IELTS Speaking Idioms: NEIGHBOURS

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So, oh, you can't see me, let's take that away.

Idioms, let's jump straight in.

Can you guess these idioms?

I'm gonna show you a picture,

and see if you can guess the idioms.

Ready? Here is number one.

First idiom.

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To be noisy or to be nosey.

There seems to be a difference of opinion.

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And the spelling is very interesting.

(chuckling) I like this one, where is it? It's gone.

To be or not to be, Maksym, very nice.

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Qadir, how do you get that? There's no shoes here at all.

Okay, excellent.

I think most of you have absolutely got this spot on.

Perfect. Here's the answer.

To be nosey.

And just remember, right, it's nose with an e, nosey.

I mean now I'm beginning to think

because you are all writing it in different ways,

but I'm pretty sure it's with an e, right?

Yeah, it's with an e, yes, absolutely.

To be nosey means to be too interested

in other people's lives.

For example, my neighbor is so nosey,

she always watches from her window when I have visitors.

There's the expression, she is a nosey parker.

I dunno if it's with a capital, let me check.

I did a Instagram live yesterday

and one of the students came up with this nosey parker,

which was a fantastic word.

A nosey parker just means somebody who is very nosey,

very, very nosey.

No capitals, no, two words, no capitals, but interesting.

That is interesting, Cambridge does it without an e, huh?

Let's explore this together. I like exploring together.

So nosey parker, a person who is nosey,

and nosey without an e, that's interesting.

So are there two ways of spelling it?

Also nosy, right, also, so there's two ways.

There's nosy and then there's nosey with an e as well.

There are both of them.

It's interesting,

because I think you should become like a detective

when you are unsure about something,

even as a teacher, go and check.

Because sometimes when you see English so much

and you teach it so much, you forget or you get confused.

So it can be both ways. It can be nosy or nosey, right?

So I'm gonna put both of those then, nosy,

she's a nosey parker, two words,

however, it is not noisy.

Noisy is when you make a lot of noise,

like the traffic or the music,

not noisy, that's not the right one.

Okay, nosey is excellent.

That was the first one, well done all of you, let's done,

let's do number two, here we go.

Can you guess the idiom?

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Interesting, some very interesting ones about fire,

actually, so the actual answer for this one was,

to get on like a house on fire.

But I can see some of you been talking about being fired

is also a different kind of idiom.

So this one is to get on like a house on fire.

To get on like a, you must have, a,

a lot of you do not have the a, it's a house on fire.

Remember the a.

And it means to quickly become good friends

and to get on very well, but very quickly, right,

very well and very quickly.

For example, my new neighbors

and I get on like a house on fire.

We already plan to have dinner together next week.

Hmm, like a house on fire.

So the other one, (chuckling) what was the other one

that somebody said, "to get fired."

Yeah, to be fired means to lose your job

'cause you've worked badly, but that's a different idiom.

Okay, lovely, number three.

Can you guess the idiom?

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(chuckling) Shadows?

Good word.

Good guess, Ibrahim.

Enas, you are very close and you're doing really well.

You've got three words, seek for someone close.

Ooh, very close.

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The shadow is someone.

So Eduardo, you are also very, very, very close.

I think you are the closest so far.

Okay. This is tearing me up because nobody's there.

You're so, so close.

So the person here is looking out for someone,

to look out for someone.

This is the word that was difficult.

You had look forward, look after, looking for,

but to look for someone is when you've lost them.

Look forward to some, to seeing someone

is when you can't wait, you are excited.

Look out for, is to take care of someone

and make sure they're okay, to look out for.

For example, our neighbors look out for each other,

especially if someone is sick or needs help.

Okay, so you were, I mean some of you were very close,

I mean, look after, similar.

So look out for someone.

Aisha, you've got it there, to look out for someone.

It is similar, Eduardo, you're right.

To keep an eye on someone is exactly that.

Let's add that because that it's exactly that,

to keep an eye on someone,

and that is also another idiom, very, very similar.

Two idioms for the price of one. Nice.

Let's have a look at the last one.

Okay, idiom number four, can you guess the idiom?

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Oh, we've got some clever people here.

Caroline, look carefully at the last three words.

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Mariana, again, great idiom, but that's a different one.

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Good guess, Nora.

Okay, brilliant.

A lot of you have got the right answer there.

And basically as Mohsen said, to get her,

you put together, right, "pull together,"

you can see them pulling together.

That's what it is. It's to pull together.

Where are we?

Here we are, number four, to pull together,

meaning to work as a team to achieve something,

to pull together.

I was tricking you with the word to get her,

for example, when I got promoted,

some neighbors pulled together to organize a small party

to celebrate.

The neighbors pulled together.

So they work as a team to help do something

or to achieve something.

Brilliant. Very, very nice.

Those are the four idioms.

There are some other idioms there as you've mentioned,

but I'm not gonna go through all of them today,

mainly because of time.

But just a quick recap.

We've got, to be nosey, like a nosey parker.

She's so nosey.

To get on like a house on fire,

when you have a good relationship with somebody.

To look out for somebody, look out for,

I look out for my children.

To pull together.

Nice, okay.

Brilliant, those are the idioms, what's coming up next?

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