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New Cue Card - Handmade Gift

 Describe a handmade gift you gave to a friend or a relative.

You should say:

  • what the gift was
  • who you gave it to and when
  • how you made it by hand

Explain why you gave a handmade gift to this friend or relative.


BAWA IELTS Ferozepur has written this task using its own language. We have considered plagiarism policy. It is thoroughly checked using the iThenticate check mechanism. We have not violated the intellectual property rights of any website. 


Gifts play an imperative role in everyone's life since they bring happiness and joyful moments. Gifts can either be machine-made or sometimes handmade. Here, I would like to talk about a handmade gift that I presented to my uncle last December. 


  • What the gift was?


It was Jaggary which is a type of unrefined sugar, highly consumed in India and Southeast Asia. I prepared this sweet item at home, and it was purely handmade. 


  • Who did you give it to and When?


I presented this handmade item to my paternal uncle who resides in the USA. I gifted it last year since he visited us at that time. And jaggery made up of clarified butter is his favourite. 


  • How did you make it by hand?


I love to make a number of handmade items, and when it comes to making jaggery, the process is simple. 


First of all, I extracted the sugarcane juice by visiting the nearest crushing machine shop. By doing so, I got the sugarcane juice. 


Secondly, I boiled the juice at home to remove any impurities. Moreover, I did not add any bleaching or purifying agent. I added homemade clarified butter to the whole mixture to make it suitable to taste in winter. 


Besides this, I also added chopped dry fruits named cashews, walnuts, peanuts and almonds along with caraway seeds and ginger powder. 


Then, I transferred the boiled juice which was thick at that time to a large container after its filtration with a limestone filter where it cooled down, and then I cut it into rectangular small pieces. 


Explain why you gave a handmade gift to this friend or relative.


I gifted jaggery to my uncle owing to a number o benefits:


  1. To begin with, jaggery is the best sweet that acts as a natural cleansing agent and keeps the respiratory tract and the lungs clean. 


  1. Moreover, my uncle has low immunity and this is the best sweet that helps in boosting immunity against various infections. 





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