IELTS Cue Card Archives - Page 17 of 27

Cue Card Describe a time when you told your friend an important truth

June 19, 2021 IELTS Research

Cue Card # Describe a time when you told your friend an important truth

Describe a time when you told your friend an important truth
– Who your friend is?
– What the truth was
– What your friend’s reaction was
– And explain why it was important for you to tell the truth to your friend

Sample Answer

I believe a lie spoken for someone’s benefit is better than truth. So, telling a lie momentarily for someone’s good is not a bad thing in my point of view. To the best of my recollection, today I want to talk about a time when I had to hide a bitter truth from my friend. His name is Mukul, one of my closest friend and I love spending time with him, sharing my happiness and sorrows. Last year, we were appearing for UPSC exam. As he was a very bright student since his childhood, he did all his best to crack this exam, studied 14 hours every day with full concentration and dedication.
Everything was proceeding as planned before the exam. We stayed up late together, working for final revision and solving all the questions that might appear in exams. Then just before the final day of the exam I accidentally picked up his phone while he went outside to get some fresh air.
The call was from his aunty. It was a pickle situation as his father was hospitalized due to heart attack. But somehow, I accumulated
my thoughts and told his aunty about the exams and explained everything. The only thing that came to my mind was that how is
he going to take it, will he be able to write his exams after this or not. Finally, I decided that we should not tell Mukul about this before exam.
When Mukul came back I pretended like nothing has happened and gave our exams to the best of our abilities. Finally, after returning to the hostel I decided to break the news to him. He started crying immediately. We booked his ticket and he left off immediately for his hometown. He did not talk to me for the entire vacation period.
Later, he cracked the exam with a very good rank and then he came to me and said that he was grateful for what I did. We are still good friends as we were before.

Q1. Do you think we should tell truth at all times?
Ans. Honestly speaking, telling truth shows you care for others, but we cannot tell the truth all the time.
Sometimes the truth may hurt the feelings. It does not mean that you should tell lies to others; in fact, you can hide the truth for some time and speak it later for someone’s benefit.

Q2. How do you know when others are telling the truth?
Ans. From my experience, I get to know that someone is telling a lie by their facial expressions. For example, people start sweating or avoiding eye contact when they are lying. However, sweating might also be due to other reasons and therefore it is not easy to determine if people are indeed lying or just physically uncomfortable.

Q3. Do you think it is important to win the game or follow the rules?
Ans. As far as I believe, winning the game without rules is not fair enough. Deserving people will not get the chance to showcase their abilities. So, although
the result is important, following the rules is even more important.

Q4. Sometimes people should tell lies. Do you agree?
Ans. As I mentioned above, lie spoken for someone’s benefit is better than truth. But it does not mean that we should speak lies all the time.

Cue Card # A time when you didn’t share a truth with your best friend

Feel free to call for suggestions and queries.

IELTS Band 7 Dehradun
Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

email: info at ieltsband7.com

IELTS online simulator

IELTS BAND 7 Home page

IELTS Cue Card Sample Answer # Polite Person

June 12, 2021 IELTS Research

A polite person is someone who treats everyone with respect. No matter how rudely we sometimes behave, we always enjoy the company of a polite person. A polite person often not only lifts the mood of the person sitting next to them but also changes the dignity of the whole place around them. This time we are looking at a cue card that talks about a polite person we have in our family.

Describe a polite person you know. You should say –

who is the person?

how do you know him or her?

why do you think he or she is a polite person

SAMPLE ANSWER 1

Today I am going to talk about a former colleague of mine, his name is Adrien Agreste.

To this day, I have not found a more agreeable, sincere and sweet person.

Adrian really was the epitome of politeness. He always followed the general rules of politeness like holding open doors and saying “bless you” after a sneeze. To my surprise, I never found found him pushing people for anything. Judging people was not at all a part of his personality. He was very caring and was always ready to lend a helping hand.

