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Talk about something you or someone you know collects.
You should say:
x
what you or this person collects
x
how the collection is stored
x
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.
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
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.
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