CELPIP Speaking Practice| Personal Experience

Sir,
Greetings!

I may not be asking a legitimate question here..
But may I please have your opinion:

If I start my preparation today then when should I book my exam. Considering that I study everyday for 2-3 hours..

I am going to write down the exact story I told on front of the computer and I recorded with my phone, in this way you could correct my mistakes and give me some suggestions if you don't mind, thanks.
Last year I went to Las Vegas with my best friend John. The first day we were really tired, so we decided to relax in the hotel. We stopped there for eating and we figured out that it was a big buffet inside, so we ate so much that after one hour we fall to sleep. The day after we started to do a kind of tour around the all casinos. First we started from the "Montecarlo casino", and after that we went to "New York New York", we went also to Paris were we stopped for lunch. It was very nice because you can see the Tour Effeil outside and gthe food was really great. After that we following walk on all the Streap avenue and we saw Venice on there, and was amazing.
I think I need to improve lots my speaking, but the hard thing to do for me, thanks again for you help.

I would like to talk about the time I spent at the Metallica concert last June.
I watched them with a friend who I had met in Canada. This performance took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
My friend and I went together to the concert because he had been the stadium before and told me that it would be amazing to have some beers near the venue before starting the concert.
I arrived at the bar at 2p.m., we had some beers, by 7p.m., we departed to the stadium, getting there I bought an official Metallica t-shirt and we searched for our seats.
When Metallica started to play at 9 p.m., everybody stood up to see their performance.
It was amazing because they played old and new songs for 2.5 hours, released fireworks, shook fans’ hands, changed their background according to each song and interacted with the audience about having a good time in Canada.
It was my first concert in Canada and it ended being the best concert I’ve seen.
That's why it was a memorable moment for me.

Last year my family and I went to hongkong for vacation. On a first day in hongkong I went to disneyland with my family and I meet my cousin as a tour guide.We enjoy everyday because there is a lot of beautiful places and the food is great...Thank you Sir for helping me to improved my English

5 year ago my friends and I went to hilly areas of our country. That time we was university students and at that age our life was full of enjoyment. we started journey from our city via train. Even some of my friends started dance in the train while other was singing songs. 1st day we went to a most gorgeous lake which was surrounded by snow hills. Landscape of that place was like haven on the earth. At the evening time we did camp fire outside of our hotel, where some fold dancer perform their local dance. At 2nd day we went to local market for shopping of handicraft. Over all trip was full of amusement and excitement.

9 years ago, my brother and I went on vacation in Brazil. We began our trip in the city of Porto Alegre in south Brazil. When we got there, we firstly tried the real Brazilian barbecue, which was scrumptious! On the second day, we took a plane to Sao Paulo's city in southern Brazil, where we enjoyed the night over there. We went to clubs, bars and we watched a huge live concert which gathered around 80 thousand people. Even though we had an increase traffic driving from Sao Paulo city to Rio de Janeiro, our trip to Brazil was outstanding!

Would you suggest not only using the simple past grammar tense but also the past perfect tense to demonstrate a higher level of English for native speakers?
For example:

"Three years ago, I traveled to Italy to visit some relatives and they took me to some restaurants where I tasted some foods I had never tried before."

Something to that extent. What do you suggest?

I'd like to tell the story how I first time saw Lake Michigan. It was long time ago and it was in a middle of summer. I and my friend parked the car on the underground parking lot downtown Chicago and walked by foot to the lake. The weather was windy and the sun shined bright. People were swimming, kids playing. Seeing a huge space of water next to the skyscrapers was very unusual and breathtaking. Another stunning thing was fat chickensize seagulls walking on the beach. Same well-fed perky parkinglot gulls. The only thing that spoiled the impression was the smell of fish and poop on the beach. All this grotesque and magnificence could not blend with this disgusting foreign scent. Somehow it stuck in my memory and many years later I can still smell it.
Please let me know if I sound too foreign : )))

Canada Public Health System, I got Dr. Appointment after more than 7 months, ridiculous! !!

I would speak about my African safari. We were 4 friends traveled to Africa for 5days vacation. The most memorable part of this story is about the hunting. One of my friend hunted a Zebra. I was surprised when I heard, they slaughter the hunted animal and will share the meat to different old age home. It was an awesome experience, staying in lodges in the middle of jungle.

