What do you think about playing music for children in class? Why do many teachers incorporate music into the classroom? Are there any advantages to a shop that plays music? How would people's shopping behaviour be affected in a shop with music? What would be the effect of background music in a film? Do you think very few people notice background music? Why?
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Music isn't there. Everywhere you look around. Rory is everywhere. I mean music, do listen up. We're talking about music, speaking part three. Okay, your favorite topic. Rory here is super musical. Rory, what's your favorite song? Could you like give us some tune? And we can sing along. I'm just trying to think what I've been listening to recently. Forever Young. I want to be forever young. Do you want to leave a release to a whole lot of songs recently? And the Austrian entry for Eurovision was amazing. So those ones definitely. I think the Austrian version is like called We Will Rave and it's a dance song and I'm not singing a dance song. Really? Okay. Right, you listen up. So you see Rory is super excited about music but we're discussing questions in speaking part three. So we're going to be talking about people in general, our society in general and the world in general and what we think about other people. Okay. What do you think about playing music for children in class? It could be a good idea if it comes down the atmosphere and isn't distracting or it might be nice as a reward though I've not really had the pleasure of trying something like that out yet. Why do many teachers incorporate music into the classroom? Like I said, it can help keep things on an even keel and it can reflect the side of the teachers. Maybe the students haven't or haven't seen before or aren't familiar with. I think Baroque music is supposed to aid studying but yet to see solid evidence of that. Are there any advantages to a shop that plays music? Apparently so. Actually, super markets have their own radio stations and playlists to encourage people to stay longer and so if they stay longer then customers are more likely to buy things. At least that's how the logic seems to go. I have no idea if it works or not. How would people's shopping behavior be affected in a shop with music? Other than in the ways I said previously, I'm not really sure. They could move around to the beat of the music or just sway and enjoy it. I know I've done that. What would be the effect of background music in a film? I think it captures the atmosphere or the mood of a scene if it's done well. Good sounding music design can also influence people's emotional reactions to things happening on screen. It's quite impressive really. I've no idea how they do it but it's impressive. Do you think very few people notice background music? I think so but mostly because it's purposes to compliment the visual scenes which are the main attraction or feature the director wants to draw attention to. It's a bit like a salad with a steak. No one mentions the sight when the main course is the focus of the appetite. And which one is more valuable for culture, paintings or music? Well that's a good one. Oh I don't know because you can have a visual at an auditory or an oral impact can't you? And sometimes images can be quite striking but then you have earworms that stick in your head. So I don't know for that reason. I think they're equally important and I can't decide. How does music influence people? Oh hell kinds of ways. I mean we just talked about how it could influence their emotions when they're watching something on screen. It could rouse them to some sort of cause like they used to have drums playing on battlefields about 300 years ago. So this kind of thing could also happen. So it's not just the emotional reaction can rouse people to the physical action as well. Do you think the popularity of certain types of music changes over time? Well yeah culture is always evolving and changing so it makes sense that what makes a particular genre interesting might fall in and out of favour as that shift happens. And what role do you think music plays in preserving cultural traditions? Well music's connect to lots of different concepts in history and culture. So there are songs that are about particular moments in history which can be preserved and kept alive in people's heads this way. But there can also be songs about freedom from oppression as well or there are songs that are linked to a particular cause. For example lots of socialists and communists signing the international. Oh god so it could it can do lots of things like this. Thank you Rory for your answers. Their music to our ears. I'm glad you came up with a pun. Have a struggling. So the listener music usually comes down the atmosphere. Okay. So it makes people come down and also the atmosphere becomes more peaceful. Like if music isn't distracting. Okay. And music could be a nice reward for children in class. You think so? Some kids love listening to music. Yeah and often teachers play music for children for them to relax, for them to go crazy, to run around. So it could be like party break you know during the lesson. They do some tasks and then like a fun piece of music comes up and they're kind of like they start running around. And also teachers play music in class for children to sing along. So children learn the lyrics and they can sing songs in more in their native language or in a foreign language. It's fun. Yeah just for fun you know. And also for learning purposes. Like to have this musical