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See terms at WalmartPlus .com Hello, hello our dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part 2.
Describe a time when you lost an important and valuable item.
Item like an object.
You should say when and where it happened, what it was, how important and valuable it was, how you lost it and explain how you felt about this experience.
Valuable means that something is worth a lot of money.
For example, a smartphone is usually a valuable item because it costs a lot of money.
Could it have sentimental value?
Valuable, yes, sentimental value, like your favorite teddy bear or your favorite unicorn.
Or your diary. Diary, yes, something very cheap but it's important to you, so it has sentimental value.
Item is the same as object.
Rory, give us your story.
Well, I'm usually quite good at keeping track of things, but sometimes even I slip up and can't find what I'm looking for.
Most recently, I accidentally left my diary planner at the school I was working in.
This was just last month towards the end of a training course I was delivering and I was quite tired and not thinking straight, so I put my diary down and just left without giving a moment's thought.
And since I'm quite an orderly and organized person, it's really important for me to have my diary to hand all the time so I can make decisions about my work hours and how my day is planned.
So I'm usually good about keeping it to hand at all times.
Needless to say, when I realized I didn't have it with me after I got home, it was like someone had cut my right arm off.
And at that point, the school had closed, so I couldn't go back to find it and I had to wait the next day or I had to wait until the next day and fish it out of the pile of stuff that I left it in.
Despite having a vague idea about where it was, I was still rather anxious about losing it and never finding it again.
I didn't want to have to work from memory to go about my day since I usually, well, I write things in my diary, so I don't have to remember them.
And I can free up my memory for other more important things.
So that was a very long 12 hour period when I was without it.
I suppose on the plus side I was able to come up with some good ways to deal with the loss and I did get it back again eventually after the school reopened and I was able to go in and find it.
However, if I hadn't been able to find it, I would have been pretty distraught about the whole experience.
So, well, you can imagine how thrilled I was to have it back in my possession.
I'll never let it get out of my sight again and just in case it does happen, I made a point of writing a few notes on my Google calendar as well to help me keep track of exactly everything that I need to do.
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See you soon. Hey, thank you Rory for your story.
So Rory told us about his diary planner.
So his diary like Richard Jones diary.
Rory Jones diary. Where Rory writes everything about his life, his plans and as you know dear listener, Rory plans all his life 10 years ahead.
So in this book, he has his life 10 years from now, all planned out.
Rory is super organized.
What else can you talk about here?
You can talk about something expensive, but you can talk about something cheap, but some object which is important to you, which has a sentimental value.
A wedding ring. All right.
People lose their wedding rings.
My maths teacher when I was in high school lost his wedding ring twice.
Wow. He must have had a very tolerant wife.
Jewelry, bags, you know, passport, you know, is quite valuable.
A laptop, smartphone, documents.
So yeah. But choose an object that you can describe.
So you know how to describe it.
So choose on this one.
You can start off with I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of things.
That's just knowing where things are.
Like I know where my things are.
I'm good at keeping track of things.
Slip up. So in this context, what does it mean?
If you slip up, you make a mistake.
So if you lose something, if I slip up, I can find my object or I can find my things.
So sleep up to make a mistake.
C2 vocabulary. Okay.
Ben night. Is it? Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah, sleep up.
Maria is like an expert at finding C2 level words that I don't think are C2 level.
Yeah. Kind of like when something goes wrong, you can say, Oh, if, but sometimes I can't slip up.
But that's if it's a verb.
It can also be a noun.
You could, you can make a slip up.
Yeah. Or say something was a slip up.
Mm hmm. I accidentally lost my phone or passport.
Like accidentally, it wasn't my intention.
Like oops, I lost it.
I lost my mind. And you can say that I left my something at school, at work, during the flight.
I don't know. Somewhere.
I lost my when I was working in Brazil, I lost my smartphone when I was flying to Egypt, when I was relaxing in Madagascar.
When were you doing that?
No, I've never been to Madagascar.
I'm just using interesting names.
And you can say like what you were doing.
Like I was working there.
I was having a holiday.
I was swimming. And I lost my watch.
For example, you know, like a one story from my childhood.
My friend lost his father's watch that he was wearing in the lake.
He was diving and then like his watch like slipped from his wrist and stayed on the bottom of the lake.
And he would he and he would dive several times to find it.
And then, you know, like he kept doing this, he kept diving to find it.
It took him three days.
And on the third day, he found the freaking watch.
Can you imagine? Well, at least he found it, though.
The watch worked. Really?
I know. It is insane.
That's cool. It worked.
And when he was diving, he heard some noises from the watch and then like he found it.
So some magic. Yeah, do listen.
So you can tell the examiner this story.
Alright, and make it up.
If you, you know, if you don't have it.
So I put down my smartphone on the table and I left without giving it a moment's thought.
So if you don't give it a moment's thought, you just don't think about it.
What other things do we not give a moment's thought?
Oh, we can also not give it a second thought.
But that's that's not the point.
I don't really give a second thought to things like, what do you not give a second thought to breathing?
