IELTS Speaking Free Lesson_ Patience Flashcards
Warm up!
Fill in the gap with one word
- I was annoyed when someone Jumped / skipped the queue
- I am a patient person, I rarely run out of patience
- At work I am always in a rush / hurry I never have time to stop and think.
ELTS Speaking: Patience Vocabulary
To wait for someone / something
I’m waiting for the bus
‘I’m waiting for you’ = I am waiting and I’m a bit angry
If you are not angry it is better to say,
‘No problem, take your time’
‘No problem, don’t rush
To queue (up) (UK)
To stand in line (USA)
To join a queue =
to stand at the end of a queue (the correct way)
The 4 following phrases all mean someone enters the middle of a queue (the incorrect way)
پشت سر مردم تو صف ایستادن
* To jump the queue
تو صف زدن ، خارج از نوبت وارد صف شدن
* To cut in line
* To cut in front of someone
* To jump in front of someone
To be patient (adj.) =
to be able to wait calmly = to have patience
A patient (n.) = a sick person (this is the same word with a different meaning)
I am not patient = I am impatient (adj.)
To stick it out = to continue to the end of an unpleasant situation
If you are patient, and waiting in a line, then you will probably stick it out.
I’m a patient kind of person
* To be in a rush
* To be in a hurry
If you have little time to do something we can say,
short span of attention
Fast pace of life
To have a short span of attention =
to be able to focus only for a short time
مثل تیک تاک
Fast pace of life = the quick speed at which changes and events happen
The following are both ways of saying you no longer have any patience.
- To lose your patience
- To run out of patience
To get fidgety
= to start continually moving (your hands)
When some people are losing their patience, they get fidgety
- Children tend to get fidgety at school because they have a shorter span of attention than adults do
بیقرار بودن
To pace up and down
= walking up and down in a nervous/impatient way
یک مسیر را رفتن و برگشتن، معمولا بخاطر اینکه نگران یا مضطرب هستید.
I was pacing up and down waiting for you to get home!
IELTS Speaking Topic: Waiting
Tell me a situation where you have to wait
Waiting for an appointment (the doctor’s, the dentist…)
At the doctor’s
At the clinic
At the hospital
In the emergency department in a hospital
At the bus stop
At the airport
Waiting for a bus
Waiting for a taxi on a rainy day
At the restaurant, waiting for a seat/ table
In the school dining room
Queueing in a shop
Stuck in traffic
Waiting for the right partner (wife, husband…)
Waiting for the result of a job interview
Waiting for a exam result
Waiting for a special day (Christmas)
Are you good at waiting? Are you patient?
Here are some useful phrases for students who answered this question on my Facebook Page:
My patience was pushed to the limits = I almost lost my patience صبرم سر اومد
I have ants in my pants = I get fidgety, to be restless and nervous
I don’t suffer fools gladly= I don’t accept / tolerate stupid people
صبوری کردن یا تحمل کردن افرادی
که از نظر هوشی پایینتر از شما هستن
Good things come to those who wait= If you are patient, you will be rewarded
I like to let things run their course = I like to wait for things to happen naturally
به طور طبیعی روالشو طي كردن و به پایان رسیدن
So I remember this one time
when I was shopping in a supermarket and I was waiting in a queue to pay, and I just had a few items in my basket and everybody in front of me had full trolleys, right?
Trolleys **crammed full of stuff **(=extremely full)
So I was thinking actually about changing queue because, just to speed things up (=to make things go more quickly).
But then I thought, “Well, knowing Sod’s law, (=if something can go wrong, it will….same as Murphy’s Law)
if I change queue, this one will suddenly speed up.
So I decided to stick it out and wait. And the queue was moving slowly and I noticed the cashier was talking
to everybody, to every customer.
She was **telling her life story **(= to talk a lot about yourself) to any Tom, Dick and Harry (= anybody, especially people you don’t know) nd I was getting fidgety, right?
I was getting quite nervous. was just thinking,
“Come on, get a move on (= hurry up). We don’t have all day.” hen I tried to calm down.
You know, normally I’m quite a** laid-back** (= calm and relaxed) person,but in this case, my patience was wearing thin (= I was becoming mpatient)
because I was in a rush to get back home for dinner.
And then, eventually, it came to my turn,
and would you believe it, she closed the till.
That was the final straw.
I was so angry. I lost my patience.
I just left my trolley and the food there and stormed out (= I left angrily) , never to return.
I never went back to that supermarket.
I was so disappointed with the service.
I remember this one time
waiting in a queue to pay
Trolleys crammed full of stuff (=extremely full)
To cram something in (to a space) = to put something into a restricted space
I **crammed my basket full of fruit **My diary is crammed full of appointments
changing queue
to speed things up
Sod’s law
to stick it out
telling her life story (= to talk a lot about yourself)
Tom,
Dick and Harry (= anybody, especially people you don’t know
تقی نقی و هر ننه قمر
getting fidgety
quite nervous
get a move on
laid-back (= calm and relaxed)
my patience was wearing thin (= I was becoming
impatient)
was in a rush
IELTS Speaking: Idioms about Patience
to be at the end of your tether
To be at the end of your tether = to have no patience left or to run out of patience
کارد کسی که به استخوان رسیده
، در سرحد بی تابی، جان به لب رسیده
I’ve asked my daughter to clean her room 3 times this morning, and she still hasn’t done it; I am at the end of my tethe
My patience is wearing thin
= I am becoming less and less patient
I have asked you so many times to do this, and now my patience is wearing thin.
کاسه صبرم لبریز میشه
To lose it
= to lose your patience and temper (to get angry)
I am going to lose it if I have to repeat my order to the waitress again.
