Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory and we're the host of the AILT Speaking Per 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 joy, happiness, gorgeous language, vocabulary grammar for your high-isle-school.

Rory, are you okay? You don't look very happy.

I've just seen my phone bill. If you had to pay that much, you wouldn't be happy either.

Ooh, shall we talk about bills?

What a topic. Let's give you some juicy vocabulary and grammar about this one. Okay? Let's talk about paying bills.

What kind of bills do you have to pay? I don't pay many, really. I think my most regular ones would be the phone bill and my internet

bill. I'm trying to think what else. Oh, the electrical bill. Those are the ones where I see

the money coming out of my account regularly.

How do you usually pay your bills? In cash or by another method?

They're all by direct debit, actually. but the exception of the gym membership, which, I mean,

the last time I paid for that, it was in cash, and that was just because I had some cash on me,

and it saved time instead of faffing around with a card.

Have you ever forgotten to pay a bill?

Oh, wow, I probably shouldn't share this too freely

because I might get in trouble, but I haven't paid my gym membership for the last three weeks

because they haven't asked me. But I've justified it because I already paid for it before,

and they haven't improved anything in the gym, despite bringing up the price of the membership.

So that's how I'm, that's how I make myself feel better about not paying for it.

I kind of accidentally on purpose forgot to pay it.

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