This is a very challenging question for me because I rarely make promises. There is a saying that if you make a promise to someone, it’s because you have no intention to keep with your words. And I truly believe this is true. However, I would like to talk about one promise that I made for myself a few months ago. So I was studying to take a test and I promised to myself that if I passed in this test I wouldn’t eat chocolate for one month and when I got the results. I was thrilled. However, I started to think about my promise and I consider myself a very chocoholic person. I eat chocolate every day after lunchtime. After lunch, I have a creve to eat chocolate and at the beginning it was very hard because I had the desires to eat chocolate but every time that I look at the chocolate I reminded my promise and I didn’t want to I didn’t want to screw with my my promise so but to from the middle to the end of the month it has become easier since I switched the chocolate for something else sweet and I made that promise because I’m a very spiritual person I everything every goal or achievement that I want to do it I always start with God and ask him to help me and I think it’s a kind of motivation when you make promises to achieve your goals.
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
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This is a very challenging question for me because I rarely make promises. There is a saying that if you make a promise to someone, it's because you have no intention to keep your word. And I truly believe this is true. However, I would like to talk about one promise that I made to myself a few months ago. So I was studying to take a test and I promised myself that if I passed this test, I wouldn't eat chocolate for one month. When I got the results, I was thrilled. However, I started to think about my promise and I consider myself a very chocoholic person. I eat chocolate every day after lunchtime. After lunch, I have a craving to eat chocolate and at the beginning it was very hard because I had the desire to eat chocolate, but every time that I looked at the chocolate, I reminded myself of my promise and I didn't want to screw up my promise. So from the middle to the end of the month, it became easier since I switched the chocolate for something else sweet. And I made that promise because I'm a very spiritual person. Every goal or achievement that I want to accomplish, I always start with God and ask him to help me, and I think it's a kind of motivation when you make promises to achieve your goals.
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