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A to Z IELTS Speaking 03 | Describe a memorable event in your life?
The A to Z English Podcast
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The hosts discuss their own memorable life events, including a traditional Mexican celebration and the birth of a daughter.
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack answer an IELTS Speaking part 2 question type.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.
00:00:14
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am
here with my co-host social and today we are going to do an IELTS speaking Part
2 question and here is the task car.
00:00:29
Jack
Describe a memorable event in your life.
00:00:34
Jack
You should say what the event was.
00:00:39
Jack
When it happened.
00:00:41
Jack
Where it took place and why it was memorable and social. All
that you have the 1st to go at this one.
00:00:53
Jack
A memo a a memorable event in my life was my quinceanera,
which, for those unfamiliar, is a tradition in Mexican culture. When a girl
turns 15.
00:01:08
Jack
And it's kind of like a Sweet 16, except you're you're
younger. These parties in different cultures. It's similar to, like, a bot
mitzvah or a bar mitzvah. And Jewish culture, a Sweet 16 in American culture.
And a lot of other kind of coming of age parties that are rooted in, really.
00:01:30
Jack
Old traditional culture. So it happened when I was 15, so
little over 10.
00:01:38
Jack
Years ago now.
00:01:39
Jack
And it took place in Kentucky, which is where I went to high
school, and there was a kind of famous house that you could rent out for
parties called the Bell House, I think. And our family rented it out. That was
the location.
00:02:00
Jack
UM.
00:02:01
Jack
It was just really memorable because it's.
00:02:05
Jack
A really fun it's like having a wedding, but you're the
star. You don't have to share the spotlight with anyone else. It's a party, a
big party all about you, and you get to wear a big poofy Princess dress and
have all your friends there and all your family there and everyone you care
about and have. Delicious.
00:02:25
Jack
Food and dance and.
00:02:28
Jack
It's just a perfect day. That's all about you. And when
you're 15 and you get to feel like a Princess, that's like a very special kind
of.
00:02:37
Jack
Thing I think.
00:02:39
Jack
At that age, so.
00:02:42
Jack
OK.
00:02:42
발표자
So I think.
00:02:43
Jack
That was mostly why I really enjoyed that.
00:02:50
Jack
How about you, Jack?
00:02:52
Jack
Yeah, that's. I mean, that sounds amazing. Atkinson.
Kitchen, quinceanera.
00:02:59
Jack
My daughter is 15 right now and it's too bad they don't do.
We don't have that tradition in Korean culture or American culture because the
Sweet 16 is not really necessarily celebrated. It's just something we say on
the 16th birthday, like, hey, it's your Sweet 16.
00:03:19
Jack
But we don't actually do anything usually. I mean, some
people will, but.
00:03:24
Jack
It's rare. I think it used to be more.
00:03:26
Jack
Of a thing that's just now.
00:03:27
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, it's not like, I mean, it's a, it's an actual
ritual that is practiced very diligently by by Mexican people, right? I mean,
it's like.
00:03:41
Jack
Well, it just kind of. It does depend. I think it's doing a
research dance now and it did for my, for my generation and younger was a
resurgence, but.
00:03:50
Jack
My sister, like millennials, didn't really have necessarily
came to hear a lot of people were offered having like a trip or a cell phone or
a car.
00:04:03
Jack
Instead. But my mom didn't.
00:04:05
Jack
Let us do that, she said. You have to have your quinceanera
because you can have.
00:04:10
Jack
A car like a first car, a cell phone or a trip at any point
in your life, but you can only have a kids in your at one point in your life.
So that's what you're getting. And I'm very happy she did that because it was a
cultural moment.
00:04:23
Jack
I think.
00:04:24
Jack
Yeah. And then you said it was one, it's one of the most
memorable events in your life. OK, well, I'll try. I'll. I'll go with mine
here. A memorable event in my life was when my daughter was born. It happened
in 2008.
00:04:42
Jack
And September of 2008, I won't give away all the information
with the exact date.
00:04:49
Jack
UM.
00:04:51
Jack
It happened here.
00:04:52
Jack
In South Korea, and it was at a a special uh Women's
Hospital in South Korea, where my wife, instead of of giving birth naturally,
she had a C-section and so.
00:05:09
Jack
So that's a a surgery. So I was not allowed to be in the
room. I know sometimes the husbands can be in the operating room for a
C-section, but in this case they asked me to just wait outside. So it felt like
a.
00:05:30
Jack
Like a long time ago, when fathers had to wait outside and I
was really stressed.
00:05:38
Jack
I was just hanging out with my wife's brother, just waiting
and waiting and waiting and finally the nurse came out and she said my wife was
fine and my wife was just sleeping cause she was recovering from the surgery
and they took me to the baby room.
00:06:00
Jack
And I got to see my daughter through the glass. And that was
the first time that I that I ever saw her.
00:06:09
Jack
And I'll never forget that moment. Because you know, there's
a bunch of babies in there. But then I could see my.
00:06:15
Jack
My little baby.
00:06:17
Jack
Who? You know, newborns look like aliens. You know when
they're first born, they're just all eyes and they they're not. They don't have
the chubby, the baby fat when they're first born. And so she just looked like a
tiny little bug or something, you know, with these these little eyes and so.
00:06:37
Jack
Yeah, that was the absolutely most memorable moment in my
life, and I don't think anything will ever, really.
00:06:46
Jack
Over overtake that on my list.
00:06:51
Jack
So there you go.
00:06:52
Jack
Wow, Jack, that was a really special.
00:06:55
Jack
One to share.
00:06:56
Jack
Yeah. No, it's it's such a yeah. It's it's a life changing,
you know, I mean you, you know that nothing will ever be the same after after
that and.
00:07:06
Jack
Yeah, and and now it's already the time has already passed
by. She's already gone at school and and studying in in America. So it just in
the snap of a finger it went from that to basically she's she's on her own. So.
00:07:23
Jack
She's almost an adult now. Just very yeah.
00:07:25
Jack
I know, yeah.
00:07:28
Jack
And it's crazy because even if she is an adult, you never
stop being a parent, I guess.
00:07:33
Jack
No, no, no, no.
00:07:35
Jack
It's going to be a little kid and I'm still a a child in my,
you know, parents eyes and they're in their mid 70s and I'm I'm almost 50 and
they still worry about me and, you know, want me to be doing well.
00:07:48
Jack
So I think that's a a universal thing. The parents will
never stop worrying about their children, no matter how old they get listeners
out there. Why don't you guys take a look at the task card and do your own
practice for IELTS speaking, Part 2? You got to hear 2 examples.
00:08:08
Jack
One from social and one from me. You can leave a comment on
our website azenglishpodcast.com or send us an e-mail at AZ
englishpodcast@gmail.com and better yet, join our WhatsApp group and get
involved.
00:08:23
Jack
With other listeners who we have great discussions in there,
I'm involved in there all the time, so it's a great way to communicate with
with your host here and also other students who listen to the show. And with
that said, we will see you next time. Thanks everybody.
00:08:41
Xochitl and Jack
Bye bye bye.
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