IELTS Cue Card 1023

Describe an event when someone you believed betrayed you

:You should say

when it was
who was the person
what happened
.and explain how you felt about it

:Model Answer

Deception and betrayal are more widespread today than in the past. It is a shame that it has become more common and somewhat of a daily occurrence and used to be considered an unmentionable sin in the past. Unfortunately, I have got cheated a number of times by others but for the sake of my cue card, today I will share the worst incident when I got cheated by a close friend of mine whom I believed. That was shocking and unexpected for me and the bitter feelings still linger

In 2016 when I was doing my post-graduation, and in the last semester, it was mandatory to submit a software project for 200 marks. At that time, almost everyone from my class was assisting companies to make a project for the final submission and others were buying it from companies. Although an internship was not mandatory, still students were ready to do anything for their final submission. Neither I was financially able to purchase a software project nor was I able to do an internship with the companies. Finally, I decided to do it on my own and with the help of the internet, I finally did that. I painstakingly finished the project and spent many sleepless nights to complete it

I had a friend in my class, who was in the same situation to which I was struggling with. Just for humanity’s sake, I would not express her real name. Let’s assume that her name was Raima. She belonged to a poor family and didn’t even have her own laptop. I decided to help her by submitting my individual project as a group project. For this purpose, I gave her all my work details to revise it before the final submission date

Regrettably, that was my biggest mistake, as she cheated me on that and submitted my project as her own individual project a week prior to the submission date. That was unexpected and was an act against morality. I was deceived so badly that I lost faith in helping others. I was trying to help her and she stabbed me from back as a reward! I was so crestfallen and dismayed that I felt helpless and depressed for a couple of days

But luckily I had the blueprints of that project in my email and I was able to prove my professors that I actually made that project. That was tough for me and took a great deal of effort but I was happy to find that deception did not win over morality and humanity