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Describe a person who inspired you to do something interesting.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who is this person?
  • What they inspired you to do?
  • How they inspired you?
  • How you feel?
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Cue 1:Who is this person?

  • Start by introducing the person, mentioning their relationship to you, such as a family member, teacher, or friend.
  • Provide a brief background about them, highlighting what makes them special or noteworthy.

Example

The person who inspired me is my uncle, Rajesh. He is a successful entrepreneur who started his own tech company. Growing up, I always admired his determination and innovative spirit.

Cue 2:What they inspired you to do?

  • Clearly state what specific action or interest you were inspired to pursue because of this person.
  • Mention how this inspiration has impacted your life or goals.

Example

My uncle inspired me to pursue a career in technology and entrepreneurship. After seeing his success, I decided to study computer science and develop my own startup ideas.

Cue 3:How they inspired you?

  • Describe specific instances or qualities of this person that motivated you.
  • Share any advice or lessons they imparted that were particularly influential.

Example

He inspired me through his hard work and resilience. He often shared stories of his struggles and how he overcame them. His advice to never give up and to always learn from failures resonated deeply with me.

Cue 4:How you feel?

  • Express your feelings about the inspiration you received from this person.
  • Reflect on how this inspiration has shaped your current mindset or aspirations.

Example

I feel incredibly grateful for my uncle's influence. His encouragement has given me the confidence to chase my dreams, and I now approach challenges with a positive mindset.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the key points about the person and their impact on you.
  • End with a statement about the importance of having role models in life.

Example

In conclusion, my uncle Rajesh has been a significant source of inspiration in my life. His journey has taught me the value of perseverance and innovation, and I believe having role models like him is crucial for personal growth.

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 makes it hard for the examiner to understand your answer. Specific details help paint a clearer picture of the person and their impact on you.

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Include specific examples and anecdotes about the person to make your answer more engaging and relatable.

2: Don't Rush Your Response

Speaking too quickly can lead to unclear pronunciation and missed details. It may also make your answer seem less thoughtful.

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Take your time to think before you speak, and pace your words to ensure clarity and coherence.

Neglecting Personal Feelings

Failing to express your feelings about the inspiration can make your answer sound flat. Personal emotions add depth to your response.

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Share how the person's influence made you feel and how it changed your perspective or actions.

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Band 6

My parents are my inspiration. Why? Because they have done so much of things for me and they fulfil all my needs. Whichever I will ask to them, they will definitely do before I ask. I want to make them feel proud and I want financial independence because I can fulfil my needs and I can fulfil all my parents' needs from my side. They don't expect anything from me but I want to be supportive in economical side. They are my inspiration and I will do all the things for them. They are feeling low now. My dad has lost his job because of some political issues. He is struggling to study for my tuition fees and my mother is also a homemaker so she can't do anything. I want to be a financially independent woman for them and I can fulfil all of their needs from my side.

Band 6

My science teacher, who is called Karna, he is the one person who I got more interested with and he is one of my inspiration because, so usually there is a saying that a person who makes science difficult is a criminal, so whenever my professor, so when I was in higher grade, he came to a joint institution, so he started to deal with physics, chemistry, mostly physics. The way I learnt physics and understand the nature of physics is something phenomenal because the ease of understanding he gave for each and every topic and the practical demonstrations with the simplest topics made me to understand the topics much more better. The one reason why he inspired me a lot I am saying is, he is one of the sole reason for me to get into my undergraduate degree. My undergraduate degree deals with electronics and communication, which primarily focuses on physics in the ground level. So in that sense, the way he made us to understand things gave us the confidence that we should build something new and that is very creative and also yet usable to the people, knowledge of research is more important than getting marks. So he used to inspire us everything with his ease of explanations and also some motivation kind of thing, which we find often inspiring and he also gave us a confidence, he gave me a confidence that I can feel from myself where I do not need a validation from others and he has given me the strength to choose an option that is very much tough and also very much scary. In that way, he is very much inspiring to me.

Band 6

In my country, most of people are inspired by different types of person, anyone can actor, musician and artist. But today I would like to talk about a person who encouraged me in a lockdown to made cooking very well. She is my mom. She is very kind and humble person. Every time she taught me different types of skills and taught me different types of thoughts in my mind. And when I am feel bored at a lockdown, which is very bad situation at a lockdown because I have no work to what I do in this time. So my mom encouraged me to well cooking, well prepared cooking very well. So that time I am so inspired to my mom. She has so many skills about cooking different types of food, western, Indian, Chinese, Mexican. She has a very brilliant and I think she has 10 hands to make a prepared food in a few minutes and few hours, every one. So that time I feel very happy because mom is my first teacher to learn a new thing in my life. She know me a different types of tips about the cooking as well as she know me a how we maintain and cleanliness in my house, in my home, every one. So I feel a very happy and I am so excited to learn a new thing in my life. And I make a different types of food in a one month. This is very beautiful moment in my life.

