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Describe a movie you watched recently: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • When and where you watched it
  • Who you watched it with
  • What it was about
  • And explain why you watched this movie
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Cue 1:When and where you watched it

  • Start by mentioning the date and location where you watched the movie.
  • Include any relevant details about the environment, such as whether it was in a theater or at home.

Example

I watched the movie 'Chhichhore' last Saturday at a local cinema in my neighborhood. It was a cozy afternoon, and the theater was almost full, which added to the excitement of the experience.

Cue 2:Who you watched it with

  • Mention the people you were with and your relationship to them.
  • Share any interesting anecdotes about your time together during the movie.

Example

I went to see the movie with my college friends, Riya and Aman. We hadn’t met in a while, so it was a great opportunity to catch up and reminisce about our college days while enjoying the film.

Cue 3:What it was about

  • Give a brief summary of the movie's plot without revealing any spoilers.
  • Highlight the main themes or messages that resonated with you.

Example

The movie revolves around the lives of a group of friends who navigate the ups and downs of college life. It beautifully portrays themes of friendship, resilience, and the importance of not giving up, which really struck a chord with me.

Cue 4:And explain why you watched this movie

  • Share your motivation for choosing this particular movie.
  • Mention any recommendations or reviews that influenced your decision.

Example

I chose to watch 'Chhichhore' because I had heard great reviews from my friends and read about its inspiring storyline. I was also in the mood for a light-hearted yet meaningful film, and this one seemed perfect.

Conclusion

  • Summarize your overall impression of the movie.
  • Mention whether you would recommend it to others and why.

Example

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed 'Chhichhore' and found it to be both entertaining and thought-provoking. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a feel-good movie that also delivers a powerful message about life and friendship.

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: Avoid Vague Descriptions

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

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Include specific scenes, character names, or memorable quotes to make your description vivid and interesting.

2: Don't Rush Your Response

Speaking too quickly can lead to unclear pronunciation and missed details. It may also make it difficult for the examiner to follow your thoughts.

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Tip

Take your time to think about your answer and speak at a moderate pace, pausing briefly between points to enhance clarity.

Neglecting Personal Connection

Failing to explain why you watched the movie can make your response feel incomplete. Personal connections add depth and interest to your answer.

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Tip

Share your reasons for choosing the movie, such as recommendations, reviews, or personal interests, to create a more engaging narrative.

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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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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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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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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

Recently I watched Pushpa 2. I watched this in theater like IMAX with my friends. Why I watched this movie because I watched it first part 1. That is also very hit movie. And again that is why I watched Pushpa 2. It is also very good. Suspense story, action level, romance, songs and everything is there in this movie. That is why this movie got very hit and very good actor like Allu Arjun. And actress like Rashmika. They all are like very good actress. And the movie also very good and song was also very nice. And in that movie like item song was done by Shreya Leela and her steps also very good. And the movie is about doing like illegal things on Chandan tree. I think you know like Chandan tree have to supply from other state to this state to other state. And police force is there to stop them and fully force and political. But this Allu Arjun used to like do every different ideas to get to transfer these items to other state. Because of his ideas and all the story is very good and the movie got like super duper hit. And they have collected number of money collection in a box office with the help of the story. And they are ready for the Pushpa 3 also and I am very excited to watch it.

Band 6-7

So, one of the recent movies which I watched recently is known as Amaran. I watched this movie last month and I watched it in a nearby multiplex theater called PVR near my house. I watched it with my cousins. We had gone to a night show on a weekend on a Saturday night. We first came across this film, actually my sister first came across this film when she saw good reviews in all platforms from different states. It is basically a Tamil movie. It is about a real life soldier who sacrifices his life in order to save the innocent lives of the citizens of Kashmir occupied Pakistan by terrorists. It is actually a love story but it is presented in such a beautiful way that it makes anyone very very emotional. It also, by the end of the film we will be left with a sense of determination and courage to achieve the things we want. The strong determination of the soldier to achieve what he wants has been depicted beautifully which we can also apply in our life. It also has a love story which is shown very beautifully and romantically and the way he teaches his child to stay brave and strong even if he passes away and how the wife and the child follows that when the situation happens in real life is something very beautiful.

