Hello and in this isles Part Two speaking video.
I'm going to look at the topic.
Describe a time when you got bored when you were with others.
You should say when it was who you were with what you did and explain why you were bored.
Now before I go into the model answer I want to apologize if you are a big fan of the film La La Land.
I am going to talk about time when I got bored watching this film.
I'm very sorry.
It just wasn't a film that I enjoyed.
If you love this film I'm really really sorry but I just want to give you an idea of what you can talk
about so you could talk about a different film when you answer this question.
Let's take a look at the model answer.
I was struggling to think of a time when this happened because I don't often get bored when I'm with
others but I do tend to get bored when I'm on my own.
Then I suddenly remembered an occasion a few years back.
So I've decided to talk about that time I can't remember precisely when it was but like I said it was
several years ago and I went with a group of close friends to the pictures to see La La Land This film
won loads of awards and everyone was raving about it.
So I was really looking forward to it.
I'm a massive fan of musicals so I couldn't wait.
So the film started and during the opening number I was already thinking this isn't what I was expecting.
The male and female leads a top actors but they're not great singers.
Don't get me wrong they're not terrible but in a musical I expect pitch perfect voices whenever I watch
any film if I'm not gripped by it in the first few minutes I switch off and to be brutally honest I
found this film mind numbingly boring and I was bored to death.
It was tedious monotonous and I actually nodded off.
My friends were shocked at the end when I confessed that I had fallen asleep because they all thoroughly
enjoyed it.
I find that when a film is hyped so much my expectations are very high and when it doesn't meet them
I'm often bored stiff I just found the acting and the singing mediocre and it didn't grab my attention.
I know I'm hard to please but I loved frozen and stayed awake for the whole film.
And it's a kids film really.
I think the problem is I have the attention span of a goldfish and get bored too quickly.
Now my answer is very long.
I've just thrown everything into my answer to try and teach you lots of vocabulary.
You don't need to remember everything.
Try and pick five useful phrases that you think you will be able to use in this topic.
So I'm struggling to think of a time when this happened very useful to start your answer with this because
it gets some complex language and complex grammar.
The past continuous in there right at the very start.
I used to tend to a lot because it's like using used to in the past for something you did often tend
to use in the present for something you do often and I've put do in there to emphasize to stress.
I do tend to when we use the auxiliaries in there as well.
We're stressing it we're emphasizing it we're making it stronger.
I suddenly remembered an occasion occasion means a time.
So I'm trying not to repeat words from the question to suddenly remember is a useful qualification.
A few years back.
This is informal.
It's good file speaking not for writing and it just means a few years ago.
And like I often say in my videos try to finish your introduction to your part too.
I've decided to talk about because then we've got some present perfect in there as well.
Very useful for all topics.
Don't say in 2018 because that's not complex language.
I can't remember precisely when it was so saying I can't remember exactly precisely but like I said
we use this all the time in English when you're referring back to something you've already said.
Like I said it was several years ago.
So instead of repeating a few years back several years ago close friends I'm just trying to make it
a little bit more complex than just saying friends now in the UK we often refer to the cinema as the
pictures in the US.
They say the movies so you can say the movies the pictures or the cinema it will loads of awards and
Oscar Palme d'Or.
This is an award in the cinema industry everyone was raving about it to rave about something means to
talk and hugely abstractly about something to say Oh it's great it's fantastic you should go and see
it.
Very useful word and very useful to use it in the past continuous.
Everyone was raving about it.
I'm a massive fan of musicals.
I love musicals so I couldn't wait the past of saying I can't wait.
The opening number in any concert or musical.
The first song is called the opening number because I'm describing something that happened in the past.
It gives me the opportunity to use the past continuous I was already thinking so at that moment in time
I was already thinking this isn't what I was expecting.
This isn't what I thought it was going to be.
Now when a film or a musical we talk about the main characters as being the lead characters you can
use the lead characters so lead is an adjective or you can say the leads.
Using it as a noun.
Top actors which started in English not to use masculine and feminine words as much actor actress and
we just use act now to talk about men and women don't get me wrong for a useful little filler phrase
when you don't want somebody to misunderstand you.
So I'm not saying that terrible but I expect.
Pitch Perfect voices we describe singing voices and voices that hit every note and that Perfect Pitch
Perfect.
I want to apologize again if you love this film.
I am exaggerating I'm making it worse than it actually was just because I want to teach you lots of
vocabulary.
