Band 6: Describe a time you made a promise to someone You should say: - What the promise was - To whom you made it - Whether it was easy or difficult to keep - And explain why you made it (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Honestly, I'm not the type of person who gives promises lightly. I'm not someone who makes impulsive decisions just to please others. But that was a special case because it was related to my work, and I really didn't want to lose my job at all. One day, when I was sitting at home, I felt overwhelmed by all the tasks I had to do every day. It seems like 24 hours in a day are not enough for me because my mind is quite overwhelmed, and I don't know what to focus on when I'm accomplishing my tasks. My employer called me and said that I had to post at least five videos that day. I promised her that I would do that. However, due to the hectic environment I was in and the outrageous tasks I had taken on, I forgot about my promise. The way I explained it to her was so elaborate and convincing that she might not have thought I was bad at keeping promises. I literally forgot about those postings. It seemed like she was really furious and even threatened to cut my salary. I told her I would do it right away, and out of guilt, I ended up posting ten videos to help her maintain her workload. That was the first time this happened very recently, and I really regret making her feel bad about the promise I made. I will never do that again.

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Honestly, I’m not that type of person who could give promises cowardly. I’m not that person who could do impulsive decisions in order to be pleased for something. But that was a special case because it is related to my work and I don’t really want to lose my work at all. So one of those days when I was sitting at home and I was really overwhelmed all the tasks that I have to do in everyday days. By the way, it seems like 24 hours of day is not enough for me at all because my mind is quite overwhelmed and I don’t know what to think about when I’m accomplishing and making some kind of tasks. But my employee called me and said that I have to pause at least 5 videos in this day. And I have promised her that I will do that. But because of hectic environment that I’m involved in and quite outrageous tasks that I have put on my way, I forgot about my promise. The way that I have said her was so elaborate, that was so convincing actually. But she might never thought that I’m so bad at keeping promises. So I just literally forgot about that postings. It seems like she was really really furious and she even threatened me to cut out my salaries. But I just said that I will do that now because of my guiltiness I have posted even 10 videos in order to help her to maintain her work. That was the first case that had happened very recently and I’m really regretting by the fact that I made her feel so bad about the fact that she gave me some promises. And I will not ever do that again.

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