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hello lovely and welcome into IELTS speaking part two describe your first day at school that you remember you should say where the school was how you went there what happened that day and how you felt on that day Rory give us your story oh god well this must have been about 28 years ago or something now i went to a state primary school called grange at least initially it was just up the road from where i grew up so it was easy enough to get to on foot or by car i think that particular day i got dropped off by car and went in with my mum.
To be honest, I don't remember the fine details very well, just this horrible sense of anxiety.
In fact, that might have been the separation anxiety from being away from my parents and my home for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, I didn't really like my first primary school teacher and we didn't get along very well.
In hindsight, I wouldn't say she was a bad person.
It was just like a, I don't know, a personality clash in a stressful situation.
So it wasn't the very positive start to a not very positive time in my life.
However, I got through it in the end.
I don't think, well, I don't remember it, but my mother says I picked the wrong tray to keep all my books and everything in when I entered the classroom.
I'm not sure how I managed that, since everything was labelled, but it must have been a bit embarrassing.
For me, it all went by in a bit of a blur.
like meeting new people attempting to make new friends and learn about the school and find my way around um i'd been to the nursery there so i was at least familiar with some parts of the building but not the bit that was the primary school um which might have added to the confusion if i could go back and do everything all over again i think i'd have tried to have a more grown -up attitude about the whole thing but of course that's easy to say in hindsight isn't it But obviously, when you're, what, five or six years old, then it's not the easiest thing to do.
So I shouldn't be so harsh on myself.
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Remember your very first day the first time you went to school yeah well it says the first day at school that you remember so even if you don't remember the very first day it could be a later time, especially if you're old like me.
Or you can just talk about the very first day you ever went to school.
Even if you don't remember, you can imagine and lie and steal some of the Rory's ideas.
The story should be in the past. So, we use I went, I saw, I did.
And you can also use past perfect.
If you're not sure when it was, you can say, hmm, this must have been about 30 years ago it must have been so probably it was about 30 years ago so hmm this must have been must have been must have been about 30 years ago i went to a state primary school so when we start school we usually first go to primary school and we say i went to primary school not I studied in primary school but I went there because go to school I went to a state primary school or I went to a private primary school like not owned by the state for example it was close to where I grew up or it was just up the road from where I grew
up so Rory school was right next to his house so it It was just like very close to where I grew up.
It was very easy to get there on foot.
So, Rory walked to school.
Or it was very easy to get there by car.
I think most people travel to school by foot or on foot.
And if not, then they take the bus, don't they?
Or you can say, I took a bus to school.
I went there by car.
I went there on foot.
Or I had to take the metro, for example.
It was very far away.
I should also say it's a state school.
These schools have different names in different countries.
So, for example, in my school, this was a state school.
That means it's controlled by the government.
Some people go to private schools, which are controlled by independent bodies, which are paid usually by the parents.
However, they might be called different things in different countries.
Some schools are called private schools.
However, in the UK, private schools are also called public schools, which could be very confusing.
So, just make sure that whatever your school is called, however it translates to English, that you get it right.
Because that could be a disaster if you miscommunicate the wrong idea.
Yeah, that's true. If you're not sure, then you just say, like, I went to a usual school.
That's all. And you can say that I went there with my mum, I went there with my parents.
I got dropped off by car.
So, if you went there by car, like, my parents dropped me off.
So, they took me, they put me in their car, and they dropped me off at school.
So, I got dropped off by car.
You can say that you don't remember specific details.
Like, to be honest, I don't remember the fine details very well.
Fine details, like little details...
the really small ones like the names of all the people you met that day or what the weather was like i don't remember any of that i just remember the feelings yeah but remember like the task says describe your first day at school that you remember so you can't say like to be honest i don't remember anything like you do remember the day but you don't remember the fine details very well something you still remember and you can be honest with the examiner like say like you know Well, to be honest with you, I don't really remember the fine details very well.
Especially in my case.
It was a long time ago.
But I do remember this horrible sense of anxiety.
When you are anxious, you are nervous.
And usually, when you go to school for the first time, you don't know what to expect.
So, you have this feeling of anxiety.
nervousness this uncomfortable feeling or you can say i was anxious about my first day at school and speaking of anxious we could talk about separation anxiety which is just fear of being away from your parents or your caregiver it's a good collocation to have or maybe you are super happy so you say like yay i was super excited i wanted to go to school i was positive about it I don't have any I didn't have any fear and actually for me it was a milestone like this important event in my life unfortunately I didn't really like my first primary school teacher however you could change that if you had
a positive experience you could say fortunately I got on really well with my primary school teacher or my first teacher again these schools that we initially go into might have different names as far as I know it's either primary or elementary school to talk about the first one.
But there might be other ones.
I don't know. Yeah, so you can say, like, I really enjoyed my first primary school teacher.
