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Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p100)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | abcasiapacihc com studyenglish .STUDY ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 23 OCTOPUSES Hello and welcome to Study English IELTS Preparation. I m Margot Politis. Today we re going to talk about how to describe the appearance or character of animals and people. Here s the clip. Listen to some descriptions of a very strange octopus. You couldn t get an animal that s sort of more different or more alien to us. They ve got such a weird shape. They ve got eight arms coming off their mouth. When they walk around it s like they re running round on super lips. They ve got a head in the middle of their body. They ve got a doughnut shaped brain. They ve got three hearts blue blood and jet propulsion and they ve got a bag on the back that they stick all the body bits in. So octopuses have weird forms and they have lots of really unusual behaviours as well like high speeds and camouflaging. I think the reason that octopuses have ended up having such weird forms and all these different sorts of behaviours is because they are a really good meal. They have no bones no armour no poisons and no spines. They re popular prey so they have to be very fast and clever at squeezing through tiny holes and really good at hiding from animals that want to eat them. So having to get away from their predators in the sea has made them evolve into amazing creatures. So they certainly are very strange creatures. Let s begin today by talking about how we order descriptions. When you write something down you will have already thought about what you want to say. The next step is to decide how you want to structure your description. Today s description of an octopus starts with an interesting statement telling us how strange and unusual the octopus is compared to humans. This is to attract the attention of the reader or the listener. Let s listen. You couldn t get an animal that s sort of more different or more alien to us. They ve got such a weird shape. Then the description focuses on the appearance of .
