arrow back icon Top Answers

Describe A Job That You Think Is Interesting: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is it?
  • Why do you think it is interesting?
  • What skills does it need?
  • How did you feel about it?
  • And explain why it made you continue doing it?
Show all 35 answers

Cue 1:What is it?

  • Begin by clearly stating the job you find interesting and provide its title.
  • Give a brief overview of what the job entails and its primary responsibilities.

Example

The job I find particularly interesting is that of a wildlife photographer. This role involves capturing stunning images of animals in their natural habitats, often requiring travel to remote locations.

Cue 2:Why do you think it is interesting?

  • Explain what aspects of the job excite you, such as creativity, adventure, or the opportunity to connect with nature.
  • Mention any personal experiences or stories that highlight your interest in this job.

Example

I think wildlife photography is fascinating because it combines art with adventure. The idea of exploring diverse ecosystems and documenting rare species is thrilling. I remember watching a documentary about a wildlife photographer who spent months in the Amazon rainforest, and it inspired me to learn more about this field.

Cue 3:What skills does it need?

  • List the essential skills required for the job, such as technical photography skills, patience, and knowledge of wildlife.
  • Discuss how these skills contribute to success in the role.

Example

To be a successful wildlife photographer, one needs strong photography skills, an understanding of animal behavior, and a lot of patience. Knowing how to use a camera effectively is crucial, as is the ability to wait quietly for the perfect shot without disturbing the animals.

Cue 4:How did you feel about it?

  • Share your personal feelings or thoughts about the job and why it resonates with you.
  • Reflect on any challenges or rewards associated with pursuing this career.

Example

I feel a deep admiration for wildlife photographers. The challenges they face, like harsh weather conditions and the need for stealth, make their work even more admirable. I often feel inspired by their dedication and the beauty they capture.

Cue 5:And explain why it made you continue doing it?

  • Discuss what motivates you to pursue this job or a related field.
  • Mention any long-term goals or aspirations you have in this area.

Example

The thrill of capturing a fleeting moment in nature motivates me to pursue wildlife photography. I aspire to travel the world, documenting endangered species to raise awareness about conservation. This passion drives me to improve my skills and seek opportunities in this field.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, wildlife photography is a job that captivates me due to its blend of creativity, adventure, and the chance to contribute to conservation efforts. I believe that pursuing this career will not only fulfill my passion but also allow me to make a positive impact on 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: Vague Descriptions

    Using vague language can make your answer unclear. It's important to provide specific details about the job to engage the listener and demonstrate your vocabulary.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Use concrete examples and descriptive language to illustrate what the job involves and why it interests you.

    2: Lack of Personal Connection

    Failing to express your personal feelings about the job can make your response less engaging. The examiner wants to hear your unique perspective.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Share your emotions and personal experiences related to the job to create a more compelling narrative.

    Ignoring Required Skills

    Overlooking the skills needed for the job can weaken your answer. It’s essential to highlight relevant skills to show your understanding of the profession.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Clearly outline the skills required for the job and relate them to your own abilities or experiences.

    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

    I feel teaching is a very interesting job because we get to learn more and more things and there is no end to learning and there are no limitations to learning. We remain a student all our teacher life and the skills that we need when we teach are most importantly to reach every student in the class, be it a slow learner or a gifted student. Eye to eye contact with the children whom you teach and most importantly to be patient and repeat patiently the meaning of things not understood by the slow learners. This teaching profession is the noblest of all professions because you might have turned out many many batches of students and you might have forgotten their faces but they will never ever forget you and it's such a beautiful thing to meet a student after 20 years, 30 years in their family and when they meet us and they all smile, they look at us, I remember you when I eat, I remember you when I do this, I remember you when I do that, when I do that and it's such a loving memory they share with us and we feel so happy when we see them and this is one important thing I wanted to tell you about teaching. Teaching also enhances the quality, the personality of an individual and improves and betters the person and you're giving a wholesome person to the family and the society and the nation at large. So teaching is very very important and teacher plays a very important role in framing and sculpting the society and because the student spends most of the time with the teacher,

    Band 6-7

    There are numerous jobs available in the market that are very interesting and useful but the job which I found interesting is travelling. I vividly remember that when I was in my school, I loved to explore the world and whenever school organises any school trip, I just kept the money and wait eagerly to go on that place. I love this job because moreover I love this job because there are many things to do. With travelling, one can explore the world which is a dream of many. Along with travelling, one can experience a diversity of India, their cultures, their traditions. India has total 29 states and every state has their own cultural things and with travelling, one can also pursue a photography which is another great option. Furthermore, I remember that when I was in 5th grade and I studied Geography, I came to know about various places in India like mountains, beaches, deserts, plains, plateaus and at that time I decided that whenever I grow, I just started exploring this world and after my completing senior secondary education, I came to know about this job from my cousin who is also pursuing this job. So without any more question, I just enrolled in that job. All in all, travelling is a one in all experience and I feel that it was killing two birds with one stone for me.