We got along well, like, we had good relationships, or we didn't get along well.
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Then when you are remembering things, you can say, In hindsight, I can't say, like, she was a bad person.
like in hindsight like when I look back at what was going on like how I understand this situation now how do we usually use it well there's a couple of ways you can use it it could be in hindsight or with hindsight there will be a small difference in meaning but the whole idea is you are looking back on the situation and just realizing that now that I understand what I do this is my understanding of the situation so for example maybe you thought that you had a very good day at school or a very good first day at school but in hindsight maybe it was very stressful or you had a an argument with someone
but in hindsight you realized that actually both of you were wrong it was like a personality clash so our little rory and his first primary school co -teacher had a personality clash.
Yes, it's hard to believe.
You can also say that it was a stressful day for me, like I was stressed out, my parents were stressed out, or it went well, or like this day wasn't a very positive start, or it was a very positive start to my school years.
It wasn't a very positive time in my life oh it was like um it was a great start yeah it was a great start school years were the happiest or one of the happiest years in my life then you can talk about a certain situation like what moment you remember like what happened maybe like as i entered the classroom everybody noticed me i started talking well something like you remember rory told us about this tray situation that rory picked the wrong tray as he entered the classroom i should say a tray is like um a container for all of your personal things it's a bit like what um american high school
students have only they have a locker um which is bigger i think and is outside our trays are in the classroom and you can say that oh i did something and then it was embarrassing or I was embarrassed because usually little kids do something stupid or silly and then like it's awkward so it was a bit embarrassing I was embarrassed when I I don't know spilled my juice all over the place or broke somebody else's toy or got into a fight with the boys or girls yeah and if you don't remember you You can say, for me, it all went by in a blur.
So, if something is a blur, blur.
It's fast and difficult to remember.
It went by in a blur.
Like, I didn't understand it clearly.
I met new people. I attempted to make friends.
I learned about the school.
I learned my way around the school.
I found my way around.
to my classroom yeah but usually like parents um take you to the classroom yeah so you can kind of name the activities like oh it was um in a blur meeting new people making new friends learning about the school listening to the teacher disliking my teacher all sorts of things happened what other things could happen on your first day at school oh hmm fights was this a part of your your first day in school no actually i don't remember any fights dear what do you remember i don't i don't remember anything at all like seriously nothing just zero so maria would struggle with this task yeah i just i
would just like imagine stuff you know how like i was excited on my first day at school i was wearing my lovely dress and i was um carrying some nice flowers flowers roses like pink roses so everything is like made up yeah like you can say that I was introduced to our school rules and routines I was taken to different classrooms so there was this excursion at school like they showed us different rooms and what you call it cafeteria where we we would have snacks and I met different teachers, I met new people and we could play the game outside for example.
It was fun. So we did some painting for example.
Yeah. We had lunch. I had a lovely cake.
You did? No, no, it's all made up.
I don't remember anything.
Oh. For my own, for the...
i thought it was coming back to you no no no it's interesting they listen do you remember your first day at school i don't trauma it's all suppressed memories i don't think something bad happened well probably i don't know yeah uh for example like um i was confused because um there were many people like everybody i didn't know anybody i lost my parents i was confused i started crying And like, how old were you, Rory?
Five or six years old, I think.
Like I said, this is a very long time ago.
Yes, he's kind of like five years old.
Wow, what can you remember when you're five?
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Cmintmobile .com. Describe your first day at school that you remember.
You should say where the school was, how you went there, what happened that day and how you felt on that day.
Oh, God. Well, this must have been about 28 years ago or something now.
I went to a state primary school called Grange, at least initially.
It was just up the road from where I grew up, so it was easy enough to get to on foot or by car.
I think that particular day I got dropped off by car and went in with my mum.
To be honest, I don't remember the fine details very well, just this horrible sense of anxiety.
anxiety. In fact, that might have been the separation anxiety from being away from my parents and my home for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, I didn't really like my first primary school teacher and we didn't get along very well.
In hindsight, I wouldn't say she was a bad person.
It was just like a, I don't know, a personality clash in a stressful situation.
So it wasn't the very positive start to a not very positive time in my life.
However, I got through it in the end.
I don't think, well I don't remember it but my mother says I picked the wrong tray to keep all my books and everything in when I entered the classroom.
I'm not sure how I managed that since everything was labelled but it must have been a bit embarrassing.
For me it all went by in a bit of a blur, like meeting new people, attempting to make new friends and learn about the school and find my way around.
I'd been to the nursery there so I was at least familiar with some parts of the building but not the bit that was the primary school um which might have added to the confusion if i could go back and do everything all over again i think i'd have tried to have a more grown -up attitude about the whole thing but of course that's easy to say in hindsight isn't it obviously when you're what five or six years old then it uh it's not the easiest thing to do um so i shouldn't be so harsh on myself itself.
