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This podcast is brought to you by BKC International House, specifically by our official IELTS test center.
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Hello everyone, I'm Maria.
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And hi, my name's Joe.
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And we are the hosts of IELTS Speaking for Success podcast,
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a podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.
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We are doing this podcast to give you a look at
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how a native English speaker would answer some of the IELTS speaking questions.
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We have Joe with us today.
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Rory is on holiday with Robert, thinking about his age.
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So Joe will be answering some of the most common IELTS speaking questions.
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The examiners have two topics to start off with.
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their accommodation or work or studies.
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So in the exam you will have one of these topics: accommodation or work or studies.
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The secret is that these are the only topics you can actually prepare for.
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Joe, are you ready to talk about accommodation?
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Yes I am.
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So the first question is: Joe, do you live in a house or an apartment?
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I live in an apartment.
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I've been living there for about three months now.
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And it's fantastic, I really enjoy it.
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What do you like about living there?
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I think the most important thing is the location.
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I'm only about a five minute walk from the metro.
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And for someone like me, who has a very busy schedule, the convenience of living so close to the metro is probably the most important thing.
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Which is your favorite room in your home?
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I don't have a very big home, so unfortunately I don't have much of a choice.
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But I'd say my favorite room is my bathroom,
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because after walking through Moscow in a bitterly cold day.
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I love to get home and take a hot shower at night before I go to bed.
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So, um, so although I don't have much of a choice, I would probably say that my bathroom is is my favorite room.
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Would you change anything about your home?
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Why, why not?
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You know, that's a really good question.
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I...
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unfortunately, when I moved into my home, There was a lot of junk and rubbish in my home already, especially on the balcony.
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Things that belong to the owner and he just never took out.
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So unfortunately my balcony is...
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is very crowded now.
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It would be great if he would take those things away and I could have the balcony to myself.
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Would you like to move to a different home in the future?
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You know, I'm not the type of person that really thinks about the future.
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I mostly live in the present. But
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No, I suppose in the near future I would like to stay in my home
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because as I said the location is perfect.
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In the distant future, I suppose that would depend on a lot of factors.
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As I mentioned previously, it's a quite small apartment.
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So if I happen to have a family in the future, I would have to move, of course.
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But for the time being, No, my apartment is perfectly fine.
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What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?
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Well, you know, to be honest, this changes every day.
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It really depends on my mood or how I'm feeling.
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For example, sometimes in the middle of our Moscow winters,
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I really picture myself living in a tropical bungalow in some sort of warmer climate.
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But on the other hand, on most days, I'm perfectly fine living where I am now.
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So like I said, it really depends on my mood.
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Now, Joe has just used gorgeous vocabulary.
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Let's have a look at it now.
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So Joe, you said that your home is a five minute walk from the metro, right?
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Yes.
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Could you give me another example with this phrase?
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Sure.
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So this means that it only takes me five minutes to walk somewhere.
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So I live about a two minute walk from a supermarket.
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I live about a 20 minute drive.
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from my work.
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So we would have A, plus a unit of time,
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plus either a walk or a drive or a flight, then from and the location.
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Exactly, yeah, that's a lovely phrase.
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Also, you've mentioned that you have a busy schedule.
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What else can you say?
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I've got a busy schedule, like timetable.
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Yes. Or...
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We could say my day is packed, or I have a heavy load.
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Yes, yeah.
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Like my day is packed, like I have a lot of work to do.
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Absolutely.
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You also said, mentioned the word convenience.
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Yeah, I think I mentioned that the location is very convenient.
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And then I paraphrased it, I turned that word into a noun.
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And I said that the convenience...
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of my location is really important to me.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, like convenient, like we say comfortable, but we say comfortable clothes, right? But convenient...
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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Yeah, I think this is difficult for some Russian speakers, because I believe you only have one word for this.
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Exactly.
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Convenience talks about how easy something is, whereas comfort or comfortable talks about feeling.
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It might feel physically comfortable or emotionally comfortable.
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Convenience means if something is easy to do.
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Yes, exactly.
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And about the location, we say the location is convenient.
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Exactly.
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Whereas a chair, for example, would be...
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Comfortable.
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Yay!
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Joe, you've used a lot of phrasal verbs.
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One of them was walk through.
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What did you say about walk through?
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I believe I mentioned walking through Moscow.
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We could also walk through a park.
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Walk through a building.
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- Yes.
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Also you've said that when I moved into my apartment.
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Oh yeah, this means I changed locations.
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I changed my accommodation.
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I moved from my old house to a new apartment.
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Yeah, so we say, "Oh yesterday I moved into my new home." - Something, yeah.
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And when we leave a place, we move Out of.
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Yes, I moved out of my old flat.
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My old home and I moved into my new one.
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Exactly.
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About the junk, you said you have some junk on your balcony, like some rubbish.
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So the previous person didn't take it out.
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Yes.
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So take out.
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Junk is an informal word and we have a lot of other ways to say it.
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We can say, as you said, rubbish.
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Maybe trash, garbage, and just generally this means useless things, things I don't need.
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Yeah, and we say like take out the rubbish.
