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Describe a person from whom others like to ask for advice: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who this person is
  • Why people like to ask for his/her advice
  • What kind of advice he/she often gives
  • And explain how you feel about the person
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Cue 1:Who this person is

  • Introduce the person by name and relationship to you.
  • Mention their profession or role in the community.

Example

The person I would like to talk about is my uncle, Rajesh. He is a retired school principal and has always been a pillar of support in our family.

Cue 2:Why people like to ask for his/her advice

  • Highlight his qualities that make him approachable and trustworthy.
  • Discuss his experience and knowledge that adds value to his advice.

Example

People like to ask my uncle for advice because he is very patient and listens carefully. His extensive experience in education gives him a unique perspective, and he always provides practical solutions.

Cue 3:What kind of advice he/she often gives

  • Specify the areas in which he provides advice, such as career, education, or personal matters.
  • Give examples of specific advice he has offered in the past.

Example

My uncle often gives advice related to education and career choices. For instance, he once advised my cousin to pursue a degree in engineering because of her strong analytical skills, which turned out to be the right choice for her.

Cue 4:And explain how you feel about the person

  • Share your personal feelings and admiration for this person.
  • Explain how his advice has positively impacted your life.

Example

I have immense respect for my uncle. His guidance has helped me make important decisions, like choosing my college major. I feel grateful to have someone so wise and caring in my life.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the key points about the person and their influence.
  • Express your overall appreciation for their role in your life.

Example

In conclusion, my uncle Rajesh is not only a source of wisdom but also a great mentor. His advice has shaped many lives, including mine, and I truly value his presence in my life.

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 person to make your response engaging and informative.

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Use specific examples and characteristics to describe the person, such as their profession, personality traits, or experiences that make them a good advisor.

2: Don't Overlook Personal Feelings

Neglecting to express your feelings about the person can make your answer less personal and relatable. Sharing your emotions adds depth to your response.

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Include a sentence or two about how this person has impacted your life or why you admire them, to create a more heartfelt response.

Avoid Generic Advice Types

Mentioning only generic types of advice can make your answer sound repetitive. It's important to specify the unique advice this person gives.

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Tip

Provide examples of specific advice they offer, such as career guidance or relationship tips, to illustrate their expertise and make your answer more compelling.

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Band 6-7

Um, the person I most look up to and ask for advice and suggestions is my friend Sookie. Um, actually his name is Suryakiran. We call him Sookie. It's his nickname. And why do we ask him advice? Because this guy always gets the job done. Whenever we needed him, he showed up. You know, whenever we were in trouble or needed, he helped us, he supported us, he understood us. He didn't ask questions. He just trusted us. And we believed in him. He is one of the persons who dreams bigger and inspires others. He inspired me and other friends of mine. And I really look up to the man. And we really appreciate Sookie in our lives because it's a joy and a gift to have a person like that in your life. We really cherish the moments we had with him. And too bad he is now living apart from us in another state in India. And I hope I meet him soon and talk about stuff and all about that.

Band 6-7

So, I would like to talk about my mother as the most reliable person to ask for an advice, because I believe that people we must consider for an advice or an opinion must have these traits in them. They must be reliable, they must have general empathy, they must be humanist to consider other people's, like they must have good intentions for other people's regardless of any advantage. Those are those reliable people. So, in my life my mother is that person and she is available for all the friendly advices because she is, all the people in our family go to her for friendly advices about family, animals, religious matters, because she has a great knowledge of all those aspects. One major thing that I want to mention is that no matter how she is strict, she seems apparent, she looks apparently, but she has always been there for people in our family who were lonely and suffering from different matters. And since she is an animal lover, she keeps pets at home. So, my cousins and friends of family, they come to her for a friendly advice about how to keep the pets, how to treat them well, the kind of food that they might need, the kind of health issues they're facing, they always come to her for those advices. I believe that not just for an advice, but a genuine friend is a blessing in disguise.

Band 6-7

Swami Premananda Maharaj also known as Guruji in the native language. Guruji means spiritual master. Swami Premananda Maharaj resides in Vrindavan and he has an experience of over 40 years guiding people spiritually and how one can achieve its goal by doing the method of meditation and visualization. He is also a co-author of a famous book known as Power of the Subconscious Mind. In his book, he advised people that one can attain all the desired result by doing the manifestation and visualization. The two most advice he told me was one should always seek for the truth and the second advice was karm karo phal ki chinta mat karo. That means one should be always performing his duties without the attachment of result. It is the result that makes us unhappy towards life. He has a huge fan following in the youth age. By social media, you can see his account has 15.6 followers. Currently, he is one of the most famous Guru or the spiritual master. But why do people listen to him? That triggers me a lot. When I was doing my research that who should be my spiritual Guru, I was listening all the major Gurus in India. I selected Maharaj Ji because of few of the following reasons. First, he was totally and brutally honest. He was not guiding like someone can do this, achieve this. It is the you should have to perform your duties, not God gonna help you. We have to be focused and we should be abiding to our commitment.

