How To Unlock the Power Of Description To Increase Your CELPIP Score

You know something? If you've been preparing to take the Salp-up exam, it's easy to over-focus on areas that you're already comfortable with, versus where you need to be working to improve. One of those easy-to-overlook skill sets is writing. People usually pay more attention to speaking and listening skills, and tend to ignore writing. Today, you and I are going to fix that by taking a quick and hopefully fun look at how

you can unlock the power of description to increase your self-improvement score. Well hello there and welcome to the Speak English Fearlessly podcast. This is the podcast for motivated English learners who want to speak English fearlessly and learn practical tips and strategies to conquer the self-exam.

I also love to feature encouraging interviews with regular people, people just like you, who are working towards becoming fluent in English, so we can learn from their experiences together. Who am I?

My name is Aaron Nelson. I've been an English teacher for over 16 years and I now work to help students prepare for the self-epic exam through online classes. If you're getting ready for the self-epic exam, you need to be working on speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Today I want to help you focus on unleashing the power of description

to help you improve your writing and speaking scores on the Selphie exam. But first I want to share a story with you. Or maybe two. I come from a family of juju lovers.

Have you ever tried them? These candies take me to my happy place. soft, chewy, and so delicious. I got my love for them from my dad.

He is a raving jubjube lover. In fact, I would say he's even an addict. He is addicted to those things, and he's passed that addiction onto me. One of the best jujube stories that I can remember is the time when my dad proudly brought home

a giant bag of jujubes. I was a teenager at the time, and this was the largest bag of deliciousness that I had ever seen in my life because up to that point the only jujube bags that we had had were small ones.

We were so excited to try them. So was my dad. We gathered all around the kitchen table, and we watched as my dad excitedly pulled the bag open. He lifted the bag triumphantly up into the air and took a deep, long smell, expecting to get a nose full of sweet goodness. But something was wrong. Terribly wrong.

Instead of smiling, my dad frowned. That doesn't smell right, he said, and passed the bag over to my brother and I so we could both inspect it. We stuffed our noses inside and immediately pulled them back.

It smelled terrible like something had gone bad. My brother, prior to me for saying so, blurted out, this smells like someone farted in the bag and then sealed it in. I remember laughing at the funny images words created in my mind, but at the same time I found myself totally agreeing with him. My father did as well.

It smelled terrible. Then, for some reason, we decided to taste it. First my dad, then And my brother, then me. All of us had the same experience. We popped the jujube into our mouth expecting the usual chewy sweet tastiness, but instead

we were met with something bitter. Not only did it smell like a fart, we all agreed that it tasted like one too. At least that's what we imagined tasting a fart would be like. disappointed. My brother and I handed the bag back to my father. My brother and I went

to do something else. But my dad did something different. He sat down at his desk, pulled out some paper, and began to write a letter of complaint to the juvejuve company. This was when I was a teenager, which means this was pre-internet, pre-email. He used pen and paper, and an envelope, and a stamp.

He showed us his letter before he mailed it off. I distinctly remember him writing that he was a long-term client, and their number-one juju fan. He explained that this was the largest juju purchase he had ever made, and that he was

terribly excited to try them out. But instead of the jujube company's regular high quality sweet offerings, something terrible had happened because when we opened the bag, we smelled something that reminded us of, well, poo.

To our dismay, when we tried to eat the product, we discovered that the taste was not that far off from poo either. He respectfully asked if they could please send a refund. He put the big bag of smelly, nasty tasting jujubes in a box and put the letter inside

it, and then shipped it off to the jujube manufacturing company. I remember wondering what good a letter to a big company would do. But within a few weeks we got a huge box in the mail. It was from the jujube company, and was easily doubled the size of the one my dad had

sent off. My dad excitedly opened the box and much to our amazement, we found ourselves looking at a box filled with every product the jujube company made, including a brand new giant bag of jujubes. There was also a letter from the company. They thanked us for being such loyal jujube customers and apologized for the jujubes that smelled and

tasted like poo. Amazing. And this time around, everything tasted exactly like it should have. We were so excited about what happened. And that story remains legendary in our family. This podcast is brought to you by the Selphip Success Lab. Are

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