Describe a time you were pleased with your mobile phone.

You should say:

when and where it was: last Saturday at home

who you were with: with my mother

what you needed your phone for: making calls

My mother is always as fit as a fiddle（非常健康）that is why she is always energetic in doing housework and in taking care of my father and me.

She gets sick once-in-a-blue-moon（极为罕见）that’s why we were worried when she was still in bed last Saturday morning.

She is an early bird（早起的人）, and when we wake up, breakfast is steaming（冒热气的）hot and ready, but that Saturday, dad and I were dumbfounded that she was still in bed.

When I came to check on her, she was down with flu so we told her to stay in bed and we would do just fine.

Father has a business so as much as he wanted to stay with mom, he couldn’t so I volunteered to skip work（翘班）and just call my colleagues whenever I needed to.

解析：

as fit as a fiddle非常健康

once-in-a-blue-moon极为罕见

early bird早起的人

check on sb. 看望某人

skip work翘班

skip class 逃课

I was pleased with my phone that time as I was able to give my boss a call to inform him about the situation and since he has a heart of gold, he understood it, and he just requested to check my phone often as he would call when he needed my assistance.

After a few hours, he made a call to ask me where I put his files for the meeting on Monday and I gladly told him where they were.

After he dropped the call（挂电话）, I called my assistant to get the files for the boss so that he would not have a hard time going to my office.

解析：

have a heart of gold 心地善良

dropped the call挂电话

make a call 打电话

My father also called several times to check my mother’s condition, and he was relieved that I was there with her. I was also glad to spend the time taking care of my mom, and it was some kind of payback（回报）time for the times she had cared for me when I was feeling under the weather（身体不适）.

解析：

under the weather（身体不适）

My phone kept ringing that whole day as my relatives called to inquire（询问）how mom was and a friendly neighbor as well called to ask if she could bring some soup to her and she did it in a few minutes. Also, my other colleagues made a call to ask how she was and then asked about work-related（与工作相关的）things. In this situation, I have appreciated the ease and benefit my phone brought me.

《英语口语训练课程》：使用手机的愉快经历（附原文）