Describe a positive change that you made in your life | Bài mẫu Speaking Part 2, 3
Describe a positive change that you made in your life. You should say:
And explain how you have benefited from this change (or, explain how you feel about this change)
Bài mẫu:
When I was in high school, I was a little bit nerdy who liked to read books in the school library. I was timid, so I didn’t really have many friends back then. However, one day, I came across Taylor Swift’s performance. She was singing a song with her acoustic guitar, and I was totally impressed by her confidence. And I thought to myself that maybe I could make a change to my boring life by learning how to play the guitar.
I took a course right after that. At first, I bought a classical guitar because the teacher at the center told me that the strings of this type were made of nylon, which was suitable for beginners. The first song that I learned was Pretty Boy by M2M. When I started to get to know the chords, it was quite struggling for me to play as my fingertips were calloused enough. From time to time, with regular practice, I managed to perform a few songs without being hurt.
After a few months, I gained some confidence about guitar skill. I decided to sign up for one singing performance on Teachers’ Day even at school. All of my classmates were quite shocked when they saw me on the stage, performing in front of an enormous crowd. That performance has brought me a positive change to my life as knowing how to play the guitar has helped me win a lot of friends’ hearts.
Now, every time that there’s a field trip, I’m always the first person to be called for singing. Until this day, I still feel jubilant about my decision to take the course.
Từ vựng:
I’d like to tell you about a life-changing decision that I’ve made lately. It was when I decided to change my entire career path. You know, 6 months ago I was still a real-estate agent. I’d been working as a salesman for around a year and a half and I was making some progress and seeing some positive results. But somehow, as I kept digging deep into this career, I realized it didn’t really suit me. I mean, when I pictured myself 5 years from then, I didn’t think I wanted to be a salesman anymore. That’s why I quit my job and went on to test my ability in an unrelated area. I wanted to be a teacher. As I was searching, I realised that a job teaching IELTS in Hanoi offers quite a lucrative income, so I started learning everything I could about IELTS.
Of course, the journey was arduous at the beginning, I was overwhelmed with all the self-learning materials that I found on the internet. I knew at that time that I couldn’t do it alone so I sought out the help of my friends. I found one who shared the same goals as me and we began studying together. Mainly what we did was keep each other motivated and disciplined, so we set out some ground rules to follow, whoever broke the rules would receive harsh punishment. Just like that, after 2 months, we were ready to take the test, and we took it on the same day. Now, we are both IETLS teachers and are enjoying our new responsibilities. Of course as a new teacher I have to figure out a lot of things and do a lot of research to develop a deep-understanding of teaching methods. But, in retrospect, I have to say that I’ve made the right move. The new job gives me a lot of fun and opens doors to numerous opportunities for self-improvement. So all in all, this a positive change in my life.
Từ vựng:
No doubt, we all go through some kind of changes in our lives at some points of our life one way or another. While some of those changes may go unnoticed, others can bring some positive changes in our life, and today I would like to talk about one such positive change.
I had developed many hobbies in my life, but “reading” was just not one of them. Of course, I had no problems whatsoever in studying all kinds of academic books in order to pass the tests at schools and colleges, but when it came to studying anything else, like storybooks, novels, or books on science, technologies, improving life skills and knowledge, I would become one of laziest persons on the earth.
My parents even sometimes used to “bribe” to develop my reading habit, but nothing was really able to change my mind. But, suddenly, one day, when I was a final year university student about 6 years ago, one of my favourite teachers asked me to suggest some interesting books to read, while he would be gone for summer holidays, I had no clue what to tell. Understanding my awkward situation, my teacher smiled away while I felt really ‘embarrassed’. After that incident, I decided to buy some books and started reading them one page at a time.
Slowly after that, I actually became “addicted” to reading some specific kinds of books. At one point, I even started to struggle to pay for the books I was buying, because they were just so many!
Anyway, I am so glad that I started reading books as it gave a certain kind of confidence boost by teaching me a lot of unknown and amazing thing about this world. Besides, after developing my reading habit, I gained a great level of understanding and appreciation for different kinds of people from different cultures, lifestyles and backgrounds. Finally, this particular change even helped me in developing my career later on in my life by encouraging me to read many books on “career and skill” development.
You have asked me to think back on some change I’ve made in my life, that turned out to be one for the better! I am going to tell you what the change was and when it happened. I’ll give you a bit of detail about how things were different for me after the change and finish by describing what it means for me now, a bit later in life. The funny thing about changes is that you don’t always recognise them at the time. For me, I didn’t know when I started out that the positive change I was making would turn out to be a long term difference in my behaviour. However, it turned out to be just that. It is only looking back now that I can identify there was a definite shift in what I got up to, and I can even pinpoint a definite time, but in the midst of it all, I had no idea where that change would take me.
