Band 6: Describe a time when feel happy about your confidence. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Today I would like to talk about a time when I took part in a speech competition. Last year, when I was at school, I took part in a speech competition and I decided to talk about the environment and how trees play an important role in our ecosystem. I practiced a lot to make sure I could convey my message in front of my schoolmates and teachers. That competition took place in the auditorium of the school. Finally, I delivered my speech in front of the school. First of all, I hesitated, but I tried my best to convey my message. As I started to talk about how trees play an important role in climate change compared with wildlife, I could see the interest on the faces of the audience, and they encouraged me to keep going. For the first time, I felt happy and proud of my confidence level, and I never thought that I had a great sense of public speaking. After that, I took second place in the competition, and my father and family members were very happy to hear about this. My father then took me to a restaurant where we usually went to celebrate special occasions. The restaurant is decorated with mini plants and flashing lights. It has an amazing rooftop and seating all around the sides. The best thing about the restaurant is the customer service; the staff is very polite and nice. The restaurant's environment is very good. They provide all kinds of local and quality cuisine, and I appreciated the time I spent there with my father.

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Today I would like to talk about a time when I took part in a speech competition. Last year when I was at school I took part in speech competition and I decided to talk about the environment who trees play an important role in our ecosystem and I practised a lot to make sure that to convey my message in front of my school students and teachers that competition took place in the auditorium of the school. Finally I delivered my speech in front of the school. First of all I hesitated and I tried to do my best to convey my message as I started to read about trees plays and important role to climate change compared with wildlife and climate change. I could watch the sea on the faces of the audience and they appreciated me to keep going and at the first time I feel happy and proud about my confidence level and I never think that I have a great sense of speaking in the public. After that I took the second position in the competition and my father and family members were very happy to listen about this. My father went and then took me to a restaurant where we usually went there to celebrate some Okanians and at the happy times. The restaurant is decorated with mini plants and flashing lights. The restaurant has amazing rooftop and seating all around the side. The good thing of the restaurant is the customer service and the stop of the restaurant was very polite and nicer. The environment restaurant is very good. They provide all the kinds of local and quality night cuisine and I appreciate the time that spent there with my father.

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