break. So we say that teachers incorporate music into the classroom. So they incorporate, they use music in their classes. Do you do this? Well yeah yeah. When I taught general English students I did use music. Yeah we listened to songs. We learned the lyrics. We worked with the lyrics. And yeah yeah it's very nice. Can you use it for IELTS? Well for IELTS you can if you have enough time. You can do it Maria. I believe in you. I would never do it myself. I think that's terrifying. Teachers sometimes switch on some background music while learners are on a task. Some maybe classical music is also possible as background music. And then Rory you said like it can keep things on an even, on an even what? Kill. And even kill. It just means it keeps things level. Keeps things level and calm and going normally. It describes an emotional state. It's an idiom. Gosh if only someone had created some kind of course or sequence of episodes dedicated to idioms. And could you give us another example with kill? Yes. When I have enough food it's easy for me to stay on an even kill emotionally. Yeah on an even kill. K-W-E-L, continuing or operating without problems or sudden changes. And you can say that music aids studying. So it helps people to study. But then you can say like oh I don't have solid evidence over that. So I'm not sure why teachers do this. And I don't have any evidence that music helps learning. So solid evidence like convincing facts to prove that yes. It helps people to learn. Shops very often use music. Yes so if you go to a Zara shop or some other shop you will hear music playing. Supermarkets have their own radio stations and playlists and different shops have their own playlists to encourage people to stay longer and to encourage people to buy things more quickly. The magic of marketing. So customers are more likely to buy things. So probably customers will buy more things and will be more energetic in a shop. I think so. I think that's how it's supposed to work. But do you think it actually works? Oh yeah absolutely. Yeah yeah because music does affect our brain and you go in there and then you kind of you hear this energetic music you start moving in an energetic way like grabbing the things like moving quickly. So yeah it's like psychological. That's why usually we hear some energetic music to keep us moving you know. And then Rory again says no idea if it works or not. So if you're not sure if you say well I have no idea if it works or not. And people's shopping behavior is affected by music okay? Or music has an influence on customers shopping behavior. That's a weird question to ask though just after this one about advantages to shops playing music surely they're similar questions. And you can say that people could move around to the beat of the music. So move to the beat to the rhythm of the music. Or just sway move from side to side gently and enjoy. But yes like I say this question is very similar to the other one. So rather than saying like I said you could say other than the ways or other than in the ways I said previously but remember it's a rhetorical question. And also dear listener you can say that music stimulates subconscious mind of the customers. Oh my god does it? Yeah well they played for reason Rory. It's like all research psychology brain neuroscience you know music reduces the stress hormones in our body. Crazy. And music does increase sales dear listener. And there was a survey and everybody knows that yeah and also like music creates a calm atmosphere a nice atmosphere and stimulates encourages us to buy things. And also music improves visual experience during your shopping. Really? Yes actually fascinating stuff. Do you have a degree in marketing? Well I'll have a degree in searching the internet. Like can you imagine like you go to a shop and there's no music. Silence is very weird. Like strange. Like a silent store a silent shop. Can you imagine this? This is just crazy. No that would be my store. Get in get where you need and get out. No no no no. I know I know I have to faff around and do all of this stuff. Oh exactly and then the music is playing you know like you like it. Like you know you're just hanging there. Mental all of it. It helps the shop to build the right atmosphere. To enhance the retail experience retail like selling and buying experience enhance the customer's experience. There is a research dear listener and you can say that research shows that the music you play affects not only the store's environment but also shoppers moods and feelings. Shoppers customers people who buy things. You see the listener okay. Background music in a film. So when you we watch movies we hear sound tracks and also some background music. Have you ever noticed background music? It's very often like we don't you know. Yeah it's not designed for that. But it's nice when like there's like some quality background music. Yeah but it's you don't notice the music you notice the emotional effect that it has usually which is very interesting psychologically speaking. So we can say that music captures the atmosphere. Captures it's like represents represents the atmosphere and the mood of a scene. A scene is like a moment in a film like good music design influences people's emotional reactions. And if it's a film it's happening on screen. And it's impressive. Quite impressive. Music also complements the visual scenes. So scenes moments in the film music complements or matches the visual what we see visual scenes. And then really compares it to food very nicely. It's a bit like a