هم بله ، هم خیر. idiom ها در واقع نوعی از “idiomatic language” هستند که بخشی از نمره شما را در بر میگیرد. Idiomatic language شامل موارد زیر می شود:
نکته حائز اهمیت اینست که نباید بیش از اندازه از آنها استفاده کنید زیرا که Unnatural میشود. همچنین اگر به اشتباه از آنها استفاده کنید نتیجه عکس خواهد داد و نمره شما کاهش خواهد یافت.
پس تنها زمانی اجازه دارید از آنها استفاده کنید که 100 مطمئن هستید که Accurate است و از لحاط معنایی در جای درستی دارد استفاده می شود.
به طور میانگین زبان آموزان ما که نمره 9 از اسپیکینگ خود گرفته اند 1 الی 2 Idiom استفاده کرده اند.
| Meaning | Idiom |
| To force yourself to do something unpleasant or difficult, or to be brave in a difficult situation. | To Bite the Bullet |
| If you think something is very easy to do. | A Piece of Cake |
| To achieve two things by doing a single action. | Kill Two Birds With One Stone |
| To disclose a secret, often by mistake. | Let the Cat Out of the Bag |
| To avoid concentrating all your resources or efforts in one area, as a way to minimize risk. | Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket |
| Happens very rarely. | Once in a Blue Moon |
| To work late into the night or to work hard on something. | Burn the Midnight Oil |
| To exhaust oneself by working too much, going to bed late and getting up early. | Burn the Candle at Both Ends |
| To do something immediately and without hesitation. | At the Drop of a Hat |
| To waste time feeling upset about something that has already happened and cannot be changed. | Cry Over Spilt Milk |
| You should not judge people or things based on their appearance. | You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover |
| Don’t assume that something will happen or be successful before it actually occurs. | Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch |
| To make more effort than is expected or required. | Go the Extra Mile |
| Raining very heavily. | Raining Cats and Dogs |
| To admit defeat or give up. | Throw in the Towel |
| Deal with a problem or situation when it actually happens, rather than worrying about it beforehand. | Cross That Bridge When You Come to It |
| Follow the customs and behaviour of the people in the place where you are visiting or living. | When in Rome |
| Important work takes time and should not be rushed. | Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day |
Q: Why did you choose that career?
“I didn’t really want to study law, but I was the only one in my family ever to get high grades in their A-levels. So my mother sat me down one day and said it was either medicine or law. So I went to a hospital on work experience and fainted when I saw the sight of blood. I’m too squeamish for medicine, so I decided just to bite the bullet and study law.”
Q: Why did you change careers?
“To be honest, compared to practicing law, teaching English is a piece of cake. To give you a concrete example, to qualify as a lawyer takes around six years of study and work experience. To qualify as an English teacher only takes six weeks. The pay obviously isn’t as good, but the students, the clients are much nicer and friendlier.”
Q: Have you ever given jewelry to someone as a gift?
“Yes, I actually bought my wife a diamond ring last Christmas. So my wife’s birthday is in November and Christmas is obviously in December. So I decided to kill two birds with one stone and buy one present for her birthday and Christmas. And she was very happy with that because she got one nice, expensive ring rather than two less expensive gifts.”
Q: Have you ever received jewelry as a gift?
“If you count watches as jewelry, then yes. For my last birthday, my 40th birthday, my wife bought me a very special watch that I’ve been looking at and desiring for many, many years. The funny story about that is that my credit card and my wife’s credit card are the same. So whenever my wife bought it, it pinged on my phone and I got an alert from my favorite watch boutique, and it was the exact amount of money that was for this watch because I had been looking at this watch for ages. So the phone let the cat out of the bag a little bit, but it was still a very nice gift and a nice surprise.
Q: Do you think you will have the same career in the future?
“Probably not, because with the developments in AI recently, I don’t think there are going to be IELTS teachers or even any teachers in the future. I think it would be very foolish for me to put all my eggs in one basket and just hope for the best and hope that IELTS and teaching lasts forever. But honestly, I don’t think it will.”
Q: How often do you go out with friends?
“I used to go out nearly every night, but since I’ve had kids, it’s really once in a blue moon. Most of my friends have either settled down with kids like me, or they have moved away. So it’s quite rare to have an occasion where a group of friends are all together at the same time. Sometimes at Christmas, when a lot of our friends visit Ireland during the Christmas period, or in the summertime when a lot of our friends have time off, I might go out, but it is quite a rare occasion these days.”
Q: Do you think you changed as you got older?
“Yes, I used to burn the candle at both ends. I had a very much work hard, play hard attitude because I was a lawyer. Lawyers are expected to work 80 to 100 hours a week. But we would often go out to bars and restaurants after work to blow off steam and to destress, which isn’t really sustainable. Now, I do still burn the midnight oil. I work very, very hard on my career, but you’re more likely to find me tucked up in bed by 9 PM than to be out partying.”
