IELTS Cue Card

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  368 with Model Answer: Describe a moment when you felt proud of your friend’s success. You should say: what the friend achieved when it happened how your friend accomplished it and explain why you thought it was a success and felt proud. [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: We all feel happy and honoured about the success stories of our families and friends, whether they are big or small. But, some success stories make us even more proud because they are achieved under some trying circumstances. Today, I would like to talk about one such success, which was achieved by my friend about 4 years ago. Kim Lee, my college friend, always liked to maintain a “low” profile for as long as I had known him. So, when he told me one day that he would run for the post of a local “Councillor...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  367 with Model Answer: Describe a website you use that helps you a lot in your work or studies. You should say: what the website is how often you use this website what information the website gives you and explain how your work or studies would change if this website didn't exist. [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:  We should absolutely thank Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, for inventing the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. But, we should also be equally thankful to the websites like “youtube.com” which have made the efforts of people like Tim Berners-Lee even more revolutionizing and remarkable. But, here, I would like to talk about youtube.com, saving Mr Tim Berners for another time. Talking about youtube.com, it is one of the most popular video search en...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  366  with Model Answer: Describe a person who has interesting ideas or opinions. You should say: who this person is how you know this person what interesting ideas/opinions he/she gives and explain why you think that this person has interesting ideas/opinions. [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: We all have our own ideas and opinions. However, not all of us are interested to share them with others. But, some people are never afraid to share their ideas or opinions with others, be them normal or radical. Today, I would like to talk about one such person who never seemed to be short of any ideas or opinions! He seemed to be just a regular guy. I met him rather casually at a book shop when I was trying to buy a storybook for one of my little cousins. He started the conversa...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  365 with Model Answer: Describe a piece of clothing that you received as a gift. You should say: what it was when you received it who gave it to you and explain if this gift was important to you. [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: In my “not-so” short life, I have received several gifts from my family, friends and relatives, and all of them seemed to be special in one way or another. Today, I would like to talk about one such gift, a “pair of jeans”, which was important to me. Not sure, why people still call it a “pair of jeans” even though it is just one “piece of clothing”, but whatever we choose to call it, I really liked my jeans pants when my uncle offered it to me as a gift after graduating from my high school about 8 years ago. By the way, it was a rather unexpec...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  364 with Model Answer: Describe an experience when you lost something. You should say: what you lost how you lost it where you lost it and explain how you felt about it. [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: Nobody really likes to lose anything, especially if it is valuable. But, despite our best efforts, we do become careless sometimes and go through some frustrating experience of losing something. Today, I would like to talk about one such experience. Back in my university days, I always used to write with my fountain pen – a very nice looking and shiny black pen – which I got, as a valuable gift from one of my uncles, after graduating from high school. The pen had a nice and light golden colour pointy nib, and a very transparent plastic tube feed that connected the “rese...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card  363  with Model Answer: Describe a time when you were very happy. You should say: when it was what was the occasion who were with you and explain why you were happy about it. [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: Life is full of many happy events and occasions. Thankfully, I have also been blessed to experience some of these happy occasions in my short life, and this cue card topic offers me a perfect opportunity to revisit one such happy occasion today. Back in my high school days, about 10 years ago or so, I wasn’t exactly known to be a very “strong” young lad, compared to the other young boys of my age. So, when other schoolboys were busy, running and playing with each other in a field, I would just feel happy watching them from a safe distance most of the time. Somet...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 362 with Model Answer: Describe something you bought but did not use much. You should say: what it was where you bought it from why you bought it and explain why you didn’t use it that much. [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 don’t usually like to buy so many things unless I know for sure that I need them or will use them. But, there had been some occasions, when I have bought a few things, which eventually were left “unused” for the most part. Today, I would like to talk about one such item, which I didn’t use much, after buying it. It is a regular mobile phone which I bought about 2 years ago from a local electronics shop in my hometown. By the way, the smartphones were already in the markets at that time, but still, I chose to buy a regular phone, primarily because I wa...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 361 with Model Answer: Describe your experience of a stressful event. You should say: what the situation was what you did how other people might have behaved in this situation and explain how you felt about it later. [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 think we would hardly find a person who hasn’t gone through some stressful situations at some point in his or her life. I am no exception either, as I have also experienced a number of stressful events in life, and I am about to talk about one of them here today. It was on a fine August morning about 5 years ago, when I was about to go to my job, which I had just started a couple of months earlier. As it was my new job, I made it my habit to arrive at my office well ahead of the schedule. However, on that fine morning, I want...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 360 with Model Answer: Describe a tall building in your hometown that you like or dislike. You should say: where this building is what it looks like what it is used for and explain why you like or dislike it. [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:  There aren’t exactly too many tall buildings in my hometown, as far as I know, but there are a few of them which, I think, deserve some attention. Here, today, I would like to talk about one such tall building in my hometown which got my attention. The building is conveniently located at the heart of my hometown, close to a major intersection, which can be easily accessed from all directions. The building is 25 storeys tall, with a size of about 14,000 square feet on each floor, which is built with all kinds of modern building mater...

IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 359 with Model Answer: Describe an expensive hobby you can’t pursue daily. You should say: what it is why it is expensive why you wish to pursue it more regularly and explain when you are planning on doing it in the near future. [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: Although I like to consider “expensive” as a relative term, I do think that there is a thing called “expensive hobby”, simply because I am just not able to pursue them on a daily basis. Anyway, today, I would like to talk about one such expensive pastime activity that I really like but can't do on a daily basis. The name of this hobby is “flying”. Now, I am not sure how in the world I started to like this “expensive” hobby, but I guess it must have something to do with too much reading about the hobbies of celeb...