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17. 室内游戏
Indoor game
Describe an indoor game that you enjoyed as a child
You should say:
What the game was
Where you played it
Who played this game with you
And why you liked it
范文:
As a child I enjoyed playing chess.
I think chess is probably the best known board game in the world.
It’s a game for two players, and the aim is to defeat the other player by taking his or her pieces and eventually trapping his King.
This final move is called checkmate.
I remember that it was a classmate of mine at primary school who first taught me to play chess.
He had a small, portable chess set, and once I knew how each piece moved, we started playing at break and lunch times; we played in our classroom or outside on the school playground.
Later my parents bought me my own chess set as a birthday present so that I cold play at home.
I taught my younger brother to play, and at some point I joined the school chess club.
There I had the chance to hone my skills against some of the older pupils, and in my final year of primary school I made it onto the school team, and we competed against children from other primary schools in the same town.
I liked playing chess because I enjoyed the challenge of thinking ahead and trying to outwit my opponent.
I was probably seven or eight years old when I started playing, and it seemed like a very mysterious and intellectual game at that time.
Also, although I loved winning, chess taught me to learn from my losses and to congratulate the person who had beaten me.