Band 9.0 Sample Answer Ideas.

• I have learnt many practical skills in my childhood from people around me in my life.

• Here I would like to talk about a very useful practical skill of cooking, which I learnt from my mother.

• I have been slowly learning it from my mother since my childhood.

• My mother is in her forties and she is very tall and beautiful.

• She has a gifted hand in cooking.

• She has her unique way of teaching us, I mean me and my sister, how to cook.

• She never made us feel as if she was teaching us.

• She just kept us involved in the kitchen while she cooked.

• We learnt a lot just by observing her.

• I learnt cooking because I too want to be able to cook like her.

• I also learnt cooking because it is a very useful skill in today’s time.

• Moreover, as I plan to go abroad for my higher education, this skill will be very useful.

• I will not face any food problems.

• I am a vegetarian and I have heard that veg. food outlets are very few in foreign countries.

• This skill has proved very useful because many times I have been able to attend to guests when my mother was not at home.

• My mother not only taught me simple routine cooking but also some Chinese dishes.

• She also taught me how to make pizzas in the electric tandoor.

• She also bakes excellent cakes.

• Whenever anybody in our neighbourhood celebrates a birthday, the cake is always baked by my mother.

• She loves experimenting in the kitchen and she has many of her own recipes which are quick and easy and at the same time very delicious.

• She also presents her dishes very well.

• She says that the look of the dish is as important as its taste.

• I am fortunate, I have a talented mother who has taught me this useful skill