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Describe your favourite family tradition.
 
You should say:
x
what the tradition is 
x
when it occurs 
x
what you do 
and explain why it is your favourite tradition. 
[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:
I was born and brought up in a Muslim family in Malaysia and found that my 
family follows different tradition related to Islam and my country. Obedience 
to the superior is the tradition of my family and I think this is a great virtue as 
well. Most of the people follow the similar tradition as well across the country. 
Currently, we are living in the modern world and everything is becoming 
modern and in some cases, ultra modern. Consequently, everything is changing 
the shapes and forms while the issues of morality have greatly been changed. 
Most of the people are now devoid of sincerity, honesty, degraded ethical 
values and more other matters. Obedience to the older people is not found 
anymore with the modern people. They prefer doing everything by their sweet 
will and even do not care if the tasks are damaging others or not. In such a 
state, all of the members of my family obey their superiors’ commands and 

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suggestions. In the western countries, the young people mostly disobey their 
parents and immediate superiors. They are reluctant following orders. But 
each of the members of my family obeys the directives from the superior and 
this is a great tradition for me to follow. 
The tradition occurs each of the moments in the lives of my family members. 
Each of them is well aware of the rights and responsibilities. Thus they try to 
follow the traditions. Obedience is the first and the most important tradition 
that comes with the other issues. If someone denies following the tradition, 
the superiors make him or her understand the importance of this specific 
practice, how it is beneficial to us and other relevant issues. Once they 
understood the importance, they start following the tradition. So, the tradition 
of obedience is always under the practice in my family, and in fact, this is not a 
celebration for us. This is part our everyday life. All of the members of my 
family even the most junior one is obedient to the seniors. 
To follow the tradition, I have to do whatever I am said by my superiors. But it 
should be noted that the superiors never ask to do something which appears 
dangerous or illegal or may affect me negatively. So, I perform all the tasks 
smoothly with respect. My part is just to implement some orders or 
suggestions. For instance, if guests come to visit us and I am asked to take care 
of them for a few moments until someone else appears on the spot for their 
entertainment, I have to do so. I did such small tasks and as a result, the guests 
praise me for my taking care of them. Further, someone of the family has 
fallen sick and if I ask someone younger than me to look after the sick, s/ he 
will do that until they are removed from the job. I am obedient to the tradition 
but it does not refer that the superiors will provide me offers to participate in 
the illegal activities or I will do those. If the task appears to be suspecting to 
me, often I try to justify the fact that if the task would be right for me or 
wrong. When I find my suspicion wrong, I do that task gladly. 
Obedience to the other members, especially to the senior members, of the 
family is a wonderful tradition. This helps to build confidence among the 
members of the family and at the same time increases the bond among the 
family members. Besides, I like the tradition as it helps to learn discipline. 
Indiscipline begins when someone rejects to do something which was 
supposed to be done by him/ her. The indiscipline leads to different other 
troubles. But if the thing is done in the beginning, there are lesser chances of 
chaos. Besides, when someone is obedient, a sense of trust is grown among 
people and thus the bonds among them get stronger. 

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