Describe a piece of equipment or tool you often use at home.
You should say:
- what is it
- how you use it
- why it is important to you
and explain how this piece of equipment works.
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Carrying a knife has been a time-honoured tradition for men throughout history. The Romans' invention of the folding pocket knife was a significant technological innovation in its day, making a knife safer to carry and easier to conceal. Even today, a knife remains an essential tool for everyday life.
But, I am certainly not going to talk about carrying a knife. But, rather, I want to talk about a knife – a pocket knife that is - that I use often at my home. By the way, I didn’t buy this knife on my own, but rather it was given to me by an Engineer cousin of mine.
It is about 6 inches long and has a metallic handle. I wouldn’t describe it as a heavy knife, but I wouldn’t call it lightweight either. In fact, I feel that the knife was made with a lot of consideration and plan behind it so that people could feel it and also use it easily. By the way, the blade of the knife is also curved with some unique but nice design so that at the first look, it doesn’t quite look like a real knife but just a souvenir for the purpose of home decoration home.
Anyway, this knife is an important tool since I can use it to do a lot of things. For example, I use it to cut tape, cut string, cut trailing threads on clothing, open boxes and packages, cut/strip wires, prepare food like fruits and vegetables, open mail/envelopes, open food packaging, cut paper in the absence of scissors, cut zip ties, and remove tags from new clothing. Sometimes, I use to unscrew nails also when I don’t have access to any screwdriver.
Anyway, this knife is rather simple to work with. All one needs is to pull its blade from inside the hiding place of its handle before using it. One would also need to run its blade across an object, instead of actually pushing it against the object, in order to cut it properly. However, its blade also requires sharpening on a regular basis for the knife to work properly.
