Lesson 213 | A time when you were very busy 🤯
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Remember to scan this QR code to join my WhatsApp IELTS speech shadowing group. Search for IELTS Ryan on YouTube to get access to all lessons. This week, we are looking at an IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card that asks you to speak about a time when you were extremely busy. I'll read the cue card to you now. Describe a time when you were very busy. You should say when it was, why you were so busy, what you had to do,

and explain how you felt about being that busy. Alright, let's listen to the sample so you can hear the model spoken naturally. Here it is. We will now start part two of the exam. Here is your cue card. Start speaking now, please. One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. I had a major work deadline that coincided with my final exams at university.

It was a two-week period in December when everything seemed to pile up at once, and I felt like I barely had time to sleep. At work, I was part of a small team developing an urgent feature for a client's web application. We had to code, test, and deploy within a matter of weeks. On top of that, I was in my final semester of a computer science degree, and I had two major project submissions and three final exams looming.

To manage everything, I created a detailed daily schedule and stuck to it religiously. I would attend lectures in the morning, work remotely as a developer during the afternoon, and then study late into the night. I even used breaks in my workday to revise for my exams or debug our project's code. It was honestly exhausting.

Although it was challenging, both mentally and physically, I learned a lot about time management and staying focused under pressure. When the client project went live without any issues, and I passed all my exams with high marks, I felt incredibly proud. Thank you. Okay, we will now start this week's speech shadowing exercise. In this week's free sample exercise, you will repeat the response to the first few sentences from the model.

I'll read the section of the response again to you now, just to refresh your memory. One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. I had a major work deadline that coincided with my final exams at university. It was a two-week period in December when everything seemed to pile up at once, and I felt like I barely had time to sleep.

Okay, let's go ahead and start this week's speech shadowing exercise. Remember that at the IELTS Ryan YouTube members channel, just 25 US dollars per month gives you access to the full shadowing lessons. Find a link to join in the description of this video. Okay, here is this week's speech shadowing exercise. Enjoy. We will now start part two of the exam. Here is your cue card. Start speaking now, please.

One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago.

One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. I had a major work deadline that coincided with my final exams at university.

I had a major work deadline that coincided with my final exams at university.

It was a two-week period in December, when everything seemed to pile up at once. It was a two-week period in December.

It was a two-week period in December when everything seemed to pile up at once. And I felt like I barely had time to sleep. Thank you for leaving a like or share on this episode.

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