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Describe a foreigner who is interesting.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who is it?
  • How do you know him/her?
  • Why do you think he/she is interesting.
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Cue 1:Who is it?

  • Begin by introducing the foreigner, including their name and nationality.
  • Mention any unique traits or characteristics that make them stand out.

Example

The foreigner I find interesting is a woman named Anna from Sweden. She has bright blue eyes and a warm smile that instantly makes people feel at ease.

Cue 2:How do you know him/her?

  • Explain how you met this person, whether through travel, work, or social events.
  • Share any memorable experiences you had together that helped you bond.

Example

I met Anna during a cultural exchange program in my city last year. We were paired as partners for a project, and I remember our first meeting at a local café where we shared stories about our cultures.

Cue 3:Why do you think he/she is interesting?

  • Discuss specific qualities or experiences that make this person captivating.
  • Highlight any unique perspectives or stories they have shared that have impacted you.

Example

I find Anna interesting because she has traveled to over 30 countries and has fascinating stories about her adventures. She often shares her insights on different cultures, which has broadened my understanding of the world.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the key points about the foreigner and your relationship with them.
  • Reflect on what you have learned from this person and how it has influenced you.

Example

In conclusion, Anna is not just an interesting foreigner; she has become a dear friend. Her stories and experiences have inspired me to explore more about different cultures and travel beyond my comfort zone.

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 vague descriptions that do not provide specific information about the foreigner. This can make your answer less engaging and informative.

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Include specific details such as the foreigner's background, unique experiences, or interesting hobbies to make your answer more vivid.

2: Overly Simple Language

Using overly simple language can make your response sound unprepared. It may not showcase your English proficiency effectively.

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Try to use varied vocabulary and complex sentences to express your thoughts clearly and demonstrate your language skills.

Neglecting Personal Connection

Failing to explain how you know the foreigner can make your answer feel disconnected. Personal stories can enhance your response.

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Share a brief story or anecdote about your relationship with the foreigner to create a more personal and engaging narrative.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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Band 6-7

Hollywood industry is very well known in the world. I admire a number of foreign artists, but the one whom I'm most fascinated by is Justin Bieber. He's a very popular, well-known singer and has released so many songs, out of which the first song that I've listened to by him was Baby, and I remember I was in 9th grade, and I came to know about this song, I heard the song through my friend. We used to play a game in which we have to sing a song, and like that I came to know about it, and I found this song very very good, like very vibey and very uplifting. So hence, and hence I started listening to this song on a regular basis, even though I wasn't aware of that this song has been sung by Justin Bieber, and I don't know who Justin Bieber is. As I cleared my 12th, after that I came to know more about Hollywood singers, Hollywood music, and then I came to know about, okay, this song is written and sung by Justin Bieber, and he is Justin Bieber, and after that I came to know more about his life, and I heard so many of songs by him, and maximum of the songs that are by Justin Bieber, all of those are my favourites, and one song that I like the most, and have been added recently in my favourite list is Favorite Girl, and there are so many, I would like to give a...

Band 6-7

So, describing a foreigner who is interesting, I would say that Mr.Beast is so interesting person because I came to know him through YouTube videos. So he lives in America and what seems to be interesting in him is that the way he makes videos, literally how many hours or how much time he takes to make videos and through his YouTube videos, it may seem to be less stress while watching the videos, his new way of coming up with videos, the activities, the experiments, like giving cash to people, that so it seems interesting, it seems interesting like it's so cute, it causes curious to know how much money he has and yeah, I think he is one of the most interesting guy.

Band 6-7

Well, the foreigner whom I find interesting is Michael Schumacher. He is a Formula One driver and although I don't know him personally, but I have watched his races over television and I find his style of racing very aggressive, he is very competitive and his passion for the sport is unparalleled. So that is what I find the best about this guy. He is also someone who has been a champion for eight consecutive times in the Formula One history. So I believe he is the GOAT of this format of the racing and he still owns the record for being the most successful Formula One driver ever.

Band 6-7

I'd like to talk about a foreigner I met in Pondicherry. Pondicherry is a beautiful town located on the southern part of India. It's a coastal city famous for its vibrant beaches, beautiful locations and excellent French colonial architecture and most importantly the best people you can ever see. I met the foreigner in that town. Her name is Rosie. She's from France. She really faced an issue in communicating with us since we people aren't very familiar with French language. However, she tried her best to communicate with us by using a translator app called Google Translator and after I came to know about her requirements, she was actually asking us to tell a good restaurant to eat. So, I guided her to a very good restaurant nearby hers and she asked me to accompany with her. After that, we moved to that restaurant and had our lunch and she asked me to accompany her for a couple more days to explore the entire Pondicherry. It looks a very good deal for me. Actually, I'm an introvert and I usually doesn't speak too much with the strangers but she actually encouraged me and motivated me to come out of that boundary and really supported me to speak fluently.

