Band 6: Describe a skill you learned from a mistake. You should say: - What the mistake was - How you learned the skill from it - When this happened And explain how this skill has helped you since. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about a skill which I have learned from my mistake: learning English. It happened a few years ago. The mistake was that one of my teachers suggested I give a speech in front of a large group of audience. At that time, I felt so nervous and I was unable to pronounce the words clearly, so everyone laughed at me. I felt so disappointed. It happened during my 8th class, and that was the first time I was giving a speech in front of a large number of individuals. I felt so nervous and was unable to give the correct speech. I mistook the words, and my grammar was also incomplete, so everybody did not understand what I was trying to say. At that time, I decided to learn English fluently, so I practiced a lot. I also watched many videos from YouTube which could improve my pronunciation and understanding skills. One of my teachers helped me a lot; she always tried to motivate me, and she also gave me activities which were very necessary to learn. She also gave me an opportunity again in my 9th class, and at that time I was fully confident about my skill, so I presented my speech in a very clear manner. Everyone in the hall clapped for me because of my speech. Everyone was shocked because during my 8th class I was not able to speak even two sentences clearly. Now I am speaking such a long speech in a clear and understandable manner, so everyone appreciated me after this. But I always try to say one thing: if you want to learn any skill, if we keep working hard and we need to practice daily, then until we get success, but one fine day we definitely get success.

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I would like to talk about a skill which I have learnt from my mistake or learning English. It happened a few years ago. The mistake was one of my teachers suggested me to give a speech in front of large group of audience. At that time I feel so nervous and I am unable to pronounce the words clearly so that everyone laughed at me. I feel so disappointed and it happened during my 8th class at the time that was the first time that I am giving a speech in front of large number of individuals and I feel so nervous and unable to give the correct and I mistaken the words and also my grammar is also incomplete and everybody does not understanding what I am trying to say and that time I fixed to learn English fluently so that I ideally practice a lot and I also see many videos from YouTube which can improve my pronunciation and also understanding skills and one of my teacher helped me a lot she always tries to motivate me and she also give me activities which is very necessary to learn and also she gave me an opportunity again in my ninth class and at that time I was full confident about my skill so that I presented my speech in a very clear manner. Everyone in the hall has clapped me because of my speech. Everyone was shocked because during my 8th class I was not able to speak at least 2 sentences also clearly. Now I am speaking such a long speech in a clear and understanding manner so that everyone appreciated me after this. But I always try to say one thing. If you want to learn any skill, if we keep hard work and we need to practice daily then until we get success but a fine day we definitely get K success.

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