6.4 GETTING IT WRONG - Speaking task

I remember this assignment as one of the most shocking in all the Target Language V 's odyssey. This was the time we really started producing, you know? The speaking skill was put to the test, and almost all of us... failed. I felt bad for my speech. I hesitated in some parts, and I don't want to talk about the fluency, that was my biggest mistake...

A flight to nowhere

My dumbest mistake happened last year. My cousin's wedding was in Denver, and my boyfriend and I, who live in Phoenix, decided to make a trip out of it.
I planned everything carefully, fly to Las Vegas on Friday, spend the night there, then take a morning flight to Denver on Saturday. The wedding was at 4pm, and we would fly back home on Sunday. It all seemed like a perfect plan.

At first, everything went smoothly. We landed in Vegas on time, checked into our hotel, and had an amazing night out. The next morning, we arrived at the airport 2 hours early, grabbed coffee, and waited by the gate. At 10 and a half am, when our boarding time arrived, we realized something strange. There were no other passengers around. Confused, I checked my email and immediately felt my stomach drop.

I had booked a flight for the wrong date. Instead of Saturday morning, I had mistakenly reserved seats for the Sunday morning, the day after the wedding. In a panic, we ran to the airline counter, but there were no available flights to Denver until late evening.
By the time we finally arrived, the reception was already over.

My cousin laughed when she saw me. Great timing, she said, handing me a leftover cupcake. I spent months planning that trip, yet I managed to miss the entire wedding because of one tiny mistake. Never again will I book flights to triple check in the date.

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When I had to fulfill those spaces with the correct word (the bold ones), I was in trouble with a few of them, but not all, I must say that I did way better than the first audios that I did, and the reason of this is because my tongue was put in practice by me, I didn't stop, and I feel proud of it, but I can do better. I know that...

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