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IELTS Cue Card # Sport

Sports are surely an integral part of our lives. No matter you love any kind of sport in particular or not, there are very few chances that you might not have played one. However, most people don’t take up sports seriously until its too late. Today ,in this cue card we will be talking about a sport that you would love to learn.

You should say:

  • What sport it is ?
  • How you would learn it?
  • How difficult you think it would be to learn?

and explain why you would like to learn this sport.

Sample Answer One

I have never been a very sporty person during my childhood but the one sport that I have always played has been badminton. Growing up, I do realize the importance of sports in life and would wish to learn badminton all over again.

The company that I am working in has badminton court in it and whenever I do get time I go out to the badminton court and play with my friends and sometimes even make new friends. What I have been told from people who actually play really well is that badminton is really about stamina and your strength of arm. So, the more stamina that you have and the more power you have in your arm, the better it is.

Listening to what people have to say about badminton, I think learning it won’t be a very difficult thing but yes, mastering it would surely be. So, definitely I would be able to play some shots here and there, but beating the best and improving myself would certainly be a task.

Badminton is that one sport, I believe is actually not bounded by any of the parameters like weather and location. One can have the court anywhere and then you can just go there and enjoy the game. Even more, one can even play it with oneself with wall, i.e. shadow practicing. It improves so much in an individual and so nicely that I really do wish to be able to play badminton well.

Sample Answer Two

If ever there has been a sport that I have admired and looked at it in wonder as to how can someone even do that it definitely has to be table tennis. It has always been a wonder to me as to how can someone hit the ball so hard and then be sure that it will not fall of the small court that table tennis has.

The locality that I live in has a table tennis court that allows you to play, if you have membership and I have recently taken its membership. Although, I have just started playing the game, there have been people who have come forward to help me and have been truly encouraging. Telling me to be focused and play the game, even though it seems tough. Although, I have not started playing well, but surely I have learnt to make sure that the ball falls inside the court and not out of it.

It does not seems very difficult now, although I was very much disappointed in the initial days. With practice I believe it will be easier for me to play but surely this game will require lot of practice. The best part about the game is that it is not only about hitting the ball, it is about having a strong concentration, so if you don’t have it the game is over. Even more, it is not about thinking about the previous ball, no matter how good or bad you have played the previous ball, it is all about playing the current one in the best possible way. This has truly been a life lesson and I would love to play the game more and grab up some more of life lessons.

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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Old Tech

The audio (old tech) has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English.

OLD TECH

You can download the audio from the following –

AUDIO

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. Which word refers to going back to style and fashion from past?
  2. What plastic is used to make records?
  3. What are the plastic cases with audio tape on reels inside them called?
  4. What is the one word for a new rise?
  5. How many records were sold in the UK in 2014?
  6. Which word describes thinking about past with a mixture of warm feelings and sadness?
  7. How does Jacqueline Springer refers to the cassette tapes?
  8. What is the plastic computer disk used for storing data called?

ANSWER

  1. retro
  2. Vinyl
  3. cassette tapes
  4. resurgence
  5. 1 million
  6. nostalgia
  7. audio love letters
  8. Floppy disk

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IELTS Cue Card Sample Answer # Speech

Describe a speech that someone delivered. You should say,

  • who delivered the speech
  • what was the topic of the speech

Why did you liked/disliked the speech

 

SAMPLE ANSWER
[PARA 1]

I have heard numerous speeches, lectures, and commentaries throughout my life, but the one speech that still gets better of me and teaches me so much was the speech of Steve Jobs at Stanford. I remember, googling something about Steve Jobs a few years back because I wanted to know about him and fumbled onto his speech. There have been some speeches that I have heard before and some motivational videos that have struck me but nothing was better than his speech.

[PARA 2]

It was the commencement speech of Stanford graduate students and Steve chose to tell three stories of his life. The stories of connecting dots,
speech

He talks of how we need to trust whatever our heart is saying and whatever is happening in the present, because no matter what, all these things will certainly do connect in the future and if we do it in the best way, it is going to stay with us for a longer period of time. And the fact that our all learning are going to get connected makes it possible to be able to just trust at whatever is happening in the present and move on with life.

[PARA 3]

The next story was about love and loss. He talks of how he got fired from his own company and then went on to find love and create new ventures and finally return back to his own company. He speaks of the fact that if you love what you do, life is going to be beautiful. The third story was about death. “If you live each day as if your last, someday it will be right.” And it is very powerful because when you know every day that you may die soon, is when you start living life like never before. Finally, when he closes his speech, he says, stays hungry stay foolish. And I think it is a very powerful message.

[PARA 4]

It was after that speech that I started closely following Steve Jobs and I realized that there is a lot that can be learned from him. The way he lived his life on his three philosophies and that helped him create a new history for the world. The reason that I loved the speech was that he was not talking about hard work and sacrifice and things that people get scared off. He was talking about simple plain things, love and loss. There was no reason not to understand him and whatever he said just struck me in my heart because it was so damn true.

 

What are the differences between a political speech and a speech given by a non-political person?

I think these days there seems to be a blurred line between both because even politicians give speeches where they talk of the benefits of the listener. But, on a very close notice, I would say a speech given by a political person has a lot of promises involved but the one by a non-political person tends to have a lot of examples of how things were done and how you might follow them.

What are the important aspects of a good speech?

I think a good speech is the one that strikes you in your heart and forms an impression that lasts forever. I remember listening to Barack Obama’s speech and it was so wow, that you felt so much connected to it. There was a great content that he had written but apart from that, the way he delivered the speech was beyond imagination. It was as if he was on a one to one conversation with the millions of people sitting over there. So, I think a good speech is not just great content but also the way the person delivers it.

What do you think makes a person a good speech giver?

A lot of practice makes someone perfect in anything and that is what I believe in. I think if there is someone who wants to really give good speech that he or she should practice a lot and when giving a speech it should not be that you are trying to tell someone something, so the focus shouldn’t be on making the other person listen but on making sure that you speak from the heart and when that happens, people do listen automatically.

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Three Parent Baby

THREE PARENT BABY

The audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. It talks about the concept of three parent baby.

You can download the audio from the below link –

AUDIO

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. The What is the chemical structure that defines somebody’s characteristics called? DNA
  2. Which word describes the situation in which something does not works?
  3. What is the science of how living creatures pass their characteristics to their offspring called?
  4. Which animal do the humans have their DNA similar to?
  5. The speaker speaks about the similarity between the DNA of humans and bananas. How much are they similar?
  6. The speaker uses a word to describe the technique never used in the past? Which phrase is it?
  7. What are the structures that work like energy factories in our cells called?
  8. What are the babies whose characteristics like height, sex, hair and eye color are created in order called?
  9. The speaker uses an expression to express that something is amazing. What is it?

ANSWERS

  1. DNA
  2. faulty
  3. Genetics
  4. monkeys
  5. 50%
  6. pioneering
  7. mitochondria
  8. designer babies
  9. mind-boggling

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