Band 6

And he also contributed me in my life to achieve many of my performance and to achieve higher and higher in my life. And he while seeing to him or else while looking to him, I would feel that how passionate he is about his work. He taught me that always be confident, always you have to give 100% into your performance and complete your task seriously. And that's the reason that I so therefore as a result that I like him most. So apart from that, he also lives for quite a simple life, he also has a simplicity into his behavior and politeness. So this improves to this improves in our communication skill and teaches us how we should treat everyone others. So that's so therefore I like him the most and he inspired me a lot and he not only inspired me but he has also motivated so he also set an example for the upcoming young generations.

Band 6

I am fascinated and inspired by one faculty, one teacher, who has taught us a subject in our middle school, that is, his name is Mr. Son Khusrai, we used to call him Sonu. He is not a simple man to describe in a few words or minutes. He looks very simple, humble, but he was very strict if you come to discuss some conceptual matter with him. He inspired, he taught us chemistry in such a fabulous way that almost every student in the class used to score 80% or above marks. So that kind of teaching skill he has acquired. He was so confident about his teaching that you can ask any question about chemistry, he will instantly reply. He has really inspired people and because of him, many students have done, have chosen, have opted for chemical engineering or chemistry as a subject in future. Even I have opted for chemical engineering because of the tricks he has taught us during the middle school. Another thing that we can memorize about him, the shrewd and different way, different approach to teach students. He wanted every student to mug up the concepts related to chemistry and he has done it.

Band 6

My father is my inspired person for me. He is a good businessman. He started his career in business in 1987. He has 45 years of experience in the business field. He has a deal in the medical equipment business. So many employees have worked with him. They were so excited to work with him. So many people gave positive replies about my father. He is a good businessman. After my MBA, he inspired me to join the business. He gave me one job to start a business. I started a business in the surgical equipment business. Surgical equipments are entirely different in both the fields. I faced many difficulties at that time. At that time, I got a cooperation license for two reasons. I fought for them. After that, I got that license. I mainly do business with the government hospitals. I got so many orders from there. I bought goods from all over India. My father helped me a lot to do business in the government sectors. He helped me to convey my message to the customers and how to deal with the government authorities. He is a great inspiration for me. He is a good friend.

Band 6

The person who I inspire is my mother. She is down to earth, she is strong, she is intelligent and she also treat people how they treat her. If you treat her bad, she will treat you bad. If you treat in a good way, she will also treat you in a good way. So she has been inspiring me why because she is a single parent to me and she has an ability to overcome all the problems without sharing to anyone. And that is so surprising me, a single parent is actually very hard to make a child to educate in this generation. But she is giving a tough competition to the parents who is actually well educated, who is actually well settled with their finance. But here we have finance issues, other problems etc. She is still staying strong and she is not letting me down and herself with the society. So whatsoever the society is pointing her with bad names or criticizes and etc. She is actually not even giving her ears to listen. She is just shutting her ears and she is only looking at the track of the race that what she is going through and she just want to reach the destination which she is actually thinking of that her life will be settled once her daughter or son is educated and get some job in a good company and so that they will take care of her with a good finance and people will shut their mouth then. That is the only basic thing that she has in mind.

Band 6

The person I am talking about is Jango. He is a member of Rampidious. He inspired me to do everything perfectly. Like, he wins every game and when he loses any of them, he feels like he has lost some war or something like that. So, he inspired me to do things perfectly. He says that everything should be perfect or we should try our best to give a perfect or good example. He also inspired me to do anything which I want from my heart. Not by what people are saying and what should be done and everything. He inspired me to do everything correctly without thinking about the people who would say, what are you doing and what is this and everything. So, he kind of inspired me to do things which I am afraid to do.

Band 6

The one person that really inspired me to do something interesting is my mother. She is always passionate towards her work and she is a compassionate and really hardworking person. It's really inspired me that I really wanted to be like her. She is managing housework as well as her working time and she really spent some time with us and speak out her stories while she was working in her hospital. She was a nurse and she really helped to recover her patient's condition for physically, socially and mentally work. This is really encouraged us that me as well as my sister that I really wanted to be like her because she really emotionally support with everyone and I proud that she is my mother that I have her and I was really over the moon and really excited whenever she shared her experience.

Band 6

The person who inspired me is my grandmother. I learned a lot of cooking skills from her during my childhood and since and still I am following all that tips and tricks in cooking. So I think cooking is a great skill which I learned from her because since my childhood even after coming from school I used to see she is cooking. My grandmother is cooking for everyone and she is a very good person. She is very interested to do cooking and I also used to go and sit in kitchen while she is cooking. I used to watch everything what she do and the way she cook food. So all those things and which was really interesting to watch because there are a lot of things we can learn from her. Even while cooking she used to talk to me. She used to explain the way of cooking and explain the step by step method of every cuisine what she was preparing during that time. Definitely it was very interesting and still I am following. Even after marriage it helps me a lot in cooking. So I would say
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