🙅 Describe a time when you saw children behave badly in public (Part 2) + Transcript
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Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 2. A very interesting topic today, a new topic. Describe a time when you saw children behave badly in public. You should say where it was, what the children were doing,

How others reacted to it and explain how you felt about it. Wow. Rory is a super expert on children. Rory is a teacher. He taught little kids in different countries. So, Rory, you are the authority here on this subject. Of unruly children. Oh, that's a good word. I should put this in my answer. Rory, give us your story.

Well, unfortunately, antisocial behavior by unruly adolescents is a serious issue in our country, so I see this kind of thing all the time. A particularly egregious example that stands out in my mind was when I was in Oxford last year doing an excursion with a class that I was teaching. In a bit more detail about where we were...

This was Oxford City Centre, and we were on our way to the famous Ashmolean Museum, which has exhibitions of artefacts from a variety of cultures around the world. And I was quite excited to be there, and I think the class was too. To get there, we had to walk from the bus stop through the centre and to the museum. And to say a little about what the young people in question were doing, it wasn't actually my students who were misbehaving. Actually, their behaviour was exemplary.

Instead, it was some local teenagers who were causing absolute chaos, just shouting and screaming and falling all over the place. It just based on what I could see, it looked like they had been drinking and were not handling that experience very well. Or they were thinking they were and making a right mess of it.

Most people seem to have responded to what was going on the same way I did, by keeping out of their road and just shooting them these judgmental looks. I can't really talk about it in much more detail, since my attention was focused on making sure my students got to the Ishvoli and unmolested.

I was just anxious to keep them clear of that kind of unruly behavior, not only because they might have gotten involved in a fight, but also because it would harm the reputation of the school. And mine, as a teacher, now that I think about it. When it comes to my personal feelings on the matter, I had a lot of second-hand embarrassment for those local children and their families. If I were a parent, I wouldn't be caught dead allowing my kids to show themselves up like that.

Hopefully, once they recovered from the experience, they reflected on it and learned a lesson about how to conduct themselves better in public. Yay! Thank you, Rory, for your story. Thank you. Sorry it wasn't a very pleasant one. I don't like talking about unpleasant experiences.

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To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon! Yes, dear listener, so the topic is a bit strange. So describe a time when you saw children behave badly in public. So we say children misbehaved or they behaved badly in public. If you don't have a story,

Please make it up now. It could be, I don't know, in a shop, at a school, at a museum, in a restaurant. Okay? We call this behavior antisocial behavior. And Rory, you talked about adolescents. Adolescents, well, they are kind of teenagers, but the...

Cod says children, but it's okay, you can talk about children, like young children or teenagers. So that's okay, just don't talk about adults. Like once I saw adults behaving badly in public. Oh, just once? I constantly see adults behaving badly. Not me though, I'm flawless, my behavior is perfect. Yeah, yeah, I agree, benign behavior. Ha ha ha.

I see this thing all the time. Or I see this kind of thing all the time. And then, Rory, you've used this word... Egregor... Egregious. Egregious. Wow. Such a word, dear listener. Extremely bad in a way that it is very noticeable. It's a negative word and it could be used about an error. An egregious error.

in this document or about behavior, egregious behavior. I think the... well, it's a collocation, a particularly egregious example or a particularly egregious case. Yeah. That stands out in my mind was when I was in Oxford. Or like one example which stands out in my mind was when I was traveling or when I was watching a film

or when i was in mexico doing what right doing an excursion with a class i was teaching so the past continues and the past simple when i was doing something or relaxing on the beach then you say in a bit more detail about where we were this was

blah blah blah like the city center or the museum or the theater i was quite excited to be there i was really happy to be there and then i saw these young people or

Hopefully not drunk five-year-olds.

So I saw a group of young people who were misbehaving. So they were behaving badly. So behave badly. Children I was with behaved. Their behavior was exemplary. Exemplary. Yeah.

Exemplary. Exemplary. Exemplary. We have an example and exemplary behavior. Very good and suitable to be copied by others. So my children's behavior was exemplary. But those young people, they were some local teenagers who were causing absolute chaos. Chaos is...

When things are all over the place, you know order. A lack of order. They were shouting and screaming. They were falling all over the place.

So in a museum, Rory? No, it's like a museum. So they were falling down, so they were falling all over the place. Or you can say they were all over the place, so they were running around like... And we are using a lot of path continuous structures. So what were they doing? I saw them and they were shouting, they were screaming, they were falling over all over the place.

