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Describe an occasion when you helped a person [...]

Spoken IELTS Topic card of the season: Describe an occasion when you helped a person

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This topic has two information points: person and help. The former is easy to expand. It can be children, young people, middle-aged people, old people, men or women, doctors, teachers, nurses, etc. The second information point help can be extended according to the object you decided earlier. Such as helping children find parents, helping classmates solve problems, etc. As for the feeling after helping, according to the routine, we should feel satisfied, happy and fulfilled. However, we can also say the opposite. After helping others, the helped person did not feel grateful at all, but felt that it was right, which led to some depression.

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You should say:

What the situation was?

Who you helped?

How you helped?

And explain how you felt after giving help

The person I helped was an old lady. On Monday morning, I took the bus to work as usual. Fortunately, I found a seat in the crowd at the morning peak. You can imagine how difficult it was during the morning peak in Beijing.

The person I helped was an old lady. It was Monday morning. I took the bus to work as usual. Fortunately enough, I found a seat among the crowd who flooded into the bus once the door opened. You can imagine how difficult it was during peak hours in Beijing.

Two stops later, an old lady came up, about 60 years old. She looked around and found that there were no seats left on the bus, so she came to me and stood. In this way, I am caught in a moral dilemma. On the one hand, Chinese traditional culture requires me to be courteous to the elderly. I should stand up and give her my seat. On the other hand, if I give my seat to her, I will have to stand all the time. This can be extremely painful.

After two stops, there climbed in an old lady at her 60s. She looked around and became disappointed finding that there was no seat available. She made a few steps forward and came to stand right beside me. This left me in a moral dilemma. On one hand, traditional Chinese culture required me to stand up and give my seat to her. This article is from Laokaoya website. Do not copy or repost it. On the other hand, my reason said no, because if I did, I would have to stand the whole journey and that would be suffering.

In the end, my conscience defeated my reason. But to my surprise, the old lady pulled me aside and sat down before I even left my seat. With a calm face, he didn't mean to say thank you at all. Finally, I stood all the way, and I couldn't even feel my legs when I got off the bus. Although I helped someone, I didn't feel happy at all. On the contrary, I was very depressed and even decided not to give up my seat to others in the future.

Eventually my conscience prevailed over my reason and I decided to show courtesy. But to my surprise, at the moment I intended to stand up and even before my butt left the seat, the old lady pulled me out and sat down. She looked like she deserved the seat and how dare me to sit for a few seconds after she stood beside. I never got my ‘thank you’ and could not feel my legs when I got off. Therefore, rather than feeling happy or a sense of achievement, I felt frustrated and decided I would never give my seat away again.

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