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IELTS Preparation Series 2, Episode 3: Jarrah Forest


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Hello. I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.

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Today we'll travel to Western Australia to take a look at a famous jarrah forest.

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And while we're there, we'll learn about words that we use to describe 'spatial relationships'

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- where things are in relation to one another.

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Later on, we'll listen to a few 'proverbs'.

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But first, here's the Western Australian jarrah forest.

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Our jarrah forest is our reference point, it's our library of information, this is our

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baseline, this is what we had before we mined. I think some of the outward signs are showing

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us that it's quite healthy.

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The proof in the pudding is not you and I sitting here today, but the proof of the pudding

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might be in ten year's time, twenty year's time - whether this forest is flourishing

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for our children and grandchildren. So far so good.

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Dr Bougher knows a lot about the forest. In the clip, he spent a lot of time describing

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where things are.

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When you're describing where things are, it's important to be precise and accurate in your

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description.

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You need to think about how you're going to 'order the description'. You should try to

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arrange it in a logical way, according to some kind of pattern.

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You might describe things in one area at a time, so you can guide your listener through

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the space.

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Look at this picture.

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You could for example describe from the 'top to the bottom', from the 'left to the right',

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or from 'near to far' - that is you could start describing 'the foreground', 'the middle

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distance', and finish with 'the background'.

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There are no rules on how to describe something. Just make sure that your description is clear

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and logical.

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Here is Dr Bougher again. Notice how he describes the forest area.

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On our left here, we have a very good example of the jarrah forest, the famous jarrah forest

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of Western Australia.

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And on our right here, we have the contrast, which is the mined area, and on this area

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we can see the rehabilitation has occurred about three years ago.

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Dr Bougher uses descriptions like 'on our left' and 'on our right'.

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He helps us understand the location of things by using the preposition 'on', along with

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a noun phrase. These are preposition phrases.

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When we want to describe where things are, we usually use preposition phrases.

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Let's look at some of the common prepositions you can use to describe where things are:

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above below

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beside or next to in front of

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behind on the right

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on the left on top of or over

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under between

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or even surrounded by.

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Let's listen to Dr Bougher once more. As well as using these prepositions, he uses another

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word to show exactly where things are.

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Can you hear it?

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On our left here, we have a very good example of the jarrah forest, the famous jarrah forest