IELTS Speaking for Success - 🤫 Describe a quite place you like to go to (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: March 29, 2026

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Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IEL speaking part two. Describe a quiet place you like to go. You should say where it is, how you knew about the place, how often you go there, and what you do there. Also, explain how you feel about the place. Rory, give us your story. Well, my whole house is pretty quiet, but the place I like to go to the most to relax is definitely my bedroom. In terms of where it is, I think it's on the west side of my house, or at least the end that's furthest away from the front door. Not only that, but it's the second largest room too, so it's away from the noise outside on the stairs and it's got a lot of space to stretch out and just unwind.

When it comes to how I knew of it, well, it's impossible to miss, since it's a pretty integral part of my home, it's right down the main corridor, so I don't have far to go if I ever need to be there. With regards to how often I go there, I'm pretty much there on a daily basis since my bed is in there and I almost always sleep there unless I'm staying over somewhere else. Sometimes during the day I'll also go there and sit on my bed to work or read, although I'm trying to do that less these days since I like a clear distinction between my workspace and my rest areas. But still, it's nice to know I can go there if I need it. Tell you a bit more about what I do there.

it's just nice to chill out on the bed sometimes and it's quite a large one so it's fairly easy to do that and I have all my unread books that I'm working my way through next to my bed or on bookshelves so I can get to them easily enough and as for how I feel about it

I'm quite glad I have the space all to myself because I like having a place to go if I feel overwhelmed that's away from people and work if I didn't have it I think life would be a bit more stressful and I don't think anybody really wants that, especially in the context of quiet places that we like to go to.

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After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. So do you listen, the task is disdise. describe a quiet place. A quiet place is a place which is not noisy, right? Rory told us about his bedroom, but it could be a park, a museum, a library, a cafe you enjoy going to, okay? This is like a quiet place you enjoy working in, why not? Or someplace in your house, like your office, kind of like if you have a special room where you work or study, it's an office or a S study.

Okay. So, a Rory's bedroom. Right. Rory, we need pictures. Could you post pictures on your Instagram? We need to see it, you know. Maybe a video, a video, you know. A tour.

A video tour of Rory's bedroom. Yes, the listener. And that will be the shortest video tour in history. Yeah, this is a bad. This is, you know, four walls, a window. Thank you. I sleep here. Job done.

Bye. So, de Lisina, you can start with my house is pretty quiet. So I'm going to tell you about my bedroom, which is the quietest place. Quiet and the quietest place in the world. I go there to relax, obviously. Why else would you be in a quietest place? space. To enjoy the quiet, the peace and quiet. When you change the topic, you use in terms of where it is, it's in my house. It's on the west side of my house. I don't know that for a fact,

by the way. I was just guessing, I think it's on the west side of my house. But if it's not, then it's on some other side, the north or the east or the south side. You can say that it's far, from the front door. So your front door, like you enter the house through your front door, and you can say it's far from my front door, it's next to my kitchen, it's close to my dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and it's the second largest room in the house. Or it's the largest room, or it's the smallest room in my house. It's away from the noise outside. So this is what we want. That's why it's quiet. It's away from the noise outside.

It's away from the stairs. Yeah, because usually people go up and down the stairs, so it's quite noisy. So it's away from the stairs. The room has a lot of space to stretch out in. So Rory stretches his body in this room. Like stretching, you know, if you go to the gym, you can go to stretching classes. So like to stretch your legs, like, you know, to. kind of like do, okay, like we usually stretch in the morning, you know.

You can also say that this place is spacious. It has a lot of space. It's large. It's spacious. It's bright and shiny. Then the question, like, how did you know about this place? Well, it's out of the question because it's Rory's bedroom, so it's ridiculous. Oh, yeah, I found out that I have a bedroom in my house.

Oh, wow. I've wondered I have a bedroom than I've been staying in just recently. Look at that. However, it could be useful if it's like a park or something. Like, I find out about this park when I moved to the area and I looked at a map. My friends told me about this place. I found it on the internet, on the internet. I found it on Instagram.

You can lie and just say like, oh, I found it by myself. Or I don't remember how I found it. That's also okay. So this place is an integral part of my house. Integral meaning it's there. It's necessary and important part of my house. Yeah, integral. Wow.

Cambridge Online Dictionary says that it's integral. I would say integral. I've never heard someone saying integral. Really? That's weird, isn't it? Cambridge, what's going on? We think it's weird. It's an adjective here.

Integral. Wow. Well, I'm not saying integral. That sounds weird. It's right down the main corridor. So it's right down the kitchen. Like where? Where is it?

