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

participate in some indoor or outdoor sports competitions. In fact, research 
works are not something that will attract the students. They perform the tasks 
as they need to pass the exam and often they adopt unfair means to cross the 
barriers of school boundaries. When they follow the unfair ways, they actually 
do not learn anything and this is mere a wastage of time and labour. If they are 
engaged in the activities they like most, then they would participate in the 
activities happily and the scores will be of expected level. 
If you can talk about the cue card topic 
"Describe a subject that you think 
should be removed from school education programmes."
 you should be able 
to talk about the following IELTS cue cards topics as well:
x
Describe a subject you did not like in school.
x
Describe something you disliked at school.
Describe a positive experience that you had as a teenager.
 
You should say:
x
what the positive experience was
x
where you were then
x
who you were with 
and explain why you think this was a positive experience.

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[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:
Life is filled with different experiences and everyone has to go through it. 
When I was a teenager, I also had many experiences while some of them were 
positive and some others were regretful for. I went to a friend’s house and 
found that he was caring his pet dogs and that was a positive experience for 
me. 
I live in Maharashtra in India now and been living here since after my birth. I 
was born in a typical extended family and all of the male members are engaged 
in our family business of producing and exporting steel products. Being a large 
family, we have some pets in our house and we actually do not take care of 
them properly. But the care for pets that I saw at the house of Sudip, my 
intimate friend in college, was something special and positive to me. Generally, 
people do not treat their pets well. There are no schedules for feeding or 
bathing of the pets. Even the pets are beaten as well for no reasons. But the 
scenario is entirely different at Sudip’s place. His father has appointed a man 
to look after their pet dogs. 
I met Sudip at the New Vision Public School immediate after my admission in 
the seventh grade. He was a brilliant student and came from a lavish family. 
His father was one of the largest businessmen in the locality and people also 
respected him for his kind nature. I went to meet Sudip at his home to collect 
some notes as I missed a class for my physical illness. After reaching there, I 
received a warm welcome. But I was afraid with the appearance of two dogs at 
the home and they were moving freely here and there inside the house. 
Though I am familiar with pets I was surprised as those were allowed to move 
anywhere in the house. Usually, the pet dogs are not allowed to move in the 
house and most of the cases the dogs are kept chained. But there were no 
chains with the dogs and they looked cleaner than the ordinary dogs found as 
pets in India. 
I met with the members of Sudip’s family except his father (he was out of the 
city for some business purposes). Gradually I also come to know about the 
dogs and they came beside me. I was a bit nervous with their presence but 
Sudip’s mother told me that the dogs gentle. Though they had a giant look, 

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they behaved gently and I was made familiar with them. Sudip told me about 
the history of the dogs, how his father brought them home from the street and 
they are serving the role of their family member as well. The dogs are taken 
care of in the right manner and a man is recruited to take care of them. The 
dogs also have a specific schedule to be fed or bath. The man, named Navin 
Kumar, usually feed the dogs and baths them too. I was surprised hearing that 
the dogs had separate rooms for them to sleep at night whereas most of the 
people use the dogs to secure their houses. 
I try to learn from everything and the experience at Sudip’s place also taught 
me many things. My ideas about pets have been changed to the root. I could 
not think that the pets should be taken care of in such a smart way. We have 
three dogs in our house but unfortunately, there is none to care for them. They 
are not fed well and bathing is an irrelevant question to us. So, the dogs do not 
look striking rather the dogs have a thin shape and all the times they are kept 
out of the main building. So, when I came to know about the pets in Sudip’s 
place, I learnt a positive thing here. Every pet should be taken care of in the 
right manner and if people are unable to provide the necessary care, they 
should not take pets. After returning home, I discussed the issue with my 
mother and other family members. All of them agreed with me that we also 
should start practice such things.