FREE IELTS Speaking practice online: Topic CORONA VIRUS and LIFESTYLE Flashcards
The impacts of Corona virus
Ways of interacting with each other
Changes in Working
Our food habits
Desctribe a leisure activity that you do with your family?
How do people spend their leisure time in your country? Is the way people spend their leisure time these days
Spending time by yourself
Do you like spending time by yourself?
How do you usually spend your time when your are by yourself?
- As an introvert I always enjoy spending time on my own.
- Playing board games has an added bonus & it can develop /boost my critical thinking.
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How your leisure times have been impacted by COVID?
- Hanging out with friends in Cafes
- Being on my own allows me to recharge my batteries.
- When I spend a long spell (long time) in isolation, I am really into singing, it can really help me to take my mind off matters.
Phrases
It has the added bonus that it also boost creativity (Extra advantage)
On my own = by myself = with myself
A long time = A long spell
It take my mind off ..
At the moment ~ In the present circumstances, in this situation
Due to the lockdown (Pronounce as Djdue to
Due to the outbreak of the Corona virus
- To be in isolation (you have a sickness)
- You can be in self-isolation
- To be in quarantine (you could catch a sickness)
- To be in confinement
Reading books and scroling through social media
I was keen on watching movies at home in the midst of the pandemic.
Playing chess with my family members was great fun and as an added bonus it helps them to think out of the box and foster their creativity.
think outside of the box:
خاص فکر کردن
از زاویه جدید و هوشمندانه فکر کردن به موضوعی
I really love to spend time with myself like most of the times I curl up in a chair and read books..
1- خود را جمع کردن، حلقه شدن، چنبر زدن (مثل مار)، پاهای خود را بر شکم جفت کردن، 2- فردار کردن، فر زدن، لوله شدن یا کردن
- Corona confined / restricted me to my room.
- Some influencers made various videos on social media which became trendy.
Living condition
I was confined to my home with my family.
I have a make-shift office
I don’t really have too much time to spend on my own. But, because we have two bedrooms ( A room that I converted to an office)
I can escape and get some time to myself
make-shift: : چاره، چاره موقتی
In my country we were in lockdown
We were in confinement/in quarantine
Those who are sick / symptomatic are in isolation /** in self-isolation**
Social distancing: physical distancing
keep a distance of two meters aways from others
Has a negative connotation:
Because it suggests that you should be apart from your family
It’s not meaning being away fromyour family
Describe a leisure activity you did with your family?
Well, we did pillow fighting with my sibiling but once in a blue moon.
Well, a leisure activity I do with my family is I love to go walking in a park.
So, typically all three of us would go out on a friday morning quite ear ly and we would go for a stroll around the park. We would sometimes take some snacks.
As we walk around the park we can take a break, sit down and have a little something to eat which would keep up going through the walk.
This kind of leisure activity was great because it enables some kind of family bonding, spend some really quality time together. But also, to get fit as an added bonus. On top of that we got into good physical shape.
Ufortunately, nowaday iit’s no longer possible for us to takepart in this actibvity. Due to the curent circucmtances caused by pandemic we are in isolation. We are confined to our house. So we have to find other kinds of leisure activitivies to do. But in the pat this was certainly a leisure activity I enjoyed doing with my family.
Other activity
- I used to gossip and make fun of my family which made a great emotional bondage.
- Exchanging stories and telling jokes
- Giving a helping hand to my mom to make different kinds of cuisines
- I used to be a bargain unter on online shops. That siad, the pandemic stopped us from going shop
- We used to have family reunion at the weekends as well as playing cards, snack out
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Other activity
We had to resort to staying at home …
Giving a hand to help my wife
**Given that **(Due to the fact) we spend a lot of time together we have lots of chances to bond
Spending quality time together
Due to the fact that I am isolated from my family and we can’d do any leisure activities
We can’t do that anymore
It’s no longer feasible(possible)
That’s a thing of the past
That’s __out of the question__ (impossible)
How do people spend their leisure time in your country?
Is the way people spend their leisure time these days different from when your parents were young?
Is it important to spend time with your family?
Ideas:
Sit around, gossipping, exchanging ideas about the circusmtances
We would + verb (we used to do something) عادت کذشته
Every year on Nowrouz hollidays, we would travel in a quaint beach resort near my hometown. It is one way for us to reunite ..
In this time of self-imposed curfew, it is almost the best time for reviewing the knowledge I’ve learnt earlier.
Due to Corona virus me and my family spent time at the kitchen do a lots of baking and follow the recipe on Youtube
curfew:محدودیت آمد و رفت، ساعت منع عبور و مرور
General Theme
Spending time by yourself, together
palying board games with added bonus of boosting critical thinking
I do playing games, because it takes my mind off the chaos that is going around us.
I was bored to death becuase of lockdown.
Have you ever baked a cake?
Actually, No I haven’t.
I’ve never taken cooking classes.
So, I’m afraid to say I don’t know how to cook.
Have you ever been in any art gallery?
Oh, yeas!
I’ve been to a few actually.
I really enjoyed one I went to in Italy.
It had some famous masterpieces. They were so impressive!
Have you ever seen wild animals so far?
Yes. I’ve seen loads, if animals in a zoo count.
I’ve been to the zoo in my city several times and it’s full of wild animals.
The Draff is one of my favorites.
