Today you’ll hear band 9 speaking sample answers about
Christmas!
Listen to the whole episode for excellent holiday vocabulary!
Lindsay and Jessica answer the following IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card:
Describe a favorite holiday you have had.
Note that ‘holiday’, here, denotes a special
day, like Christmas, and not vacation.
In British English,
‘holiday’
can also mean ‘vacation’, unlike in American
English.
Notes from Lindsay’s
answer:
- One particular holiday when I was 9
- leading
up to Christmas time - the thing that was so wild and crazy
- we went
ahead and… - not the best handyman
- stringing
up the lights… amazing work of art - lampposts, swirly
things, masterpiece - she just gasped
- a little bit out of control
- going big
- in the biting
cold - absolutely
priceless
Notes from Jessica’s
answer:
- one of the first Christmases after having James
- at that time
- so stoked
- huge hot wheels track
- the thing is
- grand/magnificent
presentation - bleary-eyed
- rarin’
and ready to go - loop the
loops - lighting
fast, straight out of the gate
Listen a couple of times to these sample answers, and notice
how the context
is built out to fill the 2 minutes fluently and coherently.
Also, if you are asked
to describe a childhood memory, it’s totally find to make up details if you don’t remember a lot!
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