The change was basically that I decided I needed to get a bit fitter, and the thing that helped me do so was joining up to do Parkrun. However, I’m jumping ahead. Let me explain how it came about… A couple of years ago I started to feel like I was getting old and losing my basic fitness. Although I walked quite a lot (as a form of transport, as well as to enjoy the local countryside) I wasn’t really doing anything else very much that was physical. I was never very good at sports, so I didn’t really know where to begin. However, I’ve always liked being outdoors, so on something of a whim I booked an activity holiday in Northumberland, which is a beautiful rural area in the northeast of England, right by the coast. The holiday was great. We did abseiling; hill walking; body-surfing – all sorts of things. In addition, every morning began with a run along the sands of the seaside. Now I’d never run before – well only if I was trying to catch a bus, but otherwise, not at all. I wasn’t very good at it, and honestly, I didn’t even really enjoy it all that much. However, I did have to concede that it is a great form of exercise. You don’t really need any special equipment (apart from decent trainers); you can do it anywhere and it’s free! What’s more, I found out from some other holidaymakers that in the UK there is a free weekly event held nationwide in parks all over the country. It is called Parkrun, and basically people gather every Saturday morning at 9.00 a.m. to run a fixed course of 5km and get time for doing so. I wasn’t too sure if this would be achievable for me. I’d never run that far before. But I promised myself I would try it ‘just once’ to see if I could.
The day after I got back from my holiday I turned up to do the Parkrun at my local park. I can tell you the exact day! It was 24th August 2013 – I know this because the whole point of Parkrun is that if you register (which is free) then the organisation records your time each week and you can access it online afterwards. The first time I went I didn’t even manage to run the whole way round, but I did finish, and I did get a great sense of achievement. Because you know your time, it is quite addictive, you find you do want to go again the next week and see if you can improve! My local "parkrun" is huge, with well over 500 runners taking part every week – so even though I was pretty slow, I found I wasn’t the slowest.
Since that day over two years ago, I’ve found that I’ve gone to Parkrun almost every week. I have taken part in some 70 "parkruns" and through doing so made new friends, maintained a certain level of fitness, and even gained the confidence to take part in some longer runs. I’ve done lots of 10km races now, a few off-road runs – including one over 24km as well as taking part in obstacle races! I would never have believed that the small change of ‘just going once’ to Parkrun to ‘give it a go’ would lead to me being such an enthusiastic member of Parkrun two years later. By the way, I haven’t really ever got any faster, but I’m definitely a lot fitter. Now I can’t imagine a Saturday morning without heading off for a run with my 500 friends at the local park! That first day I turned up nervously to join in with Parkrun was definitely the beginning of a positive change in my life!
The positive change that I would like to talk about is ‘I started playing outdoor games instead of playing computer games’. After I got my first personal computer when I was only 9 years old or so, I started learning many things. Besides that, I started playing computer games. As computer games are addictive I found that I was playing the games whenever I had spare times. This addiction barred me from playing outdoor games like cricket, football etc.
I found myself very much attracted to computer games and I preferred to play the games at home instead of going to open spaces or fields to participate in outdoor games that involve physical exercises. Not that computer games are all so bad, but playing them all the time someone has got is not a good thing especially for kids. I found that I was spending more times at home than being outside. After my parents noticed that, they discussed with me about that and explained to me the importance of outdoor activities. They gave me strict restriction that I would only be able to play computer games for an hour daily and in the evening I’d have to go outside to play with my friends.
This was obviously a very positive change for me. I’m not against computer games but I feel that if there are more important things to do, then we should not spend time on computer games only.
This change affected me very positively. I became a good cricket player, later on, I started maintaining my times more prudently and I am sure this change has affected me positively in terms of physical and mental health.
There are some milestones that would have a powerful effect on one’s life. I would like to mention 3 different situations. For most people, it may be the moment when they are accepted into their dream university or when their career is flying high. I think that these events are the time that they can prove their success.
The news has been reporting a lot about how job hopping is prevalent among Gen Z in my country. Well, I do agree that this occurrence does happen, but I don’t think that the young should take all the blame since this could be a positive sign that they know how to identify toxic traits of a workplace or find themselves not well-qualified for the job that they’re taking. To me, it’s all about self-awareness.
Yes and no at the same time. Youngsters are in the process of developing themselves, so encountering changes wouldn’t be a problem to them because I think variety is a spice of life. They are willing to adjust themselves to specific situations. On the flip side of the coin, sometimes, the young are too naive to handle the shock factor as they have few life experiences.
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