Hey everyone, I'm Jay from IELTS daily.
Welcome back today!
We're going to be answering a question from the IELTS speaking exam.
So, let's get started!
We're going to be looking at part two
to be specific of the IELTS speaking exam,
and helping me today is my good friend Chris.
Chris, how are you?
Good, I'm really well, thanks.
Today, we're looking at a different question,
which is a recent question submitted to us,
and it's about a toy.
It's a toy.
Now you're an adult,
so you've got to look back to your childhood.
And I'm going to send that question to your iPad now.
You'll see that the question is: Describe a toy from your childhood.
You should say: what that toy is,
how old you were when you had this toy,
what do you remember about this toy,
and explain why this toy was memorable.
Ok,
tricky question right?
A little bit,
but I think I have a good example here for this one.
Good, so you'll have a minute to prepare your answer.
We want to hear some of your thoughts and ideas.
You can start... now.
So, a toy that I will always remember, and I'm an adult,
I'm an old man now and...
but a toy that I would remember is this
Transformers toy and I don't know if anyone,
any of you know what a transformer is.
But it's a toy that resembles an automobile or a plane or a ship,
and it transforms - it changes into a robot.
And I used to watch an animated television cartoon
when I was a child, called "The Transformers".
And I loved this particular toy named "Optimus Prime".
So I'm going to talk about him,
and this toy that I had when I was about eight years old.
You got about ten seconds left.
Okey dokey.
So your one minute is finished.
During the test,
you're going to have to speak for over one minute.
For those people that are new to this video,
you will have to speak for between one and two minutes as fluently as possible.
Jay is going to give us an answer,
and your one minute... or so your time starts now.
So today, I'm going to talk about a really special toy from my childhood
called "Optimus Prime".
And Optimus Prime is the name of a character from a
an animated television show from the nineteen-eighties
called, "The Transformers". And "TheTransformers"
were these cool robots who were robots,
but they could also transform into vehicles.
So that way, they were able to hide from humans on earth
because they were disguised as cars or trucks or ships or airplanes,
or whatever.
So, the particular toy I have was a big semi-trailer named Optimus Prime.
So semi-trailer is a big truck that has a trailer on the back of it.
You'll see it ships,
or it delivers lots of goods and services.
So, he, Optimus Prime,
was a big,
cool truck.
It was a prime about this big,
and the size of a ruler maybe.
And he transformed into like the main cabin
of him transformed into a robot,
and then his trailer transformed into
a base with a gun on it.
And I've just remember playing with my cousin.
He had a lot of Transformers too,
and we would like, you know,
we have mock battles and we would fight each other.
My Transformers would fight his Transformers.
And I just remember,
I loved that show,
because there weren't many,
many toys,
when I was growing up,
you couldn't change them.
That's how the toy was.
So when you took it out of the package,
that's how it looked.
But it was like getting two toys in one because
it was like a vehicle that you could just drive around
with with your hand on the floor,
but you could also then transform it into a robot.
And so it was really cool in that respect.
So that's that's the toy that I remember,
I don't think I'll ever forget it.
How did that go?
One minute fifty-seven,
almost two minutes.
That was really good.
I remember this show, I also used to love Transformers.
So let's talk about what you said in your speech.
An animated television show.
Yeah, so basically a cartoon,
something that's not real,
so the images on the scene,
or on the screen that you're watching,
they're drawn by an animator or a cartoonist.
And then it's like...I'm not sure how to say it,
it's put to life by a production team.
Just another way to say cartoon.
Yeah,
You said there were cool robots, and you said they transformed into vehicles.
Vehicles is a really tricky word to pronounce.
Could you just explain and have a go at
pronouncing the word vehicles a few times?
Vehicles
Vehicles... really tricky.
Disguised as cars.
What does disguised me?
So, when you take it when you have a disguise,
it means you're trying to hide who you are
and look like something else.
Great.
A truck,
a truck,
there could be many definitions of a truck,
so a truck could be, what I was describing about Optimus Truck.
Optimus Prime.
He's technically a truck,
so the big semi that you see on the highways,
transporting goods or a truck could also be even something small,
like a pickup truck like a Ford Ranger.
Or something like that, or a Toyota High luxe.
Trailer on the back?
And a trailer is something that you used to put
store things and transport items in.
Great, I like the fact that you were
explaining as much detail as possible about the toy,
that was great.
You talked about an event and experience in your life with your cousin.
You said you remember playing with your cousin and we used to have fights.
You said, "I loved that show". Great.
And you explained more about the fact that you liked
this toy because other toys you couldn't change them. Great.
You said it was like two toys in one.
I remember the theme tune to this show, do you wanna sing it?
[Sings theme song] Transformers, robots, in disguise...
Yeah, Transformers more than meets the eye.
There you go.
You can look up that on Youtube.
I'm sure the Transformers TV shows on Youtube from the 1980s,
that shows how old Jay and I are.
Yeah, but there have been quite a few remakes of that show.
So if you type transformers into Youtube,
you might see some more current versions of the show as well.
Good. And that's it for me.
Thanks, Jay.
Alright, Chris, thanks a lot.
Thank you everyone for watching.
We'll see you next time. See you later.