Hello, lovely.
I'm Maria.
And I'm 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 lovely podcast to give you a look at how a super duper native speaker would answer some of the most common ielts speaking questions using gorgeous Grammar and super high level vocabulary for a high score.
A band nine score.
Rory, even without a beard and with your short hair, you look ancient.
Well, thank you, Masha.
That's probably a good thing.
You're going to talk about history today, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
How lovely.
History.
How rude.
In speaking part one, the examiner can ask you questions about history.
Rory, do you like history?
Not so much now that I'm officially old.
Thank you.
But, yes, I still like learning about it from time to time.
How old are you, Rory?