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Describe a habit your friend has and you want to develop.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Which friend is it?
  • What habit is it?
  • Why do you want to develop this?
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Cue 1:Which friend is it?

  • Introduce your friend by name and mention how long you have known them.
  • Describe a little about their personality to give context to their habit.

Example

My friend, Riya, has been my close companion since college. She is a very organized and disciplined person, which is something I admire about her.

Cue 2:What habit is it?

  • Clearly state the specific habit you want to develop.
  • Explain how this habit manifests in your friend's daily life.

Example

The habit I want to develop is her ability to wake up early every morning. Riya has this routine of waking up at 5 AM, which allows her to start her day with exercise and planning.

Cue 3:Why do you want to develop this?

  • Discuss the benefits you see in adopting this habit.
  • Mention any personal challenges you face that this habit could help address.

Example

I want to develop this habit because I believe waking up early can make me more productive. Currently, I often feel rushed in the mornings, and I think having that extra time would help me plan my day better and reduce stress.

Conclusion

  • Summarize your thoughts on your friend's habit and your desire to adopt it.
  • Express any hopes or goals related to developing this habit.

Example

In conclusion, Riya's early rising habit is something I truly admire. I hope to incorporate this into my life to improve my productivity and overall well-being.

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: Being Vague About the Friend

Candidates often mention a friend without providing specific details. This can make the response less engaging and informative.

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Tip

Clearly introduce your friend by sharing their name and a little background to make your answer more personal and relatable.

2: Lack of Specificity in the Habit

Describing a habit in general terms can lead to a weak response. Candidates should avoid being too broad or unclear.

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Tip

Focus on one specific habit your friend has. Describe it in detail, explaining how they practice it and its impact on their life.

Weak Justification for Development

Failing to explain why you want to develop the habit can make your answer seem unconvincing or superficial.

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Tip

Provide clear reasons for wanting to adopt the habit, such as personal growth, health benefits, or improved relationships, to strengthen your response.

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Band 6-7

A habit that my friend Manikandan follows is actually fitness and I would love to follow on his path. First of all he is a fitness freak who would wake up in the morning and hit the gym. I was just inspired by the fact that he is very consistent and he is enjoying that too. And it gave me a sense of happiness that I also wished to follow that path. So similar to him I would also like to hit the gym and also do some sports during evening like cricket or football. I also love to focus on my food because my friend would take a lot of protein and he reduced significant amount of fried and oil food. He also maintains the amount of carbohydrates he takes. So I would also love to follow his food routine to be able to be fit and be consistent in what I am going to do. And also sleep is very much important for fitness. So I would love to sleep early and wake up early in the morning so that I can recover from the muscles I have worked on the gym.

Band 6-7

One of my college friends have a habit of painting. She always expresses it as her stress burster. It makes her think in more creative way and try to enhance that on the paper. Not all the drawings of her are perfect, but the thought in her mind which she has tries to keep it on the paper. And furthermore, I would like to develop this habit of painting because due to stress as college students, we need some time for relief. Painting can also make our brain relaxed, refreshed and also improves our creativeness. Furthermore, the childishness in us could still be enlightened and we can draw anything which we have pictured ourselves. Moreover, it helps in our brain for thinking more and also improves our imaginary imagination. And furthermore, it helps in increasing in the creativity.

Band 6-7

My friend called Anurit Kaur is very hardworking and has good command on subjects and she has good marks in every subject and she studies a lot and I want to develop these habits because I am a phone addictive person who usually on their phone and didn't study much so I want to have this habit to sit down like for 6 hours or for 8 hours or the sessions so that I can study most of the time and has good marks and it helps me to get more knowledge and my phone habit will be decreased from it so I think.

Band 6-7

A habit which me and my friend want to develop in future was yoga because yoga is one of the best meditation for every living being in our surroundings. Yoga help us to maintain our brain a free relief or stress removal area. So yoga helps all the person to keep their maintenance to fulfill their forward things. And the friend is my classmate who has been studied from 8th standard. So we both are like to join a yoga with any less time. So we plan that yoga helps more people to do whatever things they want to repair in their body. Yoga has no limits. Each 10 years old children to 60 years old grandparents can easily do yoga because yoga makes our body movement more than anything. And I suggest that yoga has one of the best quality to take places more than anything. And this meditation also helps people to concentrate their wanted things more than anything. Yoga is one of the wanted meditation for all people who live in urban areas. Because yoga is a stress buster. More than that people want to find time to do such things and get a positive result from doing yogas.

