A to Z IELTS Speaking 03 | Describe a memorable event in your life?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack answer an IELTS Speaking part 2 question type. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack You're listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:14 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am here with my co-host social and today we are going to do an IELTS speaking Part 2 question and here is the task car. 00:00:29 Jack Describe a memorable event in your life. 00:00:34 Jack You should say what the event was. 00:00:39 Jack When it happened. 00:00:41 Jack Where it took place and why it was memorable and social. All that you have the 1st to go at this one. 00:00:53 Jack A memo a a memorable event in my life was my quinceanera, which, for those unfamiliar, is a tradition in Mexican culture. When a girl turns 15. 00:01:08 Jack And it's kind of like a Sweet 16, except you're you're younger. These parties in different cultures. It's similar to, like, a bot mitzvah or a bar mitzvah. And Jewish culture, a Sweet 16 in American culture. And a lot of other kind of coming of age parties that are rooted in, really. 00:01:30 Jack Old traditional culture. So it happened when I was 15, so little over 10. 00:01:38 Jack Years ago now. 00:01:39 Jack And it took place in Kentucky, which is where I went to high school, and there was a kind of famous house that you could rent out for parties called the Bell House, I think. And our family rented it out. That was the location. 00:02:00 Jack UM. 00:02:01 Jack It was just really memorable because it's. 00:02:05 Jack A really fun it's like having a wedding, but you're the star. You don't have to share the spotlight with anyone else. It's a party, a big party all about you, and you get to wear a big poofy Princess dress and have all your friends there and all your family there and everyone you care about and have. Delicious. 00:02:25 Jack Food and dance and. 00:02:28 Jack It's just a perfect day. That's all about you. And when you're 15 and you get to feel like a Princess, that's like a very special kind of. 00:02:37 Jack Thing I think. 00:02:39 Jack At that age, so. 00:02:42 Jack OK. 00:02:42 발표자 So I think. 00:02:43 Jack That was mostly why I really enjoyed that. 00:02:50 Jack How about you, Jack? 00:02:52 Jack Yeah, that's. I mean, that sounds amazing. Atkinson. Kitchen, quinceanera. 00:02:59 Jack My daughter is 15 right now and it's too bad they don't do. We don't have that tradition in Korean culture or American culture because the Sweet 16 is not really necessarily celebrated. It's just something we say on the 16th birthday, like, hey, it's your Sweet 16. 00:03:19 Jack But we don't actually do anything usually. I mean, some people will, but. 00:03:24 Jack It's rare. I think it used to be more. 00:03:26 Jack Of a thing that's just now. 00:03:27 Jack Yeah. Yeah, it's not like, I mean, it's a, it's an actual ritual that is practiced very diligently by by Mexican people, right? I mean, it's like. 00:03:41 Jack Well, it just kind of. It does depend. I think it's doing a research dance now and it did for my, for my generation and younger was a resurgence, but. 00:03:50 Jack My sister, like millennials, didn't really have necessarily came to hear a lot of people were offered having like a trip or a cell phone or a car. 00:04:03 Jack Instead. But my mom didn't. 00:04:05 Jack Let us do that, she said. You have to have your quinceanera because you can have. 00:04:10 Jack A car like a first car, a cell phone or a trip at any point in your life, but you can only have a kids in your at one point in your life. So that's what you're getting. And I'm very happy she did that because it was a cultural moment. 00:04:23 Jack I think. 00:04:24 Jack Yeah. And then you said it was one, it's one of the most memorable events in your life. OK, well, I'll try. I'll. I'll go with mine here. A memorable event in my life was when my daughter was born. It happened in 2008. 00:04:42 Jack And September of 2008, I won't give away all the information with th