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🧠 Describe a person who solved a problem in a smart way (Part 2) + Transcript

IELTS Speaking for Success

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Education, Language Learning

4.8541 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into ILD speaking part two.

0:39.3

We're describing a person who solved a problem in a smart way.

0:44.9

You should say who this person is, what the problem was, why he or she solved it,

0:51.0

and explain why you think he or she did it in a smart way.

0:56.0

Rory is here with us.

0:57.0

Rory, hello.

0:58.2

Hello, it's me.

0:59.3

Give us your story.

1:05.1

Well, there are a lot of people like this in my life,

1:09.8

but the one who stands out the most right now is my dad after he helped fix a door in my apartment.

1:15.6

When it comes to who he is, well, he's my dad, so the connection should be fairly obvious.

1:21.2

But to tell you a bit more about him, he's become a sort of local handyman in his neighbourhood and goes around helping people when things

1:30.6

fall to pieces basically. He's been doing that for a while now and he's always been uphand with

1:36.9

tools so it made sense for him to come and help out when my house was acting up. With regard to what

1:43.1

the problem actually was, it was a bit annoying,

1:45.9

actually. I had paid someone to paint a door in my apartment, and they'd layered on the

1:51.8

paint so thick that it had actually made it impossible to close the blasted thing.

1:57.8

Now, normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but this was the bathroom door,

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