Part 2
You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes.
You have one minute to think about what you’re going to say.
You can make some notes to help you if you wish.
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Tell me about an old person you know
You should say: Who he/she is and where he/she lives What he/she does or did for a living Something about his/her personality
And explain why you choose to talk about this person |
There are many old persons I can choose to talk about. But I would just like to tell you about Lao Zhang, literally Old Zhang. Lao Zhang lives right across the street from my home in a small wooden house. Though short and thin and often ignored by people, Lao Zhang was told to be once a pilot who had flown both jet fighters in the air force and jumbo jets for civilian airlines. At that time he was not only kind and warm to people, but also quite a chatterbox once he got started. But how did he become like this now, inward, always segregating himself from all others? Some people say that it is all because of the Cultural Revolution, the ten years’ dark period, when Zhang and his wife were denounced for many false accusations. After much affliction, Zhang’s wife couldn’t take it anymore and killed herself, and since then Lao Zhang had been becoming stranger and stranger, not willing to talk to anyone, often locking himself in his dark room.
