A skill I learned that was not taught in my school but it has been very useful and that is cooking. Actually it all happened a few years ago when I was in my back home country and that time I planned to move here in Canada so my mother told me to learn about cooking because it is the basic skill of everyone’s life. So usually I was dependent on my mother like how to make the food. So I always she made and I ate. But after like made a plan to come here. So I decided to learn it. So if I talk about inverted situations this skill is useful. I can say that it is very useful in many situations which is when we are going outside from our home. So we no need to worry about cook food like dependent on other persons. So I take a lot of classes from my mother because she is a good chef. After that I like to help of YouTube videos to learn different kind of recipes. So overall like it was a mixed bug of feelings at that time because one side I felt over the moon due to I like went to abroad at the same time I felt down in the dumps because I do not want to leave my family.
Band 6+: Describe a skill you learned that was not taught in school but has been very useful. You should say: - What the skill is - How you learned it - Why you decided to learn it And explain in what situations you use this skill.
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A skill I learned that was not taught in my school but has been very useful is cooking. Actually, it all happened a few years ago when I was in my home country, and at that time I planned to move here to Canada. So my mother told me to learn about cooking because it is a basic skill in everyone's life. Usually, I was dependent on my mother for how to make food. I always ate what she made. But after I made a plan to come here, I decided to learn it. So if I talk about the situations where this skill is useful, I can say that it is very useful in many situations, such as when we are going outside from our home. We don't need to worry about cooked food or depend on other persons. I took a lot of classes from my mother because she is a good chef. After that, I liked to use YouTube videos to learn different kinds of recipes. Overall, it was a mix of feelings at that time because on one side I felt over the moon due to going abroad, and at the same time I felt down in the dumps because I did not want to leave my family.
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