Describe a useful skill you learnt from another person. You should say: what the skill was who taught you how you learnt it and explain why the skill has been useful to you.

A surprisingly useful skill my sister taught me was how to cook without treating a recipe as a set of unbreakable rules. This happened when I had just moved into my own flat and realised that being able to heat something up was not quite the same as being able to feed myself. She chose a simple vegetable soup for our first lesson. We shopped together, then she stood beside me while I did the actual cooking. What I r…

The skill that comes to mind is cooking a few dependable meals. My sister taught me after I moved out of our family home. I had assumed I would somehow pick it up, but within a fortnight I was surviving on sandwiches and spending far too much on deliveries. She came over one Sunday with the ingredients for a vegetable soup. What made her approach helpful was that she did not take over. She had me do the chopping, ad…

I would like to describe learning to cook, which my older sister helped me with shortly after I moved into my first flat. Until then, I had relied on family meals, so living alone exposed a fairly obvious gap in my skills. My sister suggested starting with vegetable soup because it was inexpensive and difficult to ruin completely. We bought the ingredients together, and she explained the basic method rather than ask…

A useful skill I learnt was cooking simple meals. My older sister taught me when I moved into my first flat about two years ago. I had never cooked regularly before, and I was spending too much money on takeaway food. She visited me one weekend and showed me how to make vegetable soup. We went shopping together, and she explained which ingredients I needed. Back at home, she showed me how to cut the vegetables and t…

I want to talk about cooking. My sister teach me cooking when I moved to a flat. Before this I cannot cook much. I eat sandwiches and food from shops. My sister is good at cooking and she say I should learn. She came to my flat on a Sunday and showed me making soup. We buy carrots and potatoes and some beans. First she cut vegetables and then I cut some too. It was difficult because I was slow. She put everything in…