1 00:00:03,450 --> 00:00:09,310 Hello and in this part two speaking video I'm going to discuss the topic describe something that you 2 00:00:09,310 --> 00:00:12,280 are given that you needed. 3 00:00:12,340 --> 00:00:20,980 You should say what it was who gave it to you why you needed it and explain how you felt about it. 4 00:00:21,430 --> 00:00:27,890 And after the part two I would look at a couple of part three questions connected with this topic. 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:34,570 I was struggling to think of something that I was given because the older you get the fewer presence 6 00:00:34,570 --> 00:00:35,990 you receive. 7 00:00:36,070 --> 00:00:41,110 But then I remembered that I was given my smartphone by my parents. 8 00:00:41,110 --> 00:00:43,960 I had completely forgotten about that. 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,070 Prior to getting it I had a rubbish phone. 10 00:00:48,070 --> 00:00:50,400 I can't even remember the make of it. 11 00:00:50,410 --> 00:00:55,300 It was cheap and nasty and I was totally embarrassed by it. 12 00:00:55,330 --> 00:01:02,200 Not only that but it was next to useless because I couldn't access the Internet. 13 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,350 I kept pleading with my parents to get me a new one for my birthday. 14 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:10,490 But I was absolutely convinced that they wouldn't. 15 00:01:10,510 --> 00:01:18,480 To my surprise when I opened my presence on my birthday there was a brand new top of the range smartphone. 16 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,550 I was over the moon. 17 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:27,980 I have never owned such a luxury item before and I feel very lucky that they bought it for me. 18 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,850 My parents aren't well-off so it is a generous gift from them. 19 00:01:33,130 --> 00:01:36,810 And for that reason I really appreciate it. 20 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:43,900 I could have saved up and bought one myself but to be brutally honest I am hopeless with money. 21 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:46,660 It burns a hole in my pocket. 22 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,030 I'm definitely a spender rather than a saver. 23 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:54,970 So that is why I was delighted when I was given this new toy. 24 00:01:54,970 --> 00:02:03,280 I have never had such a fancy phone before and unfortunately I am quite a clumsy person so I'm terrified 25 00:02:03,310 --> 00:02:06,730 that I'm going to drop it and smash the screen. 26 00:02:06,730 --> 00:02:15,010 Not only is it a special present but like I said my old one wasn't a smartphone and it was pretty useless 27 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:19,610 and I needed something to help me study English when I'm out and about. 28 00:02:20,110 --> 00:02:26,260 I have downloaded several apps that I can use for language learning and I can listen to podcasts when 29 00:02:26,260 --> 00:02:30,180 I'm on the train which makes good use of my commuting time. 30 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:32,720 So it is invaluable to me. 31 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,120 I couldn't be without it now. 32 00:02:35,210 --> 00:02:40,640 OK so let's take a look at some of the language I found this topic very difficult to think of something 33 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:42,340 I was given that I was needed. 34 00:02:42,340 --> 00:02:47,150 So very useful opening sentence for many topics. 35 00:02:47,170 --> 00:02:54,520 In Part 2 I was struggling to think of something you could say to talk about if it's not this topic. 36 00:02:54,520 --> 00:03:01,690 I was struggling to think of something to talk about and it's very good opening sentence because you've 37 00:03:01,690 --> 00:03:03,890 got some past continuous in there. 38 00:03:04,030 --> 00:03:10,180 You've got complex language with the verb to struggle which means to find something difficult. 39 00:03:10,180 --> 00:03:14,440 So a very very useful opening sentence for any part too. 40 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,700 I was struggling to think of something to think about. 41 00:03:18,850 --> 00:03:22,090 I was given because this is something that you were given. 42 00:03:22,090 --> 00:03:28,990 So you must use the passive and also a very useful sentence which uses some complex grammar the past 43 00:03:28,990 --> 00:03:29,940 perfect. 44 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,210 I had completely forgotten about that. 45 00:03:33,250 --> 00:03:39,760 So if you whatever topic you're talking about I was struggling to think of that at a. 46 00:03:40,060 --> 00:03:44,890 But then I remembered that at a the I had completely forgotten about that. 47 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:52,480 So if you learn those structures you can get some complex grammar at the start of your path to speaking 48 00:03:52,510 --> 00:03:54,930 and really impressed the isles Examiner. 49 00:03:55,030 --> 00:04:01,480 So when you're practicing just use these over and over again and whatever topic you get. 50 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:06,520 Try to include them prior to for a useful for writing as well. 51 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:15,170 We follow it with an ink verb prior to having prior to doing prior to knowing and it means before the 52 00:04:15,170 --> 00:04:16,040 make. 53 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:21,560 So that's Apple or some song the make of the phone. 