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.
x
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.