IELTS Energy 1450: Most Necessary Vocabulary for Speaking Part 3
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This is an IELTS Energy Podcast, Episode 1450, Most Necessary Vocabulary for Speaking Part 3.

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forward slash my score. How can you satisfy the IELTS requirement of using a variety of impressive vocabulary on Speaking Part 3? You're in luck because today we'll share vocabulary that you can use on any Part 3 exam.

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Hello, Aubrey. How are you today? I'm great. How are you, Jessica? I'm excited to be back on the mic. Guys, today we are going to teach you the best phrases that you can use in Speaking Part 3, no matter what questions you get asked. And this is a second part to Tuesday's episode. Aubrey, what did we talk about on Tuesday?

Yes, we shared the most important vocabulary you need to learn for part one and part two. These are words and phrases, linking phrases that are going to come up on every exam. So you want to make sure to have these in your pocket so that you're ready on test day. Yeah. So if you missed that episode,

episode guys scroll up it's the one right before today's episode and make sure to hit follow guys or subscribe on youtube because you do not want to miss any more ielts episodes we have had such great um responses lately from students writing to us saying that they got amazing scores on their exam because they listened to this podcast so guys definitely hit follow

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It doesn't matter what topic you are asked about in part three. They are always asking you to perform the same language functions. All right. So you're either like comparing and contrasting or comparing the past to now, for example, you're asked to predict the future. You're asked your opinion. So these are the functions that you need to have prepared phrases for.

Exactly. So the actual topic, who knows what you're going to be asked. It could be anything, right? But these functions, you're always going to need vocabulary, like Jessica said, to compare, to contrast, to predict. So we're taking each of these functions and giving you phrases today that you can definitely use anytime this function comes up on part three.

Yes, exactly. So let's get into a very common one. This happens every speaking part three guys, you will be asked to compare the past to now, right? So what

What's a good phrase for that? Yeah, I really love the phrase back in the day. So instead of in the past, right, it means the same thing, but it's more native and natural to say back in the day, young people simply didn't have access to, you know, this information. And then an adjective here, you could say such a massive amount of information. Yes.

We mentioned this word massive in Tuesday's episode, guys, in the last episode, because remember, you need a lot of great adjectives, right? So instead of saying like a lot of information, no, we say a massive amount of information. All right. So back in the day is it's

little informal, right? However, guys, you do need to show a wide variety of transition phrases and it is still speaking. So even though speaking part three is more formal, more academic, you can still use some more natural informal phrases like this back in the day. All right. Now, what if you're asked to predict the future? What can we say?

which is very likely. There is a good chance that you're going to be asked some kind of question that will ask you what you think something will be like in the future. So we love the phrase, it's nigh on impossible to know for certain. So this just means who can say, I don't know for sure, but it's full of high scoring vocabulary. So nigh, it's nigh on impossible to know for certain. Then you can start any answer with that.

Yes, any I mean, yeah, it's a prediction question, right? Nobody knows for certain. So you can use this for any prediction question. Don't use it more than once, though. And make sure to remember it as a chunk, right? Because if you don't remember each word, it'll come off as inappropriate and incorrect. So again, that phrase is incorrect.

it's nigh on impossible to know for certain. So for example, if you're asked about the future of social media, right? You could say it's nigh on impossible to know for certain, of course, but I'd say the proliferation of social media will keep expanding. So you see the additional academic vocab there. And this is also great for a lot of speaking part three answers, right? Proliferation. That's also great for

writing task two. What does proliferation mean? Yeah.

Yeah, a big amount of something and that it's growing, right? So the proliferation of social media means it's everywhere, constantly expanding. Widespread, right? Exactly, exactly. All right, now opinion, of course. You're always asked about your opinion. So you need a couple phrases for this. You need more than a couple phrases in your pocket for this because you don't want to just say, in my opinion, I think, I think, right? So what can we say instead?

Yeah, one good one is to my mind. I know you've heard us use this in sample answers. It's a great synonym. It means the same thing as in my opinion, but it's less common and therefore higher scoring. So for example, if you're asked about the advantages and disadvantages of running a business, a small business, you could say, well, to my mind, running a small business has more cons than pros, to be honest.

Nice, nice. And I like the way that you flipped pros and cons because usually we say pros and cons. So that's a fun language flip there. That sounds interesting, right? So that lends itself to a high vocabulary score because you can flexibly use this language.

Here's another phrase that you could use about that same topic, "As I see it." So again, that's so much more interesting than "I think," right? Yes. So we could say, "As I see it, one needs to be extremely tech savvy in order to run any business these days." So another thing that makes that more formal is saying "one" instead of like "people," you know?

Yes, and there's a good chance you will have already said people a time or two, right? We hear students say it 50 times in the course of a speaking exam. So you need to paraphrase. You need other options here. And this is a good option. As I see it, one needs to be extremely tech savvy instead of saying people. Love that. Mm-hmm.

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right here is the challenging part of the show guys where we have to spontaneously use this amazing vocabulary in part three questions all right aubry you're gonna go first today are you ready got this yes you got this all right um do people worry too much about their appearance as they get older

Well, to my mind, anyone who worries about their appearance is worrying too much about what they look like. I just don't think we should be spending one iota of time on this. But yeah, I think as we age, we can't help but notice the wrinkles. We see our appearance changing and we're used to seeing what we look like in our prime. So we can't help but

but be a little more concerned about, you know, what we look like as we age. Nice. Okay. That was awesome. I really liked when you said we shouldn't worry one iota or spend one iota of

What did you say? We shouldn't worry one iota, right? - We shouldn't worry one iota about this, about our appearance. - So good, yeah. So instead of saying like, not at all, right? It's we shouldn't do that one iota, so good. All right, okay, my turn. - Okay, ready for your question? Do you think that the media influences our ideas about what is attractive?

Oh, 100%. I mean, you can see, you know, it's really funny because what is attractive does change over time, right? It's nigh on impossible to have a consistent beauty expectation in any society, especially in such fast changing cultures. So like, back in the day, if you look at commercials from the 1980s, you would see that it was beautiful to have like

huge hair all around your head. And these days, it's sort of shifted to having boys like only having a massive amount of hair on the top of their heads and then no hair on the side. To my mind, it's a little bit weird. It looks like broccoli, but that's what's beautiful today. And these are the images you see in the media.

Nice. Impressive. You used so many of these and showed how versatile they are really, right? When you used it's nigh on impossible, you weren't talking about predicting. You were just using it more literally to say like this is impossible or this is difficult. So that's amazing. You guys can see how as you're practicing answering your IELTS questions, you're

you know, throw these in, try to use as many of them as possible so that whenever this function comes up on part three and they will, all of these will, you'll have this great high scoring vocab. Okay. Awesome. This was such great vocab today. Guys, thank you so much for listening. And if you missed last episode, scroll up and make sure to hit follow so you don't miss another episode. Yes. Awesome. Hit follow. We'll see you guys next week. Thanks, Jessica.

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