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Describe a person who has strong opinions: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who this person is
  • How you know him/her
  • Why you think he/she is a person who has strong opinions
  • What kinds of strong opinions this person has
  • And explain how you feel about his/her opinions
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Cue 1:Who this person is

  • Introduce the person by name and relationship to you.
  • Mention a few key characteristics that define this person.

Example

The person I want to talk about is my uncle, Rajesh. He is a retired professor and has always been known for his strong views on various subjects.

Cue 2:How you know him/her

  • Explain your relationship with the person and how long you have known them.
  • Share a brief anecdote that highlights your interactions.

Example

I have known my uncle Rajesh since I was a child. Growing up, I spent many weekends at his house, where we would discuss everything from politics to philosophy over cups of tea.

Cue 3:Why you think he/she is a person who has strong opinions

  • Discuss specific instances where he/she expressed their opinions passionately.
  • Mention how these opinions have influenced others around them.

Example

My uncle is a person with strong opinions because he never hesitates to voice his thoughts, especially during family gatherings. He often encourages debates and is not afraid to challenge others' views, which has made him a respected figure in our family.

Cue 4:What kinds of strong opinions this person has

  • Identify the main topics he/she is passionate about.
  • Provide examples of specific opinions he/she holds.

Example

He has strong opinions on education reform and environmental issues. For instance, he believes that the education system in India needs a complete overhaul to focus more on critical thinking rather than rote learning.

Cue 5:And explain how you feel about his/her opinions

  • Share your personal feelings about his/her opinions.
  • Discuss whether you agree or disagree and why.

Example

I admire my uncle's opinions because they are well-researched and thought-provoking. While I don’t always agree with him, his perspectives challenge me to think critically about important issues.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the key points about the person and their opinions.
  • Reflect on the impact this person has had on your own views.

Example

In conclusion, my uncle Rajesh is a person with strong opinions who has significantly influenced my thinking. His passion for education and the environment inspires me to be more aware and engaged in these issues.

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 response unclear. It's important to provide specific details about the person and their opinions to engage the listener.

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Tip

Use clear examples and specific traits to describe the person, such as their profession or a memorable conversation you had.

2: Don't Overgeneralize Opinions

Making broad statements about the person's opinions can weaken your response. It's essential to provide concrete examples of their strong opinions.

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Tip

Mention specific topics they feel strongly about, such as politics or social issues, and explain why these opinions matter to them.

Avoid Personal Bias

Expressing personal bias can make your response seem unbalanced. It's important to present the person's opinions objectively.

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Tip

Share your feelings about their opinions while also acknowledging the validity of their perspective, even if you disagree.

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Band 6

Okay, according to me, a person that holds strong opinion is my brother. He is the eldest among all siblings. He has a mature and wise understanding between responsibilities and affection and love and care. I consider him as my inspiration for life skills that I need to take in my life. I like to take his advice regarding my studies or any other responsibilities which I am not sure of it. I like to use his advice for that. Plus, I think he has a strong opinion because he has learned many more things earlier to me and he has the experience of those same things which I am going to experience soon. So, he tries to give his best opinion to me which is also better for me and for my future.

Band 6

So, this person, one of my friend is, who this person is, how do you know him or her? So, this person, one of my friend is, who this person is, how do you know him or her? So, this person, one of my friend is, who this person is, how do you know him or her? So, this person, one of my friend is, who this person is, how do you know him or her? Usually, I admire my friend, Jahir Hussain, who has strong opinion and everything because he is the most intelligent person in our entire classroom. We have been friends since our school days. Since 12, I have known him for his brilliant work actually. So, he has been a successful person during our school days. Then, post school days also, he had an amazing career through college. After finishing college also, he got placement in the college. So, he got a quite successful career and he has strong opinion in my life actually. So, every time I have tough times to make out any tough decisions, he was the only person I blindly rely on. Because this person who helps me every time. Like in the past, I have been in a difficult financial situation. At that time, he was the one person who helped me out of the financial burden. Because he helped me through on what mutual fund I have to invest on and I have gained a reward also through him. And not only as a financial part, but he as a friend has been more than a friend, he has been a mentor for me. He guided me through our college days. And whenever anything I have a doubt on, he was the only person I would rather rely on. And one more thing, when it comes to my personal life also, he has taken more of my decision. Like whether seeing any going out with girls, in terms of relationship, I would suggest whether she is a green or red flag. And after discussing with him only, I came to know these are negative points of her. So, I decided to come out of the relationship. And this person I would blindly rely on because he is more like a brother to me. And I have a positive opinion on him.

