CUE CARD -DESCRIBE A HOUSE OR APARTMENT YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN

Speaking -Part 2 (Cue Card) DESCRIBE A HOUSE OR APARTMENT YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN

You should say:

  • What is it like?
  • Where would it be?
  • Why would you like to live in this house/apartment?
  • How do you feel about this house/apartment?
Sample Answer

Home is where the heart is and having a own house is on the top of my bucket list. Ideally, I don’t fantasize about living in a house that is too spacious. Rather, I’d love to reside in an abode that allows me to have my peace of mind all day long.

Firstly, it will be a one-storied bungalow inspired by the design of the Victorian Era. I want my house to be on the slap bang of the city, surrounded by nature. The covered area should be 2000 sq. Ft and it would have 5 rooms with one master bedroom. Every room would have a balcony from where beautiful views of snow- covered mountains is visible. There should be enough empty space around so that I can have a perfect view of the mesmerizing surroundings.

Apart from this, I am really desiring that my house should be loaded with all sorts of mod cons. Including, a gym, a gigantic pool, a game Centre with a home theatre with recliners and a table tennis table to help me enjoy my time during my free time. At the top of it, I really desire a large L- shaped kitchen with a glass cabinet, dishwasher and a 12- seater dining table. Finally, in the open space there should be separate parking slots for the 4 wheelers.

I would love to reside in this apartment because it will be filled with all the comforts anyone could dream of. Besides, it would allow me to stay close to nature and far away from hustle and bustle of city.

 

 

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 house or a apartment you like to live in.”

Q1. Do most Indian People live in an apartment or a house?

Answer. I reckon most of the Indians Choose the house they reside in by considering the city or town they want to build their house in. For example, in big cities, people live in high rise buildings due to scarcity of land. Viz a viz in small cities or towns most of the people prefer living in detached houses rather than apartments.

Q2. Do young people in your country like to live with their parents or by themselves?

Answer. Mostly the younger generation in my country prefer to live with their parents as they provide constant support and guidance for their child. They do move out of their homes in situations where they have to pursue higher studies or if they have better career prospects outside in some other city or country.

Word Meaning Example
Mesmarizing Something that catches or holds your attention. She had the most mesmerizing blue eyes.
Gigantic Extremely large or huge. Gigantic waves were crashing on the beach.
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IELTS Reading Vocabulary # Katherine Johnson

SOURCE : NASA

Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1918, Katherine Johnson’s intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By thirteen, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At eighteen, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics. Katherine graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.

When West Virginia decided to quietly integrate its graduate schools in 1939, West Virginia State’s president Dr. John W. Davis selected Katherine and two male students as the first black students to be offered spots at the state’s flagship school, West Virginia University. Katherine left her teaching job, and enrolled in the graduate math program. At the end of the first session, however, she decided to leave school to start a family with her husband.

She returned to teaching when her three daughters got older, but it wasn’t until 1952 that a relative told her about open positions at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory, headed by fellow West Virginian Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine and her husband, James Goble, decided to move the family to Newport News to pursue the opportunity, and Katherine began work at Langley in the summer of 1953. Just two weeks into Katherine’s tenure in the office, Dorothy Vaughan assigned her to a project in the Maneuver Loads Branch of the Flight Research Division, and Katherine’s temporary position soon became permanent. She spent the next four years analyzing data from flight test, and worked on the investigation of a plane crash caused by wake turbulence. As she was wrapping up this work her husband died of cancer in December 1956.

The 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik changed history—and Katherine Johnson’s life. In 1957, Katherine provided some of the math for the 1958 document Notes on Space Technology, a compendium of a series of 1958 lectures given by engineers in the Flight Research Division and the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD). Engineers from those groups formed the core of the Space Task Group, the NACA’s first official foray into space travel, and Katherine, who had worked with many of them since coming to Langley, “came along with the program” as the NACA became NASA later that year. She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s May 1961 mission Freedom 7, America’s first human spaceflight. In 1960, she and engineer Ted Skopinski coauthoredDetermination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position, a report laying out the equations describing an orbital spaceflight in which the landing position of the spacecraft is specified. It was the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report.

In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon to do the work that she would become most known for. The complexity of the orbital flight had required the construction of a worldwide communications network, linking tracking stations around the world to IBM computers in Washington, DC, Cape Canaveral, and Bermuda. The computers had been programmed with the orbital equations that would control the trajectory of the capsule in Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, from blast off to splashdown, but the astronauts were wary of putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts.

As a part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked engineers to “get the girl”—Katherine Johnson—to run the same numbers through the same equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand, on her desktop mechanical calculating machine.  “If she says they’re good,’” Katherine Johnson remembers the astronaut saying, “then I’m ready to go.” Glenn’s flight was a success, and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space.

When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Katherine Johnson talks about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. She also worked on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Satellite, and authored or coauthored 26 research reports. She retired in 1986, after thirty-three years at Langley. “I loved going to work every single day,” she says. In 2015, at age 97, Katherine Johnson added another extraordinary achievement to her long list: President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor.

