📙 Part 2: Describe a time when you needed to search for information

This episode's vocabulary

To poke around (phrasal verb) - to go into different files on a computer, places on the internet, etc. usually not in a very careful or organized way.

To unwind (verb) - to relax and allow your mind to be free from worry after a period of work or some other activity that has made you worried.

To elaborate (verb) - to add more information to or explain something that you have said.

To decompress (verb) - to relax.

Laid-back (adj.) - relaxed in manner and character; not usually worried about other people's behaviour or things that need to be done.

To misjudge (verb) - to form an opinion or idea about someone or something that is unfair or wrong.

Intense (adj.) - intense work or thought requires a lot of effort.

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Questions and Answers

M: Rory, could you start speaking now, please?

R: You would think this would be easy, because I'm a teacher. So I'm always poking around for things. But nothing, in particular, stands out. I suppose, maybe it would be when I had to find a place to do yoga a few months ago, to help me unwind from the first term at school, and I needed to find it. So I just used Google. To elaborate further, I thought that doing yoga might help me chill out and decompress from the previous eight weeks of hard work. So I hopped on Google to find out where the closest yoga place was to where I was staying. This was about a week before I left, but it didn't seem to be such a big deal in terms of finding where I needed to be. I was under the impression these places were pretty laid back and relaxed about timing. And I found that to be the case with this one. So it wasn't such a big deal. Oh, yes. Well, I suppose I Googled it because everyone does that for everything these days, don't they? I needed the address and the phone number and a map to understand how to get there. And Google created the map and seconds and displayed the information in even less time, which is quite remarkable when you think about it. How people found their way around before the advent of the Internet and search engines, I have no idea. So regardless of how I got it, it was definitely worth the effort, I got what I needed. And I set up the account with the place and I enjoyed two weeks of yoga at a discount. The one downside is I think I might have misjudged exactly how relaxing yoga was supposed to be because it was very painful afterwards. However, that's not exactly connected to looking for the information related to it. Maybe I should have dug a bit deeper in that sense and I would have understood that it was going to be an intense experience. Despite that, though, it was still a rewarding one. And I'm looking forward to doing it again.

M: And do you often search for information?

R: Um, yeah, I have to do it on a daily basis because of my job. I need to find out how things work so I can explain them clearly.

M: Thank you, Rory, for your lovely answer!

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