Describe an occasion when you moved into a new house or school You should say:
When did you move into a new house? Why did you want to move?
and explain whether you'd like to move there
Sample:
Months ago I moved in with my friend, and moving into a new house was not easy work.
Three years ago I rented a flat in a community near the company I worked for, however the rent was a bit high as the community situated city center. Then I found, accidentally, an old friend of mine purchased a house in the city, and I paid her a visit. There was a direct bus carrying me frommy working place to her house, taking about fifty minutes. It's been three years since the last time me met and she treated me a big meal in her new house which was big enough to a family. Knowing that I lived by myself, she asked if I was interested in moving in with her, for she's looking for a roommate who could live in the vacant room. In this way, the rental from me could share the load she had to pay monthly, and I could also be a company to her since she's still single. I agreed, for it's convenient for me to go working on one hand and on the other her house was fully-equipped which means I could make use of the kitchen to cook myself which I always longed for. On a sunny morning, I contacted a remover from whom I got some packing boxes. We made it to move at two in the afternoon, before that I cleared all my stuff and had those packed. My clothes made up a big part of my belongings, while two boxes of books were the heaviest. Two workers of the remover carried my stuff down the six-storey flat and then up to the three-storey house of my friend's miles away after a half-hour drive, which took two hours to finish. Then I was left with nine boxes ofstuff to arrange to the new room.
Sample2
An occasion when you moved to a new schoolI’d like to talk about my experience of transferring to a new school when I was at grade three. My parents decided to make a living in a city far away, so I was left to be taken care of by my grandparents. Therefore, I had to go to the primary school in the town where lived my grandparents. I was rather sad about leaving my hometown, and my friends with whom I went to school everyday. What I went through in the new school was even harder.
The new primary school was better, with higher qualified teachers and facilities like canteen and indoor playground. However，I did not enjoy it for the first few weeks; actually，the period of time was a bit terrible for me. I didn’t get enrolled in until two weeks after the new semester. As a result I didn’t have new textbooks and uniforms for a whole week. I was the only one who didn’t wear uniform when all the students did morning exercise on the playground, so I felt detached. I was a shy girl. Without any friend, I was all by myself, watching others playing together happily during the break. What’s worse, I could not catch up with other students at first. The materials taught in the new school were different and much harder than those of my former school, I could not stand the whole suffering and was so desperate that I cried several times on the phone, begging my mother to pick me up and send me back to my former school. Things got better after my cousin helped me with my study and I gradually made friends with classmates in the neighbourhood. The experience of going to the new school changed my life.
PART 3: Discussion topics:
1. Do you rent a house?
Yes, I do. I have been living in the rented house since I attended working three years ago.
People move to a new house for different reasons. For example, when people find a new job which takes a long time on commute, people would think about finding somewhere closer to their work place. Sometimes, people prefer to move to a new house when they can afford one.
3. Mow do people get along with their neighbors?
Well, people now living in big city are becoming less familiar with their neighbors. There are reports about people not knowing their neighbors who have been living next door for years. Modern life and housing construction stop people to get along with their neighbors.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a new place?
The main advantage of moving to a new place would be that people will get to know new or maybe totally different people, and get to use better infrastructure. However, people have to begin a new life where they are strange, without the accompany of their relative and friends, which is painful at the very beginning, and not all the people can well adapt to new surrounding.
5. What are the influences of moving on adults, children and old people?
Comparatively, moving to a new place has less influence on children, than on adults and old people. For children, they have to leave their schools and playmates, while they can soon make new ones in new school and living place. However, it's harder for adults and the old to adapt to new living place, especially the old who may never make up ideal friends again.
6. Do you think it is easier for children to make adjustment to the new environment than for adults?
Yes, it is. For example, it's easy for children to make new friends in the new environment. As long as they have fun playing together, children could be friends without any other consideration. However, it's not the ease with adults. There are kinds of discrimination or prejudice among adults, making them hard to find and make up new friends.
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in one place in the whole life?
Obviously, to live in one place for whole life, one will not confront the difficulty and suffering of moving into a new one. It's happy to live in a place where one is familiar with the people around, whom one can turn to for help at any time. Unfortunately, one may be mentally restricted, and he may be inimical to outside world and new ideas. And he may be afraid of change in any kind.
8. What are the influences of changes of work?
Many people prefer to change work when they are offered a better one, which will bring them higher income or more opportunities for further development. However, it will take people some time, more or less, to adapt to new surrounding; meanwhile, they have to give up something on accepting new work. For instance, they may have to leave for another city and get away from their familiar working and living condition, their family and friends as well.
9. Do students like to move to a new school?
Well, it depends. Some students dislike to move to new schools where they have no friends and they may have problems being unable to catch their new
classmates in study. However others may be happy. For example, in China, many students study in villages, while their parents are working in big cities. And now more students are able to study in cities where their parents work, and they are happy to move to new schools.
10. What are the reasons that students move to a new school? And what are the influences?
In most cases, students move to a new school when they move to live in a new place with their parents. Of course, there are ones who move because of their personal problems. For example, a student might be bullied by his schoolmates, which hurts him mentally so much that he has to move, or a student may not get along with his classmates and has to move.