Daily IELTS Answer – An Achievement (Band 6.0)

Describe an achievement you are proud of

“I’m going talk about one achievement I have done recently. Around one year ago my company told me to go to China. They even told me to learn some Chinese before I went to there, that meant I only had two weeks to learn Chinese, so straight-away I joined a Chinese course online, it was a very difficult challenge because it was totally new to me and it was very different from my mother tongue. I had plenty of work to do in just a few weeks. I only had a few hours to study each day, so while I did that, I made a to-do list, so I worked according to that list. I struggled a lot and it was very hard to complete that list and learn some Chinese. But finally I overcame the challenge, my boss congratulated me on learning the language in a short period of time.”
+ Vocab: mother tongue – Chinese is not my mother tongue.
+ Verbs: struggle (v.) – When I was a student, I struggled to understand maths.
+ Verbs: overcome (v.) – It took a long time to overcome my sickness.
+ Grammar: congratulated me on (+gerund) – He congratulated me on winning the race – He congratulated me on overcoming the challenge.”

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Thanks to Charles for the answer!