hello there my name is Ben Worthington in this video we're going to look at IELTS Vocabulary
for Speaking Seven Useful Idioms this video is only going to be about 10 minutes long
but we're going to go into the details about idioms how you can use them for speaking and
why you should use them and how you should use them first how you should use them you
should use them in context don't try and force them use them when they are appropriate let
me give you an example so the first one the first idiom is ‘under the impression’
this means that you thought something was different yeah like I was under the impression
that all politicians were honest okay this is what I believed that later when you say
it you're showing that it's not the case so I was under the impression that all politicians
were honest later I found out they weren't okay so under the impression now I just forgot
to mention that idioms are good okay they’re very similar to collocations because you get
to use three words and you're going to use it grammatically perfectly okay grammatically
perfect sorry it is one two three three words that there is no shadow there's no doubt that
you've used them incorrectly under the impression okay so I'll give you an example of how you
could use this maybe the examiner would ask you've got a cue card about describe your
favorite book you can just say okay I picked up my favorite book last week this is the
most recent book I'm reading It’s called Autobiography of a Yogi' and I was under the
impression it would inform and educate me about the moves the physical aspect but it
was much more concerned with the spiritual side so I was under the impression I would
be learning about the physical aspects but later I learned about the spiritual aspects
just as an example so under the impression idiom number one idiom number two ‘in a
spur of the moment’ okay ‘in a spur of the moment’ means something spontaneous
that you just decided to do use this in the correct environment use this in the correct
context so for example I decided to go to the cinema in a spur of the moment I was bored
at home I checked the listings and I thought yeah I'll just go okay ‘in a spur of the
moment’ hopefully if you're watching this you're writing these down write them down
pen and paper or type them up and then try and use them try and incorporate them into
your daily conversations into your speaking the next time you're practice in IELTS speaking
you know ideally the next time you’re speaking English next one ‘to your heart's Content’
okay so the Australians the Australian cricketers might say to the English cricketers you know
cricket they might say you can practice cricket to your heart’s content you'll still never
beat us okay so it basically means as much as you want okay you can play the saxophone
to your heart’s content if that one makes you happy okay so let's see next one ‘this
time around’ okay ‘this time around’ this time around I'm definitely going to pass
IELTS I’m definitely going to get ahead and get it out of the way this obstacle okay
this time around I'm definitely going to get it band 7 because I've been watching Ben Worthington
okay so ‘this time around’ this time this attempt I'm definitely going to do it okay
so you can use these in your cue card okay maybe you’ve given the examiner an example
and I don't know you're talking about an experience with a childhood friend and you said my childhood
friend was called Simon and I remember once we wanted to climb up this massive hill and
I said to him, “This time around we're definitely going to do it I promise you.”
okay so we can use them in examples when we’re giving examples to the examiner next one ‘to
the best of my knowledge’ okay to the best of my knowledge the Australian cricketers
haven't been playing completely honestly they've been cheating it's a bit a little bit political
anyway it doesn't matter so ‘to the best of my knowledge’ is like as far as I know
as far as I know the Australians have been cheating us as far as I know the rules were
like this okay so let's see the examiner could ask you what do you think of modern technology
in the workplace and you could say well to the best of my knowledge I think it actually
helps employees I think it actually makes them more productive yeah so we're just using
it in the correct moment we're not forcing it into the conversation next one ‘along
the lines of’ okay ‘along the lines of’ means like this so we're going to practice
English along the lines of the Swedish model okay just a random example there so once again
if we're using collocations it's like one two three four words that we've got grammatically
packaged perfectly packaged for like for excellent delivery that's what I want to say for perfect
delivery ironic isn't it anyway so ‘along the lines of’ ‘come as a surprise’ okay
next one ‘come as a surprise’ it may come as a surprise to you but I'm actually an Olympic
gold winner for example yeah in the exam if you're telling a story you could say it came
as a surprise to me when I found out that my parents were from Scotland okay or when
I was younger it came as a surprise to me when I found out the whole world speaks English
something like that all right so with these collocations with these idioms I think the
most important thing is to try and adopt them use them incorporate them into your own language
don't just -- if you've got your exam tomorrow don't start using them get familiar with them
get comfortable with them experiment and test get feedback with them when to use them and
then deploy them and use them my name is Ben Worthington thank you for watching have a
great day