    Band 6-7

    A job that quite fascinates me is my current one which is project officer. I consider it quite interesting because of its nature to improve your personal as well as professional skills too. Besides, this job has always been in my list since I was a child. I consider it quite my favorite because of its flexibility, time hours, a lot of seminars and works where you can develop your skills and a platform to enrich yourself, get your career started. I consider it quite my favorite because of its flexibility, time hours, a lot of seminars and works where you can develop your skills and a platform to enrich yourself, get your

    Band 6-7

    I am going to talk about tour manager where I feel tour manager is a very interesting job as and where the person who handles a tour or the manages the event of the travel, he becomes, he happens to visit lots and lots of places, different countries, different regions of places where he happens to enjoy the different culture, different cuisines, different types of people he happens to meet and also I love doing that job because whenever we are stressed or something everyone feels that we have to travel and when we travel we happen to bring a good environment to ourself and the others where we can make them feel happy by giving our best of our job by showing them different places, different, we can also show our, we can show our experience to the other people.

    Band 6-7

    Hello, Hi, this is Bhanu and I am a center head of Future Kids Preschool. I am running a preschool and I love kids and I just want to make all the kids very unique and all kids are very unique and I just want to explore what I have learned in early year education. And all the kids, they are very tiny kids and you know we have to make them understand and we have to teach them hands on activities. Through hands on activities they will improve their fine motor skills, gross motor skills and also they will learn the good habits and they were in physical activities also we have to improve them. And the way we handle the kids we should handle very smoothly and all the kids are very unique and once they are trusted us we have to make sure all the kids should be equal. And first of all we have to make sure that kids are so sensitive so we should behave like a kid and make them understand all the way what they have, what they can learn more and how they improve their fine motor skills and gross motor skills. And we should go through all the kids the different way.

    Band 6-7

    So, the job I'm interested is financial analyst. Why I'm interested in this job is because I like working with financial data. I enjoy working with financial data and analyzing a company and the skills you will be needed for financial analyst is Excel, Financial Modeling, W, Power BI, etc. And I think financial analyst is a good role for finance students because financial analyst will give them the opportunity to put their financial knowledge. So that's why this financial analyst job is my favorite and interesting.

    Band 6-7

    One of the most interesting jobs according to me is being a sports psychologist. I think it is particularly interesting because it has many aspects to it. Firstly, I'll speak a little about what sports psychology is. It's basically helping athletes to perform better by giving them tools and mental tricks that they can use and practice that will enhance their performance, like, for example, focus. How to focus, what are the different kinds of focus that they can use during different situations so that they don't get distracted in crucial moments of their performance and not lose that one fraction that can help them maybe get a gold medal. So it's dealing with the mind and sports together. I find it particularly interesting because athletes, especially at the elite level, struggle with this because they physically they are fit enough, they are at their peak. But the only thing that distinguishes a winner from a loser is this last push of the mind who is mentally strong compared to someone who isn't mentally strong. So if they can master the mental part of the game too, that can really lead them to great success. And this idea actually started interesting me when I was in college. And I myself have done a lot of sport and I have used my will and my mind while doing the sport. Then I got interested on how it actually affects the performance. And that's why some of the skills that are needed for this are keen observation, knowing the person and what they are doing.

    Band 6-7

    I think a mother's job is really interesting. I have seen my mother growing up and working her hard and going to office and coming back home and taking care of us. So yeah, I think a mother's job is really, really hard working. Also, the kind of patience it requires to handle me and my brother, as well as completing the household chores, cooking for us, taking care of us, completing the work at the workplace. I think that's really good. I am not really a mother as of now, but when I become a mother, I think I would enjoy it the most, taking care of my children, taking care of my home. Yeah, I think a mother's job is really toughest and interesting in the world, simply because it not only requires emotional patience, but hard working and physical patience, but also emotionally it requires a lot of time that needs to be invested in us.

    Band 6-7

    The job that I think is interesting is the job of lawyer, where you can deal with different kind of clients and you get different kind of opportunities and different kind of challenges every day. You face different kind of clients, you meet with different type of cases every day, which makes it challenging and more hard to deal with the day-to-day routine of a lawyer. Also you have to put long hours into it to become successful. Also it's interesting because you face a lot of challenges, you face different kind of challenges every day while dealing with different kinds of clients and different kind of cases. Also a lawyer's main job is to help people, which I find very exciting that after you win a case, you have helped a person, the person is happy and he pays you and both of you are happy and that's the main reason which helps me to sleep well. That's why I think a job of lawyer is interesting. Also the skills needed to be a lawyer is you should be patient, you should be consistent on your work, you should be confident when talking to others or while making an argument. Also you have to put in long hours, you have to make big efforts to draft a claim or draft an argument. Basically, it's a boring job which you have to skillfully execute to be successful.

    Band 6-7

    I am going to talk about a job that I am interested in as an officer in Merchant Navy. It is very exciting job because it has a duty on board in the seas. We have to sail as a sailor and for many months we have to sail on the same ship to one place to another. That is like an adventure to me. The skills are required to be an officer in Merchant Navy is you have to pass 10th with 60% marks in English and you have to do nautical science for 3 years to become an officer. The side certificates required are like scuba diving and skydiving which will provide you a boost to your career to get good salary on your rank. To sail as an officer on ship is very interesting. You just give orders and they pay well. Due to these high salaries I like to continue the job and I also prefer my friends to start career in Merchant Navy. I am looking forward to become a captain as well within 10 years of experience. One day I will sail seas as a captain of the ship. That is my dream.
    1 2 3 4
    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