When I had just joined the office, he had introduced himself along with all of my other new co-workers. He had shown me around and been a huge help in getting me settled into the new environment. During office meetings he listened to everyone and asked for more input genuinely making everyone feel involved respected and valued. It is true he was awkward sometimes and liked to apologize a little too much but that was just a part of who he was. I cannot think of a more charming person.

SAMPLE ANSWER 2

Politeness has been one of the traits I have always admired in people. It shows to me the fact that in the end, we all are best when we behave as humans. Although there have been many I have encountered, I found my mother the most polite person I know. She is one of the most soft-spoken people in our entire family. Not only does she respects people she knows, but she is respectful to everyone who interacts with her.

Recently, a beggar was roaming around in our colony asking for either food or money and while everyone disrespectfully asked the person to move, my mother not only gave him respect but also food and money. On asking her why she did that, she replied that “everyone deserves to be treated respectfully, irrespective of their position, behavior or clothing.”

My mother has always tried instilling these qualities in both of her kids, although we are not as kind as her, we try to follow her teaching of respecting every individual.

SAMPLE ANSWER 3 (Writer: Bhumika)

Being polite and respectful to others is a good quality and makes us a
good person. Today I would like to talk about someone I know who is
very polite. She is a helper at my college. Her name is Kamla. Kamla
aunty is in her late thirties. She is a stout woman with long hairs
and wears salwar kameez. She works as a helping staff at my college
since last ten years. I know her since I joined my college. In fact
everyone in the college knows her and respect her, and calls her Kamla
didi.
Kamala didi is very helpful, I have seen her that many times she goes
out of the ways to help others which is the reason why everyone at
college loves her. She is always ready to help others be it anything.
I remember once when I had gone to the college and I was not well. I
had a heavy bag of books with me and my classroom was on the fourth
floor. Kamla aunty sensed that, I was unwell that day and helped me
reach to the fourth floor and also carried my heavy bag herself. She
keeps helping others be it in a big or small way.
However, there are some higher authorities in our college who are ill
tempered but Kamla didi always respects them and obeys whatever they
say. Not only that, she is a very helpful colleagues. She always helps
them and sometimes does their work also.
I think she is a perfect role model for us. She never shows that she
has done anyone a favour. She teaches us how to be polite and help
others selflessly.
(280 words)

Follow Up Questions

Q1. Do you think politeness is important?
Answer: Yes, politeness is very important. If we are polite to others, only
then we can expect politeness from them. It makes us a good person who
is loved by all. It also makes communication better.

Q2. Can you give me some other examples of how people show politeness
in your country?
Answer: In India, people show politeness in many ways. Offering someone your
food is considered to be polite. Giving an elderly person your seat in
the bus is one method of showing politeness. Standing up when the
teacher comes in the class is another way of showing politeness.
Stopping your car to let the pedestrian cross the road is also a way
of showing politeness. Through these small actions we can be polite to
people and make world a better place.

Feel free to call for suggestions and queries.

IELTS Band 7 Dehradun
Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

email: info at ieltsband7.com

IELTS online simulator

IELTS BAND 7 Home page

IELTS Cue Card # Describe a place you visited that has been affected by pollution

June 10, 2021 IELTS Research

IELTS Cue Card # Describe a place you visited that has been affected by pollution

Describe a place you visited that has been affected by pollution.
You should say:
– Where is it
– When you visited this place
– What kind of pollution you saw there
And explain how this problem can be solved

