Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory and we are the hosts of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast, a podcast

that aims to improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high

IOTot score.

That's a nice picture on your wall. Are you setting up an art gallery?

No, not yet. But shall we talk about art galleries?

Oh, it's a coincidence.

Let's talk about art galleries.

Yeah, dear listener, in speaking part one, they can ask you questions about art in general, about museums and also about art galleries.

Rory, do you like art?

This reminds me a lot of the mirror questions, actually. Art and mirrors are similar in so many ways.

You don't overly notice them most of the time, unless someone is holding them in their hands.

But you would certainly notice if they were absent. So I don't go out of my way to enjoy art, but it is nice having it around, or floating around in front of me.

Have you ever visited an art gallery?

Month or twice?

I think the last time was in late 2019 at the Tretchenkov Gallery.

I think they had the apotheosis of war on display at the time, which was interesting.

But I didn't go out of my way to go to these places, and I don't regularly.

So the art you're holding right now is all of the exposure I've had in the last few months. Which do you prefer museums or art galleries?

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of either, but if I had to choose, it would probably be museums.

At least there's some variety in the things to do and see there.

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