Hi i'm Andrew and welcome to this my latest video about the IELTS speaking
exam today we're going to look at the transport topic these videos are about
helping your score for what they call lexical resource in the speaking exam in
other words the range of different vocabulary that you know there are four
types of thing that can help you phrasal verbs collocations which are
especially important less common words also very important ad idioms or half
idioms you can see four examples of the type of vocabulary covered in this
lesson on this front page here so we're going to look at a sample part two
speaking answer that news's some very new SFIL vocabulary that you could use
in your exam to help you for your speaking score the question describe a
time you traveled by public transport ah I'd like to describe a time when I use
the public transport system when I was on a holiday in London last year to be
honest the trip was a disaster from start to finish
we wanted to go to see the Natural History Museum and so we went to the
local tube station we were aiming to get there for 11:00 a.m. so we'd arranged to
meet friends day but things hit a snag right from the off we arrived at the
tube station to find there was a signalling problem as a result we were
all herded onto replacement buses the bus promptly got stuck in a lengthy
tailback it seemed as though we'd have to wait in it until the cows came home a
lorry had been parked in such a way that it blocked the road and we had to wait
wealth people frantically searched for its driver after a very long wait they
found him and he returns to his vehicle and shifted it the rest of the journey
itself was uneventful I did then get off the bus at the wrong
exit and so is late to meet my friends so in a moment we're going to look at
the meaning of some of the highlighted vocabulary but if this lesson is neusel
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some of this vocabulary a tube station is simply the place where an underground
railway or metro runs from so it's like an ordinary railway station but for an
underground railway if something hits a snag that means there was a problem the
expression right from the off means right from the start or right from the
beginning heard it to herd herding is what farmers do with sheep and cows when
they try to make all of them go to one place but we can use this about people
too if an official tries to move a big group of people from one place then we
also say that those people were being herded the adverb promptly means quickly
or immediately a leg v-tail back is a logline of traffic that isn't moving
until the cows come home is an idiomatic expression meaning to wait for a very
very long time
frantically searched if you do something frantically then you do it without much
control in a very stressed way the verb to shift in this case if you shift
something then you move it this is quite an informal usage of the verb but
informality is good in the IELTS speaking exam if something is uneventful
then that means that not much happened okay so I hope this video has been
useful if you have any questions at all about any of the vocabulary that
appeared in this video there don't hesitate
to ask me a question below the video thank you and goodbye