雅思口语part2话题考官范文:something you once forgot to do

雅思口语话题：忘记做某事Describe something you once forgot to do.

You should say:

what you forgot to do

when this happened

where it happened

and explain why you forgot to do this.

参考范文：

Ok then, well what I’ve decided to talk about is the time I forgot to wish happy birthday to one of my friends,which I feel really bad about, not least because he always remembers my birthday.

Anyway, as for when this happened, well I suppose it must have been about three or four weeks ago, so it wasn’t all that long ago. And basically what happened was that I was in the middle of preparing for my university exams, so I had quite a lot on my mind, as you can probably imagine. And it was only when my friend texted me a few days later that I suddenly remembered it was his birthday. So I called him straight away and wished him a belated happy birthday, coz you know, “better late than never”!

And he was really good about it, you know, he told me not to worry, and said that birthdays are no big deal, so he wasn’t fussed about it. But as I said earlier, I still felt pretty bad about it, and so I told him I’d try to make it up to him somehow.

So yeah, I guess that’s pretty much all there is to say really, and hopefully in the future, I’ll get better at remembering peoples’ birthdays!

高分词汇：

Not least because – 尤其是因为

basically what happened was that – 发生的基本上就是…

I was in the middle of… - 当时我正在……

I had a lot on my mind - 有很多心事

Text – 发短信

Belated – 迟来的

“Better late than never” - 迟做比不做好; 亡羊补牢

Not fussed – 不在意

No big deal – 没什么大不了的

Make it up to someone - 补偿

I guess that’s pretty much all there is to say really - 能说的差不多就这个!(here really means: (放在句中表示不那么确定)真的，还是 People sometimes add really to statements in order to make them less definite and more uncertain.)

Other useful phrases:

I was in hurry

I completely forgot!

I somehow forgot - 不知何故，我忘了

I can’t believe how stupid I was to forget!

It was really silly of me (to forget)