Band 6: Describe a time you received unexpected good news. You should say: - What the news was - Who gave you the news - What your initial reaction was And explain why it was so important to you. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So, I want to talk about my brother who got accepted to Harvard University. It happened probably a year ago. We were sitting at the dinner table with our family. At that time, we didn't know that our brother had applied to Harvard University. We had taken the IELTS and SAT in order to apply to universities. Then, while we were sitting at the table eating tasty food, he came in screaming and said, 'I got accepted to Harvard University.' At that moment, it was really amazing. We were just shocked by his words, and then we understood what he was saying. We were like, you know, Harvard is the cornerstone of universities. So, we all stood up and hugged him because we were really happy. He said that he did it anonymously without telling us. He wanted to surprise our parents, so he did it. I'm really proud of my brother. Yeah, that was really unexpected good news for me. In the future, I'm going to enter Harvard University too. I'm trying my best to get passing grades.

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So, I want to talk about my brother who got accepted to the University of Harvard. It happened probably a year ago. We were sitting in a dinner table with our family. At that time, we didn’t know that our brother applied for Harvard University. We had IELTS and SAT in order to apply for the universities. So then he said, when we were sitting in the table eating a tasty food, he came screaming and said I got accepted to Harvard University at that time was like really amazing you know we were just shocked by his words and then we understood what he’s saying and we were like you know Harvard is the cornerstone of universities so then we like stood like and we everybody hugged him that we were really happy. He said that he did it anonymously without saying us. He wanted to surprise our parents so he did it. I’m really proud of my brother. Yeah that That was really unexpected good news for me. So in the future I’m going to enter to Harvard University too. I’m trying my best in order to get passing grades.

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