Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And I'm Rory, and we are the host of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast.

The podcast aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for a high score, Rory score, B'9 score.

Rory, how do you like being at home?

It's great, actually. It feels like a new place sometimes, but I'm loving it.

Hmm, New Year, New Place.

Shall we talk about new places is it a new coincidence

for the new year

coincidence

is the key word

of this podcast

yes it's a massive coincidence

all of it none of it manufactured at all

completely natural let's talk about new. Let's talk about new places.

Have you been to a new place recently? Oh, too many to count now I think about it, but the one

that sticks out most would be the school I had to work at for my placement. It's only a few

minutes up the road, but I'd never

been there up until about six weeks ago. It was great. The students and staff are fantastic.

Do you prefer visiting new places or going to the ones you know? Well, I suppose it depends on the

company I'm keeping, really. If I'm with people I know in a place we're comfortable, then that seems like

a recipe for success. On the other hand, if I were, I don't know, in a more adventurous mood,

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