IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 656 with Model Answer

Describe a piece of good news you learned from the TV or the internet

: You should say

what it was
when you learned it
how this news affected you
and explain how you felt about learning this good news

: Model Answer

A few months ago, the national budget has been placed in the national parliament of India and the budget has reduced the price of electronics products. I have been planning for long to buy a computer for my home use

Usually, before the budget, the price of everything becomes a bit unstable. Some of the dishonest business people try to raise the products’ price unusually and life becomes struggling. The price of every commodity gets an increase and the situations become intolerable. So, when I heard about the price reduction of electronic products, it was really a pleasure for me. I am a student and have been saving money for past one year to buy a computer. But due to the increased price, I could not make it. I made several attempts to buy a computer and each time I found that the price was out of my reach and even I cannot make it with the least configuration. So, when the finance minister announced the proposed budget, he said that the import tax on electronic products including computers, mobile phone, laptops etc. would be reduced; it was really good news for me

The budget was presented in March in 2016 in the Parliament of India. Usually, I am not that much interested in hearing the budget speeches as they do not have any appeal to me. Each year, right before the budget, the prices of everything get a hike and this is not an exception in this year. Prices of necessary products started increasing alarmingly but when the budget was placed, everything was normal. One of my college friends asked me to watch the budget on the television as his father works at the ministry of finance and somehow he came to know about the price fall of electronic goods. Despite my unwillingness, I watched the budget speech of the finance minister and came to know that the prices of electronic goods have been reduced to some extent. It made me happy as now I could buy a computer for my own

The news was great for me. I am a youth of a middle-class family in India and my father is a small government official while my mother is a school teacher. So, often it becomes difficult for them to maintain the family and in such cases, I cannot ask them to buy a computer for me. Now a day, it is almost impossible to do something without a computer. Moreover, I need a computer as many of my texts in my college are digitalized and they need computers to read out. Some presentations are also there and the teachers also ask me to make such presentations for the class. So, for the want of a computer, my academic studies were being hampered seriously. So, I planned to buy it all by myself and accordingly started saving money from my regular pocket money. Though I accumulated almost 12000 rupees, I needed more to have a computer (in fact the minimum price for a lower graded computer is about 20000 rupees). The announcement made me pleased and I would be able to buy a computer after a few days. A draft calculation from a computer selling store showed that I could buy the computer if I have only 14500 rupees

I simultaneously felt several emotions inside me. Firstly, it was a kind of joy that I am having my dream come true. Then I thought that everything is possible in the world. Finally, I was surprised that how it could be possible to buy a computer at a lower price. But all these were my initial emotions and excitement. I thought over the issue finally and figured out that the prices went up as the importer of electronic goods had to pay some extra duties. Now they will not need any such duties. So, when they will not pay duties, they would be able to sell the products at a cheaper price than the former days. In fact, when I learnt the good news, I jumped out of joy and shouted loudly at my home. My family members were astonished in such behave and when they came to know about the real fact, they were relieved of anxiety that I am okay with my sense