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Describe a family member who you want to work with in the future: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who is the person?
  • Have you ever worked with this person before?
  • What kinds of work would you like to do with the person?
  • And explain how you would feel if you could finally work together.
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Cue 1:Who is the person?

  • Introduce the family member by name and relationship to you.
  • Share a brief background about their profession or skills.

Example

The person I would like to work with in the future is my cousin, Anjali. She is a talented graphic designer who has been working in the advertising industry for over five years. I have always admired her creativity and dedication to her work.

Cue 2:Have you ever worked with this person before?

  • Mention any previous experiences you have had working together, if applicable.
  • Reflect on what you learned from those experiences.

Example

I have not had the chance to work with Anjali professionally yet, but we collaborated on a college project where we designed a marketing campaign for a local business. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot about teamwork and the design process.

Cue 3:What kinds of work would you like to do with the person?

  • Describe the type of projects or work you envision doing together.
  • Explain why you think this collaboration would be beneficial.

Example

In the future, I would love to work with Anjali on creating a startup focused on digital marketing and branding for small businesses. I believe our combined skills—her design expertise and my marketing knowledge—would help us create impactful campaigns that can really help local entrepreneurs.

Cue 4:And explain how you would feel if you could finally work together.

  • Express your emotions about the prospect of working together.
  • Share your hopes for the collaboration.

Example

If I could finally work with Anjali, I would feel incredibly excited and motivated. It would be a dream come true to collaborate with someone I respect so much. I hope that together we can create something meaningful and successful, and I believe it would strengthen our bond as family members.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, working with my cousin Anjali in the future would not only be a fulfilling professional experience but also a wonderful opportunity to deepen our family connection. I am looking forward to the day when we can turn our ideas into reality.

    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 when describing the family member. Specific details make your answer more engaging and memorable.

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    Include specific traits, experiences, or anecdotes about the family member to create a vivid picture.

    2: Neglecting Past Experience

    Failing to mention any previous work experience with the family member can weaken your response. It shows a lack of connection.

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    Tip

    Briefly discuss any past collaborations or projects with this person to highlight your relationship and teamwork.

    Ignoring Emotional Impact

    Not expressing your feelings about working together can make your answer less personal and relatable.

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    Tip

    Share your emotions and excitement about the prospect of working together to connect with the listener.

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    Band 7

    I would like to work with my father as he is a very punctual person and he has a kind of strict work ethics. I remember I once worked with him on a project that was given by my science teacher to make some kind of model and he helped me in that to make the project. So working with him was a nice experience but at the same time it was kind of tiring because once he starts working he will completely focus all his attentions on it. So you have to cope up with him. I would really like to work with him again on some other things because I have a lot of things to learn from him like time management and all. So I really do want to work with him in the future. Anytime it's possible because last time we had a great chemistry, my project was well done, my teachers and my friends were very happy. At the same time I won the best project prize in my school days. So it was kind of a good experience. I learned a lot from him so definitely I would like to work with him in the future.

    Band 7

    I have a younger sister who has a great interest in baking. Moreover, I also share the same passion. She has her own business of cakes in which she bakes cakes from her hands and sells them to different people. Her customers not only include the end customers, the end users, but also include various cake shops, offices and corporates. Upon observing, I have seen that her cakes are liked by almost everyone. She gets a good review for them. Therefore, I am having a desire that I would like to start a business with her or rather I would like to collaborate with her because I already have my own cake business. Collaboration would ensure that we both join hands and bring the different ideas on the table. This would help our business to grow and reach different heights. Of course, we have to burn the midnight oil after researching and after bringing out different policies as this would be a partnership business. Furthermore, why I think that I would like to collaborate with her or start a business with her is that her business acumen is really appreciable. When she started her baking business, she did not start selling her cakes directly. She started to give out free samples of her different creations like cupcakes, chocolates and birthday cakes. Of course, it was a great success.

    Band 7

    I think I would like to work with two of my mothers. One, my real mother, biological mother. And second one is my older sister who believes that she is my second mother. And I feel both of them are the perfectionists. And they are financially, and even academically they are so talented. I feel as when we were in school, my sister used to be an intelligent, topper person. And I was an average person. Also my mother Adi, when she was completing her graduation, at that time she graduated in computers, opened her own cyber cafe, managed us. She became a superwoman. She managed her home, her in-laws. She was so loving, so caring. She managed everything so perfectly that till now, everyone comes to my mother whenever they need any help or something. And even my sister as well. She has achieved a very nice job. She has managed us. And she was there whenever we needed her. She was there financially. She secured a job in London while she was in India. And cracked hackathons. And in her family, I feel she is the person who has achieved most till now, academically. She is at a very higher position at a bank as an engineer. And I want to be like both of them because they are the perfectionists.