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Exactly.
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A lot of these phrasal verbs are very informal and there's usually a formal equivalent.
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So instead of if I wanted, if I was writing for example a formal letter, instead of take out I could write remove.
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Exactly.
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But especially in the speaking part of the test, take out is perfectly fine.
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Yeah, speaking is informal, so phrasal verbs, yeah, are perfectly fine.
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When you talked about Moscow's weather, you said that on a bitterly cold day, bitterly cold, what does it mean?
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Well, what do you think in Moscow in winter, are the winters very cold or a little cold?
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- Very cold.
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- Yeah, and bitterly means very, very cold.
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- Super cold.
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- Super duper cold.
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- Bitterly cold.
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All right.
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Now, Joel, let's talk about the grammar that you've used.
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So, for example, you said "I've been living there for..." for how long?
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About three months now.
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Yes, "I've been living there for three months." Present perfect continuous, a nice structure to use.
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That means that Joel started living there, is living there now, and will continue.
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to live there in the future.
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So I've been living there for five years.
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I'm talking about both the past and right now.
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Exactly.
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Right.
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You also, you've used some second conditional sentences.
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Wow, yes.
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Like, it would be great if I could, for example.
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Could you give me an example?
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Yeah, I mentioned that it would be great if the, if the owner of the apartment would come and take all the junk off, the junk out of my balcony.
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Exactly.
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So, of course, unfortunately this is not a very realistic scenario.
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I don't think he's going to do this.
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No. But hypothetically, yes, so like if, and to use this structure, you can say that.
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Yeah, So if something's not very realistic, or I don't think it's gonna, there's a good chance it will happen, I can use this structure.
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You also, you've used it about your future home.
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So like, if I had a family, I'd move to a new home, for example, right?
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So if I had a family, do you have a family now?
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No, I don't.
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Not yet, not yet.
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So we are imagining, so if I had a family, I'd move, I would move, right?
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Or for example, if I had more money, I'd buy a house in the center of Moscow.
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Would you buy a house in Moscow?
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If you had a lot of cash?
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trees.
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And I know my neighbors.
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If you had lots of money, where would you buy it?
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Oh, actually if I had a lot of money, I definitely would live right in the center of Moscow.
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Maybe right on the Moscow River.
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Kroponskenskaya district.
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I'd say maybe.
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Next to the Kremlin?
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I'd say right next to the Kremlin, so I could keep an eye out on what's happening over there.
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Perfect.
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Joe, you've also used a nice structure.
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I picture myself living in a bungalow.
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A very complex construction with a precise word bungalow.
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So not a building, not a house, but a bungalow.
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A bungalow has one floor or like a...
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A bungalow only has one floor and it's common in very tropical countries.
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Exactly.
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So it's a very precise word and I picture myself living.
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Yeah, we could also say I view myself or I imagine myself living in this place in the future.
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Joe, thank you very much for your answers.
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Absolutely my pleasure.
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Yeah, we give you a high score for your speaking band 9.
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Yes.
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Excellent to hear.
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Dear listeners, now you can listen to Joe's answers again and notice all the beautiful words and grammar structures he's used.
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Joe, do you live in a house or an apartment?
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I live in an apartment.
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I've been living there for about three months now.
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And it's fantastic.
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I really enjoy it.
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What do you like about living there?
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I think the most important thing is the location.
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I'm only about a five minute walk from the metro and for someone like me who has a very busy schedule,
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the convenience of living so close to the metro is probably the most important thing.
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Which is your favourite room in your home?
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I don't have a very big home, so unfortunately I don't have much of a choice.
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But I'd say my favorite room is my bathroom because after walking through Moscow in a bitterly cold day.
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I love to get home and take a hot shower at night before I go to bed.
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So although I don't have much of a choice, I would probably say that my bathroom is my favorite room.
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Would you change anything about your home?
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Why, why not?
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You know, that's a really good question.
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I, unfortunately, when I moved into my home, there was a lot of junk and rubbish in my, in my home already, especially on the balcony,
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things that belong to the owner and he just never took out.
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So unfortunately, my balcony is, is very crowded now.
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It would be great if he would take that those things away and I could have the balcony to myself.
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Would you like to move to a different home in the future?
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You know, I'm not the type of person that really thinks about the future.
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I mostly live in the present.
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No, I suppose in the near future, I would like to stay in my home because as I said, the location is perfect.
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In the distant future, I suppose that would depend on a lot of factors.
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As I mentioned previously, it's a quite small apartment.
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So if I happen to have a family in the future, I would have to move, of course.
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But, but for the time being, no, my apartment is perfectly fine.
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What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?
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- Well, you know, to be honest, this changes every day.
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It really depends on my mood or how I'm feeling.
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For example, sometimes in the middle of our Moscow winters,
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I really picture myself living in a tropical bungalow in some sort of warmer climate.
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But on the other hand, on most days, I'm perfectly fine living where I am now.
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So like I said, it really depends on my mood.
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Thank you very much for listening.
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And see you soon.
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Bye.
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Bye bye.
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| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | you've mentioned · you've said |
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