Band 5: Describe an interesting animal What it is? Where it lives? Where you first saw it? Why it's interesting? (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Okay, if it comes to an interesting animal, I would definitely say a lion. I still remember in my childhood, I was really scared of wild animals, especially lions. In my childhood, I don't remember the exact time, but I was around 11 or 12. I don't really remember. So at that time, my parents decided to take me to the zoo. With all of my family, we decided to go to the zoo. But I didn't really like wild animals just because I was really scared of them. But in YouTube videos and such channels, I found watching wild animals really interesting, so I really liked them in the YouTube videos. It was always interesting for me, but I was really scared of being beaten by those wild animals. So my parents decided to take me there, and when we went to the zoo, I just saw lots of kinds of wild animals. And when it came to a lion, I was truly scared because I had seen lots of videos of this lion. So we decided to feed that lion. The lion was really, really angry, but I was just really fascinated by feeding that lion. It turned out that it's not that scary. You just need to be kind with them. So at that time, I just understood that you just need to be kind to the wild or pets. So the lion was one of the interesting animals for me. So I would like to go to the zoo for lions again because they are really, really...

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Okay, if it comes to an interesting animal, I would definitely say about a lion. I still remember in my childhood, I was really scared of wild animals, especially from lions. In my childhood, I don’t remember the exact time, but in that time I was around 11 or 12. I don’t really remember. So in that time, my parents decided to take me to the zoo. With all of my family, we decided to go to the zoo. But I didn’t really like wild animals just because I was really scared of them. But in YouTube videos and such videos like channels, found it really I found watching wild animals interesting so interesting so I really liked them in the in the in the YouTube videos like it was always interesting for me but I was really scared of being beaten by those wild animals so so my parents decided to take me there and when we took to the zoo I just saw lots of kinds lots of kinds of wild animals and when it came to a lion I was truly scared because I saw lots of videos of this lion so I we decided to feed that lion so the lion was really really angry but but I just I was just really fascinated by feeding that lion. It turned out that it’s not that scary. You just need to be kind with them. So in that time, I just understood that you just need to be kind to the wild or pets. So the lion was one of the interesting animals for me. So I would like to go to the zoo for lions again because they are really, really…

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