Hello, Sunshine, I'm Maria.

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

the podcast dreams to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way.

We started this podcast to give you joy, gorgeous grammar and super-duper vocabulary for your high, I old school, bad night school.

Oh, Rory, you are in your Rory house. Oh, it looks really modern, huh? Well, looks can be deceiving.

It's actually quite an old building. Hmm, shall we talk about old buildings?

It's another coincidence on this podcast.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

So how horrible is this topic from one to ten?

This could be worse.

Sitting was the worst, but so that was like a ten.

Okay. This is more like, this is more like a six or a seven because we all see old buildings and also you can be subjective about what's old like pretty much anything can be old except for you Maria Maria. Thank you, darling.

Have you ever seen some old buildings in the city?

Well, my hometown is hundreds of years old, so I see them almost every day.

We've got a gallery in town called the McManus,

which has a kind of Gothic style to it, and that was built in the 1800s. There are also a few old jute mills, which were repurposed, sorry, they've been repurposed, but they're kept in

their original state because they're listed buildings. Do you think we should preserve old

buildings in cities?

Assuming they're kept up to code, then I don't see why not. It's a good reminder of the past and a connection to culture that pretty much anyone can access.

I visited one of the first mosques in Africa, which was preserved as part of their local history in that area.

That really should have been a UN heritage site or something like that.

Do you prefer living in an old building or in a modern house?

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