Band 6: Talk about a situation where you had to wait. You should say: What you waited for Why you had to wait What you did while waiting and explain how you felt after waiting. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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To wait is something that is very frustrating and has many consequences. One such situation I encountered was when we were waiting for a train. At that time, we were visiting Udaipur, and after completing our visit, we were returning home. We had chosen the train as our mode of transport to our city. At that moment, we received a message from the railway department about a delay of our train by three hours. We didn't have many options other than waiting for the train. We were disappointed, but we couldn't do anything else but wait. During that time, we played plenty of games like PUBG and other multiplayer games to entertain ourselves. Since we were traveling in a group, we chatted and discussed our future plans and the goals we were targeting. Additionally, we spent a lot of time sleeping, as we were tired from all the traveling we had done in recent days. This situation was memorable because it was the only time we had to spend together, and it was both frustrating and disappointing to have to wait.

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To wait is something that it’s very frustrating and had many consequences. So one such situation had come across me was when we were waiting for a train. So in this time we were visiting Udaipur and when we completed visiting Udaipur, we were returning to our home. At that particular time we had taken train as our transport to our city. At that time we got a message from the railway department about the delay of our train by 3 hours. And we don’t have much other chances other than waiting for the train. At that time we were disappointed but we couldn’t do anything else for waiting. During that time we were playing plenty of games like PUBG or any other multiplayer games to entertain ourselves. And as we were travelling in a group we were chatting and discussing about the future plans of others and about the future goals they are targeting to. And other than that we had much more time we were spending on sleeping as we were tired by all the travelling we had in our recent days. And this situation was so memorable because this was the only time we had to spend this time and was frustrating as well as disappointing to do to wait.

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