Hey welcome! Welcome back.
I'm Jay. Welcome to the IELTS daily.
Today, we're going to be going over a question
from the IELTS speaking exam.
So let's get started, okay?
So in today's lesson,
we're going to focus on a question from part two
of the IELTS speaking exam.
And with me as always,
is my good friend, Chris.
How are you,
Chris?
Hello Jay! I am really well.
Hello to all the students!
And yes, you're absolutely right.
Today, we're going to look at part two,
and this is a question about the weather.
But it's a bit of a different question.
and this was a recent question from
the exam in the past few months.
I'm sending that question over to you now, Jay.
Do you want to have a look?
And you will see that the question is as follows
on the screen:
Describe a time when the weather changed your plans.
You should say what the plans were,
how will the weather affected your plans,
if you made any other plans, and
explain how you felt about this change of plans.
Difficult question, you have to think about a specific example.
Or you need to make something up.
We want to hear what your ideas are
as you're writing. Your minute starts now.
All right.
Well...
I'm going to try to...
Luckily,
I have a pretty recent experience of the
weather changing my plans.
So, the plans were to go get some food with a friend.
And because the day was really nice,
we decided to walk.
But about five minutes into the walk,
the rain came in and the weather changed quite suddenly.
And the rain came in and...
We were probably about five or ten minutes into the walk
and we decided let's go back and get the car.
So we can drive to go get some food
because we did not want to cancel our lunch.
And you know, because it started to rain,
so we went to get the car.
And we went to the restaurant via car.
Your one minute is up,
that's time.
So, don't forget to speak as much as possible.
Give as many experiences to say
how you felt, and your time starts now.
So, pretty recently,
a friend and I were gonna go have some lunch together.
And we decided that since it was such a nice day,
at this time the sun was shining and
It was pretty okay out, I guess.
I guess the temperature was all right.
We decided to go for a walk to it, to walk
to the little shop that we're going to have some food at.
And it was probably about a ten to fifteen-minute walk.
But about ten, or about five or ten minutes into our walk,
all of a sudden, rain just started coming down,
and some clouds blew in from the north,
and there was some heavy rain coming in.
So we decided to turn around,
run back to the car, and
get in my car, and we ended up driving
to this restaurant instead of walking.
So our plans to walk and enjoy the weather
kind of changed because of the rain.
And we got in the car,
drove over to the restaurant,
and still had a pretty good lunch.
Had some good sandwiches,
and had nice a chitchat and catch-up.
And we didn't let the weather affect us,
because as we know
that weather is always going to change,
and it's going to be that it's up to us to adapt to it.
So,
yeah, there you go.
Thank you very much.
How did that go, Chris?
Good, very well.
Do you have any secrets
you want to tell us about this particular incident?
Any secrets?
Ah, It was you and I!
It was me and you.
OK, good.
Yes, we went to get some lunch and yes,
the rain the rain came in.
You said "we wanted to go for a walk".
Go for a walk,
Great.
You said, "Five or ten minutes into the walk".
What would you...
How would you explain that a number of minutes into something?
So after we started,
so five or ten minutes into something
is five or ten minutes after we started walking.
And we had to run back.
And we ended up driving.
What does that mean?
We ended up doing something.
Yes.
Oh.
After something happened to us
because of the change in the weather.
Our plan had changed,
and this was the direct result of that change.
So we use ended up to kind of signal that,
that there was a change.
And so we had to change our plans,
and we had to do something different.
Great.
We drove over to, we drove over:
that's a phrasal verb.
I mean you could say we drove to.
Yeah, which is good.
But drive over to somewhere is
even better.
And then in the end,
you said, "it was up to us".
What does that mean, "to be up to somebody"?
It just simply means that it's our decision.
So if you say so,
if someone asks you a question,
you could just answer them and say
it's up to you.
And you are giving them the ability
to go ahead, to make the decision on something.
Amazing! Lots of good explanations there.
Don't forget in the test, you spoke for an adequate amount of time.
If the examiner, you know,
gives you the signal... you know you could...
they could tell you to keep going.
If you give you,
give you a signal to continue,
then you should just continue.
You did really well,
Jay.
I'm really interested in what we heard.
That's all for me.
Yeah, that's all for me too.
Thanks for listening,
guys.
We really appreciate it and we will see you next time.
Take care!