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Describe a natural talent you want to improve.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is it?
  • How do you want to improve it?
  • How do you feel about it?
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Cue 1:What is it?

  • Clearly identify the natural talent you possess and want to improve.
  • Provide a brief background on how you discovered this talent.

Example

I have a natural talent for playing the guitar. I first discovered this talent when I was in high school, as I could easily pick up songs by ear and play them without much effort.

Cue 2:How do you want to improve it?

  • Discuss specific methods or resources you plan to use for improvement.
  • Mention any goals or milestones you hope to achieve in your improvement journey.

Example

To improve my guitar skills, I plan to take online lessons from a professional instructor. I aim to practice for at least an hour every day and learn new techniques, such as fingerpicking and improvisation, to enhance my playing.

Cue 3:How do you feel about it?

  • Express your emotions regarding your talent and the desire to improve.
  • Reflect on any challenges or motivations that drive you to enhance this talent.

Example

I feel excited about the prospect of improving my guitar skills. However, I also feel a bit anxious because I know it will require dedication and hard work. The thought of being able to perform confidently in front of an audience motivates me to push through the challenges.

Conclusion

  • Summarize your main points succinctly.
  • Reiterate your enthusiasm for improving your talent.

Example

In conclusion, my natural talent for playing the guitar is something I truly cherish. By taking lessons and dedicating time to practice, I am eager to enhance my skills and hopefully perform in front of others one day.

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 Descriptions

Using vague language can make your answer unclear. Avoid general statements that do not provide specific details about your talent or improvement plans.

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Tip

Be specific about your talent. Describe it clearly and provide examples of how you plan to improve it.

2: Lack of Personal Connection

Failing to express your feelings about the talent can make your response less engaging. It's important to share your personal connection to the talent.

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Tip

Discuss why this talent matters to you and how it impacts your life. Share your emotions to make your answer more relatable.

Ignoring the Improvement Plan

Not explaining how you want to improve your talent can leave your answer incomplete. It's essential to show your commitment to growth.

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Tip

Outline specific steps you will take to improve your talent, such as taking classes or practicing regularly. This shows dedication.

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All Answers

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Band 6-7

So one talent that came naturally to me was astrology. No one taught me astrology. I just started learning astrology by watching YouTube videos and reading different different articles on Google. So to learn more about myself, my characteristics, my life, my life, I got interested into astrology. So one day when just a random video about Ketu Mahadasha popped up on my screen on YouTube and I could just correlate with that video and that got me interested to study more about astrology and it wasn't very difficult for me to be honest. Just by watching videos, I started to, you know, gain deep insight about what are the different houses, how the planets affect us, how we can improve ourselves, where we lack in our life. So yes, that's that's what just came. The astrology is something that comes naturally to me. And I guess if I take some formal education in that from a formal person, I guess I can do well and even I can make a career out of astrology in future. Yes, that's it.

Band 6-7

My natural talent is speaking and speaking has been my gift since childhood. I have been participating in many of the exercises that we get to participate while we are children and as we transition from children to adulthood like anchoring, presentation, speech competition and any other orator skills competition. I have been participating and winning those competitions. So I believe speaking is my natural talent and I would like to improve on that natural talent by learning to speak more coherently by doing practice of it by speaking to many people and connecting with people of different age groups as when we speak with many people we tend to listen to other people so that our own sentence structures improve and the emotion and storyline of the sentence itself improves a lot. And this I think will be very very useful for me when I connect with different people of different age group. I believe speaking has helped me in my life as it has made me more thankful towards what I have. When you start to speak and listen to various people you tend to realize that you have been given more than you could ever have wanted for yourself and you feel thankful towards God for giving everything that we have.

Band 6-7

As far as I know, I got a natural talent to cook and actually taste the food. I think they are both two different things, but yeah, I have a natural talent for that. Like usually when I cook or when I have a tasting of some other food or some other chef's food, I usually go in detail where everything goes. Like I can literally taste it on my tongue, every single ingredient that has been in the certain dish. So I want to build on it. I want to improve my cooking as well as improve the notes I take. I want to improve my cooking by going to classes or even cook more. Like I didn't get time for it, but in the next few months I want to focus on it. I want to improve on it. It's a menial task, but yeah, I want to excel in it. Like you know, a good cook is a woman's dream. So yeah, that's what I want to do and that's it.

Band 6-7

So from a very young age my natural talent was sketching as I was very fond of sketching from a very young age and I have participated in lots of competitions in my school time and in my college as well. And always like I try to improve myself in the field as I get some of my leisure time so I try to like improve my skills, draw rough sketches and draw anime figures and lots of portraits that I have drawn in my free time. And I want to be like these lots of legends for example Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso they are quite legends in this field and the work of theirs is totally impeccable. Similarly I want to draw something like that and want to improve myself and how I am going to do this is like I told you like I was in my free time like I used to draw and draw rough sketches, figures and daily I try to improve myself like drawing some of the sketches with like a drawing pencil and all that. Or do some shading and like work on stuff through my YouTube I learn some of the skills and it totally comes to me natural like somebody asked me how do you draw this and it generally speaking it comes to me naturally as I draw and it really feels like makes me happy to like draw something or to sketch something and makes me happy for that. And yeah if I could get lot of time so I totally want to improve in it.