Band 6-7

So, I recently watched this movie called Me Before You. It was recommended by my sister. So we decided to catch up on a movie on this weekend and then we sat down and watched that movie. It's a very beautiful movie that describes how dynamic life is and how, you know, things can be very tricky, the way things change, nothing is constant basically. And how just one person with a unique positive or optimistic aura can create such positivity in that short time. So we watched because it was a pretty soft and a very meaningful movie. So the things that really caught my eye or, you know, helped me understand or get a deeper view of it was that, you know, so in the movie the guy actually loses his hands and he's basically paralyzed. This man being the most active person who loved to do so many physical activities like trekking, going out for walks, running, playing sports, when this specific incident happens to him, it completely changes the trajectory of his life and then looking at himself in that condition, he gets in a zone where he doesn't feel like he should live anymore. So that's when, you know, to take care of him, there's another character that is introduced and she gets a job as a caretaker for this person. This girl is the most joyful, happy-go-lucky kind of a girl who has such good positivity in the way she is.

Band 6-7

Recently I watched a Malayalam movie called Sookshma Darshini. The translation of the title Sookshma Darshini means magnifying glass. This movie was released about 2-3 months before and I really wanted to watch this in the theatre but I couldn't find any free time to watch it. So when I got a free time in the weekend I watched it in the OTT. This movie was a spectacular thriller. I couldn't imagine the ending would be this ending because the twists and turns of this movie was written explicitly thrilling. The writer was so thoughtful of every eye-catching moment. This movie was about how a lesbian daughter of a family was kidnapped and actually she was murdered in that movie by her own family. The whole movie is like this family trying to showcase a good behaviour or a good image in front of the neighbours while they are doing all this kidnapping and murdering in the behind. The neighbour of this family is one lady called Priya and she has this magnifying eyes. That's the irony of this title. She would find out what is happening there and she has this knack to find out everything, every clues that they have left behind. She suspects something is wrong there and then she later on finds out that this is all about the kidnapping and killing of their own daughter.

Band 6-7

Movies are very close to my heart. I like to watch movies. I started watching movies when I moved with my friends during my college days. The movie that I watched recently was a couple of days back, to be more specific on Jan 2nd weekend. I watched it with my mother as well as with my brother. We watched it online by sitting at home only. My brother had a subscription to Netflix. The movie was named like The Day of End. The main character in that movie was James John. He is an English actor who is well known for his famous works. The film was directed by George Washer. He is also really artistic. The story speaks about a young man. It shows a story from his childhood days. The boy is an orphanage child. He could not come up through his struggles. His parents abandoned him. He suffered a lot during his childhood days. He struggled and passed out from college with outstanding marks because of the orphanage team members. The cinematography as well as the videography was excellent. It inspired me a lot.

Band 6-7

Ok, recently I have not watched a movie, but I watched a TV series at home with my wife. I watched it in last week weekends and the movie was and the series was about the squid game where there are various kind of games and they have to play for some kind of prize there and if we lose a game then the elimination is directly we are dead there. So they eliminated the participants by killing them or shooting with a gun. So it was a great movie to watch, the concept and the direction of the movie was great. The reason behind watching this series was I was curious about the series, everyone was talking about it, it was a trending over media, social media and my friends also suggested you should watch it once and when I watched it, it was worth watching. It have tremendous scenes there, we are sitting on the edge of a seat while watching this series. There are some scenes which are horror, some scenes which gives us goosebumps there. So it was great watching it and as I watched with my wife, she also appreciated the movie and besides that she loved it and we are hoping to see the season 3 soon and we eager to watch the season 3 because it is going to release this year as we have checked all the resources online, they are claiming that the series of season 3 will be released this year. So I am very happy to watch that too.

