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Describe a letter you have received in your life.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who sent to you you & when?
  • What was it about?
  • How did you feel about it?
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Cue 1:Who sent it to you & when?

  • Begin by mentioning the sender of the letter and your relationship with them.
  • Include the date or occasion when you received the letter to provide context.

Example

The letter was sent to me by my grandmother on my birthday last year. She always writes to me on special occasions, and I cherish her words.

Cue 2:What was it about?

  • Summarize the main content of the letter, focusing on key themes or messages.
  • Mention any specific anecdotes or personal touches that made the letter memorable.

Example

In the letter, my grandmother shared her fond memories of my childhood and expressed her pride in my achievements. She also included some family recipes that have been passed down through generations.

Cue 3:How did you feel about it?

  • Describe your emotional response to receiving the letter.
  • Reflect on the significance of the letter and how it impacted your feelings towards the sender.

Example

Receiving the letter made me feel incredibly loved and appreciated. It reminded me of the strong bond I share with my grandmother and filled me with nostalgia for my childhood days.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the overall impact the letter had on you.
  • Mention how such letters contribute to maintaining relationships.

Example

In conclusion, this letter not only strengthened my connection with my grandmother but also reminded me of the importance of family ties. It’s a treasure I will keep forever.

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 Detail in Responses

Providing vague answers can make your response less engaging and informative. It's important to include specific details to paint a clearer picture for the examiner.

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Use descriptive language and include specific examples or anecdotes related to the letter to enhance your response.

2: Ignoring Emotional Impact

Failing to express your feelings about the letter can make your answer seem flat. Emotions add depth and connection to your story.

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Reflect on how the letter made you feel and share those emotions to create a more compelling narrative.

Rushing Through the Cues

Skipping over the cue prompts can lead to an incomplete answer. Each cue is designed to guide your response and ensure you cover all aspects.

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Take your time to address each cue systematically, ensuring you provide a well-rounded answer that fully responds to the prompts.

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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
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Anonymous student Band 8

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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.
Describe a time you were in a place where you didn't know the local language
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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

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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.
Describe a time when your friend damaged something you owned
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Anonymous student Band 7

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Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

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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.
Describe a book you recently read
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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

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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.

All Answers

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Band 6-7

So, I have received a letter from my friend. Her name is Royce. I received it when I finished my studies in 10th standard and I was relocating my studies and my education to India. So, it was in between kind of a migration. So, I was not going to see her for a quite very long time. And then she came home and she gave me this handwritten letter of about three pages and I still have that letter with me. I truly treasure that. And then it's about a lot of things like inside jokes.

Band 6-7

I received a letter from my friend a year back during our 7th year friend anniversary. Actually, I received the letter much more later than the exact date where our friend anniversary occurred. But, I should tell that I received the letter at the exact time where I felt much more low. Actually, letter is something that makes me feel That is something that makes me feel really happy and I cherish and I Getting letters and giving letters is something which is what I like Receiving letters is my favorite love language and I should tell that I have got the best letters so far and the best letters I have received in my life is Receiving letters is the favorite love language of mine and the best letter that I have received so far in my life was an year back which my friend gave me a letter during our friend anniversary not actually during our friend anniversary much more later than our friend anniversary but that letter really impacted me and the letter is something not just describes about our friendship but it's something that tells me how much worthy I am and how much special I am to that person It made me feel like I am the main character in their life and whenever I feel low I used to read that letter which makes me feel more motivated and it makes me so happy and feel like I am the best person in the world whenever there is a difficult situation that letter really cured me, it's like a medicine in my life and I really really cherish that letter, the way they wrote that letter in a cardboard paper and used the old school kind of methods and not much with the fancy pen or something just a black pen but the content and the wordings and all the motivation stuffs in that letter really motivates me till date and I will cherish the letter and the person forever in my life and I am sure about it and giving letters is also my love language but it's the one of the best letter that I received so far in my life and I don't think so I would get something more than that afterwards, year after but I am so happy and grateful for that letter

Band 6-7

I think that letter is a great form to transfer your emotions to one another because in the era of today when we have discovered smartphones and smart devices where we can communicate to each other but the feeling of handwriting a letter to someone you love is a great thing and by letter we can display many kind of emotions and it can be formal and non-formal and I have received recently one letter which I've received from my friend who is currently my long-distance friend and she lives far away from me. We have a distance of countries. I live in India and she lives in Australia and she has been there for two years now and she has been studying there. She has been doing graduation there and she's going to be graduated after a few months and after graduation she has decided to get married and she has sent me the letter regarding the same and I was extremely happy to hear about her experience and I've been so busy after then preparing for her wedding as I've been a great part in her relationship as we were together since school so I've seen her love story to be emerged from a bud to a flower so yeah I'm really really interested and I've decided to write back her a letter to describe my emotions that what I've felt I've been extremely extremely immensely happy and I think so that we should write each other's letter more often so we can describe our feelings to each other maybe we'll get the time to write it.

