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IELTS Speaking Task Cue Card: Describe a party that you enjoyed.

November 21, 2024 IELTS Research 11 comments

IELTS Speaking Task Cue Card:

Describe a party that you enjoyed.

What was it about?

Where was it held?

What did people do at the party?

Explain what you enjoyed at this party?

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Sample Answer

Life has given me a lot of happiness and moments to celebrate with my near and dear ones. I have celebrated many happy moments by hosting parties for someone and attending other people’s parties as well.

I have attended many parties on different occasions in my life but the most enjoyable one was a party that I held to mark my elder sisters twenty-fifth birthday. It was a surprise party that I planned with the help of my mother. It was on the twenty-fifth of September last year, and I had started to plan it two days before. After my sister left for work in the morning I started decorating our garden and installing the setup including the tables and chairs. My mother started baking her favourite chocolate cake while I called all her friends and our relatives to the party in the evening. I then proceeded to order snacks and appetizers along with the beverages for the evening. The celebrations finally commenced and all the guests had arrived before she came. We welcomed her with the birthday song and hugs from everyone.

We all had an amazing time at the party. Everybody socialized, we played party games, danced and had a lot of fun throughout the evening. The best part was the fact that everyone was happy with the celebration and there were smiles all around me. My sister got gifts from everyone and was all smiles when I gifted her a necklace. She was spellbound and thanked me profusely for organizing such an amazing party.

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Sample Answer 2:

Frankly speaking, I am not a party buff and usually attend only those parties wherein I know some people or there is something exciting going on. The party that I am going to talk about is the one I went to last year. It was my friend’s friend birthday bash and she invited all of us. Initially, I was fine with going there but later on my friend told me she could not come along and I almost cancelled my plan, when my friend’s friend actually called and invited me again to come.

Hesitantly, I said a yes and I would say that was the best yes I had ever said. The party was in Rishikesh, a tourist spot in Uttarakhand, India. It was a night party and there were campfires, music, dance, games and a lot of interesting people. To my surprise, Anusha i.e. my friend’s friend knew a lot of people and had invited them all. And I met and talked to many interesting people that I might otherwise never have come across! This included the self-employed interior designers; marathon runners; entrepreneurs, and writers. It was exciting to talk to them and find out how they are connected with the host.

Not only were the people great, but the food and other services were also fantastic. There were stalls of different kinds and one could eat whatever they wished. And it was really tasty food too!!

What’s more, I discovered that actually, I did know quite a few people there after all. I am almost won over. Next time she offers to host a party, I might even find myself looking forward to it, you never know.

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Academic Writing Task: business meetings are being conducted online rather than person to person.

November 12, 2024 IELTS Research

Academic Writing Task-1
Question: More business meetings are being conducted online rather than person to person. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

Sample Answer:

There is no denying the fact that technology has completely upended our lives. We live in a world where more people communicate with each other via technology than person to person. And business meetings are not immune to this trend. This has both positive and negative aspects, and I will discuss them in the subsequent paragraphs with relevant examples.
To begin with, there are many benefits of exploiting technology to its fullest and people around the world have benefitted tremendously from such modern marvels. Firstly, people can work from anywhere around the world and do not need to be physically present at a particular place. During a meeting they can share the updates and review the data at the click of the button. Secondly, it is of particular significance to people who are unable to travel to office like sick people and pregnant women. Thirdly, it has been found that people are more productive and participate in online meetings more enthusiastically as typically these meetings involve people from higher management. For example, a company I used to work for would have the General Manager among the audience most of the times. As he was based abroad and would rarely visit our office, online meetings made it possible to get in touch with him directly and to keep him in the loop.
There are many disadvantages, however, of online meetings as well. Many people claim that they are unable to present their views adequately, and find it bit inconvenient to meet online. They miss the human touch and the camaraderie between the employees when they choose to meet virtually. Moreover, meetings are not only about business but it also develops a sense of community among the employees. With this significant part missing from their work life, they tend to drift apart from their colleagues.
While I believe technology is the way forward and we cannot shun it altogether, meeting online should be an option we should use sparingly. Completely abandoning meeting in person and using only technology would perhaps not have the desired consequences on either the employees or the company in the long run. (354 words)

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IELTS CUE CARD – Talk about an animal you like

November 6, 2024 IELTS Research

IELTS CUE CARD : Talk about an animal you like

You should say:

What this animal is

What is special about this animal?

How it looks like

And explain why you like this animal.

Sample Answer

Animals are eclectic creatures; they go all the way from the very friendly and domesticated to the lethal and feral. They come in a manner of shapes, sizes and colours. Even animals of a single species are incomparable to their counterparts due to the sheer number of differences.

Today I will talk about one of my all-time favourite animals; the horse. Now, again, horses come in all sorts of combinations. Shetland ponies have a stockier body, round shape, thick fur, and short stubby legs, they are not all that much used in athletic pursuits. Now Arabian Horses, on the other hand, are taller, sleekly built with light bones, used exclusively for racing. Now both of these are scientifically speaking horses, but are oh so different in appearance, nature and purpose.