Band 6-7

Reading books is one of the habit of my best friend Yamini that I wanted to develop. The reason I wanted to inherit this habit is that I take a lot much of time scrolling memes or watching something else on my phone. So to just keep myself engaged, I just wanted to inherit this habit of reading books. Furthermore, it also relieves from stress. Reading a book makes us feel relaxed and refreshed. Additionally, it will change the perspective of thoughts. Doing so feels like the day is so productive. On the other hand, it also helps in increasing our vocabulary and the way of expressing things to others. I wish I would become a book reader one day. My friend Yamini almost spends her 2-3 hours a day on reading a book. The various books she reads are different kinds of novels of different genres like romance, thriller, horror, and few autobiographies. And my interest would be majorly on romance and autobiographies. So in future, if I would start reading books, then I would prefer romance novels mostly.

Band 6-7

Habits are sort of thing which is important in everyone's life and there is a book called Atomic Habits in which there are many points which gives an instinct on how to develop a small habit and work on it. Moreover if I talk about the person whom I think has a good habit and I want to inculcate in my daily life is my best friend Poojan. He is the fitness freak and once in a time he was having the habit of fitness journaling and he motivated himself so much that he have built his body from a skinny structure to a muscular man and he set a benchmark in in my university of doing such and I also want to become a fitness free and health conscious like him. He is fit as Friddle and I'm skinny too so I wanted to bulk up and by doing the fitness journaling I will sort out some points which are mandatory for my health as well as I can track on my progress by jotting the weights and the diet I have to complete and the connotation will help me further to make sure that I am going on a right track.

Band 6-7

A habit of my friend that I would like to develop is patience. Radhika has been one of my very close friends since childhood. She has always, looking at her, she is one of my most patient friends and I am the most impatient person someone can ever meet. Since childhood years, I have always been impatient and fidgety about things. Be it studying for exams or waiting for my results to come, impatience has always stuck me with my work. Seeing Radhika so patient throughout the entire journey has always fascinated me as she always knows how to keep her calm in a very stressful situation as well as in a very calm situation as well. But when I look at myself, it's very difficult for me to maintain patience. So, over the years, it has developed into anxiety. So, it sometimes concerns me as to how can I actually work with it. A few days back, when I had a word with Radhika, she suggested me to meditate a lot, to practice yoga every day. So, I did start practicing these techniques and to a certain level, taking her advice has actually helped me to build up my patience and calmness. I have started doing yoga every morning and meditation as well.

Band 6-7

I have an office friend whose name is Jahnavi and the habit she has is communicating very clearly and maintaining the point of contact which is very impressive too and I would love to develop that habit from her because I generally don't maintain point of contact accurately sometimes I might lead to wrong situations and scenarios because of that and the clarity she has which is very appreciable I would love to develop that habit from my friend that helps us make the situations more convenient to us instead of developing some wrong connections and wrong scenarios that habit will make communications more clear instead of brain fogging everything

Band 6-7

Okay, so I have many friends with many habits or traits which I want to inherit from them. But I have a friend named Simmer in my college, which became my friend last semester. And we are both friends, very fast friends. She has a habit of being very confident and speaking everything which comes to her mind. This habit of hers makes me so curious and so helpful. So I want to inherit this trait from her because I am an introvert since 2 years, since forever. I have been an introvert and I am not able to speak much in public. So I want this trait to be mine because I want to express my thoughts as well. And with my thoughts, I can express myself and generally she's very confident about it. So there was this one time when everyone wanted to ask a doubt in the classroom, but no one could because the teacher was very strict. So she was the one to be the first one to ask from the teacher and to explain the topic again. And I really liked her for that. And that's when we became friends. So I really like to inherit this trait from her.

Band 6-7

I think one friend of mine, like my best friend, who is Rishika, her name is Rishika, we met in college around four years ago and I think she has been my number one since then. The habits that I would learn from her would be, first of all, she is so independent. She earns like, she earns for herself right now, but then I'm really proud of her for that, I think I would learn to do that. She's self-motivated and she's such a workaholic, whenever we meet or whenever I see her, I think she's always working and I think she works a lot, but I think I would do a little bit less than her, but I would love to learn that as well. And moreover, she has such, she's such a confident person just in herself and she's so confident being in her own skin, I think I would learn, I think that is something that I would learn from her. And I think all of the, all of the habits that I described, she's just more than that. So I believe learning all of these would be just as good as they are now for like the coming future. These will help me develop my own personality, as well as what other people like or like I bought these skills that I will be required for future, you know, business or future jobs that I will be applying to, that's it.
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