Band 6

My person like the person who has strong opinions whom I know is my physics teacher who comes to teach me twice a week like in my home. So he is my personal home tutor and I have been learning from him since two years. So when I was in class 9 or grade 9 in American language he came to me at first I didn't like him much because he didn't seem like a normal person to me at all but later when I started opening up my problems when I started opening up he also became a mentor to me and he also became and I came to know him as a very strong feminist and since I was also a feminist I had a very strong opinion against male domination and male chauvinism. So even I had a kind of bonding. The bonding among us got instantly strong. So the fact that he always was a rebel to social norms and unjustified social cultures and everything which the woman was always dominated and always you know. So it was always we became very good friends later and he was always my inspiration because physics was also my favorite subject. So he always became my inspiration for me and we also talked a lot about other social norms such as how males are always expected to be strong males are never supposed to cry and all those nonsense things among Indian culture which we always discouraged among young minds and it's still a very big problem among the Indian society.

Band 6

My father has strong opinions, the reason behind it is because he really shares a good bond with me and he shares all of his insights he goes around throughout the day. The reason his opinions are strong is because they are logical and they are ethical, I feel he guides me every second wherever I need him and this is the reason why he is being considered as the boss at the home. In terms of his opinions, it's pretty much good that he likes to put across few pointers which do make point and they definitely have a good outcome. He is pretty much clear about his opinions he puts across and that's the reason he has strong opinions, he is the core of our family so I can't disagree that he has strong opinions and that's the reason why I feel my dad has strong opinions.

Band 6

Well, this is an interesting question. Opinion is very important because only this way we could able to reach, we could reach a strong decision. Every opinion leads to like an argument. We could understand the value of each point and provide appropriate wise thinking is essential. And one of the interesting thing that I really noticed about opinion, many of the strong people who have a strong opinion, because opinions always navigate in a positive way. And if you ask anyone such person, then I prefer to say about Elon Musk. He is one of the genuine scientist and he put a lot of effort in the field of science as well as technology. You know, he had a strong opinion regarding his matter and he initiated so much of inventions, so much of theories nowadays. Behind this, he put a lot of efforts on it. And all together I say that, I believe that opinion plays an important role. If he had a strong opinion, then he will achieve a top level. It is truly magnificent. And one of the interesting thing that is about the way of opinion, you know, under his position, a lot of members were working. So he always provide a positive opinion for them. And some of them are truly inspiring for us. Because I saw so many videos and he already said that the respect, you know, he provide immense respect for the workers as well as he respect the opinion. If anyone have an opinion, he provide an opportunity to understand and explain. And you know, it is truly valuable thing. In recent times.

Band 6

So, I have met the many people who has a really strong opinion but there is one person who has always been stood out, that is my colleague Kevin, he was my colleague, I met him in my office. So, he was in my team and my manager gave us a same task to perform and we were working on a project together and while I was working on it, I realised he has a very good point of view when he comes, certainly because he is a IITian here and he is from a maths background and he also reads a lot, so the opinion he has is always data backed and factual, which is a good thing I feel. A person who is so good at delivering ideas and the way he communicates really resonates with the project and how it is going. Suppose if anyone, once I remember one instance, the CEO of a company and he had an argument about something which related to the business problem, the CEO was very, the two and my colleague the way he describes the solution and he holds on to it by his data backing is really commendable. Because he was not scared of anyone, he was not scared of what the consequences are but he stood for his opinion and with the factual facts, this deeply resonates with the type of person he is and sometimes I feel frustrated because how can someone be so stubborn, having a strong opinion can give rise to stubbornness which is not a kind of behaviour anyone would like in a corporate world. But from a personal point of view, it is really good. But sometimes it gets over the edge and it gets in my mind. So this is a good thing and bad thing as well, unless and until we know how do we balance it, we can't always.

