🏛 Museums and collections (Part 3) + Transcript

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• 00:04

  Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part three.

• 00:09

  We're talking about old things in general.

• 00:13

  Me, I am an old thing.

• 00:15

  No, Rory, you're what, like 34, 33, 36.

• 00:19

  Old.

• 00:20

  Before we get into the episode, though, there's a theme.

• 00:23

  And the theme this time is talking generally about things.

• 00:27

  Part three questions are about things in general.

• 00:30

  We are talking about old things in general,

• 00:32

  so specialist vocabulary for old things and specialist vocabulary for talking generally.

• 00:38

  Keep an eye out or an ear out.

• 00:40

  Try to listen for them.

• 00:42

  Can you hear them?

• 00:49

  Why do people keep old things?

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  I suppose generally there are two main reasons.

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  It's either the money value or the sentimental one.

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  Lots of antiques are worth a great deal,

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  having been around for so long and assuming they're in a good condition.

• 01:04

  And of course there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations.

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  What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep?

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