Pre-intermediate A2+ Get Ready for ielts

Part 2 
Model answers:
I’d like to describe a person who helped me.
I’m going to talk about a teacher from my high 
school. Her name was Mrs. White.
I met Mrs. White on my first day at school. I felt 
very nervous because I didn’t know anyone. My 
family moved to the city about one month before 
school term, so I didn’t have any friends. She 
talked to my parents and then we walked to her 
classroom. I sat at a table with two funny boys. 
We’ve been friends since my first day.
Mrs. White was a very friendly and kind person. 
She always listened to students and helped 
them. She was a great teacher and her lessons 
were very interesting. It made me feel confident 
about studying.
I think she was special because she liked 
everybody in her class. She encouraged everybody 
to work hard and to think about jobs and careers. 
But she was really funny and the class had fun too.
Finally, Mrs. White helped me because she 
encouraged me to apply for a university course. 
She helped me with my application form and she 
organized a scholarship for me. She was great.
Yes, I’d like to help someone in this way. I 
think it’s important to help others. Actually, I’m 
training to be a teacher, so I’m going to help 
lots of children. I’m going to graduate in the 
summer, then I’m going to work in a school in my 
hometown. I’m very excited.
Part 3 
Model answers:
1 Yes, definitely. In my opinion, we can learn lots 
of things from older generations. Firstly, we 
can learn about history or tradition and what 
happened in the past. Secondly, we can listen 
to advice from people with lots of experience. 
Finally, I think it’s important to listen to a 
different opinion because it helps people to 
understand the world.
2 That’s an interesting question. Let me think. I 
think today’s family rarely live together. People 
live and work all over the world. Families often 
don’t live in the same town or country. I’m not 
sure, but I think families lived together in the 
past. In my opinion, I think it was easier for 
families to help family members in the past. It 
is harder when people live in another place.
3 That’s a very difficult question. I’m not sure.
I think families should help but we should 
be independent too. It depends. I think we 
should ask families for help with big problems, 
because they can give advice or money. But
I think we should try being independent with 
smaller problems.
4 In my country, we have a coming-of-age 
ceremony on your eighteenth birthday. This is 
when you’re going to be an adult. It’s a very 
important occasion and we celebrate it with 
family and friends. But I think some people 
become adults after they are eighteen. For 
example, when you are independent and live in 
another country, or when you get married.
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