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CUE CARD -Describe a time when you organized a happy event successfully.

December 3, 2022 IELTS Research

Speaking -Part 2 (Cue Card)

Describe a time when you organized a happy event successfully.
You should say:

What the event was ?

How you prepared for it ?

Who helped you to organize it ?

And explain why you think it was a successful event ?

Sample Answer

I think celebrations provide us a great opportunity to spend some good quality time together with our loved ones in a busy world. Today, I would like to talk about one such joyful event, which I organized successfully. The event was my parents twenty- fifth marriage anniversary.

Since, it was a silver jubilee for them, I decided to keep it more intimate, rather than celebrating it on a huge scale with all the relatives and friends. The party included only, me, my younger brother, and my parents. I started preparations for it a week before the big day, by placing an order for the chocolate ruffle cake, as it is my mother’s favorite, along with some other snacks, and soft drinks. Thereafter, I went to the nearest street market and shopped for some basic home decor items. I also purchased a beautiful red Kanchivaram sari from a famous south Indian store, that I lined with a simple gold chain and golden bangles, for my mother. While, for my father, I bought a simple red kurta with a Titan watch.

My younger brother helped me a lot with the decoration part. He adorned the room with the colorful LED lighting, put some balloons and painted the room mauve. Furthermore, he placed an order for the food, which mainly consisted of everything my parents love to eat.

I believe, it was a successful event because, my parents got quite emotional, and hugged me for putting up everything so well. My father was really happy as he was not expecting something like this so well planned and, he really loved the gift as well. We clicked a lot of pictures together and recalling the day still brings back a lot of good memories.So, overall this was the time when I organized a happy event successfully.

Speaking -Part 3 (Follow up questions)
Here are some examples of follow up questions that examiner may ask during your speaking (part 3) related to cue card ‘Describe a time when you organized a happy event successfully.’.

Q1.How can parents help children to be organized ?
Parents can help children become organized from a very young age, provided they pay attention to their children. They can create a time table for their children, which would help the child in having a more organized day, as, each task will be assigned some fixed duration, thereby, making it mandatory for the child to achieve his daily targets, not to mention that it would be contributing significantly to the overall development of the child.

Q2. Do people need others help when organizing things?
I think it is more of an individual choice. Some people like to take charge of things on their own, rather than asking for help from others for the same. These are generally the perfectionists, as they want everything to be well organized. On the other hand, there are individuals who do not shy away from asking help from others, as, they may like to include everyone’s ideas, and take opinions from everyone else, so as to make the best out of it.