2026-04-15
16 分钟Hello, dear listener, and welcome into Super IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Wow, we are discussing a fantastic topic.
Describe an item on which you spent more than expected.
The material world.
So you should say what it is, how much you spent on it,
why you bought it, and explain why you think you spent more than expected.
Yay, Rory, give us your story.
Rory's story.
Well, normally I'm pretty good with money and anticipating the costs of things.
But this one time that does stand out in my mind was when I paid over the odds for these books that I wanted.
To tell you a bit more about what they were,
I wanted to buy this trilogy of science fiction books from one of my favorite authors.
And normally when I buy books, I get them secondhand for a much lower price.
Not only is it cheaper, it 's also better for the environment since they do n't have to print new books and I can pass them
on to my friends when I'm done with them.
As it turned out, even second-hand copies were very expensive this time,
and it was actually cheaper just to pay to have a whole new set of books.
Even then, it was quite pricey compared to what I'm used to, like a good £5 or £10 more as it happened.
When it came to how much I spent on them, while it was n't enough to break the bank,
it certainly did feel like I had overspent quite a great deal.