Band 5: Describe a famous hoax or false story that you found interesting. You should say: what the story or hoax was about where you heard or read about it how people reacted to it and explain why it interested you. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Personally, I am not enthusiastic about hoaxes, especially false stories, and I don't follow them. However, some of them are so famous and sound interesting. I think it's undeniable not to follow them because they seem so moving and gripping. One of the most famous hoaxes that I have heard about was related to the prediction of the future. I cannot say exactly when I heard about it, but it has been a really famous subject that has lasted for many years, even until now. I think during a period of my life, specifically my youth, it was very interesting for people to go to those who predicted their future or wrote some writings that helped them in their future. Personally, as I will explain now, I don't believe in them because I think everything in the future is related to yourself, and your development is related to your efforts. But people always choose the easier way, so they really like that, but not me. I think it was one of the most famous hoaxes.

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Personally, I am not enthusiastic about hoax and especially false stories and I don’t follow them, but some of them are so famous and sounds interesting. I think it’s undeniable not to follow them because they seem so moving and gripping. One of the most famous hoax that I had heard was related to prediction of future. I cannot say exactly when I heard about it, but because it has been a really famous subject that it longs from many years ago until now. But I think in a period of my life, I think it’s about my youth period, it was so interesting for people to go to some people who predict their future or they write some poem, I mean not poem, I mean some writing that helped them in their future. But personally, as I use and I will tell now, I don’t believe on them because I think everything in the future is related to yourself and your development is related to your trying. But people always choose the easier way, so they really like that, but not me. I think it was one of the most famous hoax.

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