Describe a crowded place you have visited: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

When you went there
With whom you went there
And explain how you felt about being there?

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Cue 1:When you went there

Mention the specific time or occasion when you visited the crowded place.
Provide context about why you chose to go there at that time.

Example

I visited the famous Connaught Place in Delhi last December during the Christmas season. The festive decorations and the holiday spirit drew me there, as I wanted to experience the vibrant atmosphere.

Cue 2:With whom you went there

Introduce the people you were with and your relationship to them.
Explain why you chose to go with them, highlighting any shared interests.

Example

I went there with my college friends, Riya and Aman. We all love exploring new places, especially during the festive season, so it was a perfect outing for us to enjoy the celebrations together.

Cue 3:And explain how you felt about being there

Share your emotions and thoughts while being in the crowded place.
Discuss any memorable experiences or interactions that stood out to you.

Example

Being in Connaught Place was exhilarating! The energy of the crowd was infectious, and I felt a sense of joy and excitement. We enjoyed street food, shopped for gifts, and even joined a group of people singing carols. It was a delightful experience that made me appreciate the festive spirit of the city.

Conclusion

Example

Overall, visiting Connaught Place during the holiday season was an unforgettable experience. The crowd, the decorations, and the company of my friends made it a perfect outing, and I left with wonderful memories that I cherish.

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: Lack of Specific Details

Avoid giving vague answers without specific details about the crowded place. This can make your response less engaging and informative.

Tip

Include specific details such as the location, time of visit, and activities you did to make your answer more vivid.

2: Ignoring Emotional Response

Failing to explain how you felt about being in the crowded place can make your answer seem flat and uninteresting.

Tip

Share your emotions, whether you felt overwhelmed, excited, or anxious, to add depth to your response.

Not Addressing All Cues

Neglecting to answer all parts of the cue card can lead to an incomplete response, which may affect your score.

Tip

Make sure to address each cue, including when you went, who you were with, and your feelings, to provide a comprehensive answer.

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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

Reported by

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

Reported by

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.

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Band 6

The crowded place which I recently visited is Vijayawada railway station, I have been there a lot of times, but recently I went a month ago, I went there along with my friends, the place is crowded with a lot of people as there is a festival going on nearby Vijayawada and most people chose railway transportation as it is the cheapest one, I think the railway minister should assign some new trains or try to do some, try to think of some solutions that could really help the people in the railway station or the passengers to minimize the crowd there, I personally felt very suffocated there and my friends also felt the same, one of them even got suffocated and was kind of blacked out, so we rushed to a hospital nearby, so that is the situation in the railway station of Vijayawada, so I would strongly recommend the people or the officials related to the railway stations, maybe some solutions or the, they should think of the solutions or the resolutions that should be taken care of, in that way they should, they can minimize the crowdness in the railway station and I can say that is one hectic.

Band 6

I visited the Muhammad Ali road during Ramzan, I was there with my fiance and her cousins to describe the crowd it was pretty much crowded and if you have been to the Muhammad Ali road I think you must know it is a very small area and the place was literally crammed by thousands of thousands of people although the experience of the food there was great and there was some really great food options we had biryani we had chicken kebabs and we also had some fruit juice I kind of liked the name there of the juice it was named Mohabbat ka Sharbat but the crowd there and the waiting time was way too much and due to a very you know swamped place the hygiene was not properly followed and people were shoveling and pushing around I personally felt anxious because large crowds of people makes me anxious it was managed but it was not that much well managed so as to say although there were police booths every at every corner of the alley and they were no one misbehaving and people were pretty much accommodative there despite such a swamped and cramped area.

Band 5-6

Yeah, mostly crowded places looks good, the last time I went to a crowded place is the beach, Dharke beach, however the beach was crowded and we know the beach would be crowded that day because those are the days of sankranti days, all our cousins, everyone, me have went to beach on that particular day, I remember the date is on like some around 14th January so the place is good, first we went to the place, we had ice creams, we ate ice creams and then when we went to the exhibition, the place is so much crowded, my sister bought few things, which has like ornaments, jewellery, silver jewellery etc, we as boys, cousins, we doesn't find nothing to buy, we just roam around the exhibition, then finally at the end of the exhibition, we got some food items, spicy food items, such as manchuria, fries, can we call them as fries, okay, fries and we ate them, that's a good thing, we enjoyed a lot in that crowded place, finally we came out and I drove along the traffic because it's a crowded place and there are many things we have done in the exhibition but it's a quite, it's a fascinating, it's a enjoyable nature because all our brothers met, we cracked jokes while walking during the crowded place.

Band 5

They like crowded locality from the top floor of the crowd, presences to the scenes of the human scene in the evening, people come out to purchase the vegetable, fruits and other domestic items, young boys and girls dresses themselves and it is best to go to out of the shopping. They are so very careful about their start weighing by these vendors and keep an eye to the weight scales, chat, pokeries, club jumps and chaplis are great demands. The street avocado peddles as being very nicely, the balloon sailor carry the whole bunches and inflated balloons are attract the small children's, kite flying in another activity when the kite rises high up to the sky, the eye of the sky flyer are glued to the kite and cow enclaves are considered to be scared by a hindu, they roam about the street eating everything and looking angry at others bystanders and they can be. The Sunday morning I have visited Friday was Hajjai who has live to the Sharada, the place is a quiet fair of this resident to the Ashok Pekar and auto rickshaw would have been charged a huge amount so I decide to board to the DCT bus, it is a private bus has been observed the street, the crowd has been swelling by a minute has been ordered to the bus by fell to the conductor purged me and there was a 50 seats in the bus but more than 100 people who travelling, the number of passengers standing no way less than occupying the seats, there was 8 seats reserved for the ladies but they occupied by the young man, the old women are standing and requesting the boy to vacate the seat, it is not easy to get exit door, once had some tight rope walking has been where

Band <5

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Band <5

मäter तुहने बरह과 से बरह से प्रस्त्व afraid देते हैं, प्रस्त्व हैं वह बारांचच प्रस्त्व बधेव से भगात है एक डावना, बारांचच प्रस्त्व बदेव गरबज बारांचच बधेव है इसे बहुत बारांचच बदेव है क्योंकि शुक्ता, जो गरबज ने प्रस्त्व से कुछ बहुत का जिना पर है तो मैं बदेव करना चाहता हूँ कि चित्भाव, बहुत बदेव है वह बहुत बारांचच बदेव है वह मेरे सेटी सुरत में है

Band 6.5

So, on top of my mind, there are numerous tourist places which are stated as overcrowded. So, to give you little context, I would like to set up the stage by taking you down my memory lane. So, I born and brought up in this place called Phalburgi which is more of barren land and I have completed my schooling there and secondly I moved to Bangalore for my higher studies. After completing my graduation, I and my friends decided to visit this place called Chikmangalore which is commonly known as the Scotland of India, so it's a tranquil hill station. One thing we noticed that the environmental degradation, the number of tourists were growing which deteriorated the serene environment. Apart from this, the commercial buildings and unregulated constructions were also impacting the environment, so to accommodate the more number of tourists, the localites were started to build their own small scale business through this.

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