Band 5: Describe a time when technology helped you solve a problem. What was the problem you faced? How did technology help you solve it? (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about a time when technology helped me solve a problem. Actually, this happened a few years ago and influenced me differently because the situation was so meaningful and memorable for me. I want to describe a time when my father asked me to fix his mobile phone because it started to switch off without any notifications. For that reason, I really wanted to help my father, but the mobile phone was so modern that I could not solve it. However, I saw a lot of videos and podcasts on YouTube about fixing this kind of modern mobile phone. So it was easy for me to watch them and then try to solve the problem. However, this didn't work, and my father went to the place where the phone could be repaired. This problem was very challenging, not only because it was related to my family member, but also because replacing mobile phones is very expensive. This was out of our budget, and the mobile phone was so new. We really appreciate the work of people who fix these devices. However, technology helped us solve some problems, such as being able to communicate with other people and being productive with mobile phones. These kinds of things are very helpful. In the end, I felt very relieved because my father's phone was fixed, and I felt very happy about that. This situation was very teachable and memorable for me.

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I would like to talk about in time when technology helped me to solve my problem. Actually this happened a few years ago and influenced me differently because the situation was so meaningful and memorable for me. I want to describe a time when my father told me to solve her mobile phone because it started to switch off without any kind of notifications. For that reason I really want to help my father but the mobile phone was so modern so I cannot solve it. However, I saw in the YouTube a lot of videos and podcasts about solving this kind of modern mobile phones. So it was easy to me to watch it and then solve that problem. However, this wasn’t work and my father went to the place where the phone is. where his phone is solved. This problem was very, I can say, challenging. Not only because it’s related with my family members, but also because replacing the items in time of mobile phones are very expensive. So this is out of our budget and mobile phone was so new and we are very I can say appreciate the work of people who just work on that however the technology helped us solve a little bit problems such as being communicated with other people and being on the being Being always productive with mobile phones, these kind of things are very helpful. And in the end I felt very relieved because my father’s phone is soft and I feel very happy for that. And this situation was so teachable and memorable for me.

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