Childhood Memories Cue Card

Describe one of your childhood memories.
You should say:
what it is
when it happened
how it affected you in your life
and explain why you still remember it.
Follow-up Questions:
Why childhood is important?
How did you spend your childhood?
Who was your childhood hero? Did you want to be like him/her?
Tips for answering this cue card questions:
Start this cue card with a very brief of your childhood and how much you cherish
your childhood. Mention that you have lots of childhood experience and you would
like to talk about this particular one.
You can say one of the following positive experiences from your childhood:
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First day you went to your school.

A major ceremony where many people came and you enjoyed it thoroughly.
The first exam in your life.
A new place you went to visit with your parents.
First day you went to a museum, art show.
First time you won a sports/ quick competition.
First day you came to stay at your school boarding and left home.
First time you were successful to swim, ride a bicycle, car.
An outstanding performance in arts, music or exam.
If you want to talk about some negative experience or memory of your childhood
you can pick one of the following topics as well:
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One of your close relatives died and you were very sad.
You had to watch a devastating incidence that you still can't forget.
Your first experience of sinking in water, hit by car, falling from a building etc.
Your fight with your neighboring kids.
You had to leave your school and you felt very bad about that.
Sample Answer 1:
Childhood memories are strange things, because sometimes you cant quite be sure
if you really remember something, or if you just think you do because others have
told you about it, or you have seen a photo of the event later on. Im going to talk
to you about a memory that Im very confident is real. Ill tell you what it is, when it
happened, how it affected me and why I still remember it.
The memory is the earliest one I have of me and my Dad. I was very small indeed,
Im not exactly sure how old, but Id guess about three years old, maybe even
younger. My Dad was not a particularly tall or strong man, but I was small enough,
and by comparison, he was big enough then, for me to stand with both my feet on
one of his, and to reach up with my arms and cling onto his leg. I would then hang
on and laugh delightedly as he tried to go about his daily business, walking around
the house with me gripping on tightly refusing to be budged. It was a favourite
game.
I dont know that I can honestly say it affected me in my life. However, in my family
we dont really talk about things very much nor do a lot together. We dont live
particularly close to one another so see each other rather infrequently. I suppose
the way the incident affected me was by making me at a subconscious level feel
close to my Dad even years later as we had shared that happy play time together
when I was tiny.
I didnt know I had held onto this memory until quite recently. Sadly my Dad died,
he had been very ill for a long time, so it wasnt unexpected, but of course it was
very sad. I wanted to say something about him at his funeral, and I wanted to pick
a memory that was personal just to him and to me. For some reason that image of
me tiny and laughing and him solemnly pretending that he hadnt noticed I was
there came into my mind and it seemed very appropriate somehow to share that
one. It was a happy memory, but also an intimate one. I think he would have been
really pleased that I could recall it so many decades later.
So why can I remember it? Im not sure, but I like to think the memory was there
dormant all the time just waiting for the moment when I needed to retrieve it. It is a
comforting thing to recall. The human mind is an amazing thing!
Possible Answer 2:
I can still remember lots of thing I did in my childhood and things that happened
when I was a child. Sometimes those memories seem so lucid that it seems those
events occurred only few days back. Anyway, a childhood memory I can still
remember so clearly is the first time when I saw massive death. I was a kid of class
three or four then and one day I heard that there had been an accident near our
home. My mother asked me whether I want to go or not. I went with her and
speculated lots of thing about the accident but when I watched 10 dead people
were kept lying in the ground and among them there were 2 kids too, I was
devastated about the massive dead scene. I started feeling sick and started
vomiting there. My mother took me back to our home and I was ill for about two
days.
This memory was important to me because it helped me to think about the life in a
different way. I could realize then what the dead is and how fragile our lives are.
This memory helped me to grow faster and opened my eyes of vision.
Alternative Answer 3:
I was born in a beautiful urban area called ..... (say your birthplace name) and the
place was full of magic and wonder. I spent my whole childhood there and the place
is full with my childhood memories. Childhood is perhaps, the most magical and
beautiful time of our life and I cherish my childhood memory. The one particular
memory of my childhood I would never forget is the time I first saw the devastating
effect of accident. This event has a significant importance of my life.
Like most other newly school going kids, I wanted to be Superman or Spiderman.
The life was full of dreams and fantasy. One day I was walking with my mom and
heard from the neighbours that a severe accident has happened nearby. I was bit
confused what was it all about. Finally I and mom reached at the place where the
accident took place. We saw that people had made a crowd around the victims who
were already dead. I observed the dead for the first time in my life. We did not stay
there for a long. After returning home I felt sick. Later on I started realizing that our
lives are fragile and are not eternal. We all will die someday no matter what we
think we are. That event helped me growing up mentally. Not that I become
pessimist from the event, but a realization always knocked me. I started changing
some of my silly attitudes after the event. I started caring for my parents, relatives,
known and unknown people. I learned that our days are numbered and we've to
make best use of it. I was so deeply touched that I started praying everyday and
became kind to insects and animals. Some people might think that the event was
devastating for a kid, but to me, it revealed reality in front of me.
Part 3: Details Discussion:

Q. Why childhood is important?
Answer: As far as I'm concerned, childhood is the purest and happiest period of
human life without any concerns, stress and even cunning and wickedness. Every
child is carefree and two thing that matters to them are playing and enjoying. In
addition, as youngsters are fluid and flexible in the way they approach things,
everyone, especially parents, should spend constructive time with them because
this the period of life for learning and absorbing things in order to form their
character and personality. More precisely, longitudinal research has shown that a
person's successes, health and emotional wellbeing have their roots in early
childhood.
Childhood experiences define the way we behave and react in certain
circumstances in later stages in our life and our cognitive developments occur
faster at that time. Childhood is a magical stage in our life and has an immense
importance for the later stages of our life.
Q. How did you spend your childhood?
Answer: I spent my childhood by playing all the time and trying to avoid studying
but without any success. I had many friends and we used to gather and play in our
yards, especially hide and seek. I remember that I didn't like the fact that I always
got caught by my friends. When I was at home though, I did drawing, painting and
dancing most the time. So, I would say that I really enjoyed my childhood and the
most vivid thing that I still remember is my mother begging me to complete my
homework. My parents were so caring and loving and always loved to visit different
places with them.
Tip: You can say about your childhood by mentioning your hobbies, your school, siblings,
friends or even pleasant or unpleasant situations you had.
Q. Who was your childhood hero? Did you want to be like him/her?
Answer: When I was a child my hero was Superman. As I can remember, there was a
TV series called 'Smallville' and the leading character in this TV series was a
teenage boy whose name was Clark Kent. Clark was adopted and he had
superhuman powers and I was entirely surprised by that because he was saving
people all the time using those powers. But as a little kid, the thing that impressed
me the most was that he wasn't only saving good people but also bad one who tried
to hurt him and his beloved ones. Although he was my hero, I didn't want to be like
him but like his girlfriend, Lana Lang, you know this is natural for a girl of my age.
After this show I always wanted to have a superhero in my life and Superman was
an indispensable part of my early childhood.
Tip: Mention your own hero and describe him/her and his/her achievements. If you
didn't have any heroes, you can just say about common heroes such as Superman,
Batman, Spiderman or even your parents and relatives. Just tell the examiner the
reason why he or she was your hero and why you wanted to be like him/her.

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Describe one of your childhood memories.

You should say:

First day you went to your school.

Part 3: Details Discussion:

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