Hello to all our IELTS Daily students!
I hope you're all well! My name is Chris.
I'm Jay.
Welcome to this video.
We're looking at part one of the speaking test and we have two recent question topics.
Those are "Family" and "Eating out".
Are you ready?
I sure am.
Let's start.
Okay, Jay, in today's video I'm going to ask you some questions about family.
Now remember in the test, you could be asked this topic.
Now, they're not asking for personal information about your family, names, etc.
They just want to know some general information. Okay, ready?
Yeah.
Do you have a big family?
Yes and no, so my immediate family is small.
It's just my mother and father and my sister, and so I have one sibling.
But my mother and father had lots of siblings and brothers and sisters.
So, I have lots of cousins and lots of aunts and uncles.
Do you often speak to your extended family?
I used to when I lived back home, but now that I moved away, I don't talk to them as much, sadly.
And how often does your family meet together?
When I was younger, we met all the time, probably six or seven times a year for various festivals and holidays.
And as we got older, we just kind of stopped it, we just don't meet as much anymore, and I can't really explain why.
And does everyone have the same type of the family?
Yeah, I would say so.
In the United States, it's a lot of mom, dad, and kids living together and then grandparents live somewhere else.
Aunts and uncles live in another place, and you go and visit them.
Wonderful, good. That's the end of my questions.
Jay gave some good extended answers.
Let's talk about some vocabulary now.
We talked, you said your immediate family.
What's immediate family?
So immediate family is simply the mom, the dad, and then the children.
Great. Is that the same as nuclear families?
Yes, I believe so.
Yeah, so we can also say nuclear family. Immediate family and nuclear family.
And then we have extended family.
Could you give some examples of people who are in your extended family?
So my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, my uncle, my cousins...
These are all examples of extended family.
Great. And we also asked how often you see your family, and you talked about not so often nowadays.
But you gave an example about the past, that was really great.
If you can't think of an idea now, think about experiences from the past.
Wonderful. That's the end of my question, so it's time for you to ask me something.
All right, Chris. We're going to talk about restaurant and eating out.
So how often would you say you eat out?
Too much, too much.
In where I live, there's a tendency for people to eat out quite a lot.
I probably say once a week and once a fortnight, and so that's probably too much.
Because you know it's quiet expensive, but you know I just want to spend all my money before I die,
so I want to have nice things.
Okay, what type of restaurants do you like to go to?
All sorts. I love to try every type of food. I really, really, really like trying different cultures.
So, recently I went to a Somali restaurant which was from Somalia.
And it was delicious food, lots of really tasty meats, and it was really great.
Awesome. You have to tell me what that restaurant was actually.
Finally, who do you go to restaurants with?
Depends, so it could be family, it could be friends. Most of the time it's with friends.
We meet up, have a catch-up, have a chat and you know, have a nice time.
So most of the time it's with to see friends.
All right. So, Chris did a really good job answering those questions.
Couple of vocabulary words I'd like to point out.
You mentioned in your first response, "tendency".
What does that mean?
Something you do often.
So it comes from the word where you could say I tend to, and there's a tendency to do something.
So it means something that you do often.
Yes. What about the word "fortnight"?
Fortnight, and I don't think you use this in America so…
No, we not really no.
Yeah, fortnight means…I'll give you the explanation,
So fourteen nights is the same as two weeks, so a fortnight is a noun which means two weeks.
Awesome. Don't forget that.
What else did we talk about?
We talked about different types of restaurants.
You had an expression where you said, "I really, really, really, like good food".
Why did you use really so much?
Did I? I don't remember doing that. Sorry.
I just wanted to emphasize, maybe give a really deep understanding of how my feelings towards that.
Yeah, how much you like good food.
We do that often when we're speaking.
How often do you eat out?
We try not to, to save money, but it's nice to go out, probably
maybe once a week, once a fortnight.
Ok, super.
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