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Describe A Time When You Helped Someone: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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  • Whom you helped?
  • How you helped?
  • How this person reacted to your help?
  • How did you feel after helping him/her?
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Band 7

A person that I helped is my sister. She had a fear of water. She never went into or even near anything that was surrounded with water, especially swimming pools, oceans, rivers and that kind of stuff. So I signed her up for swimming classes. Initially, she was really mad at me because she didn't want to do it. But along with her, I also signed myself up. I went with her for the swimming classes every day. First of all, she was extremely scared to even go near the water. But I also hired an instructor to help us through the process. Gradually, she started overcoming her fear little by little and she started stepping into the water. But she never really dipped her face in it. And I thought that was okay for the time being. Eventually, we went to the classes for about a month and slowly and gradually she overcame her fear of water and started to learn to swim properly. Once the classes were complete, she was extremely grateful for me that I albeit forcefully helped her overcome her fear of water. And after helping her, I felt like a new renewed person. I saw it as an extremely nice way of personal development. And I definitely would like to help any other person in any sort of way if I can, that improves their life, because it does feel really great. It really helps you understand life in much more deeper ways than you have imagined. And yeah, it was an amazing experience.

Band 6-7

So, I think that helping is a quality that everybody should have in their lives because that is what separates us from other living organisms and speaking about this, I would like to talk about a time I helped my friend Rishi. So this story dates back to my school days when my friend Rishi needed a guitar for an upcoming music contest in our school. So when my brother came back from Canada recently, so he bought a guitar for me and since I was still in my learning stage and I wanted to, I was still learning and my friend Rishi needed help. He came up to me and said that he really needs that guitar to perform on the day and if that does not happen, he would lose a chance to perform in front of his favorite celebrity Diljit Dosanjh and being the friend I am, I lended my guitar to Rishi and sure enough, he did really well in the competition and in fact, he won the competition in front of his favorite star Diljit Dosanjh and it made me feel really proud of Rishi and I felt really great in contributing in some way to help my friend achieve his goal. So that is the story I would like to share and about speaking, otherwise helping is such a great quality, like it makes you feel involved in the other person's life.

Band 6-7

When I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part as we had Pongal festival the next week. So, let me show you how to make Pongal. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help one of my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and she is very sweet girl. She is very sweet. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and I liked her very much. Even though I was occupied with heavy work, I was interested to help her. It was a hectic day, I didn't have any rest. I was occupied in lab with my project work but as soon as she asked for help, I managed time and went to the venue and helped her with the decoration part. I made some roses with paper and some decorations by pasting balloons on the wall and with the rangoli part. She felt very happy and it was overwhelming for me also to look her that happy and she is someone very close to me. She started thanking me from bottom of her heart but I am someone who can never say no to people who ask for help. So it was another day for me to randomly help people. Usually I will feel good about myself because someone who look for help, I will volunteer and help with whatever I can possible. I also helped my friends with studying because they weren't regular to the classes and they never had notes with them. So I will teach them how the mechanism works and how.

Band 5-6

So help help someone is one of the good sign of one one person. I also helped my colleague in my university who basically she find difficult to understand the topic taught by the faculty. So I usually make her understand by my own language and she really find this useful and I usually make notes during my class session. So I also share that note during my external examination. So the way the professor teach us and the way the other colleague teach us is a different is a diff there is a difference between them. So there is a difference between them. So we and we explain our colleague with our own piece of the knowledge. So they find she find a little bit clear and understand understand the topic well. So I usually explain her every topic before the examination and this this is the main reason she scored well in examinations and and she always appreciate this help and also after helping her I I always feel good and satisfied that with my help if she get scores if she got good scores then I also said this and I am also satisfied that this is a good way and I if I want to make career as a professor then it will then I will be a successful in that career. So this is one of the great time to help someone.

Band <5

میں نے راہل کا شخص کو مدد کیا ہے جو مجھے مقابلہ ہوتا تھا راہل ایک بہت عظیم شخص تھا لیکن وہ سبسٹانس اڈکشن سے مدد کیا تھا میں نے اسے مدد کیا
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