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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