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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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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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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

A movie that comes to mind that I watched recently is Kalki. It is the name of a god. So basically Vishnubhagwan, which translates to Vishnugod, he has ten reincarnations and Kalki is supposed to be the tenth reincarnation of his that comes to the earth to protect us humans from bad influences and demons. So this movie Kalki is about the tenth reincarnation of Vishnubhagwan. It's loosely based on the mythology that has been written in our ancient scriptures but it also includes the director's ideas, how he portrays the god, how he thinks the god can personalize into a human. So the movie starts before the god is born and how things go, how the world has changed so drastically from what it is now. There's a lot of drought, there's a lot of scarcity for food, people fight for just one drop of water and...

Band 6-7

I am very introvert in nature so I have very few friends. One of them is Abhay who is moving abroad for his master. So I decided to give him a fantastic farewell party. I still remember the school picnic where we went to watch the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. This was the picnic where my friendship with Abhay started. So I decided we will re-watch this movie on Netflix to relive the nostalgic memory. As the matter of fact, the movie is contained three friends only deciding they will go abroad travelling. The movie tells about the importance of travelling at good company which can enhance positively and bear out all the negativity in our life. My favourite scene in this movie when those three friends go to a deep sea diving as I am very keen into water related activities as well. And the poetry is the surplus. I still remember the line that is in my native language, Agar tum zindagi ko ghabara ke jiyoge toh zindagi tumhe ghabara ke jeene lagegi. If you don't live the life the fullest, you will regret the life to the fullest. That was it means. So when we were watching this movie, me and Abhay decided that we gonna re-create this memory for sure. After he completed his master, we will go on the same location and will create this scene and post it on our Instagram account. The movie plays an important role in my life because through that movie I got one of the pearls in my life that is Abhay which I going to miss him a lot.

Band 6-7

Yes, the movie which I watched recently is Vida Muyechi. The English translation for this movie is Don't Quit. And why I enjoyed this movie? Why I enjoyed this movie? The main reason why I enjoyed this movie is the hero Ajit. I am a great fan of Ajit Kumar. And why I am a great fan of Ajit Kumar? The main reason is he has been a great motivating factor in my life. Why? He has been a great motivating factor in my life because he has left his peak cinematic career to focus in his passion. And he also succeeded in his passion. Recently he had placed second place in World Formula 2 Championship which is held at Dubai. And also I like the heroine actress, that is the actress Trisha. Trisha has been a great lady, brave lady in the Tamil cinematography field. And this movie shows the passion and the motivating factor to all the husband and wife to withstand their relationship. I watched this movie recently with my friends. We really enjoyed this movie. Actually really the movie is not that hit by paper but it's a good movie to watch. You can go and chill with your friends and watch this movie. It will be good. And also the comedian in this movie is Suri. He has done a great work and the cinematography in this movie was top notch. And the director has a very key part to be played. And his idea and presence gives a great success to this movie.

Band 6-7

The movie I watched recently is titled Sookshma Darshani, directed by Basil Joseph. Okay, movies are really good for relaxation and rejuvenating our mind. So, the movie we, our hostel mates, together went to see in Palak Sea Theatres, located in Korikor. So, the movie was just a mere happenstance. And, yeah, the synopsis were entirely different from the movie we usually see in Malayalam movies. So, on thinking about the synopsis, the movie attempted to give a parental guidance, the importance of parental guidance people have to need in their life. Sometimes people get some bad qualities from their parents and rely on them too much and get bad habits in their life. And, oh my God! Movies are meant for relaxation for someone, but for other people, I believe, they take it as some kind of admiration of their favourite actors. So, the movie one I watched recently is named Sookshma Darshani, directed by Basil Joseph. So, thinking about the incident, yes, we had hostel mates from our hostel to watch the movie in Palak Sea Theatres, located in Korikor. The show was really interesting and I was stunned by the making and the acting of the characters. The main lead was led by Basil Joseph, Naseer Nasim and other two characters. So, yeah, the plot was entirely different from the stereotypical characters and synopsis we have usually seen in films. And, it also tried to give relevance to the parental guidance. And, people sometimes get spoiled by their guidance from their parents and elders. And, people try to corner the love and the lesbianism in this modern world. And, it is depicted clearly how they should be handled out. So, it is a crime thriller, but the humour part is also there in terms of subtle kind of involvement.