Band 6-7

Yes, I know some foreigners and which are my colleagues and they are working with me in my location. His name is Michael David and he's from France and he's a foreigner here. We are combinedly working in UAE in the same platform. So because he's my colleague and we are working on the same platform, on the same tool, so for this why I know him and he's a very good guy. If I meet him with this person, Mr. David, so I consider that the whole France people will be same like of him. He's a very handsome person and he's a very polite person and he always tell the truth and he always respect me and I also always respect him and he's very cooperative. So as a foreigner, when I meet the foreigners and I compare these foreigners to my home country people, so these foreigners are very cooperative. They are very polite people and they are very hard worker and so we know each other, we know each other like we are living like a brother and this is my thinking, this is my dream, sorry, that I visit France and I meet with more people as well like of same of this Mr. David because he's, you know, he's my friend so I'm trying to move France with him.

Band 6-7

Today I would like to talk about a famous celebrity in my country, her name is Ami Jackson. She is actually a foreigner but has worked in multiple movies in the south from Tollywood to even Bollywood. She has worked with famous actors like Vikram and I really love the way she portrays herself in the movie and apart from that she is a very strong independent woman which I really admire about her. So basically I have got to know her through television. So when I saw her for the first time in the big screen, I was quite inclined towards how beautiful she is and the way she has maintained herself and then I started googling about her like who this particular person is and I must say that she is someone who pays a lot of attention to being healthy and taking care of herself and also she is very beautiful so I take a couple of skin care tips from her and she is so fit that even after having a kid she does not look like she is a mother, she looks very young and also she is involved in most of the social activities in order to help lot of poor people which is very admirable and inspirational and she is someone whom I am really looking to meet in the future if I ever get a chance and say her how beautiful and inspirational she is. I would say that every country need a woman like her who can inspire girls and youngsters like us to do better in life.

Band 6-7

Elon Musk is someone who I look upon a lot because he is really interesting guy. He is an engineer like me and has also invented different things like a car company named Tesla and a space company named SpaceX. The most interesting thing about him is that he is persistent and hardworking and he has created a number one space program in the world which tends to bring all the humans to the planet Mars in 50 years from now. And I think he could make this happen really easy because he is investing his own money and resource to the project and his insights of engineering and physics can be benefited by the world. Additionally he is also making a research facility in Tesla which also researches about different planets, astronauts and asteroids which are revolving around the world. Secondly it also helps the community by creating jobs and making people appreciate what you are doing and furthermore he also keeps telling a quote that hardest worker are the really big workers because the persistency which is needed to create a big special colony is what I think and feel is really important and because of that he is really inspiring to me and I am inspired by him a lot.

Band 6-7

The foreigner whom I find the most interesting is Robert Downey Jr. I got to know him through movies which I watched during my childhood days. I had first watched him in Avengers, the first movie. I thought he is such a good actor, why haven't I seen him in various different movies. Then I started researching and I got to know the life story about him. I got to know the various traumas and difficulties that he had faced in the 90s during his younger age. And how he was sentenced to go in the jail. And the lot of difficulty with the addiction of lot of drugs and drinking problems that he had. And how he recovered from that and how he came back into the filming industry was quite a huge journey that he has taken. So, knowing that whole journey, I was quite intrigued and happy that he had transformed his life into a new happier life. And he had found something which he can rely on and show his emotions in. Rather than being an addicted person, he started working in movies.

Band 6-7

A foreigner who was interesting. Well, talking about a foreigner who was interesting, I would like to talk about Sam, who I met in Maldives when I had a trip to Maldives. Well, Sam was a very interesting and a very different type of person who had a different mindset compared to others. While I met Sam in Maldives, he would talk to me about his life and his lifestyle. He always wanted to live. Well, he always wanted to live a simple and carefree life. He never wanted to have any expectations from the society. He didn't want to live up to the societal norms. He just wanted to live a simple and peaceful life. He had no intention of working hard for the future. He just wanted to live in the present moment, enjoy the moment. Well, Sam was like a person who had no hopes on the future. He just wanted to live in the present moment and enjoy his moment. Sam taught me a lot of things about life. He would always say that money would never buy you happiness. It's just that it's a way of living life. Money is just used as a medium of exchange to buy something. Money doesn't really buy you happiness. It is an internal piece which gives you happiness. It's about being true to yourself and understanding yourself and being at the right moment.

Band 6-7

Yeah, foreigners are interesting. I knew a foreigner who is very interesting. Her name is Hendy Arkul. One of the best, famous and richest actress in Turkey. I knew about her by watching her web series, The Sunshine Girls. It is a very interesting web series. She played a very great role. Her acting is very natural. It seems like effortless acting. She is alive for her character, all the things, her curiosity and do all the characters, all types of characters, controversial characters very nicely. Even her nature, even her standards also very unique. I am very inspired by Hendy Arkul, Turkish actress. By the way, that is a foreigner, but it is relatable because as an Indian, facial features she has, Turkish people have, almost. Not down to earth, but not arrogant. Very nice, very nice acting. She knows many languages, multilingual person. And very confident. She knows her words. It is amazing. She excels in her field. That was amazing. That is amazing for me. She does excellent work in her field.
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