Category: Cue Card

IELTS Speaking Task Cue Card:

Describe a teacher who has influenced you in your education.

• Where you met him/ her?
• What subject s/he taught?
• What was special about him/her?

And explain why this person influenced you so much.

Sample Answer 1:

My school life was perhaps the golden period of my childhood, and I am thankful for the wonderful experience it was. My teachers were highly qualified people, who were great at what they did. I admire and respect them for the way she helped me shape my life. I would like to mention one teacher in particular, Mrs. Uma. She was our class teacher for the seventh grade and taught us computer science.

I remember Mrs. Uma teaching us computer science during those years in my school. We were lucky to have her as our teacher as she had a great way of teaching. She was a very humble and down to earth person who taught us in an interactive manner to make the subject enjoyable. We always paid attention in class and never felt bored as she used to carry out small games and narrate interesting incidents in between the class.

Sometimes, she used to cancel the class and take us out to the lawns and gave us important life lessons that helped us inculcate many moral values. She made a lot of effort, going out of the way to help us grasp the intricacies of the subject. The way she gave individual attention to all the students, urged us to put more effort into our studies. She was a patient listener and always asked the students to approach her for any sort of problems that we might face even apart from studies. I used to stay back after school to take extra classes from her and she dedicatedly used to help me with the studies. She is a very noble person and I thank her for having such a positive influence on me.

(310 words)

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Sample Answer 2:

Teachers play a very important role in moulding the lives of a child. I consider myself lucky to get several good teachers throughout my academic years. One of the teachers was, Mr Swatantra Gupta. He was our English and social science teacher in class VII and taught us English in subsequent classes. He was a really good mentor and guided all of us in the right direction.

Initially, we thought that he does not know how to teach but later on, I realised that not only was his way of teaching unique, it was also effective. In the social science class, he used to make everyone stand up and speak out the lesson. We thought, maybe he is lazy enough not to speak for himself, but after few months we realised that it was because of him that our pronunciation and style of speaking had improved.

He used to particularly make me stand up and ask me to read the entire lesson. It was tiring but at the same time, very exciting. He even pushed to take part in different competitions and plays and suggested my name to the principal for the district debate competition.

I think it was his faith in me that I actually started working on my strengths and become more confident.

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IELTS SPEAKING TASK CUE CARD

Describe an old person you met who has inspired you.

• Who this person is?
• Where and under what circumstances did you meet him/her?
• What quality about him/her inspired you?

And explain the person’s attitude towards you.

SAMPLE ANSWER-

In my life, I have met many elderly people. Here I would like to talk about an old lady I came in contact with while volunteering at an old age home in my city. During summer break in my school days, me and my friends decided to offer our services at an old age home as we spent our evenings helping the residents there. It was at this old age home that I came across Mrs. Dsuza whose positive approach towards life really inspired me.

One evening, all the senior citizens were narrating their stories about how they ended up at that place. Mrs. Dsuza also unfolded her story. The fact which impressed me about her the most was the way in which she was praising her son and daughter-in-law even after they left her at such a tender age. After hearing her story, I felt extremely sympathetic to her.

She had a joyful and generous nature. We learned about the betrayal she has gone through from her own blood but still she didn’t speak a word against him. Her son promised to take her back within a few days but never turned back. Any person would have cursed if their son had done that but this old lady already forgave her son.

As I have told earlier, this lady was very generous and kind- hearted, she treated me like her own grandchild. As all the residents had access to the kitchen, Mrs. Dsuza used to prepare meal for us. Neglected by her own, she built a family for herself with her unconditional love and care.

(266 words)

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8439000087

7055710003

7055710004

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Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

9634777700

7249900007

IELTS Band 7 Saharanpur
Parsvnath Plaza, Saharanpur

email: info at ieltsband7.com

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IELTS SPEAKING CUE CARD

Describe an occasion when the vehicle you were traveling in broke down

• When was it?
• Where did it happen?
• Who was with you?

And explain how you got it fixed.

SAMPLE ANSWER-

Cars are the most comfortable and convenient mode of travelling. Its relaxing to travel by a car till time its working smoothly. But it really annoys when you’re excited about something and it does not turn out as per your expectations. This cue card reminds me of a road-trip me and my cousins had planned. We all were extremely excited as at last we were able to execute our plan for a trip to Nanital, which is an aesthetic hill-station on the foothills of Uttarakhand.

When we headed for our trip, we made sure that our car is in perfect condition in terms of fuel, air and other equipment that were required. As soon as we crossed our city, we heard a loud noise. Initially, we ignored but later a passerby informed us about the punctured tyre of our car. We all were flustered as none of us knew how to replace a flat tyre and unfortunately we couldn’t locate a mechanic nearby.

As I told earlier, I was with few of my cousins and it was our first road trip. We made a mistake of taking a shorter route due to which we were not able to find immediate help. Since we were allowed on this trip after a lot of requests from our elders, everyone was anxious about informing our parents.

By good luck, a car came by which was heading towards the same destination. The family in that car helped us in changing the tyre. It was so sweet of them to help us in such a situation. After this experience we decided to take rest at a nearby place as we all were exhausted before continuing our trip.

(282 Words).

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8439000086

8439000087

7055710003

7055710004

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Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

9634777700

7249900007

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Parsvnath Plaza, Saharanpur

email: info at ieltsband7.com

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IELTS SPEAKING TASK# CUE CARD

Talk about an instance when you were cheated, or somebody lied to you, or didn’t tell you the complete truth.

• Who did it?
• What was the situation?
• What did he/she hide?

And explain why you think he/she did not tell the truth

SAMPLE ANSWER-

Being betrayed by a friend whom you trust with your life, hurts the most. The pain lasts longer when the betrayer happens to be your closest friend. I would like to share my experience about how a friend stabbed me at my back.

It was around a year ago, when my close friend Sam asked me to lend my laptop to him. I was completely aware of his careless nature, but being his close friend I could not turn down his request. He needed my laptop to complete his pending assignments as his own laptop broke down. He assured me to keep it safe and return it back as soon as he had finished his college assignments.

I waited for 2 weeks, for Sam to give back my laptop. I felt suspicious when he starting giving lame excuses for returning it. He even stopped taking my calls when I decided to visit him to get back my belonging and he confessed that he took it to his college but misplaced it there. Due to his negligence, he forgot my laptop at his class and later when he came back for it, he was not able to find it.

He was lying to me this whole time, and I felt extremely deceived when I learned about the entire truth. He was afraid to tell me the reality as it could affect our friendship. But I’d have accepted his apology if he had told me about it in the first place without giving excuses. I forgave him later as he was very guilty for his irresponsible behavior.

(265 Words)

TIP –

I’d-  Use Third conditional verbs for high IELTS score.

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8439000086

8439000087

7055710003

7055710004

IELTS Band 7 Dehradun
Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

9634777700

7249900007

IELTS Band 7 Saharanpur
Parsvnath Plaza, Saharanpur

email: info at ieltsband7.com

IELTS online simulator