Band 6

So, hello everyone. I know this person because she is an ex-friend of mine. I feel that, you know, she is a very strong headed person. She is like, she is a lawyer so she has to have her opinions on everything. I feel that sometimes her opinions are pretty extreme and like, I know that sometimes when I did not want to hear things about, like straight things about her, I think she is the person who will tell you certain truths on your face. And I think that is one thing that I love about her. But the second thing is that sometimes if you don't know the person very well, it might come out, come off as, come off as rude initially. So, I feel that opinions, I think opinions are something that, you know, it's in the eyes of the beholder, sort of. But, yeah, I mean, it's totally on how you perceive it. So, that's my view on her opinions. But I think it's good to be a strong headed person, having strong opinions because sometimes you have to learn to do that in your life. So, yeah.

Band 6

So, I am here to describe about a person who has strong opinions. The person's name is Daydeepya Choudhury. She is typically my sister from another mother. She is the best person I have seen in the world, but she has a strong opinion of negativity and false happenings in her life, which always provokes her to her frustration and anger. Technically, she has the motivation required, but she doesn't get motivated and always gets demotivated because of her own false thinking. Although she is good on her hand, she has proclamations of false happenings when her eye starts to twitter or her heart starts to beat faster. So sometimes these happenings may be true, but all times these happenings are to be considered false. On the other hand, she also has a strong opinion of positivity when it comes to her brother, that is me, and she also has a positivity of true happenings when it comes to me. But when she thinks about other people, she has the utmost positive opinion, but when it comes to herself, she don't even care and she always puts up others in front of her and think about her later, which I hate to the most. She is a person of real happenings and who thinks about the future in a very good way and also in a very bad way, but she proclaims that bad will happen at the highest priority. She has an opinion of all people in her life, but when it comes to herself in other people's life, she never thinks about what is going to happen, what will happen or the future consequences which will arise because of her false proclamations and negativity. When it comes to positivity, she has stayed utmost positive for others and she would help others to overcome their negativity, but when it comes to herself, she proves that to be wrong.

Band 6

I want to tell you about the person, I am very fond of, she is my friend, sorry he is my friend and her name, and his name is Devaj, we met in, we first met in college, since then we have been friends, I don't have many friends but he is the one and only my best friend, he has very strong opinion towards his mentality and towards his family, which I like the most, he has very strong opinion like if we start something then we should finish it and he always has a positive attitude, so I like the most about him, whenever I feel low and I don't understand what should I do, that time I call him and tell my problem and I share with him, he gives me very good suggestion and very good way, how politely I handle it and all, so that's it.

Band 6

okay so my next door neighbor he is he just lives hundred meters away from my house and he is a family friend as well he has I feel he has one of the most strongest opinion a person who has the most strongest opinion a person who I know has a very strong opinion is my next door neighbor he stays right opposite to my house and he is a family friend of mine his name is Gorada that is basically a respect that we give in Bengali so that's how we call him Gorada that's why I call him Gorada so basically why I prefer or I think he has a very strong opinion is because he thinks very logically whatever whenever he has to take a decision he does not he does not he does not think twice a person who I know has a strong opinion is my next door neighbor he is a family friend of mine and he's of my he's almost of the same age group as mine his name is Gorada we call him that because it's a respect that we give a person who is a year elder or or more or someone who is just elder to us so yeah his name is Gorada that's what I call him why do I think he has a better opinion a better or strong opinion is because in whatever situation we are in he thinks twice or thrice and whenever he takes any decision he takes it very logically he is a person who is very determined on his thoughts and whatever he says he sticks to it so that's one of the major reasons we try to respect whatever he says and coming to his opinion so I remember back in time there was an accident which took place and he was the one who handled the situation in a very nice manner where whatever the scenario was he handled it very calmly and he made a correct decision of sending the people straight to the hospital rather than waiting for the ambulance so that was a very logical and a very good decision taken by him ever since I started believing in his opinions whatever whenever he takes it I do respect it and I do follow his guidance whenever he tries or he gives me his suggestion his opinions I do respect it and I do try to follow whatever he is trying to say so yeah he is one of the persons who I
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