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 podcast to give you a look at how a super native speaker would answer some of the most common IELTS speaking questions using gorgeous grammar and high level vocabulary for you to enjoy.
Rory, I've been checking the numbers on our reviews, you know, on Apple podcasts, and someone gave us a one star comment, one star rating with no comment.
I'm gutted.
How very, very rude.
However, it's a coincidence, because today we're gonna talk about numbers.
Numbers?
Yes.
In speaking part one, the examiner can ask you questions about numbers.
Rory, do you have a favorite number?
Yes, I do.
I like the number three.
It seems to come up a lot, actually.
I'm sure it's not just me.
It's like a trope or a cliche.
You even have, like, in the media or in writing, you have, like, the rule of three.
So if you're going to give three examples of things, well, it's like you almost automatically give three examples of things as opposed to four or two.