Band 7: Describe a place you have been to where things are expensive. You should say: — where this place is — why you went there — what you bought there and explain why you think things are expensive there. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I'm a travel person, so I try to travel as much as I can, and I have seen lots of places till now, but one of them really stands out for me. Two years ago, we decided to make a trip to an island in the southern part of Iran. We scheduled the trip, gathered all the necessary things, and our journey began. We took a one-week journey to that island, and at the beginning, everything was phenomenal. For example, the weather was out of this world, the island had a lot of scenery, and we decided to explore it. However, the food was very expensive, and so was the accommodation. We had to pay a lot of money for both. On the last day, I wanted to buy a souvenir for my family, and unfortunately, I had to pay a large amount of money for it. The prices there, compared to the place where I live, were much higher, primarily because of the high taxation they had.

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I’m a travel person, so I try to travel as much as I can and I have seen lots of places till now, but one of them really stands out for me. Two years ago, we decided to make a trip to an island in the southern part of Iran. So we scheduled the trip, we gathered all the necessary things and our journey began. Um, we took a one week journey to that island and at the beginning everything was phenomenal. For example, the weather was out of this world, that Ireland had a lots of scenery, and we decided to explore the island. But first of all, the food was so expensive and also accommodation. We had to pay lots of money for food and accommodation. Uh, at the last day I wanted to buy some, um, souvenir for my family and, uh, unfortunately I had to pay a large amount of money for it. The prices there, compared to place where I live, it was too much higher, I think primarily because the high taxation that they had.

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Band 7+: Describe a place you have been to where things are expensive. You should say: — where this place is — why you went there — what you bought there and explain why you think things are expensive there.

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