Band 6-7

The movie that I watched recently is Lucky Baskar, which is directed by Raghu Baskar, which is very much interesting movie. I watched it on 27th of July, 2024 on my father's birthday, where me and my family went to watch the film in movie theatre. It's a great experience with my family and by watching the movie too. Actually the movie resembles the thing that getting the money quickly by smart work and by gambling. In the movie, the narrator scripted that the main character is a bank employee where he owns a building and he has many debts to pay. So once a day, a gambling member comes and asks for him to give the loan because he is a bank manager. Then he gives the bank loan after many times. Then he gets some reward by giving the loan without any interest. So this happened and the gambling increased and he became a multi-millionaire by investing money in share markets and however he stopped doing everything after his father said to stop the things that he is doing and he just went to the USA and started a new life there with a money of 100 crores. This movie is very inspiring and also...

Band 6-7

Well, recently I got a chance to watch this movie called Jeans. It's a pretty old movie. The movie was released like even before I was born. I watched this movie just because there is a song in this movie which I really wanted to listen from a long time. I remember listening this song a lot, hearing it in my childhood in like events, competitions. This song was like everywhere. It was a huge hit when I was a little child. And I don't know like few days ago, I just got a glimpse of this song out of nowhere. I remember hearing it somewhere and then it got stuck in my mind like for a couple of days. And on one day I decided to just open and watch that movie. And I watched it alone on YouTube on a weekend in the evenings. It's about twin brothers and that twin brothers had like a very strict father. And the main part is Aishwarya Rai. She's such an amazing actress in that movie. She got that whole kind of style in that movie like even nowadays it's very fashion. She wore amazing outfits. The movie was literally so great. I can't believe that it was shot long back then. Even today if that kind of movie is released, it's going to be a huge hit. And the story is all about Aishwarya Rai liking one of the twin brothers. And apparently the brothers fathers want these twin brothers to marry twin sisters. But Aishwarya Rai and that one of the twin brothers liked both of them a lot. So it's all about how they are going to convince or what are the tactics they play to get married to each other. It's such an amazing movie.

Band 6-7

I've seen a lot of movies in my life but today I'm going to talk about one of the movie that I recently watched and the name of the movie was Sindhi Ki Na Milegi Dubara it was released in the year 2013 but I didn't got a chance to watch it out I don't know how I missed this movie three days back I was just browsing out Netflix out there and all of sudden it appeared on my timeline I called out my friend that if this movie is watchable or not and he suggested me that it is a must watch and he was surprised like how I haven't watched this movie yet so I started watching it the movie was all about three characters who were going to the bachelor trip the three characters hadn't met over a longer period of time and it was very important and crucial for them to at least meet now because at the end of the day you should definitely give some time to your closer ones. The movie was well directed by Zoya Akhtar and the characters were Arjun, Raj and Vijne. The movie had a lot of things that definitely motivates you out about your life you should be more courageous you should not forsake any kind of task however there was a one character who was not that great I hated that character a lot it was kind of fractious in nature hopefully I think I will definitely rewatch and suggest this movie to the others too because at the end of the day it was very courageous it engaged us through his songs the storyline was well depicted the screenplay was quite good the songs of the movies were actually best I would say I haven't heard such kind of songs in my life one of the best song out there was Zindagi Na Milegi Tabara and that was one of the best I would say

Band 6-7

A movie I recently watched is Daku Maharaj in Pallavi theatre which is in Guntur. I went for this movie with my friend Chaitanya. He is like my brother. I always feel like that only. For that movie we went to Benfict show. We said cock and bull stories to our family and at 3 o'clock I went to that movie. Early morning 3 o'clock in that cool breeze in winter we went to that movie. I felt very happy. It was my first Benfict show which I used to watch. It took Bhaliya movie, Bhaliya Jai Bhaliya. It's a vibe, no? So I felt very happy in that movie. That movie is all about relations and about life. How to value for relations and how important relations was. How important to maintain the bonds in our life. It's all about, movie is all about that. In break I used to eat my favorite egg puff that fulfilled my dream of watching Benfict show. Before going to that movie we watched some reviews in social media. I thought like I should go, I should go, I should go. I finally went to the Benfict show of the movie. Moreover we used to watch My Brother's Status also. He is living abroad. He watched it first time only.
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