Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory, and we are 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 along the way.

We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high I old score. Which score,

Rory? It's a band nine score, Maria. Yay!

Do listen, could you please share our podcast with your friends, classmates, family members?

So if your grandma will find it useful, could you please send our podcast to your

grandma? Send on the link, tell them how useful our podcast is. We're going to really appreciate

if you do. It's super useful. By the way, we have a premium speaking podcast that's more than

190 episodes on IOT speaking parts

1, 2 and 3, with complete transcripts for each episode, including the discussion parts,

modal answers and vocabulary that you will be able to use in your own exam.

And of course, lots of jokes and good mood.

This week, in part two, Rory describes a family member that made him feel proud.

And in speaking part three, we discuss rewards, children, parents.

Do check it out. The link is in the description. Rory, it's bucketing down here in

Moscow. Yeah, it's pretty bad here as well. It's almost like it's raining cats and dogs.

Shall we talk about cats and dogs or the weather? I think we should talk about the weather.

Let's talk about the weather.

Okay. think we should talk about the weather. Let's talk about the weather. What's the weather usually like in your hometown? Well, right now it's pretty dreary, I'd say. We're moving from, well,

we're moving from what summer into autumn. We're actually in the midst of autumn now. So the

climate is getting progressively

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