🚶‍♀️ Walking (Part 1) + Transcript

0:00America leads the world in medicine development. It matters. We get new medicines first, nearly three years faster. Five million Americans go to work because we make medicines here at home, and not relying on other countries keeps us safe. But China is racing to overtake us. Will we let them? Or will we choose to stay ahead? When America leads, America cures. Let's tell Washington to keep us in the lead. Learn how at americancures.com, paid for by Farma. Hello lovely and Maria. My name is Rory, and we're the host of the IELTS speaking for success podcast. The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score. Your bad night score. Oh Rory, you look exhausted. Yeah, I went for a walk earlier and it turned into a bit of a trek.

1:04What a coincidence. Because today we're going to be talking about walking, walking, walk, walk. Let's wander through some walking vocabulary. Yeah, when Rory says that it turns into a bit of a trek, a trek is like a long walk. He went for a walk, but he ended up spending like five hours walking. Long distance. Yeah, like over the mountains and hills because Rory lives in the middle of nowhere in Scotland. I don't live in the middle of nowhere, but there's no convincing Maria, otherwise. Do listen, I do not always cotton this. Exactly. That's what I'm talking about. Do you walk a lot? Not as much as I used to know that I think about it. I think the most steps I get in these days are clocked up when I walk to the shops. I'd like to walk about a bit more, though,

2:07and I should probably make the time for it. Where did you go for a walk lately? Oh, my friend and I wandered around a museum in my hometown recently, and we had to stroll through the city centre to get there. Nothing else stands out apart from that, unfortunately. Did you often go outside to have a walk when you were a child? Oh, yeah. We would wander about the local neighbourhood all the time. There wasn't much else to do apart from that, sadly. Thankfully, there were lots of places to go along the beaches or through some of the parks. Where would you like to take a long walk if you had the chance? I don't know. I quite like walks on the beach, so that would be good to do again in the summer when it's warmer. Oh, other than that, I'm not really sure. Why do people like to walk in parks? Well, if there's anything like me, I suppose they like to get out to the buyer to enjoy the fresh air. It's also good exercise, isn't it? And it's a good chance to enjoy the sun when it's out.

3:10Like what I said about the summer earlier. My day kicks off with a refreshing sociocenergy drink, then straight to the gym. Pick up, back home to meal prep, time for my fire session shift. One more Celsius gotta keep the lights on. When the three alarm hits, I'm ready. Celsius, live, fit, go. Grab a cold refreshing sociocenergy local retailer or locate now at Celsius.com. As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free, and it's available for one month. After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. Design up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. So, it's not walking. Walking is like when you go out for a walk. Go for a walk. You use your feet, you know? These days, we use all kinds of devices and machines like cars,

4:16electric scooters, but do you use your legs? Do you listen to them? Do you? No, you don't. Well, maybe you walk from the fridge to your coffee machine. That's also walking, that counts. And then you walk to your bed. Yeah, that also counts. So, you can say I don't walk as much as I used to. Ten years ago, I walked a lot, but not now. No, I'm a couch potato. I'm a couch potato. Yeah, that means that you stay on your couch at home, no walking. Or I drive, not as much as I used to. I drive these days, or I take the metro, or I go out and about by bicycle, for example. I walk to the shops, I walk to work, I walk to, I don't know, where do you walk, do you listen?

5:19I walk my dog. If you have a dog, you take your dog out for a walk. I walk with my dog, and I count the steps, my daily steps. So, usually the steps are clocked up by your phone, by your watch, I don't know, by some device, by a ring, you're wearing. Yeah, so maybe you have an Apple watch, because my watch counts the steps. I'd like to walk a bit more, but I should make the time for it. We make time to do things. Yeah, like a plan, time for walking. Some people do a plan, is they're walking, they kind of have to walk 30,000 steps a day. No, maybe 10,000 steps a day. And that's like a good exercise, actually. One of the best exercises ever, just walking, not running, walking. Yeah, because there's certain energy that our body produces

6:24while walking. And that's like simple walking. And for the elderly, they also tell them like, okay, if you can't do anything, just walk. Just use your feet. My friend and I wandered around. So when you wander around, you just walk without a specific aim. That's a good sign, a wander around. We can say like, oh, last week, I wandered around a park. I just like, I walked, walked slowly in a relaxed way. You don't have a clear purpose or direction, so I was wandering around a park. I was wandering the streets. My friends and I were having a walk in the park. But yeah, like I went for a walk or I wandered around a museum, for example. I wandered around a park and we had a stroll through the city center, another synonym form. Taking a walk is have a stroll.

