Band 6: Describe a skill you learned that you think is useful. You should say: what the skill is when you learned it how you learned it and explain why you think it is useful. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about a skill I learned two years ago when my son had a birthday party. He told me that I should cook a cake for him and put Spider-Man on it. Of course, at first, I was surprised because I didn't know how to bake a cake. Then I opened a YouTube channel and started to learn how to bake and how to decorate it with Spider-Man. At first, it was challenging for me, and two or three times I could not get it right. But in the end, I successfully learned how to do it, and by the end of the birthday party, my son was so happy because he liked it, and it was also a delicious cake. I think this skill is very useful for me and my family because now I will not buy any cakes from bakeries. My friends have also asked me to make this cake, and all my relatives were so happy because at the age of 38, I learned to make a cake. Thank you for watching.

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I would like to say about my learned skill two years ago when my son had a birthday party. He told me that I should cook a cake for him and put on it Spider-Man. Of course at first I was so surprised because I didn’t know how to bake it, how to cook a cake. Then I opened a YouTube channel and started to learn how to bake and how to put Spider-Man and so on. At first of course it was so challenging for me and two times or three times when I of course could not cook it. But at the end I successfully had learned it and at the end of the birthday party my son was so happy because he liked it and tasted it was also a delicious cake. I think it was very useful for me and for my family because of now I will not buy any cakes from the bakeries. Also my friends ordered me to make this cake and all my relatives also were so happy because at the age of 38 I learned to make a cake. Thank you for watching.

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