Hello, sunshine, I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory, and we're the hosts of the IELTS Picking for Success podcast,
the official Band 9 podcast that aims to help 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 IELTS score.
Your Band 9 score.
Do you have much planned for the weekend?
Not really, though I thought I might make some plans with my friends for it.
Oh, fantastic!
Shall we talk about making plans?
Ooh, that sounds like a plan.
Do you like making plans?
Yeah, I love a plan.
Maybe not the execution so much,
but I like organizing everything and putting it in place so everything is ready.
It makes me feel safe knowing everything has been accounted for.
Do you always make plans?
I try to, yeah.
Sometimes it's fun to have a random day trip or something like that,
but for the most part I like to know what I'm doing and when since I'm a very orderly person.