Describe something you bought but you do not often use – IELTS Band 8 Sample

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Updated On Apr 08, 2021

Describe something you bought but you do not often use – IELTS Band 8 Sample

Contents

- 0.0.1 Describe an item you bought but don’t often use./Describe something you bought but don’t use very often.

1 Sample Answer
- 1.1 Vocabulary

Describe an item you bought but don’t often use./Describe something you bought but don’t use very often.

You should say:

what it is
when and where you bought it
why you bought it
and explain why you don’t use it often.

Sample Answer

I’m going to talk about an iPad that I bought a few years back.

In my third year at university, I received a grant amount for good academic performance, which was worth about 700 dollars. I had been curious about the iPad, because I had never had a chance to use one. So I decided, quite impulsively, that I would buy one.

I imagined there would be so many things that I could do with this device, like writing homework, reading books, chatting with friends and playing games. But later I found out that it wasn’t as convenient as I thought. Though already quite small in size, it is still too heavy to carry for a long time. And it can’t replace a computer as it doesn’t have a real keyboard.

Once the novelty wore off, I just left my iPad sitting around. In hindsight, that 700 dollars should have been spent on a course or something like that!

Vocabulary

Grant: agree to give or allow (something requested) to.
Eg: He was granted permission to take leave
Curious: interested in learning about people or things around you
Eg: Rose was curious about her results.
Impulsively: without forethought; on impulse; suddenly.
Eg: Rose impulsively decided to buy the diamond necklace.
Found out: discover something or come to know about something.
Eg: The treasure box hidden in the backyard was found out .
Novelty: the quality of being new, original, or unusual
Eg: The tourists are still a novelty on this remote island
In hindsight: the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened
Eg: In hindsight, I should have taken the job offer.

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