IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 668 with Model Answer

Describe a positive experience that you had as a teenager

: You should say

what the positive experience was
where you were then
who you were with
and explain why you think this was a positive experience

: Model Answer

Life is filled with different experiences and everyone has to go through it. When I was a teenager, I also had many experiences while some of them were positive and some others were regretful for. I went to a friend’s house and found that he was caring his pet dogs and that was a positive experience for me

I live in Maharashtra in India now and been living here since after my birth. I was born in a typical extended family and all of the male members are engaged in our family business of producing and exporting steel products. Being a large family, we have some pets in our house and we actually do not take care of them properly. But the care for pets that I saw at the house of Sudip, my intimate friend in college, was something special and positive to me. Generally, people do not treat their pets well. There are no schedules for feeding or bathing of the pets. Even the pets are beaten as well for no reasons. But the scenario is entirely different at Sudip’s place. His father has appointed a man to look after their pet dogs

I met Sudip at the New Vision Public School immediate after my admission in the seventh grade. He was a brilliant student and came from a lavish family. His father was one of the largest businessmen in the locality and people also respected him for his kind nature. I went to meet Sudip at his home to collect some notes as I missed a class for my physical illness. After reaching there, I received a warm welcome. But I was afraid with the appearance of two dogs at the home and they were moving freely here and there inside the house. Though I am familiar with pets I was surprised as those were allowed to move anywhere in the house. Usually, the pet dogs are not allowed to move in the house and most of the cases the dogs are kept chained. But there were no chains with the dogs and they looked cleaner than the ordinary dogs found as pets in India

I met with the members of Sudip’s family except his father (he was out of the city for some business purposes). Gradually I also come to know about the dogs and they came beside me. I was a bit nervous with their presence but Sudip’s mother told me that the dogs gentle. Though they had a giant look, they behaved gently and I was made familiar with them. Sudip told me about the history of the dogs, how his father brought them home from the street and they are serving the role of their family member as well. The dogs are taken care of in the right manner and a man is recruited to take care of them. The dogs also have a specific schedule to be fed or bath. The man, named Navin Kumar, usually feed the dogs and baths them too. I was surprised hearing that the dogs had separate rooms for them to sleep at night whereas most of the people use the dogs to secure their houses

I try to learn from everything and the experience at Sudip’s place also taught me many things. My ideas about pets have been changed to the root. I could not think that the pets should be taken care of in such a smart way. We have three dogs in our house but unfortunately, there is none to care for them. They are not fed well and bathing is an irrelevant question to us. So, the dogs do not look striking rather the dogs have a thin shape and all the times they are kept out of the main building. So, when I came to know about the pets in Sudip’s place, I learnt a positive thing here. Every pet should be taken care of in the right manner and if people are unable to provide the necessary care, they should not take pets. After returning home, I discussed the issue with my mother and other family members. All of them agreed with me that we also should start practice such things