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Part 2

Band 5+: Describe something given to you that you really wanted.

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For this topic, I'd like to share a memorable experience where someone gave me something I really wanted. Last year, I was intensely focused on my exams. At that time, I desperately needed a phone, but I simply didn't have the money to buy one. I needed it for my homework assignments, and my mother knew how much I wanted it. She surprised me with a phone as a gift, an Apple phone. I was completely astonished and incredibly grateful. I had a lot of assignments to complete, and the phone made my life so much easier. I could finally tackle those difficult assignments, do my homework, surf the internet, and stay connected with my friends. That gift was a truly memorable experience for me, something I really wanted and needed at the time.
Actual audio transcript (What native speakers are likely to hear):

For this topic, I’d like to talk about a memorable experience when someone gave me something that I really wanted. If I’m not mistaken, last year I really focused on my exams. Uh, for that reason. Of course at that time I needed phone but uh. But on that days, uh, I didn’t. I uh, had not enough money to purchase it. Uh, and of course I needed a phone to uh. Do my home assignments. And of course um uh, of course at that time my mother knew uh, that I wanted it and she uh uh. Gave me uh. I ph. As a gift, uh, under the brand uh. Under the brand of apple. And for no reason uh, she gave me at the time. I thankd a lot. She. And I was completely astonished because I uh had many assignments to uh, to to do. To much do. Uh, and of course and of course uh, the phone made my life uh, made my life more made my life more uh, easy because uh. I uh had. Because at that time I had some uh. Difficult assignment, uh. To uh, must do. Uh, of course at the time I visited that phone to do my uh. Home workers and uh. Surface the net and also communicated with my friends, uh, of course um, of course, uh. That uh. That present uh. A memorable experience for me with that I really wanted.

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