IELTS Energy 1486: IELTS Dreamy Part 1 Speaking Answers
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This is an IELTS Energy Podcast, Episode 1486, IELTS Dreamy Part 1 Speaking Answers. ♪

Welcome to the IELTS Energy Podcast from All Ears English, downloaded more than 22 million times with former IELTS examiner Jessica Beck and Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz. If you are stuck with a low score, our insider method will help you get the score you need to unlock your dreams.

Get your estimated band score now with our two-minute quiz. Go to allearsenglish.com forward slash my score. On today's show, you'll hear three band nine model speaking answers to part one questions about dreams. Listen up for some impressively interesting vocabulary and expressive intonation.

Aubrey, are you a person who dreams a lot?

I am so excited to dive into this. I will sometimes dream and in the middle of the night remember my dreams so vividly, but then when I wake up in the morning, I don't remember. I need like a dream journal. I think that's really common, but also like you don't want to just start writing in your journal at night and I feel like that would wake you up too much and then you wouldn't be able to sleep again. Totally. That's a good point. There's a reason I don't get up to write about them. I'll never fall asleep after that.

Today, guys, we are providing you model band 9 answers for IELTS Speaking Part 1 questions about dreams. We've never tackled this topic before. No, and you could definitely get this on IELTS. And if you haven't thought about it recently or don't talk about it a lot, this might be kind of tricky.

Exactly, exactly. So listen up today, guys. And while you're listening to us, you can also be thinking about how you would answer these questions. All right, so let's get to it. I'm going to ask you first, okay? I'm going to ask you actually, because I just answered this and I want to hear your answer. Ready? True. Yes. Yes. Okay. Do you dream much at night?

Yes, question mark. I think I do. I often wake up in the morning and feel like I had interrupted a dream of some sort.

But I only remember it for such a brief time. I feel like once my mind fully wakes up, you know, then the dream has just disappeared. And I wish there were some like strategy that I could use to train my brain to remember my dreams because I'm sure they're cool. I'm sure they're crazy.

Oh, so much great vocab here. First, I love how you started it. Yes, question mark. This is so native and natural and slang to say question mark aloud as if you're like reading what someone wrote and wrote a question mark there. This is...

fun. Use this to start an answer, especially with the intonation Jessica used. It's not like, yes, question mark. It's like you say it in a questioning tone, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. That is really good slang guys. Anytime you're uncertain,

about your answer. Be like, yes, question mark, or no question mark. Either one. They both work. Yes. And then a really fun, informal way to start an answer. Jessica said, I feel like once I wake up, this is so great, especially for part one. You don't want to say, you know, I think this. I know this.

I feel like is a great way to say this that's informal and helps you avoid repeating all of the different ways that you could start answer, start sentences. And then a really good use of the subjunctive tense here. We talk sometimes about how if you feel like you don't have a ton more to say, you could say what you wish were different.

what you wish could be different, right? And she said, "I wish there were some kind of technique or strategy. What a great way to have a little more to say about something. What do you wish were different?" - Awesome, awesome. All right, I'm gonna ask you a question now. - All right. - Do you often remember your dreams?

In the middle of the night at 2 a.m., yes, vividly, images, a full plot of an entire movie. I often want to wake up my partner and tell him about the crazy dream I just had. And then I'm sure that I'll remember it in the morning because it was so powerful. It felt like reality. But then, always, without fail, I wake up and I remember having an interesting dream but could not tell you a single thing about it.

Awesome. All right. So I want you guys to notice Aubrey's intonation there. First, when she was like, vividly, right? So vividly is an adverb that means like in great detail, often very colorful, right? But really in great detail, vividly. But the way that she said the word vividly

And some other great vocab, besides vividly, two phrases that I want you guys to note down. She mentioned that there'd be like a full plot to the movie. So full meaning complete, but it's a more slangy way to say complete. And then plot, right? That's a movie word. That's a story, novel word, not usually used to describe dreams.

So using that to describe the story of a dream is a very interesting use of vocabulary. And then she said always without fail. So without fail would be a synonym for always, right? But we love as native speakers to emphasize by repeating an idea two different ways.

Yeah, absolutely. If I say always and feel like I don't know that my meaning really is getting across that they realize it really is always, then I'll say it another way, maybe an even more powerful way, like without fail. Totally, totally.

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All right, we're going to answer one more question here and then we're going to tell you guys about the next episode because it's super fun. All right, Aubrey, can you answer? Can you ask me one more question? Answer me this. Yes. Here is your next question. Do people in your country talk about their dreams?

Yeah, for sure. I think, you know, it's always difficult being asked to sort of generalize about people in my country because there's so many people and we're all so different. When I think of people describing their dreams, I think of like

Those really like spiritual people that use crystals and think all of their dreams have like meaning about their past lives or maybe even predicting their future. I don't want to be judgmental, but sometimes it is kind of cheesy hearing people describe their dreams like that.

Oh, man, two amazing things I want to point out here. I love this phrase that you guys could use for so many IELTS speaking questions that are asked about people in general, people in your country to say what Jessica said something like, I feel like it's difficult being asked to generalize.

because we're all so different or even you know people in my country are all so different because ielts will often do this they're going to ask you to generalize about your country or people in your country and as a society we're trying to move away from stereotyping and generalizing like this so you could have this whole phrase practice it full of great vocabulary and there's a good chance that you could use it if you're asked about people in general

Yes, awesome. All right, guys. And next time we have planned a super fun episode for you as a follow-up to today's show, we're going to teach you some idioms with the word dream that you can definitely use on your next IELTS speaking exam. Awesome. Excited for that one. I will see you there. Thanks, Aubrey. Bye. Bye.

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