Hey, everyone!
Welcome back!
I'm Jay from IELTS daily,
and today we're going to be answering another question
from the IELTS Speaking Test Part Two.
So let's get started,
Shall we?
So, as I said,
we're going to be answering a question
from part two of the IELTS speaking exam.
and once again,
I'm here with Chris. How you going, Chris?
Hey, Jay!
I'm doing really well.
Can I just ask you don't know any of these questions beforehand,
Do you?
They're all new questions for you.
Yeah, yeah.
They're new, I'm trying to simulate the testing environment
as much as I can.
Exactly.
So in the test,
we try to collect as many recent questions from students as possible,
so all of these questions have appeared recently in the test.
Today's question I know is a little bit hard.
I'm going to send it over to your iPad just now.
So on the screen, you'll see the question which is as follows:
Describe a gift you gave to somebody which took a long time to choose.
You should say what the gift was,
who you gave the gift to,
what was the reason for giving the gift?
And explain why it took a long time to choose.
Alright, Jay.
So you have a minute to start preparing your answers.
It would be great if you could share some of your ideas with the students.
Off you go.
All right.
So, this is probably one of those examples where I am going...
I was going to struggle a little bit
because I don't have a very good story or that I can draw from.
I'm kind of scrambling, and you are going to be experiencing this during the test too.
I'm just going to pick my father-in-law,
because I know that in the past, he has been difficult to buy gifts for.
He doesn't really have any hobbies.
He's a very hard worker.
He doesn't really do anything in a spare time.
So, yeah.
I'll see him, and the gift that I gave him was a weather machine
because he enjoys watching the weather.
I guess... I guess if you,
if you had to say he had a hobby,
that's what it would be.
So that's basically what I'm thinking about here and...
What I'm going to try to talk about in my response.
OK, you got your minute up.
This is a piece of advice for students:
If you really struggle,
if it's very difficult for you to find ideas,
you can invent a story.
Or you could talk about somebody else who
may have had this same problem.
Right, Jay.
Are you ready?
Yeah, I think so.
Ready as you'll ever be. So one minute or more starting now.
Okay,
so the gift that I gave to somebody that took a really long time to choose
was probably a,
weather machine or it's an electronic,
whether gidget or gizmo
that I gave to my father-in-law for his birthday one year,
and this took a long time for me to come up with this idea,
because my father-in-law is a really hard worker.
He's a great man,
but he doesn't have a lot of hobbies.
So, when I say hobbies,
things like reading, or playing video games, or playing sport,
he doesn't really do any of those types of things.
So when it comes time to buying him,
a gift... very difficult.
Christmases, birthdays,
any holidays where gifts are usually passed between us,
It's really hard to think of things.
So this weather machine was something that
I spent a long time thinking about and walking to the shops,
and going in and out of many different shops.
And I do remember that you know,
he does enjoy watching the weather and seeing the cloud patterns.
And whenever a cyclone comes in to the coast,
he tracks that.
So I thought,
well, maybe I'll get him like a little weather machines that we can put this in his house,
and he can track the weather that way.
So I think that's probably the gift that I got him,
and why that took a long time for me to find it for him.
How'd that go, Chris?
Super!
That was one minute in thirty seconds.
OK, not bad?
I agree.
This is a really,
really tricky question.
And you have to be... to have a really specific answer.
So on the test day,
I would recommend trying to think of either inventing a story or...
trying to bend the truth a little bit.
Maybe that's telling a white lie.
So you talked about a gizmo.
What's a gizmo?
A gizmo is just another word for a little device,
a technological device.
Electronic device?
Yeah, electronic device.
You said that he doesn't have a lot of hobbies,
which is great.
You bought him a weather machine,
and you said that he likes seeing cloud patterns.
High-level language there,
and you talked about cyclones.
What's a cyclone?
So a cyclone is...
there are two other words for a cyclone:
and so it can be called a typhoon or hurricane,
depending on where in the world
you're from.
Basically, a big,
massive,
large storm system that develops off the coast of a
of a country... of a continental landmass.
And it develops of the ocean in its twirls and a...
counterclockwise motion,
I believe.
And usually when it hits land and cities,
it creates a lot of damage.
It's a very massive and dangerous storm.
I'd be interested to find out if any of our viewers
have cyclones in their areas, and if they call them cyclones,
hurricanes, or tornadoes...
typhoons.
Yes.
It'd be interesting because I think in places like Indonesia,
it's one, and Bangladesh is another.
So it would be interesting to find out where they call them
these different words.
Really, really great
high-level language there, Jay.
I learned lots about your life,
which is wonderful.
And do you have any idea of what you're going to buy
your father-in-law for his next birthday?
No clue!
So I better get started thinking about it right now.
That's all for me.
Thanks, Jay.
So, thanks a lot of guys. We will get back to you next time.
Alright?
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