Band 4: Describe a time when you gave advice to someone. You should say: who you gave advice to What the situation was What advice you gave What the result was (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Well, giving advice plays an essential role in today's developing society. Everyone should advise others, and everyone can accept advice. Now I would like to talk about a situation when I gave advice to my sister. She was spending a lot of time watching TV and was becoming addicted to it. I advised her to not watch TV programs for extended periods and instead focus on learning foreign languages and her school subjects. At first, she didn't understand my advice, but a few days later, I noticed her studying languages and asking questions about English. She has changed her habits in a positive way, and I am very happy to have helped her.

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Well, giving advice, um, plays an essential role in today’s, uh, developing society everyone, uh, should advise for others. And, uh, everyone can accept advises. Now I would like to talk about, uh, situation that I gave an advice for my sister. Uh, she she was, um, she was going she was she had, uh, watch a TV for a long time, and then she, She would, uh, addict to watch TV for a long time. So I, uh, I said If you are, don’t, uh, use, and don’t, Don’t watch TV programs for a long time instead of it, you should, uh, learn foreign languages and them. You should learn your school subjects, um, but, um, he, uh, for firstly, he, um, didn’t understand my advice. Um, but a few days ago, I saw him learning her. I still hear, um, that she is, uh, she was learning, heart free languages, and sometimes She asks some sometimes she asks some questions about English, uh, and So, uh, ship change it. She has changed it in a positive way. And, uh, I am very happy to, uh, help your Yeah.

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