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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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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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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.

All Answers

Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

Band 6-7

Since my childhood, I have watched a lot of movies of genres such as fictional and non-fictional. Watching movies make me relax myself in a way no other can. So, the movie that I would like to talk about that I watched recently, the name of the movie is Fast and Furious 10. I watched the movie on a platform called Netflix which was recently released 2 weeks ago. So, I watched Fast and Furious 10 with my friends named Abhishek and Harvis as they both are car enthusiasts as well as me as well. So, the movie is about a group of people who are into car modifications and are their enthusiast. One of the most favorite part of the movie according to me is

Band 6-7

The movie which I watched recently was Avengers. I watched that movie in my house and sitting with my friends like my friends like two of my friend classmates were sitting with me. The movie was about the superheroes which includes all the superheroes and the characters which the production contains and the movie was about the fiction about the science fiction in which the superheroes save the world and try to take back the world that has been vanished and why I watch this movie because I like the action scene and the VFX in the movie and I wanted to watch this movie again because of the VFX. The movie was also when or where, with whom, about and why. The movie which I watched recently was about the superhero fiction movie which was also called as the Avengers Endgame. I watched this movie in my house with a few of my classmates. The movie which I watched recently was the Avengers Endgame. I watched this movie with some of my friends. They were also my classmates like two of them were sitting with me and when and where. It was around 3 o'clock p.m. when we start the movie and at my house sitting in the backyard of my house. The movie which I recently watched was the Avengers Endgame. I watched that movie with my friends in backyard of my house. There were also my family members sitting with us. The movie which I watched recently was the Avengers Endgame. I watched that movie with my friends and my family members in the backyard of my house. We were sitting and enjoying our talks and it was around 3 p.m. noon when we started the movie and we all were sitting together and enjoying our part of life and also we were enjoying the movie. There were also some of my local friends and my brothers and sisters. There were around the 20 of peoples sitting and watching the movie on the projector. The movie was about the superhero fiction movie which includes the VFX and science fictions. The movie was about the superheroes who are trying to fight a villain who has just vanished half of the population and superheroes were trying to bring them back and it was all about the collecting and gathering the stones which were also called as infinity stones and try to bring back the half of the population. The reason I watched this movie was because I liked the VFX that has been created in the movie. I liked the superheroes and their powers, how they try to defeat the villain, how they try to make a team together, how they try to fight the villain and it gives a good message in case for humanity also and a team effort also and it is also a very beautiful movie. Thank you.

Band 6-7

I don't know why I am getting milk I watched this movie based on the reviews I received from my close friends who said the movie to be rather interesting it was a ray of shine among the increasing sub graded plots hence and I found it to be quite inspiring and interesting it tells the story of Major Mukund Varadarajan and his military exploits not only that it also covers his personal struggles another point which I found to be quite interesting is the way these two different elements are connected together and flow seamlessly the integration of fight scenes and songs are not unnecessary since they are flowing into the story and are not standout parts which I found to be a positive aspect of the film overall I would definitely recommend everybody to watch this movie it was not only inspiring but also quite awe-inspiring

Band 6-7

Recently I watched one of the Bollywood movie that is name is Thachiladathuchundan and with my family I watched this film because it is a nice drama and my kids like this movie very much because this is actually a story about the village of one woman and one boy and my children like that movie very much and that is the reason they compelled us to watch this movie because in addition they got knowledge from the school, some of the friends watched this movie and they said about this movie to our kids, they came to home and they said they want to watch the movie, so we watched together in the night together, so it was a very nice and wonderful movie, after the seeing this movie we were in over the moon.

Band 6-7

A recent movie that I watched is the movie named as Green Mile. It is a story based upon a Negro who has a supernatural power and he has been detained in the central jail of London for the wrongdoings that he was charged for. So this remains a question till the last of the movie that whether or not that crime was actually committed by him or it was a planned murder that he has been gotten into. So I watched this movie alone at home on my Netflix account and it talks about the mishappening that basically goes around in the central jail of London. And as an individual, I would recommend everyone to watch that movie if you are into the movies that have deeper meaning and that can leave a saddest mark on your personality and it influences you to do the acts of humanity even after you have been through a lot and emotionally it was a really traumatizing movie and it was also recommended to me by the Netflix under the head that saddest movie of all times. One of the main lessons that I think everyone should learn from that movie is that how humanity and humility from a person can change even the most adamant person ever you could ever imagine. Also, I recommend everyone to watch that movie. One reason being in today's world there is a lot of competition among the fellow mates so we should at least watch movie that puts an optimistic impact on everyone.