54 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,780 This is a qualification cheap and nasty. 55 00:04:25,780 --> 00:04:28,690 It's something that's cheap and not nice at all. 56 00:04:28,690 --> 00:04:31,240 It's like saying cheap and bad cheap and horrible. 57 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,350 But the qualification we like to use is cheap and nasty. 58 00:04:35,350 --> 00:04:37,480 I was totally embarrassed by it. 59 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:43,990 When you feel uncomfortable about other people seeing it because it's embarrassing because it's so cheap 60 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,830 and horrible next to useless. 61 00:04:47,830 --> 00:04:55,090 So it's not completely useless because I could use it as a phone but we say when things are almost completely 62 00:04:55,090 --> 00:05:05,530 useless next to useless because I couldn't access the internet I couldn't use the Internet to plead. 63 00:05:05,530 --> 00:05:09,930 This is a verb which means to say please please please please please. 64 00:05:10,030 --> 00:05:11,140 That is to plead. 65 00:05:11,170 --> 00:05:19,000 So when you're asking for something over and over again you're pleading with someone I kept pleading 66 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:25,840 with my parents and you might want to use your wife your husband your friend whatever it doesn't have 67 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,650 to be your parents. 68 00:05:27,670 --> 00:05:35,680 I was absolutely convinced to be convinced is a very useful objective for writing as well if you are 69 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,080 convinced of something you are certain of something. 70 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:44,810 So I was absolutely certain I was sure that they wouldn't get it. 71 00:05:44,890 --> 00:05:49,240 To my surprise to my shock you could use as well. 72 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:55,900 And then just some complex language to describe the item brand new meaning new not second hand top of 73 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:56,730 the range. 74 00:05:56,730 --> 00:05:59,480 So the best one you can get. 75 00:05:59,770 --> 00:06:01,180 This is idiomatic. 76 00:06:01,210 --> 00:06:07,450 Never use it in writing to be over the moon means to be very very happy. 77 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:15,280 A luxury item so an item a thing that not many people have because it is quite expensive. 78 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:17,100 This is a very good objective. 79 00:06:17,180 --> 00:06:24,240 Well-off to be well-off means rich but I'm saying my parents aren't rich to be well-off. 80 00:06:24,340 --> 00:06:26,570 And we can also use it as a noun. 81 00:06:26,590 --> 00:06:34,810 The well-off the rich the wealthy so use those in aisles writing instead of just saying rich people 82 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:43,600 the rich the wealthy though well-off very useful in isles writing Tusk to a generous gift. 83 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:49,660 When somebody is spent quite a lot of money and maybe more money than you were expecting them to spend. 84 00:06:49,690 --> 00:06:58,030 This is a generous gift and I appreciate it if you appreciate something you are grateful you are thankful 85 00:06:58,270 --> 00:06:59,100 for it. 86 00:06:59,110 --> 00:07:00,920 So some very good passive grammar here. 87 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:02,370 I could have saved up. 88 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:06,630 So looking back to the past and saying well yes I could have saved up and bought one. 89 00:07:07,090 --> 00:07:13,000 But to be brutally honest I've been using to be perfectly honest and a lot of videos. 90 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:18,250 If you've used to be perfectly honest in one of your answers you can use to be brutally honest and this 91 00:07:18,250 --> 00:07:19,770 is quite strong. 92 00:07:19,810 --> 00:07:25,780 It's when you're usually saying something quite negative and I'm saying I'm hopeless with money. 93 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:30,620 If you are hopeless with something you are very bad at it. 94 00:07:30,730 --> 00:07:34,720 You can say hopeless at cooking. 95 00:07:34,870 --> 00:07:42,160 So you're very bad at cooking but when you're following the verb you would use it with an eye energy 96 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:45,910 with a noun with some hopeless with money. 97 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,060 It burns a hole in my pocket. 98 00:07:49,060 --> 00:07:56,500 This is an idiomatic expression very complex not useful for its writing but fabulous for oil speaking 99 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,680 if some money burns a hole in your pocket. 100 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:04,570 It means as soon as you get the money you want to spend it. 101 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,950 You cannot keep it in your pocket because it's on fire. 102 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:09,330 You need to spend it. 103 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:16,920 It burns a hole in my pocket and then we have two types of people spenders savers. 