M: Right, dear listener, so we can make a cake, we can bake a cake. We can have a cake, we can eat a cake. Yum, yum, yum. We can have a homemade cake. Okay? For example. Or a slice of cake. A slice. A piece of cake, a slice of cake. Rory told us that he is useless at making cakes. I'm useless at baking cakes.
R: I am.
M: Useless. I'm not good.
R: I can't bake. I mean, I could do it for myself. But if I baked for other people, I would be so worried I would poison them. So I just don't do this.
M: So I'm not good at making cakes. I'm useless at baking cakes. When I do this, a cake turns out to be burnt. So my cakes turned out to be burnt. Turn out? They kind of, they happen.
R: Well, my syrniki turned out burned. My cakes... I don't even want to imagine what that would be like. I've not made one in a very long time. So God only knows what would happen.
M: You can say that once I was making a cake. A cheesecake. Once Rory was making syrniki. Syrniki is, well, they call it like Russian curd cheese pancakes. It's not a dessert.
R: It's not? Oh, I thought it was. I'm sorry.
M: No, it's not a desert.
R: It just goes to show you, don't have to be factually correct when you're giving an answer to an IELTS question. You just have to make sure that you use the appropriate vocabulary. And if not, then I did say it's kind of like or it's a kind o. So it's not exactly what I said.
M: Mayhem is a very good word. So every time I try to bake something, there is mayhem or I create mayhem.
R: Yes, so mayhem is like, well, it's similar to chaos, or just a really unregulated and disorderly situation, which is exactly what would be the case if I did some baking because I don't have a clue what to do. Even if I followed the recipe book, it would just be a mess.
M: Do some baking, okay? I did some baking when I was a child, for example. I sometimes have cakes. Rory, what did you say? You didn't say sometimes, but you said something else.
R: What did I say? Oh, yeah. Every now and then.
M: Every now and then. Like, do you have cakes? Every now and then. Like sometimes, not often, not always. Sometimes. If you don't, then you can speak about your gut bacteria. Gut... it's like inside your stomach. No, inside your belly, you have guts here. And Rory has some bacteria in his guts. And his bacteria don't respond well to sugar. To cakes. And Rory gets all bloated. So when you get bloated, you...
R: You feel an expansion of your stomach. It's not very pleasant. It's not a nice feeling.
M: Yeah, so kind of like... Like a balloon. I usually get bloated and ill after I eat a cake.
R: Anything with sugar.