Band 6: Describe a time when you taught a friend or relative something (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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A few months ago, I vividly remembered a time when I had to teach my friend how to swim because I had several years of experience in swimming. He asked me if I could teach him, and I agreed. One day, my friend and I went to the nearby recreational center, which has a huge swimming pool with safety guards for beginners and a lifeguard on duty. On the first day, I taught him the basics, like how to jump into the water and crawl like a fish. For him, it was new, so it took a long time for him to grasp everything. By the end of the first day, he hadn’t learned much, but we continued practicing for a whole week. By the end of the week, he figured out how to move his arms and legs. We set a target to complete this in one month. Achieving that target was one of the happiest moments of my life, knowing that I was able to teach him how to swim.

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A few months ago I vividly remembered that a time occur when I had to teach my friend how to do swimming because I had a several year experience in swimming so he asked me in favor that can I teach him how to do swimming so I said I will so one day me and my friend we went to the nearby recreational center recreational center they have a huge swimming pool where they have all the safety guards for the beginners to do swimming and they also have a lifeguard availability available so first day I teach him the basic how to do how to jump in the water and crawl like a fish inside the water for him it was new so it took a long time for him to get everything but first day he didn’t get anything then we went continuously like for a whole week then at the end of the week he figured out how to do arms movement and legs movement then we set a target that in one month we gonna complete this so complete this target so that was the happiest moment in my life that I will be able to teach him how to do

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