1- a situation when you waited for a bus or a train 2- a challenging profession you know about

 

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You should say:
x
what this skill was 
x
when you learned it 
x
how you learned it 
and explain why you think it was important.
[You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one 
minute to think about what you're going to say. You can make some notes to 
help you if you wish.]
Model Answer 1:
I learnt to cook various types of meals from my childhood. It was my mother 
who inspired me to learn and in fact, this is a real-life skill that everyone needs 
to know. Thank you for asking the question and I am also pleased to describe 
my skill here.
Cooking is considered as an art form but not everyone is the artist here. I am 
proud to inform you that I can cook different dishes very well, especially the 
local dishes of India. But this is a bit unusual for a boy like me to be an expert 
cook. The credits are for my mother. She was my mentor in this case and I 
learnt a good number of cooking lessons from her. She loved to cook and it 
turned in to her passion. She luckily transmitted the passion to me as well. 
Now I am a perfect male cook in my family in line with my mother. 
I learn it when I was a child of 10 years old. In fact, I used to be with my mother 
always. I tried to imitate her in everything. Whenever she was in the kitchen, I 
used to follow her there. I also tried to cook foods as she did. But alas! I was 
unable to do that. My knowledge of cooking was immature. Once I tried to 
cook a curry and had burnt the entire ingredients. Besides, I could not make 
roti or paratha as well. So, when my mother discovered my interest in cooking, 
she started teaching me about the matter. Gradually, I developed a sense of 
cooking. Moreover, being a quick learner, I was able to learn the processes 
very fast. But it was a bit difficult to appear in the practical exam where my 
mother evaluated my cooking skill.
I had to struggle a lot to learn cooking. This is a real-life skill but if you do not 
have the knowledge and the sense of applying the ingredients, you cannot be a