Describe a toy you liked in your childhood

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Describe a toy you liked in your childhood

You should say:

what kind of toy it was
when you received it
how you played with it
explain how you felt about it

Sample Answer

Toys? That’s going back a bit. If you mean the soft toys you get when you’re very small, I can’t remember them at all but I guess the one toy I had when I was a kid that stands out in my memory above all the others was this toy race track

I think I must have been 8 or 9 at the time. It was for my birthday, I know that. I remember it was wrapped up in gift wrapping paper and I carefully unwrapped it in front of them. The look on my face when I saw what it probably gave away how happy I was. It was in a big box and came complete with a set of four little brightly-coloured racing cars, though only two could race on the track at any one time. My parents weren’t the kind to lash out on expensive toys for me or to spoil me with too many treats, so this was something special for me.

It wasn’t really the kind of toy you can play with on your own. For a start, you have to set up the track, putting the straights and bends pieces together that make up the track, you could do in different ways in fact. So, I played mostly with my dad and sometimes with friends who came around. With my dad especially, we used to imagine each car was driven by one of the famous Formula I drivers of the day, and we would race as fast as possible using the simple remote to speed up and slow down.

I suppose in a way that it was a kind of learning tool in that it helped teach you hand–brain coordination through using the remote control and judging speed and handling the bends and so on. I mean, my parents always seemed to be giving me educational toys, a game which helped you with basic arithmetical calculations – that was when I was about 5 – a chess set a little later and lots of Legos to build up my construction skills and stretch my imagination too.

I loved playing with it, especially because it meant I could spend time, what do they call it these days. “quality time” with my dad because he was always busy at work during the week and maybe because he used to let me win the race most of the time. I was talking to my mother by phone the other day. She never throws anything out and told me it was still around somewhere and that she’d like to hand it down to her grandchildren one day.

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Describe a toy you liked in your childhood

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