Hello, Sunshine, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast,

the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills

and have a joke along the way.

We started this podcast to give you a look at how an educated native speaker would answer some of the recent

I-old speaking questions for high score, Ben 9 score.

But none were available, so I'll have to do.

Maria, what are you doing?

I'm surfing the internet.

Oh, you're so athletic.

I am.

I do it every day.

And it's also quite a coincidence because today we're going to talk about sport.

Sports, yes.

In I-L speaking, part one, they can ask you questions about sport.

Rory, do you like sport?

I suppose not particularly when it comes to mainstream sports.

I'll watch the odd football match in the passing.

And I came up with some news back home, but I wouldn't say I was a huge sports fan or anything.

Do you like extreme sports?

Ah, okay.

Well, that's the one that tickles my fancy.

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