Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of 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.

We started this podcast to give you a look at how a super native speaker would answer some of the most common

iot speaking questions using gorgeous grammar and quality vocabulary.

For a high score, which Rory score?

A band nine score.

Woo-hoo!

Rory, look at you.

You look naked.

Oh, thanks, Maria.

But yes, I am kind of tired.

I think I need a holiday. We're going to be

talking about holiday today. Yay! In Iod speaking part one, they can ask you questions about

holiday. Rory, how often do you go on holiday? Well, if your observation at the start of the podcast is anything to go by, not often enough.

I'd like to go on holiday more often, actually, and I think that's one of my goals for this coming year.

Do you like taking one long holiday or a couple of short ones?

I suppose, probably the latter, because you can distribute your holidays

throughout the year, whereas if you take one long one, then you don't really have an excuse for

taking any other ones, do you? Between that, and I don't like being away from my work or

my routine for too long, I get a bit nervous, so I'd prefer not to take a long holiday. Yeah,

you prefer controlling everything.

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