Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And I'm Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELT 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 high-level vocabulary for you to enjoy.

Rory, I've been checking the numbers on our reviews, you know, on Apple Podcasts,

and someone gave us a one-star comment, one-star rating with no comment.

I'm gutted.

How very, very rude. However, it's a coincidence because today we're going to talk about

numbers. Numbers. Yes, in speaking part one, the examiner can ask you questions about numbers.

Rory, do you have a favorite number?

Yes, I do. I like the number three.

It seems to come up a lot, actually.

I'm sure it's not just me.

It's like a troper, a cliche.

You even have, like, in the media or in writing,

you have, like, the rule of three.

So if you're going to give three examples of

things well it's like you almost automatically give three examples of things as opposed to four or two

it seems to make more sense this way it's a really strange concept actually do any numbers have

special importance in your country? No.

I think they do in Russia sometimes.

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