IELTS Speaking part 2: Cue-cards for IELTS Speaking by IELTSKING
TALK ABOUT SOMETHING YOU REPAIRED/ GOT REPAIRED AT HOME
You should say:
What it was?
What exactly happened to it?
How did you fix it?
Explain how you feel?
Note: you have to talk for 1 to 2 minutes. You have 1 minute to take a look at the main points and prepare some notes which you can use while speaking.
What it was?
Well, every house has a lot of devices and appliances, and breakdowns are quite frequent with these directly or indirectly. Though we generally get them fixed by experts but here I would like to share my experience of fixing water filters by myself. Actually, we have the water filtered installed to access fresh drinking water free from impurities, but lately, the water does not have the same taste as it should have.
What exactly happened to it?
My mother asked me to arrange a repair for the same. But the repair guy was too much for the next three days. Since it is not possible to live without water I decided to fix this problem on my own. Since I had already fixed some items by watching a few youtube videos.
How did you fix it?
So, I started to fix the problem with the water filters with the help of youtube on youtube. Out of the suggested videos I chose one with 15,000,000 views and in this video, the guy has described each and everything in detail with a live demo for better understanding.
With help of a screwdriver when I put off the lid, I got shocked to see the amount of dirt inside the storage. The candle inside the system which actually filters the water had turned almost dirty brown or less black.
Explain how you feel?
As per the recommendation in the video, I changed the candle rather than clean it. I immediately went to the store to get a new one and after changing it I washed the whole machine. I think it was the simple and informative way to do and once it was all done I fitted the filter on a wall as it was originally.
After some time, when it started to drink the water, its taste was too good as Bilsleri(A certified water supplier company). My mother was super impressed with me as I handled the job well. All in all. It was the time when something broke-down and I fixed it.
(Model answers 2)
Well, it is very rare when I had to repair something because I believe in new things instead of repairing them. However, today I would like to about a time when I repaired a microwave oven. I remember, last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, all shops were closed.
I and my mother planned to prepare a cake at home for my father’s birthday. In addition, I collected all ingredients which were required to make a cake and my mother started to mix the ingredients as per the recipe. After doing the whole process, when she switched on the microwave to bake the cake, It didn’t work. Moreover, I also tried to start, even I plugged into another socket but it didn’t work. We felt very upset. Finally, It began working and We cooked the cake successfully. We felt over the moon after being successful in making a cake. So that was the time when I repaired the microwave at home.
(Model answers 3)
What it was?
well, intentionally and unintentionally things get broken from everyone. Some things are really precious and “One them Bas to do One such a lot of efforts to repair мераім incident happened with me when I was dusting in my home the and 1 my frame family photo got broken. That photo is very my family members’ photos of my grandfather. close to because that is the last with my family
What exactly happened to it?
Actually, when I was cleaning I got a call from a friend and I don’t know how the photograph slipped from my hand and fell to the ground of a sudden the frame of the photo got broken I felt down in the dumps for I think all family will scold me for my carelessness
How did you fix it?
In fear, I did not share the thing with my family and by hook or by crook (by any possible means) I want to repair it So, I discussed the thing with my friend. He told me rather cry on spilled milk. I should do something and he promised to help me. That’s why, he Came to my Rome with all t necessary things to repair the photo frame such as Cardboard, glue, wooden sticks fixed all, etc. then these things with the help of a youtube video
Explain how you feel?
Although during this time I felt very nervous yet I had a new experience and I learned a new thing. After repairing I felt on cloud nine ( extremely happy) because of the frame more beautiful than earlier No one about looked in the this is a house more my family beautiful than earlier get to know breaking of family photo frame thus thing that! and then repaired. was broken in
(Model answers 4)
What it was?
So far there would have been a number of items in my home which got damaged and then either fixed or thrown when the repair wasn’t possible or too costly. However, there is one item that, being very precious to us, had to be repaired at any cost and it was an ancient dining table belonging to my great grandfather.
What exactly happened to it?
Actually, around a year ago, we shifted to a new house and while this moving, the table fell down from a moving truck and two of its legs got broken along with its top which got quite an ugly crack. Seeing this, my father became very upset and felt so bad, as he is emotionally attached to this table, because we have been having it for ages in our home and my father has lots of his childhood memories attached to it.
How did you fix it?
So, I and my father right away went to a furniture repair shop to get it fixed. But as this table was an antique piece made out of solid oak wood, so repair work was not only going to be time-consuming, because the carpenter had to source the material but also pretty expensive.
Explain how you feel?
However, I was shocked to see that my father, who usually is very much against spending excessively, didn’t worry about the cost this time and paid it within few moments. And I can’t explain how thrilled he was when we received this repaired table at our home finally after a week.
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