There is always the best experience when you can spend time with your family and friends. I would like to tell a story about our family reunion, that took place few months ago.
Me and my wife were waiting for so long to our family could come and visit us in Canada. So we made a plan for every day. After they came and had some adaptation, straight away we went to Niagara Falls. There we 7 of us, so I had to rent a minivan, so everybody could stay in same car and could talk and enjoyed of beautiful Canadian views.
In 2 days after we took a flight to sunny Varadero, Cuba, where we spent such a grate week together, having amazing food, drinks, swimming and enjoying a good weather. We also had time to make a trip to Havana with Russian speaking tour guide, because nobody from our family understand English except me and my wife.
After that we came back to Toronto, where had only few days left so we were visiting popular tourist attraction around Ontario.
It was a great time to remember.

I went on a trip to Statue of Liberty and ellis Island with my friend this summer. I picked my friend from her house in the morning and we drove to liberty park. Once we parked the car, we walked to ticket booth. We bought two cruice tickets. We finally board the cruise by noon. After 15 minutes we arrived at the ellis island. We learned about immigrants history. We saw old clothes, household things, personal document, jewelry and furniture that was brought by immigrants to the ellis island. I was amazed to find out that people from many european nations arrived at ellis island in search for new home. After that we went to Statue of Liberty where we had a pizza for lunch. We went to the liberty crown and view was amazing. The skayscarpers of Manhattan were hidden under the clouds. After visiting the Statue of Liberty we took the ferry back to liberty park. On the way back we saw the whole view of downtown manhattan. At end of the day, I droped my friend back home. We had great time on our mini trip and we learned a lot about immigrant history.

Correct me Sir ,if any mistakes

there is no doubt that some moments are very memorable for us and we can not forget in their life.. before two years, on 24 Sep was the birthday of my mother.. Actually, I wanted to celebrate her birthday because I wanted to do some special for her. I know that she always does everything for us so I want to express my feeling by celebrating her birthday.. she always says that I am getting old and by celebrating birthday, she cannot be younger.. Moreover, my friends and family member helped me to become a special day for her.. we ordered the cake and decorate the main hall as well as bought new dress for her. .. I told my sister that could you wake up mother.. she went in my mother's room and my mother entered the main hall.. we started to sing happy birthday.. she surprised and said thanks to everyone.. we cut the cake and did dance together... she was so happy that day .. . i also gave gift to her that gift was gold ring .. my mother always wear that ring on marriage and some other occasions... this is my memorable moment in my life ..

Hi Mark! Its my second day around watching your videos hehehe for some tips & strategies!

Last week, my badminton group & I went to OTTAWA , the capital of Canada in the east southern ontario near the city of Montreal and the U.S border. We stayed in the DELTA Hotel by Marriot for 2days & 1night. On the 1st day, we went straight to CALYPSO Theme Waterpark which is the canada's largest theme waterpark, my friend & I was enjoyed all thr big tall slides, height rides, our hearts was pumping & screaming all the time and that was day that i really overcome my fears on height. Then, at night we went straight on the hotel to get dressed and ate dinner. After that, we watched the digital light show outside the building of " THE PARLIAMENT" it tooks 30minutes the show, telling about history of Canada.
On the 2nd day which was our last day, we went back to the Parliament Building after one of my friends had the chance to get the free entrance ticket, he lined up early on the morning around 6 a.m.
My God I couldn't believed because before you can get in, do u know just like in the airport likes taking off your hat/cap, jacket, belt, all your stuffs should put in a container then scan everything, not just once but twice before you can finally get in!
I was amazed inside because of the Victorian achitecture, the museums such as the national gallery of canada, the noted collections of Indigenous and some canadian art. In short I really had a goodtimes during my tour in Ottawa.. That was my best ever most memorable experienced!..

Mark, let me know if am doing right with the homework you've given but I am just happy sharing it ahahaha!
Right or wrong, heartily i accept it!😄

Is it correct to say "we drove" with regard to motorbikes? Shouldn't it be "we rode"?

It was one of the most incredible experience of my life when me and my friend’s family booked our tickets for shine festival,it was the Festival of Lights ,we all had a lot of planning about photography of the event and also we had a dress code for it.we drove all the way from Chicago to Indiana and We reached the event venue in evening .we enjoyed the food and other programs there and lastly collected our lanterns ,we wrote our names and message on our lanterns and were ready to leave our lanterns after it was announced to leave the lanterns .it was certainly a magical and mesmerizing experience I must say ,there were plethora of lanterns in the sky, it was a different feeling a feeling that takes you to a different world I just wanted to keep looking at sky for hours .it was really an amazing experience of my life .can’t wait to see it again.

Hi Mark! I didn!t find the word celpip in my dictionary. What does it mean? Would you be so kind to explane me? Thank you.

