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

If you can talk about the cue card topic 
"A speech that somebody gave and 
you liked."
 you should be able to talk about the following IELTS cue cards as 
well: 
x
Describe an event from your school.
x
Describe someone who has influenced you a lot.
x
Describe an advice someone gave to you.
Describe the best gift or present you have received.
 
You should say:
x
what the gift was 
x
who gave it to you 
x
when you received it 
and explain why it was the best gift/ present you have ever received. 
[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:
Last week I turned 19 and my parents celebrated my birthday. I got some of 
the best gifts of my life on this birthday and I think the books were the best of 
the bests.
I have received two books by my maternal uncle naming – ‘The Chocolate War’ 
by Robert Cormier and ‘Life As We Knew It’ by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Both the 
writers have beautifully illustrated some of the issues on the books which were 
unknown to me before reading them. In fact, the books have opened my eyes 

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and I have learnt to think in some newer perspective.
Mr. Chinh is my maternal uncle and in fact, he is the elder brother of my 
mother. He is also our neighbour in the apartment block we are living in now. 
In his youth, he was too much desperate and did many adventures. Even in the 
current days, my dad frequently meets him before taking any decision about 
his business as uncle Chinh is considered as the wise man in the family. He also 
takes care of the other members of the family and often arranges for getting 
together in his residence. He is single and did not marry showing some 
personal excuses, but so far it is known that a lady rejected him in his olden 
days. Now he is middle aged and involved with his own travelling business.
Last week, I turned 19 and since this is the last birthday of my teenage, my 
parents wanted to have a blast on the day. Accordingly, they arranged for a 
large birthday party and invited almost all the family members, relatives, 
neighbours and friends. Unfortunately, some of the invited guests could not 
attend the event as they could not manage time on the day. However, a 
majority of them arrived in time and presented me different gifts. The event 
being over, I opened the gifts one after another and was amazed at the 
selection of the presents for me. It was really amazing to have so many 
attractive gifts but the books appeared the best to me.
I love to read books but the habit only a few chosen people are aware of this. 
The other people think me of a traditional Vietnamese young girl who loves to 
pass moments with friends by gossiping round the day or by shopping on the 
streets. But, I am not like them rather in some cases, I am restricted to perform 
certain acts. Hence, I have made book reading as my hobby and have a large 
collection of books written by both local and international writers. But due to 
my academic pressure, I could not manage time to get some new books and 
uncle Chinh has done that for me. Being a book lover, I always prefer books 
than any other things and thus the presented books have turned best to me.