That just happens here, for example, like without a second thought, you just don't think about it.
You do it without considering if you should do it or not.
You just you know, you leave your smartphone and you just go out.
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Then you explain why this object is important to you.
So I'm an organized person.
I write things down.
I make decisions about my work.
So my day is planned.
So I use this diary.
So it's important to me.
And when I realized I didn't have it with me.
It was like someone had cut my right arm off.
So this is a sentence that you should use.
So when I realized I didn't have my smartphone with me, I was shocked.
Or it was like it was like what it was like somebody killed me or it was like my heart stopped.
Well, here's like someone had cut my right arm off, meaning I can't do anything, or I can't do things as efficiently as I would normally do.
And it could be true about your smartphone.
So when I realized that I didn't have my smartphone with me, it was like somebody had cut my right arm off because your smartphone is your right arm.
Here we use past perfect day listener, you realized that you didn't have your smartphone.
And it was like someone before had cut my right arm off.
So I couldn't go back to school to pick it up.
I had to wait. I couldn't find it.
I called people. I did all of that.
I was in quite a panic.
Or also past perfect.
I couldn't remember where I had left it.
Dear listener. So past perfect, because you first lost it, you first left it, and then you couldn't remember.
So please write down this sentence.
It could be used about any object you lost.
So I couldn't remember where I had left it or where I had lost it.
It's quite horrible.
If you lose things in a taxi, or on like a public transport, for example.
But there are some successful stories when people actually got it back.
That's true. I left my phone in a taxi once and I got it back.
Sweet. Me too. Yay.
I love a story with a happy ending.
I had a vague idea about where it was.
A vague idea, not a clear idea.
I didn't know where it was.
I had a vague idea where it was.
About your feelings.
I was rather anxious.
Like worried. When I say rather anxious, I mean, I was climbing up the walls.
I was so worried. Oh, I thought I would never find it again.
Would. Okay, I thought I would.
On the plus side. So there were some advantages.
You can say on the plus side.
Like fortunately, I was able to call some friends and to help me.
Or I was able to do something.
On the plus side, I was able to get help.
And I did get it back.
Again, eventually. So finally, eventually I got it back.
Hey. And then we can use the third conditional.
Imagine that you didn't get it back.
If I hadn't found it, I'd have had a nervous breakdown.
Yeah, I would have had a nervous breakdown.
The third conditional, but Rory found it and he didn't have a nervous breakdown.
But imagine he didn't find it.
If I hadn't found it, I would have had a nervous breakdown.
You can say I had a nervous breakdown.
I didn't find it. I was devastated.
Devastated like very sad.
I was thrilled to have it back.
I was thrilled like, yay, happy, excited to have it back in my possession.
Possession, something you have.
My phone is my possession.
My laptop is my possession.
So I was thrilled to have it back in my possession.
I'll never let it get out of my sight again.
So I will always keep it with me.
I will always keep an eye on it.
I will never let it get out of my sight.
And I won't. It's next to me right now.
Hello diary. Right, dear.
Thank you very much for listening.
Make sure you decide on what you're going to be talking about.
Smartphone. Your, I don't know, favorite jewelry item.
But it should be something that is easy for you to describe.
Or you can imagine, feel free to lie.
All right. It could be a successful story, something you got back eventually, or not really successful.
I lost it for good.
And I had a nervous breakdown.
Oh, yeah, I lost. Bye.
Bye. Oh, Maria lost the end of her sentence.
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Describe a time when you're lost an important and valuable item.
You should say when and where it happened, what it was, how important and valuable it was, how you lost it and explain how you felt about this experience.
Well, I'm usually quite good at keeping track of things.
But sometimes even I slip up and can't find what I'm looking for.
Most recently, I accidentally left my diary planner at the end of a course I was working in.
This was just last month towards the end of a training course I was delivering.
And I was quite tired and not thinking straight.
So I put my diary down and just left without giving you a moment's thought.
And since I'm quite an orderly and organized person, it's really important for me to have my diary to hand all the time.
So I can make decisions about my work hours and how my day is planned.
So I'm usually good about keeping it to hand at all times.
Needless to say, when I realized I didn't have it with me after I got home, it was like someone had cut my right arm off.
And at that point, the school had closed.
So I couldn't go back to find it.
And I had to wait the next day or I had to wait until the next day and fish it out of the pile of stuff that I left it in.
Despite having a vague idea about where it was, I was still rather anxious about losing it and never finding it again.
I didn't want to have to work from memory to go about my day since I usually well, I write things in my diary, so I don't have to remember them.
And I can free up my memory for other more important things.
So that was a very long 12 hour period when I was without it.
I suppose on the plus side, I was able to come up with some good ways to deal with the loss.
And I did get it back again eventually after the school reopened and I was able to go in and find it.
However, if I hadn't been able to find it, I would have been pretty distraught about the whole experience.
So well, you can imagine how thrilled I was to have it back in my possession.
I'll never let it get out of my sight again.
And just in case it does happen, I made a point of writing a few notes on my Google calendar as well to help me keep track of exactly everything that I need to do.
