Band 6: Describe your grandparents' job (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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In this modern era, everyone should be employed. Inflation is increasing day by day, so income must be higher to meet all the facilities or daily needs. Today, I would like to talk about a job that my grandparents did. My grandfather grew a soap business, which he started at an early age. He used to tell me about how they grew their business because, at that time, there was no social media or any other advertising media to promote their products. They worked hard day and night to grow their business. At one point, they also prepared a liquid for washing clothes, which became very popular and helped increase their income. Nowadays, this liquid is also popular in some shops. Overall, this was a job my grandparents did with a lot of hard work, which encouraged me to achieve my goals.

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In this modern era, now everyone should be employed. Now inflation is increasing day by day, so income must be higher to get all the facilities or daily need. So today I would like to talk about a job which my grandparents did. As my grandfather grew a business of soap which he started in his early age. He used to tell me about how they grown their business because at that time there is no social media or any other advertising media to grow their business or to advertise for products. They used to tell me about how they grown their business by hard working day and night and once time they also prepared a liquid for washing clothes. So now that became very popular and helping increase their income also. Nowadays liquid is also popular in some of the shops. Now shops, all in all this was a job my grandparents do with lots of hard working so this encouraged me to achieve my goals.

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