Band 6-7

I went to watch a movie named as Interested Hour around one week ago. I watched it in cinemas and this was not a first release of this movie. This movie was released a few years ago, honestly, and I watched it even back then. I was a child when this movie was new. But when I heard that this movie is getting released again in cinemas, I was fascinated and excited at the same time. I watched this movie around a week ago. I went with my father to the cinemas and the reason that I went with my father to watch this particular movie is that he, just like me, is fascinated about space, black holes and time. These are sci-fi topics but they exist in real life as well. So basically this movie is based on space. There is a main character who agrees to become an astronaut, travel through a black hole and go to a particular planet in order to check whether or not that planet is habitable or it can be a replacement for Earth or not. The part that I really love about this movie is that it serves as a great example for how humans and their relation can turn out to be if we ever figure out how we can time travel. The particular thing that I liked about this movie is that first of all I have interest in space so I was going to like it anyways and second thing is this movie is very unique and there is no other movie like this movie in my knowledge.

Band 6-7

I recently watched Daku Maharaj movie in theatre along with my family and this is because of the movie is all about father and daughter relations and brother and sister relation. The sister promised to brother to look after her daughter in future and I watched this movie because of famous music director called Kaman. He has very superb taste in music. He directs all the movies and I want to experience his music direction so I go there and I watched that movie and we enjoyed a lot. There are so many dialogues that are related to our Indian culture and our Indian relationships. The bond between the brother and sister has shown in the film with very good information. There are four songs in that movie, all are good but the sound is very much high. I wish I don't go to that movie because of that high experience of music. I go there and I get a headache so it's a horrible experience to me and I was very disappointed and we all watched this film in Pongal holidays. This is all the experience of my movie.

Band 6-7

There are many movies that one likes to watch. Some people prefer watching movies at theatres while some prefer to just open Netflix and then binge-watch movies. But for me, I am the person in the second category. But there was this one movie named Kal Ho Na Ho. It had re-released in theatres and I went with my father to watch that movie. Initially, my mother was also joining us to watch the movie but due to some unforeseen circumstances she couldn't join so me and my father went to the movie theatre and of course it was a romantic comedy movie and moreover I love the actor and the songs are a plus in the movie. So the movie was about a guy who comes as a guardian angel in a girl's life who is very simple, a girl next door and she feels that she is hard to love and when the guy enters her life she feels that, he makes her realize that no she is not hard to love and life is very beautiful and you should live it to the fullest because you never know if there's a tomorrow or not as Kal Ho Na Ho, that's what it means. So this is the movie that stuck with me and this is my comfort movie and I like to watch it every time I feel low and every time I feel that I need to watch this watch movie and just feel good about life and yes this is my comfort movie.

Band 6-7

I watched a movie called Interstellar previous week in our theatre, the Interstellar is a 2016 movie but it is re-released due to its demand in the public especially in India and this movie is mostly based on the end of humanity and how earth can restore itself, it basically revolves around the gravity, the protagonist is trying to solve the gravity equation, while her dad is out in the space mission, she is trying to solve the gravity equation and when he went into the event horizon of the black hole, he could access many inner dimensions that are in the universe, so he would send some clues in the form of message to his daughter, it helps her to solve the gravity equation and saving earth from the disasters, therefore Interstellar is a great movie, it is intellectually challenging to watch and also it feels great seeing an incredibly crafted movie that is critically acclaimed in the world.

Band 6-7

The latest movie that I watched was Loving the Other Drugs. It's a movie featuring Brian Gosling and Anne Hathaway, two of my most favourite actors of all time. I often find myself re-watching my comfort movies and this definitely stands out as one of my most comfort watch. What I really love about the movie is the simplicity of it. The genre most significantly is somewhere juggling between a rom-com of sorts and an emotional drama and it very well unfolds into the intricacies of a relationship and it talks about modern day love and how there's still hope in actually finding real love. So that is something I really really admire about the movie. What is also a very good plus point is that it has an amazing album with some of the most beautiful background music curated for an extraordinary experience. More often than not, I find myself revisiting the movie and its songs over and over again and always find myself smiling over the sheer thought of what a good love story would look like. So that is something I absolutely adore about the movie. Coming to the main point, Loving the Other Drugs is one of the best movies you could actually watch. This is family-friendly, you can watch it in any mood at any time and is most importantly available on OTT platforms, which is so important.

Band 6-7

I watched a movie called Galalika Neeramalai, which is acted by the actor Jayam Ravi and Nitya Menon. It was a feel-good movie to be watched and I watched it with my brother and because he was there, boring, so we decided to watch the movie and the reason behind watching the movie is I heard about the movie in some social medias, so I wanted, I just wanted to watch it because I was curious about it. And in the movie, I got an information, like I got a new thinking about the son and the mother relationship and about the knowledge about the surrogacy of the mother, like father is unknown for that child and later he realizes about his father, Jayam Ravi, while the mother was searching for the father previously and she left when the years passed by, unfortunately they met in an accident, like in an office meeting and they had a good relationship. Jayam Ravi used to teach football to that child and he took him to the home place where his grandfather was teaching him football and it was a good movie.
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