salad with a steak. No worry you don't have a salad with your steak. What do you have with your steak? Oh my god it's like steak with pepper or steak with I know like cheesy sauce but actually steak is like it's good on its own. The point is the steak is the key thing that people are focused on. It is not the thing that comes with the steak. Right. Yeah. So the steak is the key thing and the film moments the film scenes are key and music just complements the scenes that can. Now this is not something that's mentioned in the IELTS criteria but it is mentioned in other measurements of high levels scores and ratings for English. If you can use metaphors like this effectively or similes in this case then it's a sign of a C2 level of language ability or a band 9 level of language ability. Yes that's a deal it's not so you can compare different things to food and you can just start like it's a bit like eating an ice cream. It's a bit like having a steak. It's a bit like french fries with a ketchup yum yum yum. It's a bit like going to McDonalds. Mmm yum yum yum. Beautiful. Yeah. Metaphos. So comparing things creatively to listener. When we talk about songs we can talk about ear worms. So if a song is stuck in your head and you get up and you start singing Rori Rori Rori so it's an ear worm to listen ear worm. And if it sticks in your head it stays there and you cannot get rid of it which is part of having the audio or the oral and the different spelling of oral not O-R-A-L but A-U-R-A-L meaning for things you listen to. So there's an oral impact for things you listen to and a visual impact for things you see. One of them we use to talk about music and one of them we use to talk about paintings or some other kind of image. We can say that different genres of music different kinds of music fall in or out of favor. So sometimes people like this like pop music sometimes people prefer jazz so different genres fall in or out of favor. So different genres are popular in different time periods. Hey how are you doing the listener? Are you all musical now? Hope so. Because we've been talking about this for a solid half hour. Let music flow into your life, spread music, dance to music and don't forget our shit. Rori Rori Rori. But if you do pick something else. Bye. What do you think about playing music for children in class? It could be a good idea if it comes down the atmosphere and isn't distracting or it might be nice as a reward though I've not really had the pleasure of trying something like that out yet. Why do many teachers incorporate music into the classroom? Like I said it can help keep things on an even keel and it can reflect the sight of the teachers maybe the students haven't or haven't seen before or aren't familiar with. I think Baroque music is supposed to aid studying the yet to see solid evidence of that. Are there any advantages to a shop that plays music? Apparently so actually super markets have their own radio stations and playlists to encourage people to stay longer and so if they stay longer then customers are more likely to buy things. At least that's how the logic seems to go. I have no idea it works or not. How would people's shopping behaviour be affected in a shop with music? Other than in the ways I said previously I'm not really sure. They could move around to the beat of the music or just sway and enjoy it and I know I've done that. What would be the effect of background music in a film? I think it captures the atmosphere or the mood of a scene if it's done well. Good sounding music design can also influence people's emotional reactions to things happening on screen. It's quite impressive really. I've no idea how they do it but it's impressive. Do you think very few people notice background music? I think so but mostly because it's purposes to compliment the visual scenes which are the main attraction or feature the director wants to draw attention to. It's a bit like a salad with a stake no one mentions the site when the main course is the focus of the appetite. And which one is more valuable for culture, paintings or music? Well that's a good one. Well I don't know because you can have a visual at an auditory or an oral impact can't you? And sometimes images can be quite striking but then you have earworms that stick in your head. So I don't know for that reason. I think they're equally important and I can't decide. How does music influence people? Oh hell kinds of ways. I mean we just talked about how it could influence their emotions when they're watching something on screen. It could rouse them to some sort of cause like well they used to have drums playing on battlefields about 300 years ago. So this kind of thing could also happen so it's not just the emotional reaction can rouse people to the physical action as well. Do you think the popularity of certain types of music changes over time? Well yeah culture is always evolving and changing so it makes sense that what makes a particular genre interesting might fall in and out of favor as that shift happens. And what role do you think music plays in preserving cultural traditions? Well music's connect to lots of different concepts in history and culture so there are songs that are about particular moments in history which can be preserved and kept alive in people's heads this way. But there can also be songs about freedom from oppression as well or there are songs that are linked to a particular cause. For example lots of socialists and communists signed the international. Oh god so it could it can do lots of things like this.
