Band 5: Describe a time you overcame a significant fear. You should say: - What the fear was - What triggered it - How you overcame it And explain how overcoming this fear changed you. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about a significant fear that I overcame in my experience. This is a fear of bike riding. I wanted to learn how to ride a bike, but I had a fear of accidents. I started to learn bike riding, and when I tried to learn, I was afraid of accidents on the road and other things I had not faced in my past. However, this fear did not consistently remain with me. At times, I felt very enjoyable because it was my basic need to ride a bike. I always needed this skill, so I tried to learn it. Eventually, I learned this skill and enjoyed it very much because it was essential for me. I felt a fear during the process of learning, but I overcame this fear and learned how to ride a bike. After learning this skill, I felt very happy and fulfilled.

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I would like to talk about Significance Fair data that I overcome in my experience. This is a fair of the bike riding and this actually I want to learn the bike riding but I have fear of accident. And I start my, I start to learn the bike riding. And when I try to learn bike riding, I have a fear of the accident on the road and other things that I have not faced in my past. But this fair is not consistently in continuing in me. In some time I feel very enjoyable because this is my basic need to ride a bike. I always need this skill. Therefore I try to learn this skill. After all, I learned this skill and I enjoy very much because it was my basic need and I feel very enjoy. I have a fear during this learning this skill but I overcome this fear and I learn this, I learn bike ride. So I feel very enjoy after learning this skill.

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