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This lesson explains how to answer the part. It is not a timed practice set. A short spoken story: when and where, what happened, and why it still matters.
One sentence that sets the scene. The listener should know the setting immediately.
The event itself, with one or two specific details a rater can follow.
A present-tense link: what you still do, still think, or still feel because of it.
One line that names the takeaway. Don't open a new memory.
Prompt
Talk about a time someone in a new city helped you. What happened, and why do you still think about it?
Model
Two winters ago I moved to Winnipeg from Vancouver, and the first January is still the experience I think about. I'd been warned about the cold, but I hadn't planned for how early it got dark. One Tuesday I waited for a bus at Portage and Main with my scarf over my face, and a stranger in a parka tapped my arm and pointed at the underground walkway I'd been standing three metres from. I followed him down and the wind just stopped. I still take that walkway, and I still pack a backup pair of gloves from November to March. The cold wasn't the lesson. The lesson was that people here assume you'll need a hand, and they give it without a speech. That's why a small kindness in a new city still sits with me.
Why it works
No time or place, so the story floats.
Listing events with no 'why it still matters'.
Starting a second story in the last ten seconds.