In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack answer an IELTS Speaking part 2 question type.

Transcript:

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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.

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Jack

Describe a memorable event in your life.

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Jack

You should say what the event was.

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Jack

When it happened.

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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.

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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.

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Jack

It was just really memorable because it's.

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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.

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Jack

Food and dance and.

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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.

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Jack

Thing I think.

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Jack

At that age, so.

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Jack

OK.

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발표자

So I think.

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Jack

That was mostly why I really enjoyed that.

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Jack

How about you, Jack?

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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.

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Jack

Of a thing that's just now.

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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.

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Jack

Instead. But my mom didn't.

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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.

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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.

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Jack

UM.

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Jack

It happened here.

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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.

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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.

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Jack

Like a long time ago, when fathers had to wait outside and I

was really stressed.

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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.

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Jack

And I got to see my daughter through the glass. And that was

the first time that I that I ever saw her.

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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.

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Jack

My little baby.

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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.

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Jack

Over overtake that on my list.

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Jack

So there you go.

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Jack

Wow, Jack, that was a really special.

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Jack

One to share.

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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.

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Jack

She's almost an adult now. Just very yeah.

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Jack

I know, yeah.

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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

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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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