WORDMEANING
handpickedselect carefully with a particular purpose in mind.
breakthroughsa sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.
remarkableworthy of attention; striking.
curiositya strong desire to know or learn something.
brillianceintense brightness of light.
vaultedprovide (a building or room) with an arched roof or roofs.
historicallywith reference to past events.
curriculumthe subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college.
mentoran experienced and trusted adviser.
enrolledofficially register as a member of an institution or a student on a course.
analyzingexamine (something) methodically and in detail, typically in order to explain and interpret it.
turbulenceviolent or unsteady movement of air or water, or of some other fluid.
compendiuma collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject, especially in a book or other publication.
foraya sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something; a raid.
trajectorythe path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
orbitalrelating to an orbit or orbits.
spaceflighta journey through space.
researchthe systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
complexitythe state or quality of being intricate or complicated.
worldwideextending or reaching throughout the world.
communicationsthe imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
networka group or system of interconnected people or things.
hiccupsan involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs, with a sudden closure of the glottis and a characteristic gulping sound.
blackoutsa period when all lights must be turned out or covered to prevent them being seen by the enemy during an air raid.
authoredbe the author of (a book or piece of writing).
extraordinaryvery unusual or remarkable.
civiliana person not in the armed services or the police force.
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CUE CARD -Describe something you picked up after someone else threw it

Speaking -Part 2 (Cue Card) Describe something you picked up after someone else threw it

You should say:

  • Where was it?
  • What was it?
  • Why did you pick up?
  • How did you feel to pick it up?
Sample Answer

In our warehouse, I came across an old ceramic pot. The scrapper comes every last Sunday of the month, and my father was selling some scraps to him. I was assisting my dad in clearing out the unwanted items from our storage area. From there, we were removing a number of damaged and useless objects. As I was clearing, I noticed a pot that was in horrible state resting amid the garbage.

I took it to my father after picking it up. He informed me that his grandfather purchased it, to store pickles, but it is now useless. I asked to keep it with me, and he granted my request. I had to clean it a lot because it was in the worst possible state. I succeeded after giving it succeeded after giving it multiple soap and water washes. The pot was a stunning specimen of old art, with its dark tone and finely painted designs.

My father looked at it for a long time and grinned when I showed it to him. He claimed it brought back memories of his granddad. In my room, I utilized it as a flower planter. The family’s collective gasp at the exquisite conversion of a shred into a gorgeous pot was shared by all. It’s my favourite pot out of all of them, and I still have it in my room. It’s really family oriented, thus I will always keep it in my room.

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 something you picked up after someone else threw it.”

Q1. Do you think a small action contributed to building a positive environment?

Answer. Of course, every little step leads to a change.  Just by substituting plastic with jute bags, switching to eco- friendly products all these small actions can help to sustain a healthy life, eventually leading to a better environment.

Q2. Why people throw things intentionally?

Answer. Well, it has now become a common habit among people to litter everywhere they might not do it intentionally but I personally, believe some people have become habitual of doing it.

Word Meaning Example
Exquisite Beautiful The party had exquisite decoration which captivated everyone.
Amid In the middle of, among It was hard to hear amid all the cheering.
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CUE CARD – DESCRIBE A DAILY ROUTINE THAT YOU ENJOY?

Speaking -Part 2 (Cue Card)

You should say:

  • What is it?
  • Where and when you do it?
  • What do you do with it?
  • Explain why you enjoy it?
Sample Answer

Routine helps every individual to keep themselves organized and active all day long. What is more, a daily schedule aids in managing time effectively and being productive. I’m going to talk about a routine that I am very particular of. I start my day with a morning walk, followed by hitting the gym for around an hour and lastly meeting my friends.

There is a huge open garden in close vicinity of my house where I usually prefer to go for a morning walk, as it is in the midst, surrounded by tress all over and vibrant flowers that add to the aesthetic beauty of the place. Another reason is newly constructed walking tracks.

Besides this, on weekends I usually play games with my friends such as cricket and football and I do my exercise myself. However, once in a blue moon, one of my best friends who is also my neighbor accompanies me.

Furthermore, as I am extremely conscious about my health, I believe in maintaining a perfect balance in mental well-being as well as physical health. So, along with exercise, I tend to eat a balanced diet and socialize with my friends.

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 DAILY ROUTINE THAT YOU ENJOY?’

Q1. Should children have learning routines?

Ans. In my opinion, Children will feel more secure if they are taught to follow familiar activities. If they have predictable routines in learning they will feel more assured. Though it might be challenging to achieve in daily life, they will find marked improvements.

Q2. What daily routine do people have at home?

Ans. Well, there are numerous routines that are followed by different individuals on a daily basis. These may Include waking up early, having meals at a set time, hitting the gym, doing yoga, buying groceries, going out for a walk during the evening hours and much more. It may vary for every individual as to what type of routine they want to stick to.

Q3. How do people’s routine differ on weekdays and weekends?

Ans. Generally, on weekdays people have a tight schedule due to their work and hence, these days are preplanned whereas, weekends are time to relax, and people spend it in a way that helps them to relax such as watching movies, listening to music and much more.

 

Meaning Example
Socialize To spend time with friends or with other people when you are not working in order to enjoy. She enjoys socializing with her coworkers.
Crucial Something extremely important Vitamins are crucial for maintaining good  Health.
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