Band 6-7

Hi, my natural talent of improving is on drawing. There are many parts in drawing such as 2D drawing, 3D drawing and modeling. The drawing helps in improving our visual and creativity and also the plan and interest. This drawing helps in improving the understanding of a model. So I think improving the drawing as well as designing new ideas will help people. So design means generating a 2D model or a 3D model. Similarly, testing and stimulation is also a natural talent like how the design should be made and how it will affect the scenario like 2D like the road or the safety. For example, to design a car there are many different types. Understanding the need, I would like to create more drawings and sketches which help in improving the life of individuals.

Band 6-7

I'm not very, to be really honest, I'm not very talented in many things, but I must say I have a gifted hand in art. I remember I used to draw some paintings and some geometrical art when I was in middle school and it turned out pretty well. But when, but after that I tried the watercolors and I realized I'm not very good with it, but I love colors and I want to try that thing again and again and I'm still improving it. I remember when I completed my 12th standard studies, I used to, I took some tuitions for the color painting and water painting just to learn that and to improve that and to improve my talent. Although I'm very good at lines and the teacher is near to us and he teaches me everything and he puts all his efforts to teach me water painting, but I couldn't do it. And I still want to improve that all. Overall, I feel very grateful that I'm good in arts because not many people have a gifted nature in the art and drawing, but I still want to improve that because I love doing art and paintings and playing with colors.

Band 6-7

So, I was very much eager to understand about the speaking part. In my native, I just want to improve a natural talent of speaking with my fluency because I was supposed to improve my public speaking skills and leadership skills in my organization and also I need to improve in the level of scale from my position. So I was highly involved on this to improve. So for that I was choosing the platform as a Toastmaster club which is one of the most famous club for the speaking peoples and it's also improve a lot for the social connect and improving the challenges with the peoples. So there is a medium to connect with the Toastmaster club is by using the online and social media and there is several platform to connect even live meet they are conducting so that we can go and join with them and improve our communication skills. So by that what is enumerant level of energy we are getting is public speaking improvement and we are naturally speaking to the strangers even unknown peoples and interacting with the lots of members over the club that was giving a good and huge experience for us to improve our speaking skills and also we are getting much more fluency over there some of the native speakers we are getting a connect and networking is happening so that was really a good platform I would say and by that where I can study some more materials like reading lots of topics about speaking strategies and listening lots of podcast and audio books to improve my speaking skills and also I would do a lots of practice in my home daily basis to improve my speaking skills. This is the natural talent on myself I would like to improve my own. Thank you.

Band 6-7

So, my natural talent is dancing. I don't know if it is exactly my natural talent from birth but I have a lot of interest towards dancing and always wanted to pursue my career in dancing. However, my studies and all the high pressure from academic section gave me less time to enjoy more and continue my hobby as dancing. I want to improve it more so that I can feel content. After my completion of JEE advanced and mains, I entered engineering and now I have a lot of free time which I can definitely use to improve my talent or my hobby. But all the necessary things required is just time management. Time management is something that I am terrible at. So, I think that is the first thing I have to adjust to make sure that I can improve whatever I want to. Then I have to be consistent in that. I have to practice daily to improve anything, not only dancing or anything. So, to be good at what we want to do, we have to do every day, we have to be consistent. And also if we just dance to the songs which makes us feel more energetic and better, like which makes us feel that we can do better, are the songs which I would like to dance to mostly. So, yeah, I think dance is my natural talent which I wanted to improve.

Band 6-7

My natural talent is to write. I love writing and I want to improve it by doing some few courses on creative writing, on analytical writing. The idea of pursuing this is that not everybody is so good at expressing their thoughts into words. It's a natural talent that I feel I have. I love putting my thoughts into words. I keep writing journals and my everyday journal diary has thoughts ranging from 5 sentences to 50 pages. Doing some courses on writing maybe can help me structure my thoughts in a beautiful way so that I can someday publish a book of my own and can use this naturally gifted talent in a better way. A lot of people in this world I know who can speak well, who can talk well, who can suggest well, but they can't really put in their thoughts on the paper. And hence those writers who write their thoughts beautifully are the ones that I really feel a deep admiration for because obviously writing is a beautiful skill and not everybody has it. It's a tough one to even build because it has to come naturally from within. Practice cannot make one a better writer. It's a natural gift.

Band 6-7

My natural talent that I've always wanted to improve was writing poetry. It has always been my passion and I discovered writing poetry when I was really young. I remember writing it on a moon while looking at it and it's been quite a joyous thing to show it to my mother and her being really happy. I remember those. It's still fresh in my mind, you know. So, yes. I believe that my natural talent is writing poems. I knew that I've had it since childhood. The first poem that I've ever written was based on the moon. I really loved moons, so I wrote a poem based on it and I showed it to my mother. She was really impressed by it. We got it published in a school magazine and that's when I started developing on it and I started writing abstract poems and poems that are free verse. It was pretty deep. I really liked analyzing my environment and putting my feelings and emotions into words. It turned out amazing. People loved it. I also eventually made that into a book called Her Tainted Soul and it's published on Amazon, Flipkart and the Bookleaf Publishers website. So, yes. It's been quite a pleasure going through this journey. I hope to expand on this talent more by publishing my book worldwide and writing more poems and making my book a little more famous than it should be right now because I haven't really promoted my book till now. I wish to promote it soon when I publish it globally.
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