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Describe Something That Surprised You: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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  • What was the surprise?
  • When did it happen?
  • How you found about it?
  • How did you feel about it?
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Band 6-7

well when it comes for me to describe something which surprised me so it was a news it was a news which I got last to last year and it was one of the very happy news that my I and my wife we both have been blessed with the baby twins twin twin babies so this was my wife's second pregnancy we had already blessed with a one daughter the elder one now she is going to turn 10 next year the last year when we came to know that my wife was pregnant second time so in the first ultrasound we were not able to the doctor were not able to identify that she is having twin babies second time when we again went for sonography so I and my daughter we both were sitting outside in a car parking and suddenly my wife called me to come inside in a room sonography room so first I told her like it's the second time we are experiencing a pregnancy she is experiencing a pregnancy so I told her okay fine let you go with it we are fine outside but then she told please come inside we are blessed with the baby twins then suddenly we both got surprised I and my daughter we rushed inside a room and it was such a happy moment and now both my babies they are of different gender one is baby girl another one is baby boy and they both are healthy and it's life is full of fun with them now they started walking they start speaking some words

Band 6

Well, when I was in college at that time, my friends and my friends provided me a surprise birthday party when I entered in my 18th year of my life and it was exam time so I was quite busy due to lots of calculation and project preparation. When I was really tired so I slept and my friend called me to come at, to vent his pain so I went there by using my bike and unfortunately when he opened his door, my friends, my family and all the members were there so I got surprised and they prepared a big cake for me and I cut that cake and it was a big celebration and then after we go to the restaurant where they served, they provided me a great dinner in which they had prepared, they prepared a great dish named South Indian recipe which was my favourite recipe and I enjoyed a lot with my friends and my family and then we took lots of photographs with them. It was a great time because it was the first time in my life that people provided me a party so I enjoyed a lot with myself and overall I feel very over the moon.

Band 6

The thing I surprised was last year, my father went on a Dubai trip which was conducted by his office and I asked him for a smartphone which is very expensive, it is around 1 lakh and I sent him some photos about the phone and I was not expecting the phone because it was very expensive and he sent some photos of the phone at some time but after that there is no information about it and we cannot contact him and after returning I checked his bag but there is no phone and there are only chocolates and other clothings. After some time he showed me the phone, he told me that I hidden that phone. I felt very thankful and good after seeing the phone.

Band 5-6

yeah everyone has different experience in his life so here I would like to talk about a surprising thing that happens in my life when I was in seven standards a my friend named Vikas Sharma was studying with me with me and his financial condition was not good at that time so she was belongs to a very poor family but she was very intelligent in study so when I asked him that what your future plan and then he asked me and he told me that I want to join Air Force but my financial condition is not good so when when he passed secondary standard and he he has work hard by himself to support his study then he work hard very much and he applied for IAS officer paper so he got first rank in in the examinations and now he he is a IAS officer when I was watching my TV and I found him that he was when he was on TV he was rewarded by a good work and ethics

Band 5-6

There are I think surprises is the crucial part of life and I am the person who loves surprises and today I would like to shed some light upon a time when I was totally surprised and it was a time when I was in my school and I always I always wanted a mobile phone when I was in my 12th standard I always I always phoned off a high phone and I I always asked my father to get get that phone and because I love that phone love that phone I also admire the features of the phone and at the same time my all the friends having the same mobile phone but my father told me uh every day my father told me that you do you do I do not give you that mobile because it is very expensive and at the same time that is not your age but I remember it was my birthday and on my birthday there was uh there was a little ceremony and all the guests and relatives and my friends are invited and at that time I the cake ceremony is going on and after the cake ceremony my father came to me and gave me a gift box and I have never I have never think that in the this box there is a mobile phone and when I open the box I thought there is something else when I open the box and I feel very surprised and and I was over the moon and I feel very proud of that moment that whatever I want my father always give me that thing and at the same time I get a lesson

Band 5

Last year on my birthday, all my best friends planned a surprise at my birthday party. So, I was very surprised and almost I am not able to act. By seeing the surprise, I am almost being cried for an hour. So, I obviously think I am going to miss my elder sister on my birthday. So, I was planning that.

Band 6.5

I would like to talk about an incident that happened recently. It was basically a surprise gift by my sister who was traveling from America to India during recent Christmas. So she surprised me with a Meta Raybans which is an AI glasses developed by Meta. Since I was very techno freak and I am quite interested in gadgets, I really liked the gift. In fact I wanted that particular gadget for a long time but I never wanted to put pressure on others to bring or buy it for me. I usually buy my own items. But this gift was really exciting. I never expected that that would arrive so soon. I am really thankful to my sister that she bought me and I use it daily. I record lot of videos with that. In fact it has helped me in my research as well. So I record lot of egocentric videos which helped me in my research. So I think I am quite happy about the gift although I am against taking such gift. So it really surprised me because I never expected that item to arrive so soon and I will start using that so often.
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