104 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:22,310 So if you are a person who always likes to spend your money you're a spender. 105 00:08:22,330 --> 00:08:26,860 If you're a person who likes to save your money you are a saver. 106 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:33,250 You need lots of words in speaking to describe feelings and how you felt particular moments. 107 00:08:33,250 --> 00:08:41,860 Delighted is a useful one and it means you're very very happy when we're talking about gadgets and things 108 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:42,370 like that. 109 00:08:42,370 --> 00:08:48,150 Things we like to play with as adults like phones and iPods and smartphones. 110 00:08:48,190 --> 00:08:49,390 We call them toys. 111 00:08:49,390 --> 00:08:59,790 So this new toy a fancy phone fancy means luxurious and expensive and quite sophisticated. 112 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:06,960 I'm quite a clumsy person clumsy is an adjective which means somebody who has lots of accidents. 113 00:09:06,970 --> 00:09:08,750 Somebody who drops things. 114 00:09:08,750 --> 00:09:14,740 Somebody yes who just always having accidents and breaking things. 115 00:09:14,910 --> 00:09:25,100 So I am terrified frightened afraid that I'm going to drop it and smashed the screen so break the screen 116 00:09:25,670 --> 00:09:27,460 when I'm out and about. 117 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:34,520 This just means when I'm out of my house so when I'm in town or just whenever I'm out of my house when 118 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,530 I'm out and about you download apps. 119 00:09:38,540 --> 00:09:45,320 These are things you put on your phone you can have apps for language learning apps for booking hotels. 120 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:54,170 These kind of things commuting the verb to commute a person who commutes a lot as a commuter my commuting 121 00:09:54,170 --> 00:09:56,690 time is the time I spend commuting. 122 00:09:56,690 --> 00:10:04,780 So traveling from one place to another usually from home to work invaluable. 123 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:07,760 This means you cannot put a price on it. 124 00:10:07,790 --> 00:10:09,580 It's so useful. 125 00:10:09,620 --> 00:10:13,590 So a lot of vocabulary in this one. 126 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,850 Like I said at the start is really important that you know you're opening sentences that you're going 127 00:10:19,850 --> 00:10:26,120 to use in your part to don't just go into the test and think Oh I will just start talking. 128 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,110 Know what you're going to say. 129 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,090 I was struggling to think of what to talk about. 130 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,500 I had forgotten about the time I blah blah blah. 131 00:10:36,770 --> 00:10:42,510 So you learn these phrases and get them in your part too and they will really impress the adults. 132 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:50,870 Examiner So let's take a look at some part 3 questions now connected with this topic so they might ask 133 00:10:50,870 --> 00:10:59,810 you what things do young people like to buy loads of things because the younger generation are quite 134 00:10:59,810 --> 00:11:01,520 materialistic. 135 00:11:01,580 --> 00:11:09,240 So this topic is about receiving things buying things material goods. 136 00:11:09,290 --> 00:11:12,110 These are things and young people. 137 00:11:12,110 --> 00:11:14,750 The younger generation are materialistic. 138 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:21,080 This means they put a lot of importance on things objects. 139 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:27,810 So they want to buy lots of things very useful word for both writing and speaking materialistic. 140 00:11:28,910 --> 00:11:37,370 Sadly nowadays there is so much peer pressure to have the latest gadgets or trainers and so teens and 141 00:11:37,370 --> 00:11:42,940 those in their 20s are addicted to shopping peer pressure. 142 00:11:42,980 --> 00:11:52,130 This is when your friends have something such as an iPhone and you've got cheap and nasty phone so you 143 00:11:52,130 --> 00:11:59,480 feel the pressure to have the same as them because otherwise you look cheap and so you can't afford 144 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:00,200 it. 145 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,310 This is called peer pressure your peers are people the same age as you. 146 00:12:06,350 --> 00:12:15,260 The latest gadgets these are the latest phones iPhones etc. and in writing and speaking just try to 147 00:12:15,260 --> 00:12:16,550 avoid the word people. 148 00:12:16,550 --> 00:12:22,410 So here I've used younger generation teens those in their 20s. 149 00:12:22,580 --> 00:12:28,500 One of the easiest ways to improve your child's writing is just look through it and see how many times 150 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:31,750 have used the word people and focus on that. 151 00:12:31,790 --> 00:12:33,380 Try to use alternatives. 