Describe When Someone Gave You Something: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

The one time that really stands out for me is when my best friend gave me a handmade photo album for my birthday. It wasn't a very expensive gift but was incredibly meaningful and thoughtful. She had spent weeks collecting photos of our memories together, from school trips to birthday parties, random hangouts, and even silly selfies. Each page had small notes, jokes, or quotes written next to the picture. She even decorated it with little stickers and drawings. I honestly was surprised because I wasn't expecting something so personal. She gave it to me on my 16th birthday and she said it went her way of thanking me for always being there for her. I didn't even know she was working on it, so it really caught me off guard in the best way possible. I felt so touched and emotional when I received it. It showed me that true friendship isn't about expensive gifts but about the time and effort someone is willing to put in for you. I still have that album and every time I look at it, it brings back great memories and reminds me of how strong our bond is.

Everyone gives something in a special occasion, today I would like to talk about one thing which I have been received by my uncle whenever he came back to the South Africa he purchased a western dress for me and it was a very new for me because my family was orthodox family and at that time they did not allow me to wear a western dress and I was very confused whenever my uncle came to me and hand over a gift wrapped with a paper with lot of doodles so I was stunned at that time and after that I ripped off the wrapper of gift and I saw that it was a very nice dress and I was over the moon, it was a black in a color and with lot of glitters and it has a side cut and whenever I saw the dress I was over the moon and I was literally so happy I couldn't even express my feeling towards my uncle as well as I took a lot of pictures and posted on Instagram on different social media platforms and people admired me for that and it was a very good moment and I have enjoyed this with my family also my uncle had a party so at that time I wore this dress and everyone gave me a lot of compliments.

In my life, the thing the most I need was the time and affection by people. So my friends understood what I need and they gave their time, despite their busy life, whenever I needed, even if it's mid-time, they'll help me through it if I'm going through something. It feels so good to have some people, have the emotional capacity, emotional understanding that if some person is needing of something, that we have to provide it to them, those kind of bonds that cannot be replaced by anyone or anything. Emotional availability is a gift, actually. It's a particular gift in this era, in this Gen Z era, everyone needed that because sympathy and empathy has been fading away, poor people are being poor and rich people are being rich, there is no connection between them because people, nowadays people are not helping each other because it's full of competitions and everything. It's very special to me whenever my friends spend time with me because I feel very lonely, I feel their time, their presence is the greatest gift of all, not just my friends, even my family, they are all very busy people but still they tend to give their time to me whenever I need it, at whatever time, be it on time or during mid-days also.

My boyfriend gave me a Titan watch on my 20th birthday. I was very shocked but I really liked that because I love him but I did not express my love to him. So I very enjoyed and that feel is very different to express to him and also it's my dream plan. However and also he gave food for the poor people on my birthday. It is the most lovable thing to me. He is very impressed me and I felt very very blessed. So this is my experience in my life and I am very enjoyed that time. Now also I wear that watch. It's very sentimentally close to my heart and this gives a feel he is always present in my hand like that. So I love this.

Well, to receive a gift is something very interesting and you feel so important and you feel so attended to and you feel so happy about it. We love to get attention when we are kids and from the time I was small, I have received gifts from my parents, from my brothers and my brother, my eldest brother has a habit of gifting books and he would also neatly cover it for me and I would feel very happy when I read those books, mostly English or grammar books or any such thing. And my second brother, whenever he went out anywhere, he used to get at least a small trinket for me, anything, it might not be something costly or something very valuable but it will be something to remind me that, oh my brother got this for me, I have to, so and my sister, whenever she comes, my sister and her family, they would always buy something for me to eat, which I relish, so it gives us such important things in life. It may not always be a costly thing, it might just be a small thing which you might have missed out in something, maybe a small, to put it in simple sentences, it might be just a small hook to hang your picture which you were missing, I wasn't missing.