IELTS Speaking Part 2: 'hurry' answer

Let's return to the 'hurry' question that I showed you a few weeks ago:

Describe a time when you had to do something in a hurry.
You should say

- what you were doing
- when this was
- why you had to hurry
- and explain how you felt at that time

Here's my sample answer:

• I’m going to talk about a time when I had to hurry to get ready for a trip with some colleagues while I was working in a previous job.
• It was a Monday morning about five years ago. A group of us had to catch an early flight, and a senior member of our department had volunteered to drive us to the airport. I was supposed to be ready and waiting to be picked up from my home at 5.30am, and my colleague had asked me to look out for his car so that he didn’t have to ring my doorbell.
• The problem was that I overslept. I had set my alarm, but somehow I must have turned it off and carried on sleeping. Suddenly, at 5.30am, my doorbell rang and I looked over at my alarm clock. I immediately realised what had happened, and I sprang out of bed and got dressed in record time. I splashed some water on my face, quickly brushed my teeth, and put my shoes on without properly tying the laces. Then I picked up my suitcase and coat, and left the house.
• I can still remember the moment when the doorbell woke me up and I saw the time: I was filled with a sense of panic and fear as I realised that my colleagues were waiting outside. Then, when I left my house and walked towards the awaiting car, I felt so embarrassed because it was obvious that I hadn’t been ready on time.

Comments

[Yu Dang]

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[Hero7]

Wow, great! When I started reading your answer, I thought I would not be able to read it within two minutes in a normal speed with some natural pauses! But my stopwatch surprised me, It is showing 1m 50s 05.

Welcome back.

[misha]

i have had the same scenerio last year, but in my case i had missed my flight cox we stucked in trafic.. i could have caught up with my flight if i had been awaken 30 minutes before the time i actually woke up..:p

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