Hello, lovely people of the world.
I'm Maria, and my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the ielts 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 native english speaker, an educated and experienced native speaker, would answer some of the most common ielts speaking questions.
Rory, are you ready for my questions?
Yeah, I'll try not to give you any half baked answers.
Wow, what a coincidence, because today we're going to be talking about baking.
Yes, dear listener in ielts speaking, part one, they can ask you questions about baking.
Rory, do you bake?
Well, up until recently, I couldn't bake at all, but I learned how to make cyrniki, which is like this russian cheese.
Well, dessert.
I suppose it gives me a sense of achievement, actually, because, well, I learned how to do it myself, and it reminds me of different times.
Although I suppose other than that, I'm a bit useless in the kitchen, I'm afraid.
Do you like baking?
Well, like I said, yeah, I get a real kick out of it.
It's nice to be able to do something, especially if you can make food for other people, but I'm very aware of the fact that I'm not very good at it.
Do you know how to bake cakes?
Sort of.
Like I said, I'm a wee bit useless, but I have a vague idea how to do it, and it would be a fun thing to do with friends, but it's not something that I would put on a cv.
For example, Rory the Baker.
Rory, have you ever made any cakes?