Although despite the physical dissimilarity, all horses have some things in common which earn them the top spots among my favourite animals. For one, their movements. Whenever a horse moves, I can’t help but admire the powerful muscles bulging and gliding beneath their coats, the sheer potential power they have in each step is breathtaking. The way they move is more elegant than most humans can ever hope to achieve. Their might is undeniable. For another, they are loyal, intelligent, and empathetic creatures. The bonds that a rider and horse may form is second to none. The care they give to their young is much alike to the way humans interact with their parents. I find this incredibly heartwarming.

Additionally, horses are really fun to draw, be it in action poses or just dramatically standing on the edge of a cliff, they give a great perspective on autonomy along with spicing the image up with their natural dramatic flair. A great example of this is in the painting done by George Stubbs named “Whistlejacket”, the painting has absolutely no background, and yet you can feel the power radiating outward from that piece. It was one of my very first case studies on how to draw horses.

Speaking part 3 follow up questions:

Q.1 Do people in your country keep animals at home?

Animals like cows, buffaloes and goats are domesticated widely in the countryside. In fact, livestock rearing provides sustainable livelihoods to millions of people living in rural areas.

Q.2 Do you think pets are important?

Yes, certainly. Pets can bring love and companionship into our life. Many studies have shown that keeping pets reduces our stress levels, thereby improving our health and well-being.

Q.3 Do animals have rights?

Humans use animals for food and related by-products, farming and a variety of other uses. Everyday millions of different types of animals are killed for food globally. Just by looking at these figures, I’d say that these creatures should at least have the right to live. But, who cares? Laws are made for protecting animals but they don’t work in reality.

Useful words and their meanings
Eclectic	consisting of different types, methods, styles, etc.
Feral	A feral animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated specimens.
Autonomy	the right of an organization, country, or region to be independent and govern itself
Livestock rearing	raising of animals for use or for pleasure

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IELTS Essay: Computers will be more intelligent than human beings

October 30, 2024 IELTS Research

WRITING TASK 2 Computers will be more intelligent than human beings

You should spend 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic:

Some scientists believe that very soon computers will be more intelligent than human beings. Some people think that this will be a positive development, while others worry it will have negative effects.

What are your opinions on this?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

Sample Answer:

Human civilization has developed at a staggering pace in the last century. We went from not having sliced bread to being on the path to having supercomputers more powerful than we can comprehend. There is indeed a common presumptuous notion out there; that one-day computers might become ‘more intelligent than human beings’.

The amount of ignorance this specific thought conveys leaves me quite inarticulate. Firstly, computers are digital, brains are analogue. There is no conceivable way to compare these two. Computers are highly logical machines designed to perform tasks; humans are essentially a tangled mass of neurons behaving in an unpredictable manner, which births thoughts, emotions and ideas. Their core functions are polar opposites.

The issue that must be addressed is the highly misdirecting role of movies and entertainment media in presenting Artificial Intelligence as ‘self-sufficient’ and ‘intelligent’ in the manner of independent thought processing. One cannot press this enough; but machines will never aim for world domination. They have been created for one purpose and one purpose only, to aid humanity.

The world’s fastest computer averages out at 200 petaflops, the human brain has been estimated to run at one exaflop. The difference between them is akin to the earth and sky. Nonetheless, I do not doubt the gap will be closed within the next decade. However, this will just mean that supercomputers will be more efficient at the analysis tasks they perform, this will not mean that they will spontaneously decide to sprout a conscience and destroy the world in the blink of an eye. This idea is so ridiculous it has passed the point of comedic hilarity into plain oblivion and beyond even idiosyncrasy.

I refuse to even acknowledge such a possibility. Computers becoming more efficient than human processing power would be a leap in the fields of data analysis, weather prediction, space calculation, molecular modeling, natural resource exploration, etc. There is absolutely no cause for worry, fear or panic. Only further awareness on the true nature of computers and the fictionality of popular media tropes.

In conclusion, it is inevitable that computers will become more efficient. There are very little drawbacks to this save for initial job losses, the positives outweigh the negatives in all formulate-able aspects.

Staggering	very shocking and surprising
Comprehend	to understand something completely
Presumptuous	Showing little respect for others by doing things they have no right to do
Notion	a belief or idea
Inarticulate	unable to express feelings or ideas clearly, or expressed in a way that is difficult to understand
Conceivable	possible to imagine or to believe
Misdirecting	to use something in a way that is not right or legal
Petaflops	a unit of computing speed equal to one thousand million million (10¹⁵) floating-point operations per second.
Exaflop	a billion billion calculations per second (10¹⁸)
Comedic	relating to or involving comedy
Hilarity	a situation in which people laugh very loudly and think something is very funny
Oblivion	the state of being completely forgotten
Idiosyncrasy	a strange or unusual habit, way of behaving, or feature that someone or something has
Media tropes	something such as an idea, phrase, or image that is often used by the media
Fictionality	the quality of being fictional (= imaginary)
Inevitable	Certain to happen