arrow back icon Top Answers

Describe a famous person you would like to meet: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who he/she is
  • How you knew him/her
  • How/where you would like to meet him/her
  • And explain why you would like to meet him/her
Show all 62 answers

Cue 1:Who he/she is

  • Introduce the famous person clearly, mentioning their name and what they are known for.
  • Provide a brief background about their achievements or contributions.

Example

The famous person I would like to meet is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who was an esteemed scientist and the 11th President of India. He is widely recognized for his role in India's space and missile programs and is often referred to as the 'Missile Man of India'.


Cue 2:How you knew him/her

  • Explain how you became familiar with this person, whether through books, media, or personal experiences.
  • Share any specific instances or works that inspired you.

Example

I first learned about Dr. Kalam in school when we studied his book 'Wings of Fire', which narrates his journey from a humble background to becoming a leading scientist. His life story deeply inspired me and motivated me to pursue my dreams.


Cue 3:How/where you would like to meet him/her

  • Describe the ideal setting for the meeting, whether it’s a formal event, a casual setting, or a specific location.
  • Mention any particular activities you would like to do during the meeting.

Example

I would love to meet Dr. Kalam at a science exhibition or a motivational seminar where he is speaking. I imagine sitting in a cozy café afterward, discussing his experiences and insights on innovation and education.


Cue 4:And explain why you would like to meet him/her

  • Discuss the qualities of the person that you admire and why they resonate with you.
  • Explain how meeting them could impact your life or aspirations.

Example

I would like to meet Dr. Kalam because he embodies humility, wisdom, and a passion for education. His belief in empowering the youth of India inspires me, and I hope to gain insights from him on how to contribute positively to society.


Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, meeting Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam would be a dream come true for me. His life and work have had a profound impact on my aspirations, and I believe that a conversation with him would not only inspire me further but also guide me on my journey to make a difference in the world.


    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 Specificity

    Being vague about who the person is or how you know them can weaken your response. Specific details make your answer more engaging and credible.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Provide clear and specific information about the person's achievements and your connection to them to enhance your response.


    2: Ignoring the Cues

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

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Make sure to systematically address each cue in your answer to ensure a comprehensive and structured response.


    Overly Simple Language

    Using overly simple language can make your response sound unprepared. It's important to demonstrate your language skills.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Incorporate a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to showcase your English proficiency while remaining clear and understandable.


    calendar icon

    IELTS Cue Cards asked last week

    Reported by Leap students who gave IELTS

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

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 8

    location icon

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 6.5

    location icon

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7

    location icon

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    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

    Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

    Band 6-7

    Lieutenant Sophia Qureshi is one of the bravest women in India. She is working under the Indian Army. So in my personal opinion, women empowerment, she show our nation that what is women empowerment feels like or how the achievement of a woman looks like. So I really appreciate for his achievements and her bravery. The recent war between India and Pakistan, she was the one who commanded the army soldiers to go ahead and she led the army for the war. So from that day, I read a lot of things and a lot of brave achievements about her in the newspapers and also some magazines. So if I get a chance, she is the best person that I am going to meet. So in my personal opinion, every woman should know about a woman's achievement and we should praise them how they did it. We have to support them and we should always motivate from ladies or women like Sophia Qureshi. First of all, the first time I knew about her from the newspapers and the other magazines and when I heard about her, I just really felt like I can see myself in her because she is not only a woman, a brave heart and she fights for our nation. For a woman, it is not just a thing, it is a very wonderful and amazing thing a woman can do.

    Band 6-7

    The famous people, the famous person I would love to meet is actually a band, it is BTS. To be honest, they're not just a person or an artist who perform music in stages. To me, I knew them from 12. I'm not a huge crazy fan, to be honest. I want to learn how they have succeeded in life and how they came up to the place where they are globally recognized. I know they had a huge hard work and they had hardships and they just worked out with everything which made me feel I want to be a person to go through all the scenario to have a successful life. Further, I would love to take an interview with them somewhere where they are comfortable. Maybe I could go to their hometown and visit the place and their lifestyle, how they came up in life and tell to the youngsters because their story is not just a story. It is a work of hard work and they just made it up to today and still they work until tomorrow and an upcoming time. I would really love to meet them and experience and understand their life and which I could take back with me in future. Thank you.

    Band 6

    People are always famous for their good work towards the society. One of the most iconic person, Mr. Ratan Tata, which is my ideal and which is famous for their Tata Foundation towards Tata Foundation. It created a trust which are doing a very good activity towards the people for education and their living standard. I was met with Ratan Tata Sir on one of the occasion of the college opening. I felt very grateful when I met with him. He was so much sincere personality and always work towards the society. This is their ability which I want to improve in myself. I think he is a better mentor as well as a socialist.

