Describe A Course That Impressed You A Lot: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

What was the course about?
Where did you take the course?
What did you do during the course?
And explain why it impressed you a lot?

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Cue 1:What was the course about?

Begin by clearly stating the subject of the course and its main objectives.
Mention any specific skills or knowledge that the course aimed to impart.

Example

The course I took was about digital marketing, focusing on social media strategies and content creation. It aimed to equip us with the skills needed to effectively promote brands online and engage with audiences through various platforms.

Cue 2:Where did you take the course?

Specify the institution or platform where you took the course.
Include details about whether it was an online course or in-person, and the location if applicable.

Example

I took this course at a well-known institute in my city, Mumbai. It was an in-person course held over six weekends, which allowed for interactive sessions and networking with fellow participants.

Cue 3:What did you do during the course?

Describe the activities you engaged in, such as lectures, group projects, or practical exercises.
Highlight any specific projects or assignments that were particularly impactful.

Example

During the course, we had a mix of lectures and hands-on workshops. One of the most exciting parts was a group project where we created a mock social media campaign for a local business. This practical experience helped me apply the theories we learned in class.

Cue 4:And explain why it impressed you a lot?

Reflect on the overall impact the course had on your personal or professional development.
Mention any specific aspects that stood out to you, such as the teaching style or the course content.

Example

The course impressed me a lot because the instructor was incredibly knowledgeable and engaging. I learned not just the technical skills but also the importance of creativity in marketing. It opened my eyes to new career possibilities, and I felt more confident in my abilities by the end.

Conclusion

Example

In conclusion, this digital marketing course was a transformative experience for me. It not only enhanced my skills but also inspired me to pursue a career in this dynamic field. I highly recommend such courses to anyone looking to expand their knowledge and career opportunities.

Following this structure will ensure you cover all the essential points while providing a clear and engaging response to the cue card topic.

Tips to answer this Cue Card

1: Vague Descriptions

Avoid being too general or vague when describing the course. Specific details make your answer more engaging and informative.

Tip

Include specific examples about the course content, such as topics covered or skills learned, to provide a clearer picture.

2: Lack of Personal Connection

Not explaining how the course personally impacted you can make your answer less compelling. Personal stories resonate more with listeners.

Tip

Share a personal experience or insight gained from the course to show its significance in your life.

Ignoring the Cues

Failing to address all the cue prompts can lead to an incomplete answer. Each cue is important for a well-rounded response.

Tip

Make sure to answer each cue in order, ensuring you cover what the course was about, where it took place, and why it impressed you.

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Describe your favourite food at a traditional festival or a special event in your country

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Anonymous student Band 7.5

Pitampura Test Centre, New Delhi

Answer

I like to taste different types of cuisine. Here I would like to talk about my favorite dish at my traditional festival of Onam which is Sadya. Sadya is popular in my city. We are experimenting these cuisines on Onam festival day. Onam is a famous festival in my city. All family members get together in my home and we make a delicious Sadya. There are many ingredients includes that Sadya. Moreover, we make a big feast that day as well as we create a lot of memories together and we wear that day the traditional dress called Sari and men wear the Dhotis. That festival is really important to us because the whole day we are conducting different kinds of games at our homes and all the family members came together. It's a memorable day in my life. This is the festival. We are making the Sambar and Aviyal. These all the kinds of foods are making with the vegetables.

Talk about a toy you liked in your childhood

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Anonymous student Band 8

Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

Answer

The toy which I liked in my childhood was a panda doll, which makes me pleasant and makes me more blush. The pandas are the most beautiful creatures of the world, which looks gigantic and has pooshy cheeks and they are like stars in the clouds and they dream in me. Furthermore, these have been given by my father. My father is a very very beautiful artistic person, who makes me think of that. Every day you will face every difficulties and make you suffer and move forward. Pandas are always seen in Japanese countries. It is my lifelong dream to visit a Japanese country and click a photo with the original pandas, which makes sounds better.

Describe a time you were in a place where you didn't know the local language

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Anonymous student Band 6.5

Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

Answer

As India is a very large country full of diversity, so there are many places which have their own language and speak their native language. The place which I visited and I didn't know about their language was Leladakh, which is about 300 km away from my hometown and it is a very good place as it consists of different kind of trees, animals and have many scenic views and I visited over there last year in summers as it was the best time to visit because it has many, it was cold over there and we had summers in our area so it was the best time to visit over there and I went over there with my whole family.

