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Describe a TV documentary you watched that was particularly interesting.
 
You should say:
- what the documentary was about 
- why you decided to watch it 
- what you learnt during the documentary 
and explain why the TV documentary was particularly interesting. 
[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:
Owing to my occupational engagement, I am unable to manage much time to 
enjoy television documentaries but in last December of 2015, I had watched a 
documentary on becoming an astronaut. 
The documentary was about becoming an astronaut and titled - "Tim Peake 
Special: How to Be an Astronaut". The video documentary was filmed for about 
two years. This is about the event of a British man who tries to be an 
astronaut. Moreover, he was the first among the British people who was 
becoming an astronaut. The documentary was aired on Horizon on BBC. Tim 
Peake had to take some major risks and pressures to be the astronaut. He had 
also undergone different extensive training before the final flight. The most 
important part of his training was to adjust with the environment of the outer 
space and he repeatedly tried to perform the adjustments. Besides, he also 

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experienced the issue of weightlessness and participated in mockups over the 
issue during the training period.
There were some specific reasons for watching the documentary and I selected 
this one carefully. Since my childhood, I had some dreams to be an astronaut 
but could not materialise the dreams for different reasons. Whenever I got 
chances, I tried to gather some knowledge about the space. Space attracts me 
strangely. I am stuck in the space and in the moonlit night, I look at the stars 
through a telescope. So, when I came to learn about the documentary from a 
friend of mine, I decided to watch it. I knew that normally the documentaries 
are made with real events and footages. I was right about this one and saw 
many exclusive footages of the training. I was curious about the walking and 
weightlessness issue on the space. Eating, sleeping and performing other daily 
tasks etc. were different from the earth. Thereby, all such issues made me 
inquisitive to explore the documentary. 
I had learnt a good number of issues from the documentary. Before watching 
the documentary, I did not have any idea how life in space was about. My idea 
was only bookish and I tried to imagine the situations and failed each of the 
times. When I watched the documentary, I came to know about how life really 
is in space. I also had no idea about the training and exercises which should be 
done to live in the space. Moreover, I came to know about the eating habits of 
the astronauts, how they slept in the weightlessness, drank water and did the 
other necessary activities. It was a very good lesson for me. 
As I told earlier that I was highly interested in space, I did not have the chance 
to meet my dream. During the admission in my college, I was told to take the 
Arts faculty as the authority believed that I could do better in the subjects of 
arts instead of science. So, I missed the chance to get prepared to be an 
astronaut from the early age. But whenever I got any chance to know about 
the space, I did not miss the chance. I read all the available articles and essays, 
watch movies and recently have started watching documentaries. Movies are 
in fact not that much reliable as everything here is made for enjoyment and 
many of the information is falsified to attract audiences. But the 
documentaries are different. They contain the real life events and those are 
enjoyable. The documentary on Horizon was about the British man Tim Peake. 
He was the first British ever to travel in the outer space. Before starting the trip 
on space, he undertook different training, exercises and experiments. The 
most important thing about the documentary is that it took about two years to 
make it by adding all the available video clips. I learnt a lot from the 

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documentary and many of my former ideas have been sharpened. Thereby, 
the documentary was particularly interesting and enjoyable to me.