Band 7: Describe a book you recently read (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I'd like to talk about a fascinating novel that I borrowed from my friend two weeks ago. It's called Lock and Key. It talks about a mysterious house called Key House. The person who owns this house works as a teacher, and he was suddenly killed by one of his students. After his death, his family decided to go and live in this house. His young child starts hearing a strange whispering in the house. So he and his brother start tracing this sound, and they find a number of different magical keys. One key can make you go to any place in the world in the blink of an eye, and another can make you a ghost so no one can see you. By the time they discover that there is an evil witch searching for these keys, it is the main reason for killing their father. The student who killed him was working for her, and she needs these keys to do evil things. So they decided to take these keys and throw them away in the ocean. It was a very interesting novel.

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I’d like to talk about a fascinating novel that I borrowed from my friend two weeks ago. It’s called Loc and Key. It talks about a mysterious house which is called Key House. The person who m owns this house works as a teacher. And he was suddenly killed by one of his students. After his death, his family decided to go and live in this house. His young child start hearing a strange whispering in the house. So he and his brother start tracing this sound and they found number of different magical keys. One key can make you go to any place in the world in a blink of an eye. And another can make you uh, a ghost and no one can see you. By the time they discovered that there was an evil witch that was searching for these keys and it was the main reason for killing their father. As the student who killed him was working for her. And it need these keys to go to do evil things. So they decided to take these keys and threw it away in an ocean. It was very interesting novel.

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