Describe a time when your friend damaged something you owned

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Anonymous student Band 7

Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

Answer

When I was a kid, I had a little pencil box which had these four buttons which gave the pencil box an operative use. When you press the button, the box would open up. When you press the second button, a little part of it would slide out. Basically it was just a little electronical and a fun thing to have and I owned it when I was in 6th. One day after break, I was standing and talking there with one of my friends and another friend of mine was running through the hallway and accidentally she pushed my shoulder and my pencil box hit the ground and it broke into multiple pieces to the point that it was not functional anymore.

Describe a book you recently read

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Anonymous student Band 7.5

CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

Answer

It Ends With Us is a book I read recently. It's by the author Colleen Hoare. It's mainly a story about two teenagers, Atlas and Lily, and how they just handle their life going through high school, adolescence, and just domestic violence at home. Both of them come from very, very different families. However, they have one common determining factor between them, which is domestic violence. The abuse that they've seen their moms go through is just insane, and they connect through that on a different level. They're actually in the same high school, but they never speak to each other until Atlas actually crashes into an empty house next to Lily's villa. When Atlas is homeless and he doesn't have anywhere to go, he just comes and breaks into the house next to Lily's, and Lily helps him with all the daily necessities like clothes and food, medicines and stuff. Furthermore, their friendship blossoms into love, but it doesn't really fructify as Atlas has to leave. This book really gave me a lot of knowledge about domestic abuse and how to deal with it.

All Answers

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Band 6-7

I took a course which is related to building information module which incorporates Revit software which is rather than powerful than AutoCAD and SketchUp. Why I took the course is because I am an architecture student and BIM is something which is way better than and it is a new technology in which we can cope up in this world and I am doing this course because it has more value in future and upcoming sessions whereas it can do the 3D visualization 2D plans simultaneously and it can give BOP which is Bill of Problems and BOQ which is Bill of Quantities. It also solves the project manager thing in this software itself. It comprises the time of work so that's why I took this software and in future I am going to implement and keep a BIM studio to take this further.

Band 6-7

I was fortunate enough to be a part of this course called Law and Legal Services and how it correlates to non-government initiatives. And I was a part of it since last summer and it was truly a very interesting experience to be a part of. I got to learn a lot of new things that actually made me to Cloud9. So we went to certain downtrodden societies or underprivileged people where we met them and I kind of gave them some information about our current constitutional rights and duties. It was very interesting to know that these people were kind of eager to know their rights since this early age, which we do not see quite often. So yeah, it was a very diverse experience for me. We went there last summer and the one thing that actually impressed me a lot was these small children. Since they do not come from a very well-off family, still they desire to learn, they desire to propagate to the surroundings or to their families in case they are facing certain legal issues. They actually shared with me some of their personal sensitive problems or challenges that they were facing and how to resolve them and come up with a solution. So that was one thing that made me happy and excited about the journey that I had.

Band 6-7

I had a great interest towards graphic designing since from my childhood. So, when I grown up while doing my engineering studies, I opted for graphic designing as an another part of my curricular. I joined in the epixable academy, which is a reputed company in Mysore, and even today they are going on with producing a great minds for graphic designing. Then I started doing the adobe photoshop in graphic designing when I was in the 7th sem of my engineering degree. After that I started to learn more and more. I thought to create an innovative posters, not only the posters, but even the billboards and extra innovative ideas through graphic designing. This was my best decision of choosing a course and I am really proud about it. In epixable academy, I had a great trainers who made me to learn in a way simpler manner. There was a person named Nivedh, who was the guider for me during my graphic designing course. He helped me a lot through learning. So, it made me to undergo even more and got interest towards in graphic designing. I went for one course and two months and after that it was a great change for me.

Band 6-7

I would like to talk about this course which is literature and how it did catch my eye when I saw it online as I am still working professional I needed something to study also at the site. I would like to talk about this course which I did in literature BA in literature that is Bachelor of Arts in Literature. I was excited to learn in depth about the subject because this is something which I was always interested in and to be very refined with the knowledge of literature would be like an added trophy in the collection of my degrees. I decided to study literature from the IGNO, it is the International College of Indira Gandhi which enables you to have correspondence courses online and you have to submit your assignments and your research with the help of PDFs like online you don't do not have to be physically present like in a college for a graduate graduation college so it was like an added bonus and during this course of mine I was given particular hours for example in a week I was given two to three assignments where I had to complete these assignments within the period of within that week and submit it as soon as possible

