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

Your preparation for this topic will help you to talk about the following cue 
card topics:
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Describe your favourite menu or food item.
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Describe a food item you or someone you know can cook.
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Describe a menu you often eat in a restaurant. 
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Describe a traditional food item in your country.
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Describe a menu or dish you like.
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Describe a traditional menu or dish in your country. 

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8
Talk about something you or someone you know collects.
 
You should say:
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what you or this person collects 
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how the collection is stored 
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how quickly the collection is growing 
and say what kind of person would enjoy collecting that thing, and why?
[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:
Collecting foreign coins is my hobby and many of my relations bring foreign 
coins for me. I have a huge collection of coins while some of them are aged 
over centuries. 
Coins are different for me. I like to collect coins and I have a rare collection of 
coins where many of the coins belong to early of the 19th century. Some of my 
relations are on the view that collecting the coins will bring no benefits for me 
but I do it from my passion. I am well aware that coin collections are not the 
sources of income and I am not a reputed collector as well, I collect the metals 
only to meet my desire to get them. The beautiful descriptions on the coins 
attract me most and I also could imagine a bit how the situations were in those 
days when the coins were used for transactions. Sometimes I try to feel the 
touches of the people gone with the age who have used the coins. 
I actually do not follow any standard way to store coins rather I have my own 
style. I have bought a large size book with plastic pockets inside instead of 
paper. It is like an album where photos are kept. I place the coins inside the 
pockets and write names of the country or origins. At times I use scotch tapes 
to paste the coins with the pages. I, in fact, do not follow any system of 
procedure as those appear complex to me. I collect coins for my own interest 
and thereby it is unnecessary for me to follow any specific rules or methods 
which are done during exhibitions. I was motivated to collect coins from my 
childhood and nurtured it as my hobby. The coins are stored only for my 
personal enjoyment and even I do not show the collection to anyone else. This 
is my own world.

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The collection book has been almost filled up with coins and it took about 16 
years for me to collect all the coins I have now. I have collected the coins of 
different states and tried to gather all types of available coins from the 
countries. Sometimes my relatives who went to travel in different countries 
brought the coins for me as they knew I am a junior coin collector. Sometimes I 
have purchased the coins from commercial stores selling foreign coins and 
currencies. But I had to pay more during the collection from the money 
exchangers and most of the times they did not want to sell single coins or small 
amount. Thereby, the coins are my greatest wealth of my life. I had to spend 
lots of times in collecting the coins and sometimes I had to fight with the other 
boys of my class who wanted to grab my collection.
Coin collection is not a very easy task and requires a lot of unnecessary hours 
to gather all the coins together. Moreover, neither the task is not exciting nor 
it provides any financial or other benefits to the collectors. So, people who 
want enjoyment with their hobbies cannot be successful coin collectors. Coins 
are only pieces of metal and sometimes you even cannot use them in your 
need. So, if you collect coins, it will incur you loses as sometimes you are to 
buy them at a higher cost than you expect. Besides, this is not the thing to 
show off. So, a person who is introvert like can collect coins. If you exhibit your 
coins to your surrounding people, they may not appreciate the collection after 
your desired level which may make you mentally upset. So, the extrovert 
people will not be as much delighted like the introvert. Therefore, I think coin 
collection is a great hobby for the inquisitive people. 
Model Answer 2:
Samuel is my cousin and younger than me for two years. He loves collecting 
stamps. In fact, he is highly obsessed with the stamp collection issue. So far, he 
has gathered a huge number of stamps of various countries.
Samuel is fond of stamps and has made a book to place the stamps. The stamp 
book is enriched with different types of stamps. Sometimes he buys the 
stamps from the local library and sometimes, some of our relatives bring 
stamps for him when they return from abroad. He also exchanges the stamps 
with his friends when he has extra stamps. But he always tries to enrich his 
stamp collection by some other means as well.
He is careful about storing of the stamps. He has bought a medium-sized nice 
book for this purpose. The book comes with small pockets and spaces to 

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preserve the stamps. The pockets are made with plastic and attached with the 
book by sewing so that they do not get removed. The pockets are also made of 
transparent plastic so that the stamp becomes visible when the book is 
opened. Before getting the book, Samuel used to keep the stamps in a small 
box. But it was trouble for him to get the box in the right time. He was unable 
to find it when he needed the box most.
The stamp collection took the time to grow. He has been collecting stamps 
since his seventh grade and now he is a college student. He has collected 
stamps of around 110 countries. He had to undergo several obstacles in this 
process. Though he asked our other relatives to bring stamps for him, often 
they forgot to bring owing their business. So, he had to wait for their next visit 
though there were not preset schedules whether they will visit the same 
country again or not. Further, he also experienced theft in his collection. Some 
of his friends stole a notable number of stamps when he took the book on his 
school to show them his collection. But now everything is under control and he 
is doing fine with the collection process.
Stamp collection is really a matter of patience and perseverance. If you are 
impatient, you would be unable to collect the stamps. Moreover, you may 
need to wait for months to get the stamp of any specific country. The stamps 
may not be available always. So, it appears that everyone is not passionate to 
collect stamps. In fact, this the job for a gentleman. Someone with a short 
temper cannot be a stamp collector. You have to invest time on searching the 
stamp, collect then and preserve them in the right manner. Being impatient, 
you might give up collecting stamps thinking that this is not your job.