It's right down there. It's over there. It's over there in my house, you know? It's very difficult, Jimas. It's in my home. How often do you go there? Yeah, also it's quite weird, you know. Like, okay, I'm talking about my bedroom.

often do you go to your bedroom? Okay. Well, I'm there on a daily basis. Yeah, and Rory gives us a laugh, you know, I'm telling you about my bedroom. So, yeah, I'm there on a daily basis. Daily basis every day. Since my bed is there, okay? Because my bed is there, obviously, so I just sleep there. When Westcham first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere. and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get

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to work or read. Do you walk in your bedroom, Rory? Sometimes. I've not done it in a while, but I was running out of things to say, so I just added that. Yeah, because your bed should be used only for sleeping, dear listener, not for work, because you know, it's bad for your sleeping habits. It's like really bad. I like a clear distinction between my work spaces and my rest areas. So this is my rest area, a place where I relax. I unwind, a synonym for relax. I unwind in my bedroom.

I relax in my bedroom. So I enjoy a clear distinction, like a clear difference. So my bed is for relaxing, is for unwinding. But the other rooms are. for work, for example. So a distinction means a difference, a clear distinction between. Again, we are changing the topic to tell you a bit more about what I do there. I chill out on my bed, on my bed, I chill out, or if you are talking about a park or a

cafe, I chill out with a cup of coffee, you know, yum, yum, yum. Yeah, a nice cappuccino with banana milk. Oh, are you speaking for yourself? No, no, I don't do this. Banana. Yeah, I know, banana. So, I, again, if you talk about a place outside, you can say I meet my friends, I enjoy listening to birds, listen to music. I don't know, what do you do there?

I just do nothing, I just sit there, you know. I feel quite glad. I'm quite glad. I have this space to myself. I feel happy. Yeah. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. So it's a bit too much for me.

Everything is too much. I feel overwhelmed by joy or by sadness. So when I feel overwhelmed, I usually go to this place to enjoy the peace and quiet. Or if I'm stressed, for example, I go there. Roy, do you have any synonyms for? quiet. Well, there's the binomial. Peace and quiet. You do not say quiet and peace. You say peace and quiet. The calm and the quiet as well. I like the calm. I like the quiet. Yeah. And then you just say it's not noisy. There is no noise there. We could say it's calm. It's peaceful.

Oh, it's peaceful. Yeah, that's nice. It's peaceful. If you think that you should use a lot of Well, it depends if a word does have a synonym. For example, quiet, a quiet place, doesn't have many synonyms. All right, de listen, so it's okay. You can just paraphrase, like, peace and quiet, not noisy, calm, and you can wrap it up with a conditional. So Rory imagines that if he doesn't have this place, let's imagine no bedroom for Rory. If I didn't have it... Then I would be very uncomfortable. Yeah, I'd be uncomfortable.

So if I didn't know about this place, I'd go somewhere else. I would go. For example, you have your quiet cafe. So if it wasn't quiet, I'd go to a park. Okay. Or if I didn't have this place, life might be a bit more stressful for me. That is true about any place. So the second condition, dear listener, okay?

Imaginary about the present. If I didn't have this place, I think life might be a bit more stressful, or life would be more stressful for me. Okay, Roy, what's your second choice of a quiet place? I don't know. I have a second choice. That's it. It used to be my yoga studio, but now, oh, people are very loud in the yoga studio, so it's just my house, yeah. Yoga people are loud?

Yoga people are very loud and I have no time for it, but you know, everybody's different and tamaste. Moving swiftly on, imagine if you don't want to talk about your bedroom, but there are some useful pieces of vocabulary here. For example, if we talk about the beginning, you can say just about anywhere is quiet, but the one I like to go to most is this or the one that stands out is this. then if we want to talk about where it is, it does not need to be in your house, but you could say it's in the west side of town, it's in the east, it's to the east of my town, to the north, to the south.

And then we can always say when it comes to how I know of it and then talk about how you know of it. So that phrase is always useful for this one. Yay! Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you in our speaking part three about quiet places in general, okay? Bye.

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you do there. Also explain how you feel about the place. Well, my whole house is pretty quiet, but the place I like to go to the most to relax is definitely my bedroom. In terms of where it is, I think it's on the west side of my house. or at least the end that's furthest away from the front door. Not only that, but it's the second largest room too. So it's away from the noise outside on the stairs

and it's got a lot of space to stretch out and just unwind. When it comes to how I knew of it, well, it's impossible to miss since it's a pretty integral part of my home. It's right down the main corridor, so I don't have far to go if I ever need to be there. With regards to how often I go there, I'm pretty much there on a daily basis since my bed is in there and I almost always sleep there unless I'm staying over somewhere else. Sometimes during the day I'll also go there and sit on my bed to work or reads, although I'm trying to do that less these days since I like a clear distinction between my workspace and my rest areas.

but still it's nice to know I can go there if I need it tell you a bit more about what I do there it's just nice to chill out on the bed sometimes and it's quite a large one so it's fairly easy to do that and I have all my unread books that I'm working my way through next to my bed or on bookshelves so I can get to them easily enough and as for how I feel about it I'm quite glad I have the space all to myself because I like having a place to go with I feel overwhelmed

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