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Practice Task 27 — A device that let you down

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

Speaking Task 2Talking about a Personal ExperienceSPK-T2-27Advanced
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 technology failed at an important moment.

A device that let you down.

Points to cover

  • • what you were doing
  • • exactly what went wrong
  • • how you saved the situation

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 ___.