Cue Card 2
Describe an outdoor activity you took part in.
You should say:
What activity it wasWhere you did itWhen you did itand explain whether you liked it or not.
An activity that I took part in outdoors recently, well, a few months ago actually, was snorkelling.
So I’ve never been snorkelling before, and in August 2020, we went on holiday in Barbados,
and we had a house right on the beach.
And I went swimming every day because the water was right there. Our next door neighbor, who
was an American guy, every day he would go in snorkelling. And I didn’t really think that
snorkelling was available.
And then on our last day of the holiday, he said, “Do you want to try my snorkel?” So I put the
snorkel on and I was really surprised and disappointed because there was this amazing coral
reef right under the sea, a stone’s throw away from my house.
So for two weeks I was swimming and could have been watching this amazing scene
underneath the water. So we rebooked our holiday to Barbados. We went back again,
December last year, and I brought my snorkel with me.
I went to the sports shop and purchased the best snorkel I could buy and brought it in my
suitcase with me. When we got there, we discovered that the sea was too rough, so I couldn’t
snorkel.
The sea was rough and choppy the whole time we were there. So not only could I not snorkel, I
couldn’t even swim, so I missed that opportunity again.
In the future, I hope to snorkel, maybe somewhere else that has more reliable snorkeling. But I’d
also like to try scuba diving because I think weather doesn’t really matter so much because
you’re underneath the water and it’s a far more immersive experience, but it does require a lot of
training, so maybe I need to do my PADI license