    Band 7

    The family member I'd like to work with in the future is my brother. My brother's name is Arun Kumar, and he's an engineering graduate, but he's just more than that. He has wide knowledge. He studies a lot of books, and in his free time as a hobby, he explores a lot of things. He not only surfs the internet, he also visits the library, and moreover, he keeps updating his knowledge even though he has completed college 14 years ago. He's just brilliant. Even though he's an engineer, his interest goes way too deep in medical knowledge. I am a doctor, but personally, he has more knowledge in medical updation than I do. And he's quite interested in topics like supplements, nutraceuticals, and metabolism. Why I would like to work with him is because he's logical, and he has a rational thinking capacity. He doesn't jump into conclusions. He's a very patient person, and I'd like to work with him in a field of medical science. I'd like to start a clinic with him, or create any nutraceutical medicine with him. And I had many ideas of creating a franchise of a pharmaceutical medicine company along with him, but due to financial stability, we both didn't do that. But if we ever get an opportunity, we will definitely create a medical history or a life-changing nutraceutical invention. Thank you.

    Band 7

    I think my mother would be my go-to person to work in future. Currently she's working as a special education as well. I have never worked with her but because of our difference in the field that we have chosen in our lives, she comes from a commerce background and I come from the science background but also we have managed to have a common ground where she has a lot of interest in what I do and she usually is updated and I think I like that quality about her. Even though she has a different area of mastery, she usually calls herself a beginner and I would want to work with her because of the similar styles and I've always looked upon her with sincerity and I get that quality of being a workaholic and I would also love to have the friendly banter that we usually share at home where I end up getting yelled the most. Nevertheless, I've also heard a lot of people praise my mother behind her back for her sincerity and recently she had been awarded for being the best employee and I would also want to have that as a feather in my zone and so that's about it.

    Band 7

    One of the most inspiring person of my life is one of my elder sisters, her name is Nayan. I admire her and respect her strength, wisdom and unwavering emotional support. I really want to work with her in the future because I like her behavior. She is a calm, composed and soft-spoken person who always supported me in my ups and downs. And I believe that if we will work together, we will go ahead and we can manage many things, many situations like Herculean task together very politely. Additionally, she is a person who always pointed me in the right direction and never imposed her decisions on me. So, this behavior is what attracted me towards her personality and that is why I can say that I can work with her very politely because she is the one who cares a lot and just like a second mother of mine. So, I can say we can work together and I will be very happy and enthusiastic working with her because I have seen her burning the midnight oil even for a small exam. So, I know that in the future she will work very hard and I trust her so much that I know that her work will pay off because she is the person.

    Band 7

    My sister is my ideal. She is my role model. I did not work with her before, but I really want to have an experience working with her. Furthermore, she has started a small scale industry with a zero investment. Now, she is earning around 1 to 2 lakh every month. In other words, working with her, it's like a bonding towards my sister, which will improve a lot. And the feeling of happiness and satisfaction, what I can get, there are no words to express. Because my sister is my mother, when I was two years old, she was the one who has built me and she is the one who has fulfilled all my necessities, all my educational needs. So if I get an opportunity, definitely I will go for that and it will be a big honour for me to work with her. Really, I want to be a part of her business. We are planning to have another same type of business. We are planning for another branch in a different country. With her support in the future, I can achieve my goals, my dreams.

    Band 7

    A family member I would want to work with in the future would be my dad. I have interned in his startup company while I was in my third year at college. So basically I want to work on tech projects that require very modern and scalable solutions to any kind of client's problem. I would want to work on places that require high expertise in back-ends and pipelines, requiring CI-CD pipelines, with some knowledge of database entries and operations concerned. Honestly, working with my dad would be a very intellectually enriching experience for me, considering that he is very highly skilled in his domain and he has this wide variety of skill sets and people working under him who can help me further polish my tech skills to enhance my future in tech and to make me a better candidate for further opportunities that require good knowledge in everything that concerns the development of a website. So yes, I would definitely be very much privileged to have a person like my father to work with. Thank you.

    Band 7

    So, a family member that I would love to work with in the future is someone who is very dear to my heart, my father. Though I haven't had the chance of working with him on a professional level or even an internship or something like that, but I'm really intrigued by his field of work. So he's a professor at one of the most premier institutes of the country and he's also working in space. So, he's a mechanical engineer. He works on flexible space structures which are foldable in nature, known as foldable space structures and I'm really interested in working with him, not just because of the field of work, but I'm also interested and intrigued by his work ethic, his discipline, his way of working and how much interest he has in his work and how excited he is to go to his office and lab every single day and work on those problems, bring out solutions, face another problem, bring out another solution. So that is something that I would love to do and experience with him. Me coming from a biotechnology background, we don't have much common things in terms of field, but I would really work, I would really be honoured to work with him. I would feel extremely happy and grateful to be able to work with him because in terms of professional etiquette and mannerism, there is a lot to learn from that person.

    Band 7

    One prominent family member that I wish that I can work with in the future is my mother, my beloved mother. I have worked with her before during a university project where we did a shared research that was later published in the academia websites. My mother is a professor at the University of Kuwait and I would like to be able to work with her in the future because nowadays I am trying to apply for my master's degree and apply for a scholarship at Kuwait University where it allows me to travel abroad and get a master's postgraduate study certificate while studying a master's degree and a PhD. I would love to work with my mother because I feel like if I did so I would be so elated and over the moon as it is my dream job to be a professor at the university. So I think that if my dream became a reality and having my mum's office next to me it would feel very overwhelming. I love to explore such, I wish I can live to see this day.
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