It looked like they had been drinking. The past perfect continuous because it happened before. So, they had drunk something and then Rory saw them. So, drinking was before and then Rory saw them. So, please use past perfect or past perfect continuous. So, it looked like they had been drinking or they had been smoking or they had been using some illegal substances.

Most people kept out of their way, so they were kind of avoiding these rowdy teenagers. And they responded to them the same way I did. So kind of like they ignored them. People were shooting them judgmental looks. So when this situation happens, like people usually look at these teenagers and kind of like we judge these children like "what?"

It was an unruly behavior. So it was a very good example of unruly behavior, not only because blah, blah, blah, but also because blah, blah, blah.

And people might have got involved in a fight. So some other children, some other teenagers might have got involved in a fight. So it was possible for somebody to make a fight with those teenagers. Or pick a fight with them. And then we talk about our personal feelings. So you can turn to this subject.

when it comes to my personal feelings on this matter, on this subject. I had a lot of secondhand embarrassment for those local children. So I felt embarrassed for these children. I was embarrassed. And then you can say like, if I were a parent, if you don't have children, if I were a parent, like as a parent, if you have children,

Or you can imagine that you have no children and use the second conditional, okay? So, if I were a parent, I wouldn't allow my kids to show themselves up like this. So, show themselves up to behave in such a way.

conduct themselves in public means to behave themselves in public. Rory, what helped you organize this answer? Well, having a terrible experience with wayward children, I suppose, is the best way to think about it.

I did the same thing I usually do, but I added a little bit of variety here. So, I didn't say "in more detail about", I said "in a bit more detail about". And instead of "to say" or "to tell you more about", I said "to say a little about" and then the details as well.

I didn't actually give an introduction to the part about how others reacted to it. I just said most people responded the same way I did. But that's a natural follow-on because I said most people responded to what was going on the same way I did. And what was going on was what I just discussed. And then when we come to the end, I said when it comes to my personal feelings on the matter, so just when it comes to how I feel about it.

Apart from that, though, no big changes. Just this addition of a bit more detail, a little bit more about this. Yay! So, dear listener, you use a lot of past continuous, and it's a good idea to use past perfect. So, it looked like they had been drinking, actually, past perfect continuous. Or it looked like they had been smoking, right? So, a very nice structure. And then, to wrap it up, let's...

Like, if I were a parent, I wouldn't... So, just imagine that you don't have any kids. So, if I were, I wouldn't allow. Thank you very much for listening. And we'll get back to you in our speaking part 3 about children and their behavior. Bye! Bye!

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Describe a time when you saw children behave badly in public. You should say where it was, what the children were doing,

How others reacted to it and explain how you felt about it. Well, unfortunately, antisocial behavior by unruly adolescents is a serious issue in our country. So I see this kind of thing all the time. A particularly egregious example that stands out in my mind was when I was in Oxford last year doing an excursion with a class that I was teaching. In a bit more detail about where we were,

This was Oxford City Centre, and we were on our way to the famous Ashmolean Museum, which has exhibitions of artefacts from a variety of cultures around the world. And I was quite excited to be there, and I think the class was too. To get there, we had to walk from the bus stop through the centre and to the museum. And to say a little about what the young people in question were doing, it wasn't actually my students who were misbehaving. Actually, their behaviour was exemplary.

Instead, it was some local teenagers who were causing absolute chaos, just shouting and screaming and falling all over the place. It just based on what I could see, it looked like they had been drinking and were not handling that experience very well. Or they were thinking they were and making a right mess of it.

Most people seem to have responded to what was going on the same way I did, by keeping out of their road and just shooting them these judgmental looks. I can't really talk about it in much more detail, since my attention was focused on making sure my students got to the Ishvoli and unmolested.

I was just anxious to keep them clear of that kind of unruly behavior, not only because they might have gotten involved in a fight, but also because it would harm the reputation of the school. And mine, as a teacher, now that I think about it. When it comes to my personal feelings on the matter, I had a lot of second-hand embarrassment for those local children and their families. If I were a parent, I wouldn't be caught dead allowing my kids to show themselves up like that.

Hopefully, once they recovered from the experience, they reflected on it and learned a lesson about how to conduct themselves better in public. Yay! Thank you, Rory, for your story. Thank you. Sorry it wasn't a very pleasant one. I don't like talking about unpleasant experiences.