I would like to talk about my mom’s birthday party last year in Toronto in a Thai restaurant. It was a small celebration with 6 people. There were my aunt’s couple, my dad, my sister, my mom and me. The restaurant has a big elephant status at the entrance. When I booked the table and explained that was for my mom’s birthday, the owner told me that she would get a gift at the table. And after the dinner, we were surprised that the owner brought her a cake with all the staffs singing around. We had so much fun at the restaurant and we would definitely recommend them.

Last year , I along with my friend went to Rajasthan which is in the Northern part of India and nominated as the largest province of India area wise . We went there by train and it took us around 15 hours to get there . Summers are really hotter in Rajasthan since it is a desert . We stayed there in a hotel and next day we visited several ancient palaces and forts . Rajasthan is also know as the land of forts .We also visited Jaipur which is known as the pink city . We enjoyed shopping at great markets which sell ivory work , bangles made of lac and carvings . The most memorable experience was to enjoy Safari . That was really an adventurous experience and this added real spices to the taste of our journey. After seven days of stay there , we came back but that was one of the wonderful experiences of my life .

Undoubtedly everybody have some personal experience which make them very amazing and unforgettable moment, which I also had. Me and my friend decided to go manalai trip. First off , we start our journey from new Delhi to manali via bus. It was a long journey, which took place more than seven hours. On the first day , we took completely rest after had meal because the bus journey was to exhausted. Then on the second day, we hired a taxi to rohtaang velly which are the famous for their natural fews such as floor of ice, temple and greenery zone. The place was totally covered by snow. There my fiance played with cubes of ice and some of thrown of me. She behaved like a child during her activity which I had never seen before which made unforgettable. Then on last day we visited a temple which is very famous in Himachal pradesh. As per some historian it is place, where your every wish will be fulfilled then we also wished for their healthier life.

Last year I went on vacation with my wife to London. On the first day, we went on a boat cruise around major rivers and lakes in London, and we went under the London Tower bridge and stopped right under the bridge to greet some marine engineers who were doing some maintenance and repair work on the bridge. After that, we went to see the London Aquarium and was able to see several wild animals, such as beers, sharks and crocodiles, through the clear mirror bearer. On the second day, we went to the Natural History Museum, and while there was saw several ancient artifacts that showed how England was in the early 15th century. It was a memorable experience when we were allowed into the House of Parliament and House Lords on our third day in London. Fortunately, the Prime Minister was making a public speech at the House of Parliament that day, and so we were able to see him for the very first time. At the end of our vacation, we had taken well over 500 photographs.

Three years ago, I had a trip to Istanbul in Turkey to participate in a conference. The trip was for 4 days.

I spent the first two days attending the sessions and presenting my session as well. So, I don't have enough time to make a sight seeing. Instead, I had some time to take my dinner in the restaurants around. I enjoyed eating the Turkish foods such as Shawrma and white cheese.

The last two days, I had free time for entertainment. The third day, I visited many historical mosques there. They are amazing specially the Blue Mosque. I took many pictures. The last day, I took a trip with a boat along the Bosporus trait. while I was in the boat, I saw really amazing views in both sides. The interesting thing that one side is in the Asian part and the other in the European part

Anyway, although I had a busy schedule during the first two days. However, I really enjoyed the other two days. Overall, it was an amazing experience for me

Five months ago I visited in Turkey. I met Pınar. She is a turks. We went her home. Her family lived in Kuşadası of İzmir. When we came her home us met her grandmother, father, mother, elder brother and little brother. Her grandmother visited in Mecca. She is a very wisdom. Her father and mother are outgoing and friendly. They loved to joking. They have a cat. Her name is Mışıl. Mışıl is clever and sweet. On the second day in the morning we got up at 8 a.m. and had breakfast. After that we started to travel. Kuşadası is one of the best place for tourists. There are you can find sea, beach, historical museums and historical places, beauty natures, some brand's for shopping, turkish foods and drinks and turkish life style. We been in the museum. Museum built in the middle century. There are old big skeleton of dinosaur and layout of ships, little Zoo of birds. When you went up on museum you saw beautiful and infinite sea. After that we went to Starbucks. I loved coffees of Starbucks. Went to shopping and ate turkish foods Lahmacun. Lahmacun is circle like pizza with cheese and meat, green salad. It is very delicious food. I never forgot it is little travel, it gave me nice memories and I am very pleased to meet with Pınar and her family.

