic it was absolutely scrumptious so i think
i did it right in the end but that happens all the time that for math for recipes the math is really
tricky for me we use you know cups and teaspoons and tablespoons in the united states and they're
always an odd fraction that if i have to double it i can usually figure that out but if i have
to cut it in half or maybe in thirds because often recipes will be for a big crowd and if i'm making
something for less people i have to adjust these fractions and it's just not the simplest thing to
figure out i feel like my brain gets really muddy and foggy and then i start feeling really silly
because i think this shouldn't be that hard there shouldn't be that difficult to change a fraction
but for some reason it is and i have to really fight to not feel thank you thank you did that
feel like a long time yes it felt like a long time like okay now i have to think i have to talk about
how it makes me feel to be really bad about so guys that was such a great model answer because
this is a really difficult cue card and aubry followed our three key strategies to the t
and ended up doing very very well of course because you are three key certified aubry you know
what you're doing so guys go back and listen to that answer because aubrey told an amazing story
about the question right giving a lot of detail but you know what not all stories can fill two
minutes right i mean what else can you say about this recipe right um so definitely listen to how
she filled the rest of the time talking about why it's difficult how it's difficult in general for
her and how she felt about that so those are all great ways to fill the rest of that time
um when you listen to that answer guys i want you to notice the math specific vocabulary because
talking about numbers this is really hard this is some very specific vocab i mean half you guys
know half right three quarters one third thirds you mentioned numerator denominator these are
all very specific math terms guys um but also some slang was thrown in there to show variety
um two of my favorite slang terms that i use a lot i actually said this before you gave your answer
the no joke thing this is such a great phrase to be like it's this is really hard like i'm not
kidding it's no joke you use that a lot oh yes all the time this is no joke and you're just saying
this is difficult it's hard to figure out totally and i feel like we also use it instead of um like
for real or if i'm being funny for reals but we also say like no joke guys um
also to be a hot mess i i use this a lot because i feel like i am often a hot mess
what's a hot mess when do we use that yeah just when everything's going wrong right or for example
this is a good example where my math skills in general are a hot mess because they're not great
right so it's just a really native interesting way to describe something that's really terrible
oh god i love that term so much all right aubrey before we finish up today i am going
to do a sample answer um i don't even know my topic what is my topic your topic is describe
a person you know who is good at math oh okay i can do this i can do this all right hang on let
me get my timer gotta make sure it's an accurate two minutes okay you may begin speaking now please
so crazy enough but i'm gonna talk about my son because i am a very proud mama and i want to brag
about my son james at every opportunity no joke he is better at math than i am he it just is so good
at math i am constantly impressed by his ability to quickly add numbers in his head do fractions
in his head just he can do all of this stuff which of course that is a huge benefit and i'm
very proud of him for having such an amazing math brain the difficulty lies in the lack of challenge
provided him in school because then he ends up getting bored because he does not feel challenged
so um in oregon all of the kids in public school have to take what's called a map test these are
standardized tests given to every child in oregon public schools and then they're told
um like where they placed you know are they at a sixth grade level a seventh grade level etc
so my son's in fifth grade but he tested at a high school level for math
which means that all of this stuff they're doing in his fifth grade class is completely
boring to him and and i completely understand why he does this he doesn't want to go through all of
the steps when he's solving a problem because he can do it in his head and that upsets the
teacher sometimes because he's not fulfilling the requirements of the assignments because he's
skipping things because he chaot he could just like like this little this little boy calculator
and then it's like dead at that and it's the right answer but he he didn't work out the problem
um so that's a challenge sometimes and there was a time in the first term in the first half of
the year where his teacher was allowing him to do something called dream box which is like a a math
website and so he could go ahead and say yeah did that feel like forever it did kind of feel long i
was like how long can i talk about james and math this is a great job they're like now we'll talk
about dream box it didn't feel it never felt like you were like what else could i say right that's
really the key if you kind of feel like you're done with your story go somewhere else a little
bit of a tangent right share more details now i want to focus on your linking phrases guys go back
and listen to jessica's answer after i point some of these out because you likely didn't even notice
them because she did such a good job linking ideas in a very natural way starting with crazily
enough and then of course the difficulty lies in think about how she started a lot of her thoughts
with an interesting phrase linking it from what she was saying just before right in oregon and
then you're talking about the competition which means that right instead of just simple sentences
that are disjointed she has these linking phrases to pull everything together and make it flow
really naturally and then to start this toward the end to say there was a time that da da da right
instead of just jumping right in and starting you have this these few linking words or phrases
that ties everything together and you have to do that you need a variety of linking phrases
first seven or higher on your fluency and coherence score so listen to that answer again
to see how jessica did that in such a high-level way oh thank you so much i feel very capable and
competent right now because we're talking about language and not math so guys um if you want to
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thanks for chatting today this was fun yes you too i'll see you next time alright bye bye
you