7:30And to stroll is C1 is advanced. Where is it? It is like C1 by an 8. Walk in a slow, relaxed way for pleasure. So I strolled along the beach or I strolled in the park. I had a stroll in the park. So I kind of I walked in a relaxed way for pleasure. So two synonyms, okay. I wandered around in a museum in a park. I had a stroll through the city center. I had a stroll through the park or I strolled through the city center. When I was a child, I used to wander around the local neighborhood. So we all did that as children. We just walked around in our neighborhood, neighborhoods like the area close to where you live. So you can say, yeah, I used to wander about my neighborhood, wander about or wander around. Or Rory uses wood. But it's not the future,

8:37it's about the past. There is no C2, but 9 gramma, and now Rory explains grammar to us. Still it's like why did you use wood? It's just about what we always did in the past. Yeah. It's a nice variation on used to. Exactly. So you can say, we wondered about the local neighborhood when I was a child or we would wander about the local neighborhood. That just meaning bust. I had it. Thankfully, there were lots of places to go. Rory lived in Scotland and he had the sea, the beaches, he had the mountains, castles with ghosts, hills and ruins of ancient Scottish people. Ancient Scottish people? Did you have any ancient Scottish people? Probably. Yes. Thousands of years ago people lived in Scotland. So yes.

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10:46any places to go, you say unfortunately, or sadly, I didn't have many places to go, so I had to wander around my neighborhood, not the beaches and mountains and castles of ghosts. If I had the chance, so the phrase is if I had the chance, I'd take a walk in the mountains. If I could, I'd go to the beach. If I could, I'd like to walk or to have a stroll on the beach in summer. Well, the final question is just so strange, like, why do people like to walk in parks? Why do people live? Why, yeah, why do people walk? Why do people walk? Why do people breathe? Yeah, do listen. Some questions are a bit stupid, you know, they're just, but come on, the examiner wants you to produce English. So produce English, all right? You can crack a joke,

11:50you can, you know, be sarcastic, produce laughter. That's a dumb question. And if you laugh like this, the examiner will also laugh. You will create positive energy and the examiner will like you, and because kind of subconsciously, we like people who make us laugh, because it's all like, you know, positive, you know, we feel relaxed when we laugh. Just like this. Roy, could you give us your stupid laughter? No, but the point is, yes, sometimes you can ask the crazy question, and so you have to think about the answer you should give. So I said, if there are anything like me, and then I talked about how, or why I would walk in a park, but in a very general way, we get out and about. I love this phrase, to get out and about. Oh, it's buying more meal. Yeah, get out and about. We can see about and out, we say out and about. Hmm, be active, like do things. You should be out

12:53and about. If you feel ill, then you'll get better and you'll be out and about. So are people enjoy walking in parks because they like to get out and about. They enjoy the fresh air. They love nature. They have the chance to enjoy the sun. Very nice. Yeah, but can we get very smart and bombard the examiner with some scientific knowledge and about walking in the parks? Oh, God knows. You could talk about nature connectedness, I suppose. That's the long one. But we've mentioned that previously, nature connectedness is this feeling of connection with the world, well, with the natural world that's caused or happens after about 20 minutes. And we know that happens because in brain scans and blood tests, you can see if you'll stress hormones lower and the brain activity is calmer. And also, Dillison, you can say that, according to the research,

13:57walking in nature lowers stress levels and blood pressure. Parks could be paraphrased as greenery. So walking in greenery, no. Yes. In greenery, really? In greenery. Okay. In green trees and gardens and parks. Yeah, it's relaxing, Dillison. All right. Yeah, it improves your mental health and well-being. It lowers your blood pressure, reduces stress and improves your mood. It also improves your focus. There we go. Some science. And it is a lovely physical exercise. Right. Rory, Alek, have you ever walked for a long time? Like, what's the longest time you've ever walked? Oh, God. I think we walked for something like six hours once when we were traveling

14:58like abroad, but that's been a very long time. Six hours nonstop. You're just walking. Yeah, I think so. But this was about 10 years ago. I do not remember the fine details. You do more walking than I do. You should have answered these questions. When I traveled in Peru, I think I walked, but we walked in the mountains too much a picture. I think from early morning till it got dark. So like all day, all day light during the day light. But we stopped for dinner, we stopped for water, but it's just nonstop you walk. Usually up and down, up and down. And then in the middle of it, I started crying because I couldn't do it anymore. Like, why am I here? It's good you had such a measured reaction to that. No, because it's physically difficult, you know, like you go up the mountain for like good two hours. Oh, yeah, but now I understand how beautiful it was. At that moment, no. Right, listen on such a lovely note. Hopefully you enjoy walking, okay? And you remember two synonyms.

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17:10Oh, my friend and I wandered around a museum in my hometown recently and we had to stroll through the city centre to get there. Nothing else stands out apart from that, unfortunately. Did you often go outside to have a walk when you were a child? Oh yeah, we would wander about the local neighbourhood all the time. There wasn't much else to do apart from that, sadly. Thankfully, there were lots of places to go along the beaches or through some of the parks. Where would you like to take a long walk if you had the chance? I don't know. I quite like walks on the beach so that would be good to do again in the summer when it's warmer. Oh, other than that, I'm not really sure. Why do people like to walk in the parks? Well, if they're anything like me, I suppose they like to get out to the buyer to enjoy the fresh air. It's also good exercise, isn't it? And it's a good chance to enjoy the sun when it's out, like what I said about the summer earlier.