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Do you enjoy cooking, and what can you make? · Band 5.5

A real IELTS Speaking Part 2 answer scored Band 5.5 by AI — question: Do you enjoy cooking, and what can you make?. Read the transcript, then get your own speaking graded.

Band 5.5

Prompt: Do you enjoy cooking, and what can you make?

Vex: Ah, there you are. Do you enjoy cooking, and what can you make?

You: Well, that's my one of the best favorite topic. Well, I'm not best cooker but I can cook almost all type of our traditional foods such as Pao, Shaslik, Kebab. Lahmon and others but I also now learning another tradition. Meals like Korean meals you know. Kimchi, Bibimbap, Ramyun. But also I'm planning to learning American and also other countries traditional meals when I have a free time. Cuz I enjoy from cooking and it gives me peaceful vibe and helps me to calm down. Vex: So you're a master of reheating and reading about other people's recipes. Fascinating. Do you ever actually manage to create something edible, or do you just collect potential disasters on paper? What exactly is "peaceful" about burning a simple piece of toast, for example? Tell me about a time you actually produced something that didn't require an apology.

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