Last year, me and my cousins went to beer house, We sat on the chair bar and we ordered some drink of liquor, then suddenly a beautiful lady came to us and offer a pack of cigarette, and ask me "do you want some of my cigarette.?" then i said, "no thanks i really don't smoke'' Then the lady walk away to us because she heard her boss was calling her in a loud voice. She left her phone in the table unattended, then i actually grab her phone and see her status in facebook. I've saw that she is in a complicated relationship. As i browsing her phone,i n her timeline, i saw that she has two sons and one daughter.. Then after that, i saw her coming towards us and ask something to me. she said " did you find any cellphone in here"?,, then i actually seeking it to, pretending that i am helping her to find her cellphone. Then a minute ago, i pretend that i found her cellphone and gave it her...

This is my story when I have my first international trip to Hong Kong two decades ago.
I prepared all my stuff to be sure that I didn’t forget anything and I don’t want to be hold in the Immigration.

During my flight, I was really excited yet scared because it is my first time to ride on a big airplane. On my first day, we went to Ocean park, I rode in the roller coaster twice, Rapid River and we also watched the “Dolphin show”. We also rode in the Cable car tto go to the other side of the Ocean Park.

During my stay in Hong Kong, we went to Disneyland, to Lantau where you can see the Big Buddha seated on top of the mountain, we went to Macau and a lot more. I enjoyed my one month vacation in Hong Kong.

In 2011 I had an awesome experience in my life, my husband and I got our first international experience. We went to Miami for 7 days and had a lot of first experiences there.
On the three initials days, we did shy to speak with the people, we ate just junk foods because it is easy to ask, it was just say the number of the combo and done.
But from the fourth day we were more comfortable and we went to the beach and saw jellyfishes in the sea, and my husband took pictures with it.
We know some shopping malls and bought a lot of clothles, creams, perfumes, and we bought our first Iphone there too, because in our country it is so expensive.
At the hotel we had a good time too, we ate all days on the breakfast, bacon with scrumbled eggs and bread.
So that's so far the best trip that we had.

A few years ago, my falily and I went to a holliday trip. In the way, my car got broken, so I stopped by a road and we was waiting for some help. I called a mechanic, but it took about one hour till they arrive in us. we wast some time that day, but after repairing we coninued to our trip again.

1 year ago we went in akagera national park with my friends and it was so so amazing 😍

This is my story when I have my first international flight to Canada a year ago. I prepared all my stuffed to be sure that I did not forget anything and I dont want to be hold in the Immigration.
During my flight, I was really excited but yet scared because this is my first time to ride on a big plane. I spend almost 17hours in plane from Manila to Toronto. That was very exhausting. I arrived in airport of Toronto 9 in the evening. I was suprised because the weather was cold. My Aunt was waiting outside with her family to pick me up. After that, we went home and arrived in there house past 10 in the evening. My first day we went to downtown. We rode the bus going to subway. Then we rode the train. We stop on eaton mall to eat some chinese soup. Before we went home they took a picture on me infront of the new municipal city hall. That was my first picture. And now, i enjoying my stayed and my worked here.

i would like to talk about my adventure experience when i was travelled with my childhood friend. When we were on the way suddenly a very bad accident happened there between a car and a bike in front of our eyes.There were three person in car a little kid and two adults on other side only a single man on bike. it was very horrible condition of them but there were no one availabe to help them.we quickly ran there and call to ambulance and after this we helped them to came out from the car and give them first aid , bike rider was in very critical condition there was no hope to a live with in few minutes ambulance reached there and carried them to hospital. it was vry bad experience with me but i was happy to helped them and never forget in my life it is very memorable for me.

Last year, my family and I went to Acapulco ( Mexico place ), in the way mi car got any mechanic problem , so I stopped beside of the road.
We trying to get anybody for help , but was impossible , so W e decided to call a mechanic , but he took about one hour till he arrives .
We spent a lot of time with the mechanic problem, after the mechanic fixed it the problem we have continuing us way on our trip and we prayed about that not happening anything on us trip way.

Ten years ago, I went to my city's international airport by riding our mountain bike with one of my best friends and three brothers. We didn't think about going to the airport when we left our homes; we took the sea route to the national aquarium. Once we got the national aquarium, we decided to go farther and add more miles to our adventure, when one of my brothers said: "let's go to the airport," and we all agreed with him.
It was around two o'clock in the afternoon when we started to ride from the aquarium when suddenly one of my brother's bike broke down, and we had to go back to get him a taxi to get him back home because his bike was no able to ride again. After we left my brother in the taxi station, we started heading to the airport along with a huge thunderstorm coming in our way, but we were young. We didn't care too much about dangerous situations, so we kept riding as it was a sunny day; we were committed to getting our goal no matter what happened.
Finally, after 3 hours of hard riding and difficulties along the way, we made it, we got to the airport around 5:20 pm all soaked but with the satisfaction of reaching our goal and happy that most of us get to our final destination.

I would tell my trip to Australia with my wife.

