⚽️ Childhood activities (Part 1) + Transcript

IELTS Speaking for Success

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Get access to our episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs Remember playing hide and seek? Rory struggles to recall his childhood pastimes but shares brilliant language for talking about then vs. now. Discover advanced vocab for your hobbies, from loathing exercise to home brewing! Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://successwithielts.com/rory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/ Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.1	Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And I am private detective Rory Fergus Duncan, and we are the host of
0:34.6	the IEL Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.
0:41.5	We started this podcast to give you super grammar and gorgeous vocabulary for your high ILD school.
0:48.4	A bad nine score.
0:49.9	So you're a private detective now, Rory?
0:52.3	Yeah, I'm a private detective, and I help people hunt down,
0:56.2	band nine vocabulary and grammar.
0:58.5	Wow.
0:59.6	I didn't make that up in advance.
1:01.6	I just came up with that there.
1:03.4	Were you playing that private detective thing when you were a child, Rory?
1:08.2	No, but I'm sure we made up other games when we were children.
1:11.8	Hmm, shall we talk about childhood activities?
1:15.6	Oh yes, let's do that.
1:21.6	What were your favorite activities when you were a child?
1:30.8	I can't really remember, to be honest. It was quite a while ago. But I suppose it must have been the usual things like hide and seek or
1:36.2	going for walks and wandering about with my friends and probably getting up to no good. If reading
1:43.5	counts, I did a lot of that when I was younger too.
1:47.0	Did you prefer to do activities alone or with the group of people?
1:51.0	I suppose it would have depended on the kind of activity, to be honest, and my mood. If it were a more active thing,
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