IELTS Speaking Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 1 - Travel.

Q. Do you enjoy travelling? [Why/Why not?]
Q. Have you done much travelling? [Why/Why not?]
Q. Do you think it’s better to travel alone or with other people? [Why?]
Q. Where would you like to travel in the future? [Why?]

Let me know how useful was it and what ideas you picked out from it that might assist you when answering different questions.

IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS Speaking Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 1 - Travel.

La ganadora de los Latin Grammy que conmocionó al mundo.

Cafecito con Ale

La abuela de los Latin Grammy

Estamos muy cerca de acabar el año, y muchas personas ya están pensando en sus propósitos para el nuevo año. Por eso he pensado que hoy es un buen día para hablar de propósitos y mencionar los más comunes en estas fechas entre los españoles. 

Espero que disfrutes el episodio. Después de escucharlo no te olvides de dejar una valoración ni de pasarte por mi Instagram para decirme qué te ha parecido y si tú eres de las personas que tienen propósitos cada año nuevo, y si coinciden con los que he mencionado en el episodio.


Blanca to go 

120 – Los propósitos de año nuevo 

Everyone has their preferred way of drinking coffee. Maybe you like yours black, or maybe you prefer a bit of sugar in it.

But have you ever tried drinking coffee with salt?

Adding a pinch of salt to your cup of coffee is said to make it taste less bitter.

And putting salt in coffee isn't new. In some countries, such as Turkey and Hungary, people have done this for years.

But a cafe in Vietnam is believed to have started the newest trend — salt coffee.

It's a little different from just putting salt in your coffee, though. Salt coffee is said to have come from a small cafe in Hue ("hwEH"), a city in central Vietnam.

The cafe's name, Ca Phe Muoi, is also the name of the drink, since ca phe means "coffee" and muoi means "salt" in Vietnamese.

Salt coffee is made by mixing sweet condensed milk with a base of Vietnamese coffee, and adding salted cream to the top.

The cafe's owners hoped this unique drink would bring in more customers, and it did.

"In Hue, salt coffee became a daily drink like black coffee or white coffee," the cafe's owners told CNN Travel in June.

And it wasn't just in Hue where people fell in love with salt coffee — the cafe's website sells bottles of it to send around the country, and now Starbucks even sells its own version of salt coffee.

Vietnam is one of the world's largest coffee growers, and has a rich coffee culture.

Salt coffee is just one of many unique Vietnamese coffee drinks.

Others include egg coffee (which has a topping of egg yolks and condensed milk), coconut coffee, and yogurt coffee.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Salt Coffee: A Sweet Drink from Vietnam

Je bent een deel van het geheel
Wanneer je omhoogkijkt naar de lucht, onthoud dan dat je er niet als enige naar kijkt. 
We kijken allemaal naar dezelfde zon en dezelfde maan. We delen dezelfde ruimte en ademen dezelfde lucht. Denk dus nooit dat er niemand is die zich met jouw ervaring kan identificeren. Als je heel goed oplet zal je deze mensen vanzelf tegenkomen en herkennen. Dit zal vanzelf gaan zolang je niet aan het proberen bent om iemand anders te zijn dan wie je bent. Wees je authentieke zelf en je “stamleden” zullen je veel makkelijker kunnen herkennen.

You are part of a bigger picture
When you look up at the sky, remember that you’re not the only one looking at it. 
We all look at the same sun and the same moon. We share the same space and we breath the same air. So never think that there isn’t anyone who can relate to your experience. If you really pay attention, you will undoubtedly find these people. As long as you aren’t trying to be someone you are not. Being your authentic self will make it easier for your “tribe members” to find you.


Rocksaina's overdenkingen - Rocksaina's Reflections

Je bent een deel van het geheel 

日本の有名なシンガーソングライター、井上陽水（いのうえ ようすい）さんの曲によせて、日本の忘れ物事情について話しています。私は今年の夏、また電車で帽子（ぼうし）を忘れたんですが、もっとすごいものを忘れている人がいるんですよ！今でも探（さが）してるんでしょうか…今回はウクレレひきながら少し歌ってます。声（こえ）が ちょっと枯れてて（ かれてて in a hoarse voice) 、すみません。
スクリプトと文法や言葉のリストはこちら。
https://chivalrous-wallaby-f5c.notion.site/33-e46322c6a0424122856ea2b69b1828b4
楽しみ方はこちらを見てください。
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早く、声、治（なお）さなきゃ。じゃあ、またね。


すずまりの日本語「ききみみ」ずきん

第33話　探しものは何ですか

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

A

The pyramids are the most famous monuments of ancient Egypt and still hold enormous interest for people in the present day. These grand, impressive tributes to the memory of the Egyptian kings have become linked with the country even though other cultures, such as the Chinese and Mayan, also built pyramids. The evolution of the pyramid form has been written and argued about for centuries. However, there is no question that, as far as Egypt is concerned, it began with one monument to one king designed by one brilliant architect: the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

B

Djoser was the first king of the Third Dynasty of Egypt and the first to build in stone. Prior to Djoser’s reign, tombs were rectangular monuments made of dried clay brick, which covered underground passages where the deceased person was buried. For reasons which remain unclear, Djoser’s main official, whose name was Imhotep, conceived of building a taller, more impressive tomb for his king by stacking stone slabs on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form the shape now known as the Step Pyramid. Djoser is thought to have reigned for 19 years, but some historians and scholars attribute a much longer time for his rule, owing to the number and size of the monuments he built.

C

The Step Pyramid has been thoroughly examined and investigated over the last century, and it is now known that the building process went through many different stages. Historian Marc Van de Mieroop comments on this, writing ‘Much experimentation was involved, which is especially clear in the construction of the pyramid in the center of the complex. It had several plans … before it became the first Step Pyramid in history, piling six levels on top of one another … The weight of the enormous mass was a challenge for the builders, who placed the stones at an inward incline in order to prevent the monument breaking up.’

Part 2 will be added later today. Stay tuned.


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