Q: Do you own or rent your home?
“We actually rent our home. We could afford to buy a home, but we really value our independence and freedom. If you own a home, you’re kinda stuck in that location because it can take a very long time to sell that home. But if you rent, you can move anywhere at the drop of a hat.”
Q: What do you dislike about your job?
“The thing I dislike most about my job is dealing with people who only focus on the negative, especially when they are given negative feedback. That could be students, that could be employees, but people who make mistakes and don’t learn from them. So for example, I give a lot of feedback on student essays, and some students see mistakes and they’re like, great, now I know what my mistakes are and I can improve. Other students will just cry about it for days and they’ll cry about it for weeks. They’re like, I’m going to fail. It’s like, there’s no point crying over spilt milk. You made the mistake, now learn from it.
Q: How often do you buy new clothes?
“Very rarely actually, because I’m a firm believer in you can’t judge a book by its cover. And we should judge people not on what clothes they wear and their appearance, but by their character and the things that come out of their mouths. My wife firmly disagrees with this because she says someone who gets millions of views on YouTube shouldn’t be wearing the same shirt every day. So she does encourage me to go and buy new clothes, but I do it begrudgingly.”
Q: What type of jewelry do you like best?
“I prefer to buy luxury watches than jewelry. I’m not sure if you could count a luxury watch as jewelry, but the thing about jewelry is like diamond rings, necklaces, and things like that. Often as soon as you buy them, as soon as you walk out of the jewelers, they lose value. Whereas many of the watches that I’ve purchased have actually gone up in value. I don’t want to count my chickens, but if I were to sell these watches, I probably would make a lot more money on them than I paid for them. So that’s why I prefer luxury timepieces over simple jewelry.”
Q: Who does the cooking in your home?
“My wife does the vast majority of the cooking, not because she’s necessarily a better cook. But the thing I love about my wife is in whatever she does, she goes the extra mile. So if I was cooking steak, I would just cook the steak and eat it with a little bit of bread. But my wife will have three different sauces, and balsamic vinegar, and two different olive oils, and four different types of potato. She really does go the extra mile when it comes to cooking in our house.”
Q: Do you like your neigborhood?
“Yes and no. Where I live is one of the most beautiful places in the world. We’re spoiled for choice in terms of outdoor activities and beautiful places. On our doorstep, we have beaches, forests, lakes, and mountains. But unfortunately, it’s Ireland, so it’s normally raining cats and dogs, so you don’t really get to enjoy it.”
Q: Do you have a healthy diet?
“As you can tell from looking at me, no, I don’t have a very healthy diet. I do try, I normally get up in the morning and have a healthy breakfast and a healthy lunch, but it’s so easy just to throw in the towel when you get home after a hard day’s work, and your wife has a beautiful meal prepared, there’s a bottle of wine on the table, and your kid’s half-eaten chocolate is lying all around the kitchen. So I do quite well most of the day and then fail in the evenings.”
Q: Will you change careers in the future?
“It’s not something I really like to think about because, in the back of my mind, I know IELTS teachers and all educators are doomed because AI is going to replace them. Why would a student hire a human that is not as good as a machine that can do it at half the price or a fraction of the price and do it much more effectively? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I don’t think it’s that far away. But in the meantime, I’m just going to enjoy teaching for as long as I can.”
Q: Is there anything you don’t like about social media?
“The thing I hate about social media is the fact that these companies have so much power to change their systems and change their algorithms, but they decide not to for money. So to give you an example from my work and my job, to become a famous IELTS YouTuber is actually quite easy. All you have to do is come up with some clickbait titles like ‘hacks’ and ‘tricks’ and ‘predictions’ and things like that and put a pretty girl on the thumbnail. But that doesn’t mean that the person making that video knows anything about IELTS, it just means that they know how to trick the algorithm. You know, I understand Rome wasn’t built in a day, and that it takes time to fix platforms and change algorithms. But these are sometimes trillion-dollar companies. If they wanted to get these people off their platform, they could. But they decide not to because popular is more important than educating the public properly.”
Q: Are you okay with someone randomly taking your photo?
“No, I actually hate it and it makes me feel very uncomfortable. I’m from Ireland and in Ireland, it is quite rare for someone to take your photo. And if they want to take your photo, it is rude to just take it without asking you. So it’s customary just to say, “Do you mind if I take a photo?” And if somebody says yes, you can take it. But if they say no, you should definitely not take it. My wife, who is from Vietnam, in Vietnam, they have a very, very different culture. They are taking photos all of the time, and they will think nothing of this taking a photo of you. And if I get angry with someone for taking a photo, they’ll think that I’m the problem and I’m being rude. So when in Rome.”
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