Academic English for International Exams

Course Book

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Read the prompt below.

Often a bad situation teaches us an important life lesson. Describe an important lesson that you learned from a bad situation. Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Outline your answer.

One bad situation in my past that taught me an important life lesson was .

I feel that this situation helped me learn an important life lesson because .

Reason 1: .

Example: .

Reason 2:

Example: .

 

Using the above outline, give a spoken response to the prompt of the task.

You have 45 seconds.

Prompt: Often a bad situation teaches us an important life lesson. Describe an important lesson that you learned from a bad situation. Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Now listen to the sample response:

  • obtain – to get something
  • goal – something that one hopes to achieve
  • summit – the top of a mountain
  • blizzard – a storm with lots of snow and high winds
  • exhausted – very tired

Make notes to remember the sample response and write down any useful expressions.

A bad situation recently taught me that .

I learned this while .

We wanted .

However, .

When .

I learned that .

Try to reproduce the sample response.

You have 45 seconds.

Prompt: Often a bad situation teaches us an important life lesson. Describe an important lesson that you learned from a bad situation. Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Now make your own response using the outlines and expressions from A and B to help you.

You have 45 seconds.