Band 6-7

I recently watched a movie of Manoj Kumar, who became an IAS officer. So the movie started with a child and his brother. They were in a town and there was a concept of cheating and passing the exams. But that year, they failed the exams because there was no cheating in 11th. So the movie name is Gyaare Bhi Fail. They met the DSP there and the DSP stated Manoj, if you want success in life, don't do cheating and you will be a success. After that, he went with all the collection of his grandmother for the preparation of Bihar Public Service exam. But that year, the exam was cancelled. So he caught a man in the bus stop and the man said him about the IAS preparation. With that, he made a friend on the bus stand. He went to Delhi. He had no idea about UPSC. So he understood the exam and the power of IAS officer. After talking to some people over there, he found out that you have to crack the exam and it is quite costly to live in Delhi. So he rented a room and worked in the library for part-time job. After that, he worked very hard to earn to live there in Delhi and afford the books. He met very good people and friends who supported his journey. He met a girl in the coaching institute where he worked. They fell in love and the girl supported her. He failed in first attempt and the next attempt he failed due to silly mistakes like he was confused in pollution and population. After that, after huge efforts, he went successful.

Band 6-7

Last week a new movie just got released on Netflix. It's called Lucky Basker. So my family and me decided to watch it on a Saturday night. It's based on an average bank manager, bank assistant who uses all his skills such as making scams, collecting fixed deposits from the customers and all, and raising the ladder to the bank manager level and all the scams he has done as a bank manager. Finally when he got caught, he amassed around 100 crores of rupees and bought a nice hotel and restaurant in USA and moved over there before anybody found it. It's based on the story which happened in 1991. As you all know, Harshad Mehta who was a scamster in those days, it is related to that story. It was a really nice movie and my family and me enjoyed it a lot since it contained a lot of drama, a lot of funny things and emotional sequences. He was very poor from the beginning and he didn't have any money to afford even a bicycle and scooter for his son. Because of that desperate situation, he wanted to earn money quickly and went into that form of earning money, like scamming the people with those money. He created fake bonds and signed the fake government bonds so that he can sell it on the stock market to get more money.

Band 6-7

Recently, on my last weekend, on day of Sunday, I watched a movie called Pushpa at a nearby mall. I watched that movie with my friends, my four college friends, and the movie was about smuggling of a particular tree, which was illegal, but they were doing the smuggling. And I watched that movie because on the last last weekend, I have my exam, so to relieve all the stress due to that exam, I watched that movie to get some relaxation and also to distract, distract from the problem. And also my friend told me to watch that movie so that we can spend our time together. Thank you.

Band 6.5

So, I watched a movie called Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. The movie was extraordinary. You know, the characters, all the characters there were outstanding, especially the Count's character which was written in such a beautiful manner, even though he was a very tragic figure in the movie. It was outstanding. I watched it with my friend, who shares similar interests like me. And we were equally, you know, thrilled to watch the movie. It was such a beautiful revenge story, I would say rather a justice film, which made a huge impact on me. And yeah, it was quite beautiful. Recently, I watched Count of Monte Cristo, so one evening I and my friend sort of planned to watch a movie and we gathered everybody around us and we went to our room and we searched for the movie. I think it was in Amazon Prime and we took the movie and we started to sort of understand why this movie is one of the most beautiful films ever made, at least in my opinion. So I watched it with my friends and I don't think if they liked it or not because for me it was one of the best movies ever I watched. The movie incidentally contains a plot which is beautiful, you know. The count who was tragically arrested and after many, many years he gets released and he goes out and he wants to seek justice and the way he seeks justice, right, it is one of the most beautiful way you can possibly sort of get that. And even the costumes in the film, outstanding. All the costumes were given attention to detail, the hat of the count, the moustache, the other characters like Hilde and her dress and it was very good. As if the characters written by Alexander Dumas was made to appear on the screen as it is, straight from the novel. So it was one of the most extraordinary pieces of work I have seen in recent years and quietly so it has a high rating also. So yeah.

Band 6

Yeah, I recently watched a movie Pushpa 2, the most pan-India movie across the world. Recently, I watched the movie nearby my home, like in the theater. I went to the movie with my friends and colleagues. The main purpose of watching the movie is that in the movie, the hero used to smuggle the illegal items to other countries. So, in the process, the police and other people try to catch him. It is the most pan-India movie. The budget of the movie is around 500 crores and the collection is about 2000 cr. It's the world's highest collection in the first movie in the world. In the movie, some particular scenes and shots are very natural. And the hero's acting is also very clear. Maybe he also receives a Filmfare Award for his acting. His acting is such a marvelous acting. And coming to the heroine, Rashmika Mandana, she is very attractive. She attracts people very well in the movie. And by the dialogues and by the dance, whatever it may be, she attracts the people very well from the movie. And while going to the songs, all the songs are good. But basically, the most songs, some scenes are usually created a lot of impact on the movie. And the BGM is also very good.
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