IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 429 with Model Answer:
Describe a time when you could not freely express your opinion.
You should say:- when it was
- what opinion you had in mind
- who were there
and explain why you could not express your opinion freely.
Model Answer:
I am not exactly much of an opinionated person except on some very rare occasions. Of course, there were some occasions when I was given the opportunity to express my opinion, but unfortunately, I don’t think that I was able to express them as freely as I would have preferred. Sometimes, even after my best effort, I was not allowed to express my opinion freely. Here I would like to talk about one of those occasions when I was not allowed to express my opinion freely.It happened about a few years ago when I was called to attend a meeting where I had to express my opinion about how we were going to manage a local football club which I have been a part of for the last 10 years or so. The meeting was attended by a number of other senior people from my neighbourhood who also had played a great role in running and managing that football club.
By the way, I was called to offer my opinion in that meeting, even though I was relatively much younger than the remaining attending members there, mainly because I somehow, in the past, had managed to find some sponsors to cooperate with the club financially. So, they thought, and very much rightly so, I also should have been given a voice in that meeting. But, anyway, after going to that meeting, I noticed that I was asked a lot of irrelevant questions when I told them that we needed to hold some kind of annual election to create a formal club committee instead of just randomly selecting some people to run the club. After all, I wanted our club to be managed and run in a bit more professional manner since we all were aiming for big.
Anyway, I thought that I wasn’t allowed to or I could not express my opinion freely, mainly because they thought that my proposal would complicate things for everybody. Besides, I thought that I couldn’t freely express my opinion also because I was interrupted by many unnecessary questions which had very little or almost nothing to do with the subject of our meeting.
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