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22. 繁忙
Busy
Describe a ime when you were really busy.
You should say:
What this was
Why you were so busy
How you managed the situation
And explain how you felt at the time.
范文:
I’m going to talk about the time I felt a university assignment until the last minute and had to work flat out to get it finished.
This was about ten years ago whne I was doing my Master’s degreee.
I had to do several 3000-word assignments for the modules on my Master’s course, but I remember that there was one in particular that I really struggled with.
I had been procrastinating and putting it off for weeks, and in the end I left myself just two days to get the whole assignment done.
This included finding and reading relevat books and articles, deciding on my thesis and assignment title, and producing a final draft which had to be handed in to the depertment office before the deadline.
The pressure of such a close deadline actually forced me to manage the task in a really efficient way.
My first step was to decide on the general area that I wanted to write about, and then I limited myself to just ten research sources.
I printed the most relevant pages, highlighted the key paragraphs and made some notes to summarise and synthesise the ideas that I found interesting.
Finally, I just started writing the main body of the assignment, and I wrote the title and the introduction last.
I had mixed feelings at the time.
I was annoyed with myself for leaving it ao late to get started on the assignment, but I was relieved annd quite impressed with myself when I managed to complete the final drafts so quickly.
It was also quite stressful and tiring to have to find articles, do photocopying and then write everything so quickly.
I wouldn’t want to go through that again!