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Describe a crowded place you went to.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Band 6-7

IELTS Learner

1 month 3 days ago

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Today, I would like to discuss a popular shopping mall in Ahemdabad that is constantly, constantly crowded. It's called Alpha One Mall and is located in western part of the city. These seven-story malls built around 20 years ago, mostly were dedicated to parking. Inside you will find a store carrying major global brand, popular food joints and cinema. Weekends are the busiest time here as a folk flock in where they are free from work. It is a location where no one gets bored since there are so many things to do such as playing games, watching films, dining at their favorite place and so on. My first visit to Alpha One Mall was during the winter when I was accompanied by my sister. We had heard very good review about this place with some claiming it has one of the finest malls. So, we decided to visit that mall. Upon arriving, we were instantly captivated. The weekend vibes was electrified with everyone seemingly as a thrill as we were. Also, there were Diwali sales with attractive discount offer at most of the store. So, we got some new things at excellent price. We lost track of time and spending a good five hours exploring the offerings of spring. Now I am frequently visited to this mall and spend the majority of my shopping there. Overall, the experience was truly enjoyable. I look forward to revisiting the mall on the quieter day to experience it without the bustling crowd.

Band 5-6

IELTS Learner

1 month 3 days ago

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congested places are always feel very awkward for people last year I come come across with this awkward moment of my life so I have been to a place where loads of people gathered so it was one of one of serious issues with my friends and for me as well around 6.30 in the evening lots of people gathered at the beach and nearly a path that allows to walk away from here there to the outside of the beach and this was one of the really embarrassed moment for us we doesn't get any oxygen to breathe and in my life ever I don't feel that situation much worse than the other so I'm not like to be part of that in ever

Band 6-7

IELTS Learner

1 month 3 days ago

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I'd like to share one experience. Last year, near my house, there was an open fair market. I don't prefer going out much because of the reason I don't like crowded areas. Despite that, my mother forced me to come with her because she wanted to shop a lot of things. As the fair offered a wide variety of food items, home decorations, and a lot of day-to-day clothing materials such as bedsheets, sofa covers. So, I went there with my mother as I told. It was a great experience indeed because it was the first time I was experiencing such kind of thing. I never used to go out with my mother in buying groceries as well because I don't like to go in a crowded place. When I went there, I saw a lot of people really rushing on things because they want to buy the best product, whatever there is. Moreover, I saw a beautiful home decor items out of which I purchased one. After all my shopping was done, I said to my mom, let's go home because it's a good fair but it is not made for me and I am not used to this kind of things.

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Band 6-7

IELTS Learner

27 days ago

In the modern era, finding the least people or the least crowd in Bangalore is very difficult. I would like to say Bangalore is always a crowded place due to its vast varieties of population in a versatile way. The population here is never-ending and it's a non-stoppable process. So I always feel population keeps growing and places keep crowding. So once I had visited a concert which was in PS University, which is in a close proximity to my house where the college had invited me for the concert because we were an alumni of the college. Initially when I went, there were just around 200-200 people around 4 o'clock in the evening but then as time went on around 6 o'clock, the people started gathering and there was too rush. On the other hand, this field basically had a capacity of 2,500 people but the people there were almost 3,000, so almost there were 1,000 people in addition. So this basically did not add any valuable insight because they did not follow the rules and regulations of the college which was a little awful about and I felt a little hostile about people who actually managed and the volunteers who couldn't control the people. The minute we were there in the crowd, we were not able to enjoy the concert of Alan Walker as there was too crowded, as we did not find place to stand, it was so sophisticated and also we always thought of leaving but then there was no place to leave as well. On the other hand, I always feel instead of having a big crowd, they could have managed people with certain limited amount of prizes.

Band 5-6

IELTS Learner

28 days ago

ہے ، And when he talked about the crowded place which I went visited last Sunday, I went to Delhi, it was a very crowded place over there. I went with my friends circle because that time I went to see to the like Taj Mahal, sorry, India gate, so that's why I went. Even I went to the Shishkanj Gurdwara, which was in the Chandni Chowk. When I went there, even I didn't see that type of the crowded. It was too much crowded place. Even I hadn't any we can say the space to touch my feet on the earth. Really, it was a it was very crowded place. Even when I went there, even I faced many problem. I even I saw the traffic jams on the highway. It was long traffic jam jam due to the rainy weather. All there were all the water logging. Even I faced many problem over there. If yeah, I went there already told that I went with my friend circle. But if you that the crowded place I faced many problem about it because I had lost my purse over there due to the this crowded place. Even I felt very upset over there because this crowded places. He made my mood very that this crowded place made my mood very spoiled. So even that's why I don't want to go again because first of all time when I went there, I saw too much crowd in the Delhi which I didn't see in my life whole life. So really I face too much problem in the crowded place. If you talk about how I felt it was very worth over there when I went in.

Band 5-6

IELTS Learner

27 days ago

the crowdy place I went was a market probably it's called Sunday market is near to my home and I went there at Sunday probably in the evening it was rainy at that day it's raining cats and dogs and the place was really untidy and very bustling I don't like the bustling place very much but some necessary things are needed so we went there I went there with my mom at Sunday and we brought some vegetables fruits and some other drinks to home the place was really crowdy and beat the beam I felt really irritated about the place the place was really untidy and the crowded place was filled with so many people as I am an indoor person I don't like to come out so I've been there for my mom to help her so I not at all feel good to go there I feel blue

Band 5-6

IELTS Learner

27 days ago

when I was younger I once went to a fair with my mother father and my sister we went there because it was a fair that was put in our city and it was very on the hype so we went there to watch the things there furthermore I would add that the crowd there it was immense so many people and it was also published in the newspaper next day that there were approximately 20,000 people attending the fair usually crowds make me feel a bit anxiety and I don't know why I feel like there is a burden on my chest whenever I am in crowds but moreover the experience overall was a very good experience but in the end I would add that I do not like crowds