Describe A Line Or A Few Words That You Remember From A Poem Or Song: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

What is the line?
Where do you remember it from?
Why is it significant for you?
How does it make you feel?

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Cue 1:What is the line?

Clearly state the line or words you remember from the poem or song.
Make sure to mention the title of the poem or song and the artist or poet.

Example

The line that I remember is 'Where the mind is without fear' from the poem 'Where the Mind is Without Fear' by Rabindranath Tagore. This line resonates with me deeply.

Cue 2:Where do you remember it from?

Describe the context in which you first heard or read this line.
Mention any specific event or moment that made you remember it.

Example

I first came across this line during my high school English class. Our teacher was discussing the importance of freedom and creativity, and this particular line struck a chord with me.

Cue 3:Why is it significant for you?

Explain the personal connection you have with the line.
Discuss any experiences or beliefs that make this line meaningful to you.

Example

This line is significant to me because it embodies my belief in the importance of a fearless mind. Growing up in a competitive environment, I often felt pressured, and this line reminds me to pursue my dreams without fear.

Cue 4:How does it make you feel?

Share your emotional response to the line.
Discuss how it inspires or motivates you in your daily life.

Example

Every time I think of this line, I feel empowered and motivated. It encourages me to face challenges head-on and not let fear dictate my choices.

Conclusion

Example

In conclusion, the line 'Where the mind is without fear' from Tagore's poem has left a lasting impact on me. It serves as a constant reminder to embrace courage and pursue my aspirations without hesitation.

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 Responses

Avoid giving unclear or general answers. Being vague can make your response less engaging and informative, which may lead to a lower score.

Tip

Be specific about the line you remember and provide details about its context and meaning to enhance your answer.

2: Lack of Personal Connection

Failing to explain why the line is significant to you can make your answer feel impersonal. Personal connections add depth to your response.

Tip

Share a personal story or experience related to the line to illustrate its importance and how it resonates with you.

Ignoring Emotional Impact

Not discussing how the line makes you feel can weaken your response. Emotions are key to making your answer memorable.

Tip

Describe your feelings in detail, using expressive language to convey the emotional impact of the line on you.

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Talk about a toy you liked in your childhood

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Anonymous student Band 8

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

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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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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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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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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

I love to listen a lot of songs and I'm a huge song enthusiastic. Most of the songs that I listen are part of a movie and today I'm going to talk about one of the song line that I still remember it was from the movie named three years. The movie was all about how we should follow our dreams and should remain focused towards it. There was a character named Rajan who was very keen to pursue that particular degree. He made an aeroplane just out of his innovation. Making that project was not a piece of cake at all. It required a lot of hard work and he burned the midnight oil. When he showed that project to his professor it was not appreciated well and he got demotivated. The scene was all about he was singing a song. The song was like give me some sunshine, give me some rain, give me one another chance to want to grow up once again. So it really depicts like he was asking the God please forgive me and rearrange everything out there. I want to live my life again. He was very much in a dilemma and just after that particular song he committed suicide. That was something that I have seen miserable. I think the song still depicts a lot in my life too. Even I am facing a lot of challenges in my life and I think I am kind of in a similar way though I am not going to commit a suicide but at the end of the day I can relate with the song a lot. I still listen that song on a loop and it is one of my favorites out there.

Band 6-7

I enjoy listening to songs very often. So, speaking about a single line from a song is Enda Paraya, Enda Ippo Cheiya. It's a line from a Malayalam song, Malayalam album song, which is named Bodhu Vazhigal. It is written by Matthew Dijon. He's a really growing up artist and music field. It's not a secular song, but it's a religious customary song actually. It is about the things about a man who is going through hardships in his life. He went apart from God and he's leading a life which he liked to live. Going behind all sorts of bad ways and not focusing on things which he should do. The line actually speaks like, we all have to leave this world. There is nothing we can boast about. We leave here leading a life for about 60 or 70 years. Then after that, everyone have to leave this world behind and have to go wherever the space which is provided for us. I remember this song because whenever I travel back to my home, I used to hear this song through my podcast. So,

Band 6-7

I have great taste in music, and every day I listen to the music because the day starts with the music in my home. My mother always plays devotional songs early in the morning, and my father likes the melodious song most. My younger sibling has various tastes in the music. So for me, my daily routine consists of the listening of music, and I know many kinds of music, but recently there is a song I heard that made me to fall in love with a person and to wait for a person eagerly until they get to know that we are loving them, and that song is Radhe from the movie Ibbani Tabida Iliyali, that song extracts the feeling of a woman who is eagerly waiting to get loved by someone who she is truly in love with. There is a line called, in Kannada, I can't describe it in English, but she describes a person who she likes most.