Band 6-7

I recently received a letter from my childhood best friend. She moved to abroad three years ago. I really miss her a lot and that letter was very special for me mainly because it was my first letter that I ever received and it was on my birthday, on my 18th birthday. She really wished me a very happy birthday and along with she also sent a gift for me. It was a very beautiful watch and I liked it so much that I wear it every day. There's never a day that I miss wearing it. She along with, she also wrote a lot of memories of us being together, us bunking classes, eating our lunch together in the lunch break in school and all the trips we have went to in our school time and her last day in India. That was the day like we both cried a lot. We knew that we'll be missing each other a lot in the next years and I haven't met her since. I really want to meet her very soon and hug her very tightly and tell her that I missed her a lot.

Band 6-7

I have not received many letters in my life but one of the letters which holds a special place in my heart is the letter which was given by my younger brother when I was in college. He wrote me a letter saying or just pleading me to come back home in vacations as I wasn't able to go home for few months due to my college exams and events and there was a festival coming up soon and we used to enjoy the festival together a lot so my brother just wrote me a letter saying that please sister can you just come to this festival, we will enjoy like old times, I know you have a lot of college work to do and assignments to complete but can you just make time for 3 to 4 days and just come visit us, we will have a great time and just stay with me and I was so happy when I received that letter that I booked the flight the next day and went to my home and I really enjoyed that vacation as much I enjoyed reading that letter.

Band 6-7

The interesting letter which I have ever received in my life was from my uncle, who had gone to America in 2006 for his master's education. And after one month, we received a letter from him which was saying that he had made it to America safely and securely. Though he had some problems at the airport with baggage, but at the end he found his bag and all his stuff was pretty safe. And after that he talked about the weather in America, that at that time it was very cold because it was Christmas time. And he also talked about the food which was served in American restaurants. Mostly the food was non-vegetarian, but we are strictly prohibited from eating non-vegetarian food. He also told me that he was missing all of us, and in that letter he has mentioned each and every single name of our family member. And I was very happy and there were tears in my eyes at that time. He also motivated us for achieving our dream and also guided us that if anybody wants to come to America, then they may write a letter to him and he will give all the information which somebody wants by writing the letter.

Band 6-7

During my school time, a girl wrote a letter to me. You could say it was a love letter. She left that letter on my personal locker. Everyday I used to open my locker and once I opened that locker, I found that letter. Once I opened that letter, she first wrote her name like XYZ. She wrote that how obsessed she was with me. Whenever she used to look at me, she used to feel like I was the one she was always looking for. I was the one who she was going to marry and all that. It was not something which I loved. I was really getting chills down my spine because it was not something which I expected on daily basis. It was also not something how I felt about that girl. I think it was not appropriate for her to write that letter to me. It was not something which I loved. It was the only letter which I have ever received in my life. I have a very clear memory of it. I have created a core memory out of it because it was the one and only letter which I have ever received.

Band 6-7

A letter I have received last summer in my entire life is from my fiancée. It was a love letter. I always have complained to him about not having a love story which received letters and sending letters. It's got kind of old school drama kind of thing in my life. So, I don't know what made him motivated but last summer he took a pen, he wrote a letter, he posted it to me and I received it with a big surprise and I felt really good and really special to receive a letter from him. That letter didn't have much of information but it was just a love letter who is very fond of me. He wrote, I am good, how are you and how is your health? In addition, he mentioned that I am his special person and he feels so lucky to have me in his life. There are not much above words he used or there is no poetry going on in the letter but it's really special to my heart. In addition, he also added little drawings and like for example, he drew a picture of me and him hugging together, sitting in a park. So, I really love that letter for those little cute additions. On one hand, my eyes are filled with tears. On other hand, I was so eager to read the letter and finish what he has written. After completing the letter, I was so immensely joy. My heart is fulfilled and I immediately took a pen and a letter to write him back. So, that was the letter I have received and it's so special to me because it's from the special person in my entire life.

Band 6-7

A letter I have received in my life was from my father. He wrote the letter to me when I was studying in 9th standard. He sent the letter to me when he was abroad. It was a simple letter with very few details regarding my studies and how to focus on my studies. It also included certain instructions about how to improve my life and he also suggested some books to read. Even though the letter was small and its content was very little, I felt very happy about receiving a letter on my own. In fact, it was the first letter I received in my name. So I felt very happy and I showed the letter to everyone including my family members and friends. Then I wrote a reply letter to the letter I received and I sent it to my dad through a family friend who went abroad. When my dad received the letter, he was also very excited about it and he expressed how much he felt happy when he received the letter.

Band 6

I received many letters in my life but this was very special letter for me because my uncle sent me this letter when I was a child. My age was just around 7 years. My uncle sent me letter in pink envelope. It was a very beautiful color and decoration of this envelope is amazing. And this was my birthday. This was sent on my birthday. They sent me lots of wishes and it was such an important letter for me because my uncle is far from us. They are out of station with their family. So they don't come on my birthday. So they sent me a letter and some gifts for me and I really feel good. This feeling is different in my life because I never ever thought my uncle sent me this kind of gifts and letter. In this letter, uncle writes some quotes for me. This is near to my heart. His family was such a good family. When I read this letter, tears come from my eyes. It's really near in my heart. I never ever forget this letter in my whole life. I really wish my uncle is where they are.
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