152 00:12:33,380 --> 00:12:39,130 There are so many different words and phrases that you can use instead of saying people and they're 153 00:12:39,140 --> 00:12:47,470 addicted to shopping so they're doing it all the time I feel there is an increasing tendency particularly 154 00:12:47,470 --> 00:12:54,890 in my country to buy high end designer goods and they often get into debt to buy them. 155 00:12:55,030 --> 00:13:02,500 An increasing tendency useful for writing and speaking so when people are doing more and more of something 156 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:10,030 high end designer goods this means very expensive designer goods such as these trainers which are made 157 00:13:10,030 --> 00:13:11,040 by cheap. 158 00:13:11,110 --> 00:13:19,480 I think so this is a good example of a high end designer good to get into debt to get into debt means 159 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:25,750 to spend money you don't have so to buy it on a credit card but you don't have the money to pay for 160 00:13:25,750 --> 00:13:26,330 them. 161 00:13:26,350 --> 00:13:32,660 This means to get into debt so let's take a look at another question connected to this topic. 162 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:39,280 What should parents do when their children ask for things their friends have. 163 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:44,830 Oh gosh this is an incredibly tricky question and I'm not sure anyone knows the right answer. 164 00:13:45,610 --> 00:13:54,970 So very useful filler sentence when you get asked a question that is extremely difficult to answer. 165 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,310 Firstly a lot of you won't be parents so you have no experience of this. 166 00:14:00,310 --> 00:14:06,310 Secondly as a parent myself I do not know the answer to this question. 167 00:14:06,370 --> 00:14:12,750 If I did I would be a millionaire because I would be advising parents on how to bring up children. 168 00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:20,600 It is so hard and I also ask some of these questions that you need to be a psychologist to answer so. 169 00:14:20,770 --> 00:14:24,940 Oh gosh this is like saying oh my goodness this is incredible. 170 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:27,840 Trick question and I'm not sure anyone knows the right answer. 171 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:37,420 So good filler phrase that if they buy the item then the child could become a spoilt brat because they 172 00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:45,070 get everything they want a spoilt brat is a quite informal phrase for a child. 173 00:14:45,070 --> 00:14:51,730 He was like I want I want I want and then the parents give them what they want and then they want more 174 00:14:51,910 --> 00:14:55,420 and more and more and they look like this child here. 175 00:14:56,050 --> 00:15:05,240 So sort of saying on the one hand if you do this then you could create a spoiled brat. 176 00:15:05,250 --> 00:15:12,900 However if they refused to buy the desired product then the poor child feels left out of his or her 177 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:14,370 friendship circle. 178 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:17,550 It really is a no win situation. 179 00:15:17,790 --> 00:15:24,090 So the desired product the thing that the child wants the poor child feels left out. 180 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:31,790 If you feel left out you feel excluded you don't feel part of the group you're outside of the group 181 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:37,980 because if everybody's got a phone and your child doesn't have one then they're left out there outside 182 00:15:38,010 --> 00:15:38,940 of the group. 183 00:15:39,690 --> 00:15:47,190 So outside of the friendship circle we talk about a circle of friends of friendship circle and this 184 00:15:47,820 --> 00:15:53,760 last expression is so useful very very useful for writing and speaking. 185 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:58,940 You may have heard win win situation where you have two positives. 186 00:15:59,130 --> 00:16:06,150 So for example encouraging people to not use cars is a win win situation because it's better for the 187 00:16:06,150 --> 00:16:10,110 environment and people will save money and get fitter. 188 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:12,580 So that's a win win situation. 189 00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:19,650 But if you have a situation like this where if you do one thing it can have negative consequences. 190 00:16:19,650 --> 00:16:24,300 But if you do another thing it can also have negative consequences. 191 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:27,360 It's a no win situation. 192 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:32,070 So like I said great for writing and great for speaking. 193 00:16:32,070 --> 00:16:34,710 So I hope you found this lesson useful. 194 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:38,770 Lots of vocabulary but don't try to learn everything. 195 00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:45,210 Just make sure that you've got your opening sentences and that you've learnt some complex language that 196 00:16:45,210 --> 00:16:52,470 will help you such as that first sentence in answer to this question to give you a filler phrase some 197 00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:55,860 thinking time while you think about what to say. 198 00:16:56,070 --> 00:16:57,030 Thanks for watching.