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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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    To begin with, we meet multifarious personalities in our daily life, and some of them are the part in which we are not able to forget them. Similarly, many of the people in my life goes, comes, and some people remain a special place in my heart. Well, today, I'm very delighted to talk about a person who I would like to work with in the future. So, this person is my maternal aunt's daughter. She's my cousin, Mandeep Kaur. She's actually a registered nurse in Australia and is currently pursuing many of her dreams like traveling along with this. Along with this, she's also a working woman, which means she is independent and majorly doing what she wants to do. The main thing I like about her is that she's so active and so passionate about things that many other peoples are running. And, well, I haven't worked with her till now, but I'm looking forward to it, as I told you before. The main reason is that I also want to become a registered nurse in Australia. And according to me, we are sharing some same passions, so she would be quite helpful for me in Australia. Regardless of this, she's also a good mother, a nurturing one. Moreover, she also plays a major role in her family by providing economic resources to them. Well, I feel that she is a great lady, a great person whom we can admire. And according to me, this is what I want to do in the future.

    Band 6-7

    A family member whom I really want to work with is none other than my own brother. We have never worked together before, but there's immense potential I see if we are able to do that, if we are able to pull it off. What we might be able to do together is for sure business, because business offers us with multiple possibilities which is never there with any other branch of jobs. Now what business we will do together needs to be explored further, but if we are able to agree upon one particular idea which we both like and which we both think we can work on and grow, that would be great. And more importantly, because we are brothers, there is no question of one cheating the other or one trying to overshadow the other, because there will never be the case that one would want to destroy the other, because there is no enmity, there is a lot of fraternity involved, because families are involved, there is always growth and nothing but growth. If you look worldwide, wherever siblings have been able to work together with the trust they have because they come from the same family, business becomes successful for sure. Now what I think I can acquire from doing something like that with him is to strengthen the bond we have for one another. Of course we are brothers, we already have a strong bond, but that can be improved further and our family will get even closer and nothing can be greater and sweeter than that. That's all.

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    Today I would like to talk about my sister-in-law, her name is Shaini Mathew and now she is settled in Canada, working as a teacher in Canadian school and I really want to work with her because she is highly talented, she is very cooperative, at the same time I passed my post-graduation in psychology, so she has PhD in psychology, so I also want to work with her because she can help me in getting PhD in psychology because she has more knowledge about the topic about animal diversity. Apart from this, I want to learn the culture, the diversity and the positive side of the Canadian curriculum, especially the syllabus, so she can help me, she can guide me, so that's why I want to work with her and she is very kind.

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    My favorite family person I want to work with is my brother. Till now I have not worked with my brother as he is still a student or still pursuing his grades. But in the future for sure I will be working with him. I want to work with him as a master artist. We both want to help all the poor people who are not able to afford the master arts. And we want to help them, we want to make them grow. And we both also want to adopt some orphans and take care of them. Give them a good education, good sound of habits and make them to learn the good culture of the great country. And we both also want to make our parents happy. So here is my brother, here is Satvik present. He is pursuing his 12th standard. Myself, I am in my job. So I think after some few years we will be doing this work. Thank you.

    Band 6-7

    The family member that I will choose to work with is my brother because recently I had a chit chat with him and we had a long conversation about our future and some things that we have to do in our future to get rich and have a very pretty good life. So we just had a conversation about the business of t-shirt brand in which we decided that we will start as soon as possible and while doing that business we have to run it over and over day and night so in future it will grow and mesmerize everything and definitely my brother is very good in calculating finance and some distinguish so definitely I will choose my brother. I have never worked with him because of some personal issues and I am choosing him because he is very kind hearted and he understands the situation and everything and I can imagine that if we work together then there will be some good communication and understanding will be seen in together and our business will grow initially day by day and definitely at some point we will achieve our goals and we will definitely do the work that we have imagined

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    I would like to work with my cousin who works in a banking sector as an escalation manager. He is a really kind person and also he works really hard. Although he had a big break between, he tries to compensate his challenging work with his skills and brain. I would like to do a business like a startup, open it with him so that he could give me his guidance and expertise during the process of establishing a company. It will be really phenomenal. I think we will do a good job together after getting together. It will be a good lesson for me and my family members that working in a startup company, establishing it from the scratch will set an example for the other family members. I often wonder how I can prepare myself with his help. I think I will be able to do so.

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    Working with a family member is always a helping nature of everyone in the family. I would always like to work with my brother. He is very intelligent and intellectual with everyone. He works for his own business known as KTC. He owns a footwear business which is held in Ahmedabad only. He is a wholesaler who used to take many different companies like Nike, Adidas etc. Once I worked with him but not actual work. I used to be with him for a day while he was travelling to different vendors for taking orders. I travelled with him to different vendors. I learnt, experienced how to talk to others. As he was very mature and very intellectual with others, he used to talk very perfectly and convince others to give orders. The convincing power of him impressed me to work with him a lot and I would like to be his business partner if he allows me to. I would join his business and I would like to share some experiences of my past from my colleges and I would like to handle some businesses. Last time we had to work together, he was happy with my skills of convincing because he told me to convince one of his vendors for a show. I showed them a sample of footwear he was having in his phones and I talked to them. I convinced them that these are comfortable, weary to wear and the skills he liked.

    Band 6-7

    I would like to work with my nephew his name is Pradeep Magale and he since I told him he listened to me to study social work and he completed his masters in social work now he is an efficient social worker able to reach out everywhere and understands everyone's feelings home situations and the poor marginalized
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