In the given cue card, I’m asked to speak about a situation when I had to wait. Well, I have had to wait for a very long time throughout my life. Here, I would like to talk about a situation that happened recently when I had to wait a little longer. So, last week, I went to a passport office to make a passport for me. So, I applied it two weeks before and then told me to reach there right on 9 p.m. But I was late to get there. I was about 15 minutes late to get there. So, I reached the passport office at 9 p.m. and they told me that at first they asked me, why are you late? And I couldn’t tell anything because it was my fault. They said, you have to wait until the next 10 persons come in and I applied for theirs. And I was so stressed. I had to wait around an hour just because I was 15 minutes late. They let me wait a little longer. I had to wait for an hour and I was like, what is this behaviour? I couldn’t tell anything because it was my fault. But I had to wait for an hour. So, I waited an hour and then they let me in and I filled out all of those information. And I left there after 30 minutes again.
Band 6+: Talk about a situation when you had to wait.
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In the given cue card, I'm asked to speak about a situation when I had to wait. Well, I have had to wait for a very long time throughout my life. Here, I would like to talk about a situation that happened recently when I had to wait a little longer. So, last week, I went to a passport office to apply for a passport. I had applied two weeks before and they told me to reach there right at 9 a.m. But I was late getting there. I arrived about 15 minutes late. So, I reached the passport office at 9:15 a.m., and they asked me why I was late. I couldn't say anything because it was my fault. They said I had to wait until the next 10 people came in and applied for theirs. I was so stressed. I had to wait around an hour just because I was 15 minutes late. They made me wait a little longer. I had to wait for an hour, and I was thinking, what is this behavior? I couldn't say anything because it was my fault. But I had to wait for an hour. So, I waited an hour, and then they let me in, and I filled out all of the information. I left there after 30 minutes.
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