Describe a time when your computer broke down.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

For my 16th birthday, my dad had gifted me an HP Inkjet Touch laptop. What I love the most about the laptop, firstly, it was a gift from my parents, which had a sentimental value to it. Secondly, it was the latest laptop launched that year, which included the feature of using the screen just by touching it, similar to a mobile phone or a tablet. Around 2-3 years after purchasing it, I was watching Netflix on it and drinking a cup of hot chocolate. I don't remember the exact details of what happened, but the hot chocolate spilled onto the laptop. It was spread all over the keyboard and the screens. Within a millisecond, the display shut off. It was just completely black and I knew that there was something wrong. I immediately jumped out of the sofa and tried shaking off the liquid, but it was of no use. By then, the water had already seeped through the keypad and into the motherboard. None of the keys were working either. I even googled how to do a forceful shutdown of the laptop, but that was of no help. The laptop had a lot of my important documents, such as my resume, my Aadhaar, and several other things. But more than that, I felt quite horrible and upset about this unfortunate incident because it was a present from my parents. Till date, I have never told my dad about it. Additionally, I also hope that he never finds out.

I remember my computer broke down when I was in my 7th standard and I used to play PC games regularly. So, one day when I was downloading a game from a third party website, a malware attacked my personal computer and I remember the windows being completely crashed, so the next thing that I know was my parents completely blaming on me. So then we went to the computer showroom and then we gave him the PC, obviously he installed the windows again and then he installed antivirus, that was the first instance that my computer broke down severely and I was the one solely responsible for that mishap.

When I was a child, I used to get a surprise from my parents, which was a computer. And at that time, it was one of my favourite gadgets. I used to play games, do search my homeworks, and I always used to spend my fun times in front of the computer. It was my comfort place for me. Whenever I get free, I used to spend it in front of the computer. I used to gather more information about different topics. I am sorry because my cousins have thrown a ball to the display of the computer. I was really shocked because the computer was my favourite thing. And my heart got broken when I saw the computer was broken. It really made me sad. I was standing like I have nothing to do. I don't know how to explain this matter to my parents as they have given me this as a surprise. I was really sad. I don't know what to do. That made me feel down.

In this contemporary era, everyone depends on machines, it relapses our lives, but sometimes creates big problems to us. And I would like to talk about a situation in which I was humbled when my laptop was broken. It was the time when my final exams were going and I had an exam of computer science and it was all computer based exam and when I entered the exam I just fell down from the steps and my laptop was broken and at that time I felt very upset and I was about to cry because I don't have any option to purchase any other laptop and don't have enough time, haven't enough time to take care of, to take someone's laptop because already half of my exam time was gone. So that situation was not a cup of tea for me to handle. So at that time I was very sad and that situation was a blue moon situation for me. But from this, with the help of my friend, I just called my friend, he took his laptop and installed my ID in his laptop and with the help of that I then I request to the professor to increase my time limit for exam. So in this way I tackled that situation and after that two days later I got some good marks and which make me very proud because I got 80% in that exam after getting two fortunate ones after that exam. Thank you.

My computer had been broke down several times as it is very old and outdated of the software. The main embarrassing moment when my computer has broke down was when I was with my friends doing a project in my computer in my home. During the time we had planned so many tasks to complete in our project and when we were doing the project it has stuck down abruptly and we cannot go any further so I had to change the OS. So I had bought a new version of operating system software of Windows 7, it was the most emerging OS at that time of time. So I bought the Windows 7 OS and I again do all the reformat of the system then we started again doing the project but it took a lot of time between this changing the OS and all like it has been almost 2 hours and more additionally I felt very embarrassing before my friends all were very eager to do the project and also they were waiting to complete the project as they said to come earlier to their home. So that was the most embarrassing moment I had faced during the breakdown of the computer and also there were several breakdowns after the new update install also as the hardware has been pretty old so I had to replace the hardware system as well with the new RAM and ROM.

I my computer broke down during my final year college. It also it also went down during my project thesis. It was very frustrating because my project got delayed. Moreover, it also gave me a bad reputation that you that I can that I do not I did not wanted to complete the project in in the deadline. Therefore, I went to the shop to get it repaired and and the technician told me that it can be repaired only in three days. So that was very unpleasant moment for me because I had the deadlines within two days. So I bought my so I took a help from my friend. I bought his laptop. I bought his laptop in second hand in and in second hand I and I use that by installing my software. So it took me one day to install all the software that I was using before I had done my project in time and eventually I got the good marks in my project and after three days I went to the shop and the shopkeeper said that the all the major component of the laptop was broke was broken down. So they had to they have to replace the motherboard of the computer. So eventually I eventually I lost all the all the documents in it. So I have eventually