aubry i think you're a woman with some hot takes i am i am a woman of opinions
i was telling jessica i have quite the hot take on a camping trip that we just did oh and everyone
was catch and release fishing the whole time with their kids but it was in a very small pond
and i'm watching these fish get hooked and then they remove the hook and throw it back
over i'm like you're doing this to the same fish over and over and over i was horrified but
it was sad but it was definitely a hot take because everyone there was fine with it
was doing it was super awkward i'm like i can't tell them you're torturing fish can you stop
that's such a good example like that whole context you gave i think will make students
really understand this phrase guys um and why is it important for ielts students i mean you
guys are asked about your opinion all over the speaking test part one part two part three you
are going to give your opinion definitely and hopefully you have some interesting opinions
that are that are different right yes exactly right so if you can use today's vocabulary
when you are sharing an unpopular opinion this you're getting that idiomatic language you're
boosting you're getting a higher vocab score and you're not shying away from sharing an unpopular
opinion because yeah the examiner doesn't care doesn't care if they might agree with you if you
disagree that's going to be more interesting for them to hear totally yeah um and just be honest
yes also um i mean like i totally also support getting creative just so you can use this vocab
and pretending you have a weird opinion completely support that if you're good at making stuff
up go for it um but i know for a lot of people um you guys might be afraid to share an opinion
if you think oh this isn't what the examiner wants this isn't what the examiner thinks take
that out of your head that does not matter you're not graded on whether the examiner agrees with you
you're graded on being interesting and standing out from other students okay um okay here's my
here's my hot take i think dc shows are better than marvel shows which is very surprising because
i mean not shows um the most recent dc movies are better than the marble universe movies because
i am an enormous fan of birds of prey the fantabulous emancipation of harley quinn
and a suicide squad i love these movies so much like more than any marvel movie which like i feel
bad saying but that's a hot take in my circle it is it's a hot take i think in any circle because
the avengers movies are so widely popular yeah and i love them they're great but to prefer dc
movies that's definitely going to be an unpopular opinion i know dc's just darker man like i love it
anyway let's move on guys so that is the first term you can use to describe
an unpopular opinion a standout opinion and it's usually on something kind of
trending or like current i feel like like a hot take on something is like an opinion on like a
recent thing usually that's often the connotation for sure right i listen to a podcast where they
share all their favorite new music and new movies and you'll hear the host sometimes
be like i have a hot take not like and they'll share a new movie that everyone's loving that
like if someone said right now i didn't really like top gun maverick that would be a hot take
because everybody loves it that's my hot take i don't care about top gun there we go there's
another hot dog no man i don't care about it uh but yeah you could use this for any unpopular
opinion though but yes it is used all over pop culture podcasts that's a really good point i hear
it all the time um okay what's the next phrase yeah so this is against the grain so imagine
wood where you see the grain of the wood and if you're going against like the opposite
direction of what you usually go right so it's the same kind of thing like um
i would say this might go against the grain but i think that birds of prey was a terrible movie
what what i'm horrified i don't think you were my friend that's another phrase you use a lot
would be like don't come for me but i hated that movie don't come at me yeah didn't like it um
and like horrified that's an awesome adjective too for you know being like uh really unhappily
surprised at something so you could say like uh don't be horrified at this hot take
but i like blah blah blah or whatever um so much good vocab in one sentence guys you better be
writing this down and you better practice using this stuff immediately after today's episode um
so against the grain i would say is a little bit more formal as well so this would be appropriate
for writing not just speaking what do you think yeah i agree right if you're saying something like
many governments go against the grain by providing assistance to third world nations while right if
you're saying if you're sharing something that countries or governments do that is a little
different from the average status quo this would be a perfect would be perfect for task 2. yeah
exactly exactly um okay so the last phrase a little bit different um a little bit more specific
so to be the black sheep and honestly is almost always used uh as the black sheep of the family
but again guys you have to talk about family and relationships on ielts right
so this is i think is a great idiom and but only for speaking
so to be the black sheep of the family means that um you're kind of outside the norm of your family
maybe even dismissed by your family or thought to be too different to be part of the family right
this is me for sure you're totally the black sheep of it i am the
i grew up in a very religious household and i've left that religion so it makes you the black
sheep when they all have that in common and it's very much a part of their life and culture it you
can't help but have sort of a bit of a division in people's minds and in what they say and can't
say around you or what they avoid talking about so yeah this would be really interesting for out
speaking and you could be the black sheep of a friend group like if you're the only political
conservative and all your friends are liberal and more left-leaning you would be the black sheep
that's a good point yeah um i like that idea of remembering to use this if you stand out
a part in any community at work yeah yeah totally you know what's funny i feel like there are no
black sheep of my family because we are all black sheep in some way like all of us all of us are
like totally kind of weird and different but in different ways it's my family's wild i love that
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awesome thanks aubrey yeah thanks for your hot takes that was fun thanks see you later bye