Band 6-7

It is a poem I taught in my 6th class, so I'll get success one day. The poem itself is very easy one to sing. Our Hindi teacher taught that poem in a simple manner. The poem literally connected to my heart. In my 7th or 8th, I don't remember, I think I have sung that poem and won second prize in a singing competition conducted in our school. That day, I don't know that I am going to get a second prize about this poem, but somewhat I got a prize. Today, whenever anyone asks about any poem or something, I would literally say this thing. And whenever I talk to my friends, school friends or something, we still remember this. Because we 4 or 5 participated in a singing competition, I got second prize for singing Hum Honge Kamya. It means success, one day we will become success if we put hard work or something. And it has a lot of meaning, the poem has a lot of meaning. And today, currently, right now, I have a lot of songs, everything. Till now, it's quite a thing to remember since my childhood.

Band 6-7

a line from a song that has been stuck with me is a song Bengali song which was sang by sir Amitabh Bachchan which goes as which basically means that you don't need a crowd to follow you around if you want something you can do it alone I heard it him singing in a show called Kaun Banega Crorepati when I was a little girl around 13 to 14 years of age when I first heard it but it still sticks with me as I go through life and experience adulting which is you know sucks in its all different ways and there I've come across a lot of people in my life who are mean and they act according to their own terms which is true for a lot of people in this generation so moreover that song gave me a lot of confidence and self-importance in my life and I can do things alone whenever I go to mall or watch a movie by myself and I see other people in group I don't feel lonely I just recall and replay that line in my head and I feel better about of myself and I feel very confident and a lot of times in life I find myself alone and in tough positions in roads which were not chosen by a lot of people but that does not make me feel bad it just makes me different and unique in my own way so that song has been inspired me a lot and that has always stuck with me since I was a little girl till now

Band 6-7

So, to talk about a song that I remember from a film, it should be the Amma song from Guntur Akharam. I've heard the song recently, about, I've just heard the song a year ago in the film. I got very much connected to the song because the song, the lyrics in the song are just connected to me personally because I love my mother. The song is just about how parents are, when your parents leave you, the kind of drama that goes in your brain, the kind of emotions that run through your life, all of that are just, all of that just accumulated and the song is just the best one I've ever heard in recent times. And I also think, after watching the movie, the song has been even more special for me because there are a lot of things in the movie that I got connected to, just because of the real incidents that I faced in my life and also it made me a lot emotional because I felt like I'm the one, for me the song is made for. So, I think that song has really transformed my life after that. I've become very emotional, I've become very quiet after that. I even listen to the song enough and regularly as well, just to remind me of some fond memories of my past and things that happened a year or two ago. So this has been a very important song for me, however, I do like other songs as well which are action-oriented songs, but I think to mention one particular song that I love most, I think this would be the one that has created a magic in my life and has been throughout me all the time.

Band 6-7

When I am studying in 6th standard, my best friend Kavitha sing a song and I randomly heard that lyrics and I asked more about the song and she replied that he heard the song from her brother's phone. When I came back my home, I researched about this song in my computer. After that I heard this song again and again, somehow this song can boost my emotions and rising my dopamine level and I escaped from the worries and challenges that I faced in my daily life. And our annual day program, we practiced this song, Vaka Vaka, it's a pop song, we practiced and performed very well. But unfortunately some steps I forget, but she helped me and fostered me to do that program very well. After we step out from the dais, the teachers and other faculties applauded to us. I feel very glad, even today I remember that memory because my mom captured some videos of that program. And today I put on my whatsapp story for sending her birthday wishes, that's a beautiful unforgettable memory for me. I still sing that song while I am bathing, Samina mina, Vaka Vaka, the tune, the mellifluous voice of the singer and the charismatic performance while she is singing makes me more memorable and enjoy my childhood with that song, it's more perfection creating in my life.

Band 6-7

The line, if the world was ending, you would come over right, is a beautiful line from the song of Julia Roberts. The first time I heard it was when I was going through excruciating pain after my breakup. All the memories, all the void and emptiness that I felt during that breakup was conveyed with such elegance in this song. The line that says if the world would end represents the singer's pity and begging for a presence in their life and the next stanza that goes like you would come over right represents how they have faith in God.

Band 6-7

Okay, I do remember a line from a Hindi song. The line is kar har maidaan fateh. It means win every battle you fight. And it actually makes me feel so good because it motivates me a lot. It's actually from a movie named as Sanju and I really loved the movie and mainly because of this song and I heard it really a lot of times. Moreover, I would like to say it's a great song which can motivate you to do whatever you want to do in a good way and I love to hear each and every single line of this song and it's amazing. I mean it helps you a lot when you are in a depressed state. It actually makes you really motivated. I remember when I was in first year of my bachelor's degree, I was like really in a depressed state. So I heard this song multiple times in a day and I actually felt great because it is really like it has this song has great sense of touch and positivity. It has a great sense of positivity. It will make you feel amazing. I really like the song.

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