Sample Answer

Humans have shown negligence towards the care of mother nature over the past few decades, the result of which can now be perceived. Pollution can broadly be classified into three types – Air, Water and land pollution. Air pollution is the major reason for global warming and climate change. While water pollution is responsible for destroying water-based ecosystem. Whereas land pollution has even disastrous effects like soil and groundwater poisoning.
Today I’m going to talk about the alarming air pollution levels I experienced in Delhi. It was during winters last year when I visited Delhi to see my aunt after so long. Delhi had changed a lot since my last visit. I was shocked to see smog all around the place that even the air felt so heavy to breathe.
Once I reached my aunt’s house I enquired about the abnormal air quality levels but she told me that these levels were normal here. Such poor quality of air had adversely affected the lives of people in Delhi, causing irreversible lung damage to children and also increasing the risk of cancer, epilepsy, and diabetes. Prolonged exposure to such poor air quality causes migraine, lung cancer and even early death.
I believe no government policies or external efforts can improve the air quality in Delhi, it is the people of Delhi who have to come up with changes in their lifestyle to handle this situation. More use of public transports should be adopted, usage of Electric vehicle must be promoted rather than polluting petrol or diesel engines, avoid burning plastic wastes and using fans instead of Air conditioners can be some helpful measures.
Such small but regular efforts would gradually change the air pollution levels in Delhi.

Follow up questions:

Q1. What kinds of pollution are there in your country?
Answer: In India, there are almost all kinds of pollution, be it marine pollution, air, land or noise pollution. All together these pollution have led to drastic climate change in my country, due to which there is also a loss of biodiversity.

Q2. Are people concerned about environmental problems in your country?
Answer: Yes, there are some people in my country who are concerned about the environmental problems. In fact I know a few environmentalists who are actually working hard to decrease the pollution levels in our country and persuading others to be eco friendly.

Q2. Do you believe climate change is a serious problem?
Answer: Yes, I believe climate change is a major problem now that the whole world is facing. It has led to extreme weather conditions in different countries. Last year due to climate change there was a glacier burst in my state Uttarakhand which caused massive destruction in the region. Hence it is one of the most serious problems nowadays.

Feel free to call for suggestions and queries.

IELTS Band 7 Dehradun
Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

email: info at ieltsband7.com

IELTS online simulator

IELTS BAND 7 Home page

tagged with IELTS Cue Card, IELTS Speaking

IELTS Cue Card # Describe something or someone that made a lot of noise.

June 9, 2021 IELTS Research

IELTS Cue Card # Describe something or someone that made a lot of noise.

Describe something or someone that made a lot of noise.
You should say

Who or what made the noise?

What was the noise like?

What did you do when you heard the noise?

And how you feel about it?

Sample Answer:

We come across different kinds of noises that disturb us daily as there is a lot of noise pollution in India. So, I am going to talk about one such instance where a fan made a raucous. It was the time of summers and I was sitting in the examination hall, ready to give my entrance exam for IIT. It was an old government school building which had a worn out fan on the ceiling.
It constantly made a caterwauling sound which broke my concentration and I couldn’t properly focus on my exam. I could feel that it was disturbing almost every candidate sitting in the hall but we all knew we had to take control of our senses and outperform in the test, as everybody had been preparing for it since last two years. It was scorching hot so we couldn’t even think of turning it off. I felt that it was galling to have such a problem during an important exam. However, I knew how important that exam was for me, I gathered all my senses, took a deep breath and gave my best to the exam. Once the time ran out everyone started going out of the exam hall, I could again hear the shriek sound of the fan but this time it didn’t irritate me and I felt joyful that my exam went well.
Today when I look back I realised that one should always have the skill to have a control over their senses and focus on what is more important.

Follow Up Questions:

Q1. Where can people hear a lot of noise in your country?
Answer: As there is a lot of noise pollution in India, people can hear all sorts of noises at public places like bus stations, railway stations, malls and on the roads where there is a huge traffic. Apart from that, in India, various kinds of processions like religious and weddings keep happening which creates a lot of raucous.

Q2. What can be done to reduce traffic noise?
Answer: The government can make strict rules about unnecessarily honking and this should be considered a traffic violation. Other than that, the loudspeakers should be banned specially near the places like hospitals and schools.

Feel free to call for suggestions and queries.

IELTS Band 7 Dehradun
Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

email: info at ieltsband7.com

IELTS online simulator

IELTS BAND 7 Home page