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(gave me a personal benefit) to me. This would be when I taught a 4 year old 
student how to hold a pencil correctly and begin to write her first letters.
Thinking back, this was about 2 years ago now. I usually teach high-school aged 
kids, but in this particular time I decided to take on a summer school program 
with 4-5 year old students. This girl who I taught to write was 4 years old, while 
the others were 5 years old, already having experience in kindergarten. I 
planned a lesson on the alphabet, assuming that all of them had previous 
knowledge of this. However, I had to sit beside the 4 year old girl to further assist 
her as she didn't have previous knowledge of this. We started off by holding the 
pencil together to form the letters, followed by me slowly easing (taking off 
easily) my hand off of it. I stayed beside her until she was able to write out her 
first letters. I’ll never forget the excited look on her face when she finally got the 
hang of it! As the class progressed, she was easily able to keep up (stay at 
the same speed as) with the 5 year olds. 
This was an extremely rewarding experience for me; I was just so excited. Since 
I had never experienced teaching a child a basic skill, it was really special to 
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me. It made me start to think about raising my own family one day, especially 
standing beside my children at their milestones (big life events). I had never 
thought about how exciting it must be to be a parent! All in all, it was an 
emotional moment for me. 
 
 
17/ Describe a time you received a call from somebody you 
don't know in the public.
You should say: 
When it happened 
Where it was 
What the call was about 
And explain how you felt about it 
Mobile phones are a dime a dozen in modem society. White they're convenient, 
there can be times they can become a pain in the neck to everyone. Speaking 
of a call from an anonymous user, off the top of my head, it is the call from a 
real estate agency, persuading me to buy a piece of land, which was 
unfortunately not my interest at the time. 
If I remember correctly, it was when I was sitting on the bus that a call from a 
strange person just popped up from my smartphone's screen. As a rule, I 
would bother answering calls from strangers, but since I'm not too much on the 
go, I decided to slide the screen to accept the call.
A gentle female voice quickly introduced her service, saying that she has a lot 
of land in a big city, and convinced me to buy it since the owner was in the red, 
and really needed cash so the land was sold at a dirt-cheap price. Not having 
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even a second thought, I just hung up the phone out of my mere disinterest in 
the information she provided. 
Such calls absolutely get on my nerves and I’d say that l can’t stand that 
marketing way. Since people now are mostly swamped with assignments and 
deadline, how can they manage to answer such calls which are merely not their 
business or interest. Blocking all those numbers is often my remedy to save 
myself from the hassle of nonsensical conversational exchanges.