I'm not gripped by it to be gripped by something is immediately it gets your attention and you love
it.
So a book you can be gripped by or a film you can be gripped by and the adjective gripping means it's
captivating it's fascinating it's interesting to switch off very very useful word for speaking if you
switch off.
It's like switching off a light switching off a computer switching off the TV.
It's like your brain and your body just shut down you switch off you lose focus.
Now I used to be perfectly honest a lot to be brutally honest is even stronger and when you're saying
something quite bad.
So to be brutally honest I found this film mind numbingly boring that's quite long quite difficult to
say.
But if you could remember it it's great.
And it's when your mind just is so bored it can't think of anything.
Mind numbingly boring.
I was bored to death.
We use a couple of phrases video on my YouTube channel bored to death.
Bored to tears and it just means you're very very very bored.
And here are put in a few more words meaning boring.
Remember we use boring to describe the thing the activity bored to describe how you feel about it tedious
monotonous are just all the words that mean boring to actually not off means to fall asleep.
I put my friends my mates here.
I don't feel comfortable saying mates.
Lots of British people say it.
But when you get to my age you don't feel comfortable referring to your friends as mates.
But if you're a younger person say my mates and the isles Examiner were like that were shocked surprised
when I confessed.
When you confess something you admit something you say something that you've either done something that
you shouldn't have.
I confessed I had fallen asleep so we're using a past perfect here because it happened before the time
that I'm speaking.
They all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed it.
When a film is hyped when a film or a song or a book is hyped it means lots of people are saying it's
great it's fantastic.
It's it's very similar to everybody is raving everybody was raving about his hyped my expectations.
So what I expect it to be like what I think it will be like and another way of saying you're bored but
making it stronger.
Bored stiff so almost like bored to death.
If you're stiff you're not moving you're dead so bored stiff bored to death.
The singing mediocre average all right.
Okay but not great.
It didn't grab my attention.
Another colonization idiomatic expression it didn't catch your attention It didn't keep your attention
and get your attention grab your attention I'm hard to please if you are hard to please.
You're quite a fussy person you're quite particular you don't like many things attention span for useful
for writing as well if you're writing any essays about children attention span how long you can focus
on something.
I was quite surprised by this I thought humans had a much longer attention span but we have an attention
span of eight seconds and actually a goldfish are slightly longer at nine seconds but in 2000 it was
12 seconds.
So couple of facts that you might use in oils writing as well so our attention span the amount of time
that we can stay focused is very very short and because of this we get bored quickly or certainly I
do so again my apologies if you love this film.
Pick a film that you found very boring and use all of this language to describe it.
So mind numbingly boring bored to death.
Bored to tears bored stiff tedious monotonous I nodded off everybody was raving about it.
It was hyped I'm hard to please have the attention span of a goldfish.
Put all this vocabulary in there and you will have a fantastic high level answer.
So let's take a look now at part 3 question connected to this topic why are people less interested in
reading books nowadays.
I'm not sure that it is the case that people are less interested.
I strongly believe that this is a time issue on the whole we are working longer hours we are more stressed
and we have very little downtime compared to our ancestors.
The 9 to 5 job is a thing of the past.
So I think the fact that we all have less time we are shattered and fall asleep as soon as our heads
hit the pillow is the major factor in the decline in reading so it is true that people are reading less.
But here I'm arguing it's not that they are less interested it's due to time and feeling tired.
This is very true of me.
So this is why I decided to talk about this.
I'm saying I'm not sure that it is the case.
I'm saying it's not true that people are less interested.
I strongly believe it's a time issue it's a time factor on the whole.
Generally we have very little downtime.
Downtime is the time you're not working your relaxation time.
Your chilling time compared to our ancestors so our grandparents are great grandparents.
The 9 to 5 job when I was young.
Lots of people are 9 to 5 jobs.
They started at 9 and they finished at 5.
Most people I know don't have a 9 to 5 job.
They start seven they working till midnight so it's a thing of the past where shattered were exhausted
extremely tired and we fall asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillow.
If you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow it's like you put your head down and you're
asleep.
And this is very true of me because I'm always so tired.
So this is my argument for this question.
Now you could argue that people are more interested in going on social media they're more interested
in watching Netflix doesn't really matter what your argument is as long as you give reasons for it you
develop it and you use complex language.
I hope you found this video useful.
Thank you for watching.