IELTS Cue Card

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card   501   with Model Answer: Describe a boat journey that you have ever taken. You should say: when it was where you went and why you used a boat for the journey who was with you and explain how you felt about this boat journey. [You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.] Model Answer 1: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say something about this interesting topic. Even though I haven’t had that many boat journeys in my life, whenever I had one, I always enjoyed it. Today, I would like to talk about one such boat journey that was, and still is, memorable for a number of reasons. Anyway, I had this boat journey about a couple of years ago during the rainy season when a couple of my distant cousins told me that they were planning to travel to a weekly open market on a boat to buy some stuff from the market....

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card   472   with Model Answer: Describe a journey in which you used public transport. You should say: what type of public transport you used when it was where you were travelling  and explain how you felt about this journey. [You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.] Model Answer 1: I do not have the luxury to use a private car or a private jet whenever I plan to travel because we neither own a car nor a jet! So public transport is our only means to commute or travel to a distant place. However, not all journeys on public transport are equally pleasant. Some are comfortable and I tend to remember such pleasant journeys. I would like to thank you for this nice topic and share one such delightful trip that I made on public transport - more specifically on a train. I took this journey with three of my friends arou...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card   464   with Model Answer: Describe a time when you made a journey by aeroplane or train. You should say: what type of journey it was when it was how was the journey and explain whether you liked it or not. [You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.] Sample Answer 1: Introduction: Travelling is an integral part of life and is necessary to explore new places, cultures and people. In my life, I have travelled by various modes of transportation, but the most memorable one was my journey to Mumbai by train. For this topic, I will be talking about this interesting and memorable train journey. What type of journey it was: It was a great journey. The journey was made by train, and it was from my hometown to Mumbai, which is about 1500 km away. The train was one of the fastest express trains, and it took around 24 hours ...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 287 with Model Answer: Describe a short journey that you disliked. You should say: where you went who you went with what you did and explain why you disliked this journey.   [You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you're going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.] Model Answer 1: A journey inside a city like Mumbai is often not so pleasant for a female commuter like me. Moreover, traffic congestion makes the journey dull and annoying. So, I often have to experience an unpleasant short journey within this city. For this topic, I would like to share one such experience - which was perhaps more bitter than others! A few months ago, when I was commuting to my university - located in the central part of Mumbai city - I took a bus. The bus I rode into was "overcrowded", and I could not manage to get a seat. It was during the summer season and ...