Band 6-7

A course that impressed me a lot to be very honest it's not about a course it's about a subject so I've completed my graduation in mass media during my graduation course I had a subject called psychology I was very much interested in psychology the reason is I love getting to know about certain human behaviors facial expressions I love studying about human behaviors so we had a course we had a subject you can say which was psychology when the psychology subject was introduced to me during my course I didn't find that much interesting but when I learned more about it when I went through the subject when I discovered more behavior patterns of human beings there are multiple behavior patterns like if I did more research about it so there are if you see there are multiple research there are multiple behavior patterns like facial expressions non-verbal which is also known as non-verbal communication so there are two two communication types of communication one is verbal communication one is non-verbal communication verbal communication is something which you speak which you can communicate with your voice your mouth non-verbal communication is something which is hand gestures facial expressions body language so when I was more interested about non-verbal communication that is because verbal communication is easy to understand yes you can understand what the other person is saying

Band 6-7

The course which impressed me was the blockchain technology. I recently bought this course from the Udemy. It contains lot of the information about the blockchain technology, how to use the blockchain technology, how to work in blockchain technology and what all things are there in blockchain technology. The course contains and covers all the aspects and regions of blockchain technology. It help us to understand, it help us to evaluate our skill and it even help us to create the new projects in blockchain technology. I learned about this course from my friend who have just completed the course and landed a job in blockchain technology. He suggested me to buy this course from Udemy platform. I bought this course. It was around 30 hours of course. I learned that course and last 2-3 sessions are remaining from the course and the course just impressed me because of its wide ranges of information containing it. I like the course because it covers all the areas related to the technology.

Band 6-7

So, when I completed my 12th standard, then I decided to go to a college where I can pursue a Bachelor of Commerce degree. It was a hard task to find best colleges, but at the end of the day, I decided to go Punjab College of Technical Education. I opted for that particular course. The course really excited me because it has a lot of features. You can carry out a lot of activities and are going to learn a lot of new things. I learned about how to market the product and try to engage a large number of audiences. I was able to understand a lot of concepts related to commerce. In my first semester, I was made familiar with the general entries. The course was not a piece of cake at all. You need to burn the midnight oil and you need to complete the assignments, the projects and give presentations. In the presentation, we had to give it out in front of the whole class. If there were 60 students, we need to speak in front of them. So it was quite a difficult task. Moreover, the teachers, I think, were quite good enough. They were kind of amiable in terms of nature. They were always helpful. I never felt any kind of dilemma to talk with them. Moreover, they always taught me about being more active in the class and try to engage so that I can improve my skills that could be definitely beneficial in the future. I really liked my course because we were allowed to go to the various exhibition where we can get familiar with the new things out there. We also learned about how to have a good and healthy discussions with each other. There was a rule and a policy in which we had to maintain a 75% of our attendance in the college, which was very crucial to sit in the final exam. That was something kind of awkward rule, but at the same time, it promotes you to be a disciplined person. So I think my college was kind of a great.

Band 6-7

Well, a course that impressed me a lot was the Aquatic Therapy course that I attended last year at Srimad Rajchandra Ashram in Dharampur which is located in Gujarat, India. One of my colleagues had introduced me about the course. Well, before that I was never aware about Aquatic Therapy. I am a Physiotherapist myself and Aquatic Therapy is an emerging field in the area of Physiotherapy that involves treating patients in a heated pool and designing exercise programs which are more personalized to a patient. It was a 7 day course in which we had lived there and completed the course. It was a hospital with advanced technologies and it was an intensive course which involved both practical as well as theoretical knowledge. We started our day off in the morning where we had lectures starting at 7 pm and which went on to approximately 10 pm. By around 10.30-11 we had to get ready for our practical sessions which were conducted inside the pool. Our Sir used to teach us a variety of techniques as to how to approach a particular condition and we were also allowed to access the main pool area where patients were provided advanced treatment from very experienced doctors.

Band 6.5

Recently, I purchased a course known as premium course by edutab. This course I purchased because I started preparing for a RBI grade B examination. This course is specially designed for the working class people because we don't have so much time in the working hour. So in that course only the tutor will teach after the 7 pm. So I purchased that course. That course was very useful for me. I purchased that course online because I have seen online advertisement about that course only. So I get to know everything about that course. I browsed everything. So I get to know everything about that course, what is the cost, what kind of material they will provide, what kind of guidance they will, how the queries they will resolve, how I will interact with them. Everything was mentioned in the course. So I purchased that once and after purchasing the course, I have started watching that each and every videos that were uploaded there. Some of the class were there online, but some of the content were already uploaded there. If you want to go through that courses, you can go through because some of the content was not possible to deliver in the class. So some basic idea if you want to take, you can take with the help of that classes. So I watched all the videos that were uploaded in the downloaded form or either online classes. I have taken every class and I make notes out of all that syllabus and after making the note, I revise that note all the time again and again because I believe strongly that practice makes the man perfect. I was believing on this theory and I started preparing for that. I was revising all the time, I participated in the exam and for God's sake, my exam turned out great because it was my first time, I gave it a try, but it turned out great.

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