Band 6-7

If I have to describe a person from whom most people like to ask advice for is, I would say Sadhguru. He is well known and he is very popular. He is a yoga master. He gives speeches and he has this program called Inner Engineering which basically deals with how to maintain your emotions, how to deal with yourself in life to stay away from anxiety and stress. I first saw him on Instagram Reels and then I found his speech very interesting so I decided to check his YouTube account and I have gone through a lot of podcasts and his speeches and it was so fascinating to listen to him. He has got a lot of followers worldwide, even celebrities follow him. And also recently he had this movement, he had led this movement called Safe Soil. He traveled literally the whole world. He was traveling, he was riding a bike while traveling and he does many great things. And I think he has also founded this Isha Foundation where he teaches Inner Engineering to

Band 6-7

Okay, so the person I think people mostly, I mean, in front of me has opted for advice is for my husband, Shoaib Kumar Guha. He is at present an associate professor in National University of Juridical Sciences. The special thing about him is that he harbors an extensive knowledge about law and AI and as an academician, he has helped numerous students to successfully complete their LLB, LLM and PhD programs. I mean, students look up to him whenever I have asked them exactly in what way they have been helped by him. So they have told that he always guides the right way. I mean, even if it's not study related, he has never been someone who has forced his students to study out of their will. And for this person, I have an immense respect because he's my teacher as well. I mean, I have absolutely no plans of my future, but he was the one who guided me correctly and right now I am pursuing MA English again. And he also helped me so that I could get a source of income. He is someone who has helped me to strengthen my economic grounds. And I think it is wonderful that I am married to this person and I will cherish him forever. You hardly get a person like that who is so helpful, not only towards you, but to everyone who by far has asked help from him. So yeah, that's it. Thank you.

Band 6-7

Having advice from others in an effective manner in order to tackle the issues of life. Here I would like to talk about a person who is very good in giving advice and people always admire him for giving the best advice. He is none other than my father, his name is Dilbagh Singh and he is 40 years old. He is a businessman and he always become generous and kind towards the people, whoever to them he is giving his advice. Moreover, he want to make others comfortable in order to get advice from him. I think that he is more experienced that's why people want to get advice from him and he is more recognizable in my family in order to get the chance.

Band 6-7

So speaking, the person is actually me. My friends often listen to my advices and then they implement it in their lives. I know it is not so good to hear it, but yeah, it is actually me from whom my friends will always ask advices from. Answering it, the person is actually me. Yeah, I am the person whom my friends will ask advices and they actually implement it in their lives and their problems. So the first thing of why they come to me is that I look at the negative sides of their particular decision. So I'll go from the negatives and then I'll sugarcoat them with the positive ones. So basically I'll give them some practical ideas or like practical advices what actually affects if they do it. So when they know the negatives, they'll actually sugarcoat with the positive ones and then they go with it. And frankly speaking, I am not a good person to get advice from. I know it, but it works for some friends of mine. And frankly, I don't solve my own problems in the right way.

Band 6-7

The one person from I would like to ask for advice is my mother because I have never seen a strong woman like her in my entire life. Everything in her life she has been through has made her such a strong person which whom I can count on for anything and whatever life decisions I'm going to make she's the best person I can go to and ask for advice because I believe other than her nobody can help me to make a decision in life so her advice is really valuable for me. There is so much to learn from her life. All the hardships she has been through has helped me a lot to become a better person.

Band 6-7

My maternal uncle, my mama, he is 40 years old, he works in an MNC and he is a production manager in a company. So whenever we get any doubt about life, career or something else, we always approach him to give us different advice that will enhance our ability to think and more often my mother is very much connected to my maternal uncle, mama. So whenever my sister, my brother or me needs any help around anything, he is always there for us to help in financial ways also. So he helps us and he stood by side in many ways. So he is very calm, compassionate and very intelligent. His intellect works when everybody's intellect stops. His advice have always been valuable to us. I have never found that he judged us for anything. He always been a cooperative support to us. Rather having a lot more problems in our life but he is always an advisable man in our life. A recent advice he has given me for my IELTS exam that I should prepare it for a month or two and then I should book an exam for myself. He also asked me for financial help but I didn't ask because he already done a lot for us. My good views about him is always and my happy place is to stay by him and learn so many things from him. I am thankful that I have got a son.

Band 6-7

So, a person from whom we should ask for advice or we can we would like to be given advice from some person is a person who is rational in his or her mind and that could be our parents that could be our teachers that could be our friends someone whom we feel that we can express ourselves to the core and they will understand us from who we are and they will understand the way they can help us. So, if I want to go to someone who is like does not care about anyone but for himself or herself then there is no point of going to that person and asking for help asking for some advice when you are in distress but when you go to some person who is self not selfless but who wants to deeply care about other people then they can provide you some good advice when you are in distress when you are in depression when you want to want someone to talk to and I think for me it would be my parents my friends they can give me some good suggestions some good advices when I am not doing well in my personal life.
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