IELTS Speaking Part 2 Sample Answer

This is a high-scoring sample answer for the following IELTS Speaking Part 2 question: Describe a story or novel you have read that you found interesting. Read them to understand what you need to talk about and the kind of answers you need to score well in your IELTS speaking test. For advice, strategies and tips on the best ways to answer (because 2 minutes is very long), this article will help.

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IELTS Speaking Part 2 Quiz: It Doesn’t Need to be Hell!

IELTS Speaking Part 2

Describe the First Day You Went to School That You Remember

You should say:
When it happened
How you felt about the experience
Where the school is
And explain why you still remember the experience

Sample Answer

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Things I can remember being at school, this is being at primary school. I can remember little snapshots of things like school photographs and things that might be fights in the playground or playing certain games and so on. But one of the things that I really remember quite well is when we were lining up outside the school before we went in to start classes and so this would be at nine o’clock in the morning so all the kids would come to school with their mums and they would get dropped off and all the kids would play in the playground until it was time to start school and so you know maybe they arrived 15 minutes earlier, 10 minutes earlier but everybody would be up outside and so when the bell rang nobody went inside,
class by class they lined up in the playgrounds outside the door so that everyone could be counted to make sure that everyone was there and so this was a great place for gossip and one day and remember this is like this must have been in 1967, somebody said that another person had a color TV and color TV where we lived was just unheard of, I mean everybody knew that TVs were black and white and there were two channels that you could watch and so you know if there was a color TV then there would be a color TV in the TV shop down the street but there wasn’t one but you know and this concept of a color TV just blew my mind and I wasn’t the only one you know everybody’s a color TV that would be amazing

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Less Common and Idiomatic Vocabulary

snapshots – a brief look or summary
lining up- arranging people or things in a straight line or row, or to wait in a row, often to buy something.
dropped off – taking someone or something to a place and leaving them there
gossip – casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true
unheard of – something that is very unusual, extraordinary, or shocking, often to the point of being unprecedented or previously unknown
channels – TV channels
concept – an abstract idea
blew my mind – to be extremely surprised, shocked, or amazed by something

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