Two years before my husband and I went to Vancouver for summer vacation. Next day we went cambell river via farri.we really enjoyed seen the beauty of sea.then next day we found the best ice cream shop beside the lake.we really enjoyed and spend lot of time together. Next morning we are going to hiking and discover beauty of the nature we seen golden falls which is the best falls in the island. This trip is memorable because my husband and I spend more time together.

Thankyou for this quality of teaching. Love from Punjab

Hi! Homework:
Five years ago, my family and I went on a car trip of 1720 km from casablanca to Dakhla. The trip lasted three days. On the first day, I drove for ten hours from Casablanca to Goulmime. We ate lunch at a restaurant on the road and the dinner at the hotel, we was very tired and took a shower.
On the second day, we drove about 700 km from Goulmime to Boujdour in the desert which was very painful and we trunk a lot of water. we ate couscous at a nice restaurant in laayoune and the dinner in the hotel. On the third day, we drove 360 km from Boujdour to Dakhla and we got there 01pm, then we ate fish at a restaurant and took a shower in order to relax a little bit after this long trip.
Take care!

A few months back, we went to Manali for a cousin's vacation. we were seven in number, hence decided to book travelers for a personalized experience. We decided to meet at Delhi Metro and then took our pre-booked traveler to Manali. It took almost a day and a half to reach Manali. We were fully exhausted and decided to rest for the first day. For the second day, we booked a safari for Sisu Valley. We experienced our first snow. The view was charismatic and breathtaking. We participated in different sports activities and left for lunch. We tried local cuisine like Petha dipped in desi ghee, Momos, chicken roll, etc.

just got my CELPIP result after a very short plan for it.... rushed my prep using videos like yours....

I did kinda well...thanks again!!!

Few years ago, me and my friends went to a place named kelshi beach on the costal lines of the state of Maharashtra in India. We decided to go by car and started our trip in the afternoon. While on the trip we halted in between to by some chicken legs and chicken breasts. We marinated the chicken in the car wrapped it up in a foil paper. We also purchased some bottles of whisky. We reached the beach around 8PM. It was completely dark. One of our friend hide the whisky bottles in the sand and we all got pissed off since he forgot where he hide the bottle. Luckily after a lot of search we found the bottles. Then we lit up bon fire on the beach and took out barbecue grill to roast the chicken. We spent the entire night drinking and eating chicken at the beach. The next day we went on road trip to the coast line and enjoy local sea food. It was a wonderful experience and great fun time with my friends after a long time.

I am going to tell the story of my unforgettable vacation in Egypt in resort Sharm El Sheih.

Is there a problem with the counter being finished but I haven’t finished my story?

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I'm going to talk about a time I played a new game.

If my memory serves me right it was last year winter around January.

It all began when my friend John invited me to his place for his birthday celebration. The next day, I prepared and went to his house. When I got there, I met him and about 5 of his friends. We gist, ate and drank.

After that, in the evening around 6:00pm one of his friends suggested we go and play a game at a baseball center, and we all welcomed the idea.

When we got to the sport center, my friend- the celebrant, suggested we play a game called Chase. It first, I'm novice to the game, but I pretended as if I knew much about the the game. So, when one of his friends noticed I dont know much about the game, he decided to put me through.

You won't believe what happened next! I became the champion and won everyone.

To cut the long story short, we ended up playing the came till mid night.

Overall, it was a mind-blowing and unforgettable experience for me, and I have the best time of my life.

8 years ago, my colleagues and I went to Europe for a business trip. On the first day, we found the hotel at Amsterdam we booked and had a midnight snack to relax because we were very tired after sitting on the plane for 8 hours. On the second day, we took a taxi from the hotel to the company, met with new colleagues, and started a busy day of work. In the next 2 months, we successfully completed the software development project. On weekends, we took the train to travel in several European countries, such as Germany, Belgium, the Netherland, etc. This was my first business trip to Europe, so I was very excited and I will remember it forever.

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Two years ago, my family and I travelled to Nigeria for my cousin's traditional wedding, On the first we were really exhausted so we just stayed in our house in a city called Owerri, On the second day which was the wedding day we left the house at 9 in the morning to get there before 2 pm. While on our way to the village, we saw a lot of scenic views, huge bamboo trees, mountains, streams, villagers, the market area was so lively. Our car broke down and my dad tried to fix it after so many attempts he got the car to work and we continued our journey, we got to the wedding venue at 4 pm but to our greatest surprise the wedding was still ongoing and we were really glad to meet the people there and we tried a lot Nigerian delicacies, it was very memorable and I got to see a traditional wedding for the first time.