    Band 6

    There are a lot of famous persons which people would like to meet and it is someone's dream to meet them. I also have one person I would really like to meet one day. So the person is none other than Virat Kohli, he is a famous Indian cricketer. He was a captain of the Indian cricket team for quite a long time. He is a leading one scorer in international cricket in all three formats. He is a master of the sport and everyone who is watching cricket would admire him. I really want to meet him. It was my dream come true if I would get a chance to meet him. Most probably the next year there is a India vs New Zealand cricket tournament which is going to be held in my hometown which is in Trivandrum. So I hope that I could meet him and want to take a picture or say hi to him. So it is my all time favourite moment if it had happened. I was hoping that I could do that. He has been a role model for me and a lot of people who was inspiring from him like his attitude in the field or his never give up attitude and his sportsmanship and camaraderie on the field. Everything is like a top notch when he is in the field so he is a great person.

    Band 6

    a famous person would like to meet well I want to meet APJ Abdul Kalam but unfortunately in 2017 he passed away he was a legendary scientist for India as he has contributed a lot in field of rocket science weapons and the most inspiring thing which I get to know about from his biography is like how he started from a small village in Rameshwaram completed his studies he actually wanted to become a fighter pilot but due to certain circumstances he got rejected there then joined ISRO where he started developing new rockets and after that he went to DRDO where he started developing missiles designs so for so what I feel is passion of science he has was really inspiring for me as I am also a student of science

    Band 6

    So the most famous person I would like to meet would be David Goggins. I know him for a quite long time now. I've seen his videos all around social media and even I've read his book called You Can't Hurt Me. He's a very inspirational personality. He has driven me to be active in life and to focus more on my health and my social life. Plus he has helped me gain knowledge around the globe through his motivational speeches, through his background, through his biography. He has helped me to be more focused on academic as well as physical activities. Moreover, if I would meet him, I would tell him how grateful I am to know him. And to meet him, it would be a great pleasure for me. Yeah, that's it.

    Band 6

    Today I would like to speak one person who I admired a most. His name is Virat Kohli. So I followed this guy since my childhood because I am bit interested in cricket match and the guy is very hardworking, polite and straight forward person. So I follow his method and I want to become like this man. If I got a chance to meet him definitely I meet him in a cricket champion IPL. So yeah this is my admiring person who teach me a lot in a right way. Thanks for watching.

    Band 6

    So the one person I would have loved to meet was Irrfan Khan, the great actor in Bollywood. But I can't meet him as sadly he passed away 2-3 years back. The reason I want to meet him is because of his acting skills, because of the movies he worked in. And his acting skills inspired me. Basically he would do the role where he would be the character that we can relate to the most. And Irrfan Khan's famous work include Lunchbox, Billu Barber. So these are the two movies that inspires me a lot, that gives me the motivation to pursue my career goals in my life. Moreover, I would have loved to meet him in a movie theatre where his new movie would have been put there. And he would have come there to watch it and I would have loved to meet him there. Also, I think he had made great impacts in life of other actors as well, the fellow actors as well. And he is a great gentleman when it comes to talking to other people. So he doesn't have any ego problems. He is just like a normal person. And he wouldn't make you feel that you are below him, something like that. So I would really love to meet him because he is my inspiration. The acting I do in my life is just because of him. And it would take a miracle to meet him but sadly I can't meet him now.

    Band 6

    So, basically I am an introvert so I am not interested to meet many people in public but today I am going to talking about a person that I would like to meet is the Messi, Lionel Messi who is the legend of football. He is from Argentina and he is a good player in football history and he has and he had awarded golden shoes and he played a lot of games which is stunning and he flourish his true ability. I want to see there was a rumor that Messi will come to Kerala to visit his Kerala fans and from there I want to visit him and take a photo or autograph of the legend. He is a humble man and he has no power or he has no status of such a person and he is kind to everyone and my ultimate goal is to become a football player and he is my role model. He has a good character. Furthermore, everyone in Kerala is eager to meet him.

    Band 5-6

    The famous person I would like to meet in person is the famous Indian film actor who acts in Malayalam films in the Bollywood industry, who is Nivin Pauly. He is a very admiring person by most of the Malayali audience. He came to cinemas 20 years back and he was an active presence on screen before 10 years. Till now he has been committed to movies but none of them are becoming a hit but his prime time is more than enough for him to be remembered. His movie Premam was world renowned that all people from India watched this movie numerous times and everybody is a big fan of that movie. Everybody knows all the dialogues in the movie and it was a wonderful movie and having him on the screen with his black shirt and white dhoti added was a sensation of the time, was a trend of the time. That movie set a new example of how love can be. He has numerous other films like Omsha, Devushana, Bangalore Days, Meram, all these were industry hits and every movie he commits has a good storyline. Moreover, he is a person with good ethics. He doesn't involve in scenes that involve too much physical interaction. He rejects movies which require intimate scenes, even a kissing scene.
    ielts logo

    Get the IELTS Prep App

    Star rating icon

    4.2

    1M+ Installs

    app download banner image

    Get the app link on your phone

    +91

    Or download app from

    google play storeapp store
    master ielts speaking ad