Band 6: describe an activity that yiur friend had but you have not and you want to try (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Well, actually my friend said that last summer he went parachuting from a helicopter, about 10,000 meters high or something like that. I think I also want to try it, but I'm really afraid. I'm afraid of heights; even though I can kind of fly in a helicopter, I'm not sure I can jump with a parachute from that height. But I really want to try jumping and also to stop being scared of heights, like jumping from a helicopter or something like that. I think it will be a nice experience for me to do such an activity that my friend did. I think that maybe this summer I will also have this activity, like jumping from the helicopter with my friend who did it before, about a year ago. I hope it will be nice for me because, as I said, I'm really afraid of jumping.

Actual audio transcript (What native speakers are likely to hear):

Well, actually my friend said that last summer he had a jumping with parachute from the helicopter, like 10,000 meters high or something like that. And I think that I also wanted to try it again, but I’m really afraid of, I’m afraid from hikes, like even if I can kind of fly with a helicopter, but I’m not sure that I can jump with a parachute from that hike. So, but I really want to try that jumping and also to stop scaring from the hike places, like from jumping from the helicopter or something like that. So, I think it will be a nice experience for me to do such an activity that my friend had. And I think that maybe in this summer I will have also this activity, like jump from the helicopter with my friend who had it before, so one year ago. So, I hope that it will be nice for me because I, as I said, I’m so afraid of jumping.

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