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Practice Task 23 — A moment of nerves in public

Task 2 · Talking about a Personal Experience — describe a personal experience with details and feelings

Speaking Task 2Talking about a Personal ExperienceSPK-T2-23Intermediate
30s prepare · 60s speak

You have 30 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak. Tell the story of a personal experience — say when and where it happened, what happened, and how you felt.

Listen to the task prompt. Two fixed voices: a female examiner and a male situation narrator.

Talk about a time you had to speak in front of strangers.

A moment of nerves in public.

Points to cover

  • • what the occasion was
  • • how your voice and hands felt
  • • what the audience did afterwards

You get 30 seconds to prepare, then 60 seconds to speak. Everything here works offline — no AI needed.

  1. 1. Introduce the experience
  2. 2. Say when and where it happened
  3. 3. Describe what happened
  4. 4. Explain how you felt
  5. 5. Explain the result
  6. 6. Conclude

Sentence template

I'd like to talk about ___. It happened ___ when I was ___. What happened was ___. At the time I felt ___ because ___. In the end, ___. Looking back, it's an experience I still remember because ___.