{"id":2655,"date":"2020-08-15T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:46:03","slug":"describe-something-you-bought-that-was-difficult-to-use-at-first-cue-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/describe-something-you-bought-that-was-difficult-to-use-at-first-cue-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe something you bought that was difficult to use at first | Cue card |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Describe something you bought that was difficult to use at first<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What is it?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>When you bought it?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What does it do?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Explain how difficult was it to be used?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe title=\"Describe something you bought that was difficult to use at first | IELTS Speaking Cue Card List 2020\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqCyoSiYHRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love shopping and I purchase different kinds of things every now and then. Here I would like to talk about a time when I bought a scooter for myself but faced a lot of difficulties in the beginning to drive it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a Honda Activa Scooter. Actually I and my father contributed to buy it for me as I needed a vehicle to go to college myself. During the school days, the school van used to pick and drop me but when I started college, I wanted to have a ride of my own. All my best friends had their own two-wheelers so I <strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">convinced<\/span> <\/strong>my father to get one for me. I had saved Rs 10,000 from my pocket money so I gave it to my father to use for buying the scooter. I was on <strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">cloud nine<\/span><\/strong> when I got my scooter on my 19th birthday in 2012. I was so excited to have it and hence I requested my brother to teach me how to drive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He agreed to guide me, on the very next day he started giving me lessons and we started practising. It was my first vehicle ever to drive and I didn&#8217;t even know the ABC of it. Therefore my father <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>forbade<\/strong> <\/span>me to drive the brand new scooter on my own as he feared that I may end up damaging it and would get hurt myself. My brother or father always used to accompany me while I practised driving. I found it extremely challenging to drive that scooter for the first few days. Balancing a two-wheeler was a <strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">herculean task<\/span><\/strong> for me as I did not even know how to ride a bicycle before that.\u00a0 However, my brother taught me the basics of driving from scratch very patiently. He used to sit behind me while I drove. We mostly went out for practice after 10:30 pm as traffic used to reduce by that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also met with minor accidents twice but luckily we did not get injured. Moreover, I also faced difficulty in applying brakes as I used to pull them suddenly. It took me 3 weeks to learn all aspects of driving a scooter like using the side mirrors to keep an eye at vehicles coming behind us, overtaking, using indicators, taking a turn and maintaining balance. Subsequently, I still practised for another full week on vacant streets of our colony because I feared to ride the scooter on packed roads. Finally, after a month I gained sufficient confidence and expertise to drive to college and I have been using that scooter ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Vocabulary:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">convinced: belief in you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cloud nine: extremely happy and excited<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forbade: did not allow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herculean task: great effort<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describe something you bought that was difficult to use at first What is it? When you bought it? What does it do? 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