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Describe A Person Who Likes To Grow Plants: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Why does he/she enjoy growing plants?
  • Who is the person?
  • What does he/she grow?
  • Where does he/she grow them?
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Cue 1:Who is the person?

  • Introduce the person you are describing, mentioning your relationship with them.
  • Provide some background information about their interest in plants.

Example

The person I want to talk about is my grandmother. She has always had a deep love for nature and gardening. Ever since I was a child, I remember her spending hours in her garden, nurturing her plants and flowers.

Cue 2:Why does he/she enjoy growing plants?

  • Explain the reasons behind their passion for gardening.
  • Mention any personal or emotional connections they have with plants.

Example

My grandmother enjoys growing plants because it brings her peace and joy. She often says that tending to her garden is a form of meditation for her. Additionally, she loves the idea of growing her own vegetables and herbs, which she believes are healthier and tastier than store-bought ones.

Cue 3:What does he/she grow?

  • List the types of plants, flowers, or vegetables that the person grows.
  • Share any special or unique plants that they are particularly proud of.

Example

In her garden, she grows a variety of plants, including roses, marigolds, and a small vegetable patch with tomatoes, spinach, and green chilies. One of her proudest achievements is a beautiful hibiscus plant that blooms vibrant red flowers.

Cue 4:Where does he/she grow them?

  • Describe the location of the garden or growing area.
  • Mention any specific features of the space that contribute to the plants' growth.

Example

She grows her plants in our backyard, which is quite spacious and gets plenty of sunlight throughout the day. The soil is rich and well-drained, and she has even built a small compost area to enrich the soil naturally.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, my grandmother's passion for growing plants not only beautifies our home but also teaches me the value of patience and care. Her garden is a reflection of her nurturing spirit, and it inspires me to appreciate nature more.

    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 less engaging. It's important to provide specific details about the person and their gardening habits to create a clearer picture.

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    Include specific examples, such as the types of plants they grow and their reasons for gardening, to make your response more vivid.

    2: Neglecting Personal Connection

    Failing to explain why the person enjoys growing plants can make your answer feel incomplete. Personal connections add depth to your response.

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    Tip

    Share a personal story or insight about the person's passion for plants to enhance your answer and connect with the listener.

    Lack of Structure

    A disorganized response can confuse the listener. It's important to structure your answer clearly to cover all cues effectively.

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    Tip

    Follow the cue card prompts in order, addressing each question systematically to create a coherent and logical response.

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    So, recently my mother has been growing a lot of plants because we have taken a big farm. A couple of days back my father had bought a land to do agriculture, so my mom has been managing all of those works. She has been growing different types of plants like mango and apple also currently. She is doing that because it is her passion and she wants to grow plants and basically half of the time she is alone at home, so she goes to the farm and spends some time together with the trees because she likes to have that pleasant air in the farm and planting trees has been a great activity for her as she has been contributing to the environment in a better way. In the last few decades we have been planning to do a typical mango farm, but now my mom's passion has made that possible as she only can do that work as all of us would be busy in other works, but my mom has been dedicatedly spending time on mango farm and planting few other trees. She even has planted red sandalwood which is a very rare type of plant in India. There is also a special movie called Pushpa in India which has been a pan-India movie on the basis of red sandalwood. That was also a point or aspect for my mom to grow the red sandalwood. It would be taking approximately 2 to 3 years to grow a proper red sandalwood plant and she has been monitoring the project closely as it is her dream project.

    Band 6

    My model is a person who likes to grow plants and she whenever we are traveling to somewhere, she always try to collect plants that are most available in there and pick them to our home and she plants them and take care of them and water them every day and she looks them as her own kids and she's always take care of them and she is very attached to the plants because she loves to love gardening more and she is always happy when she was planting something or taking care of plants. She always try to plant one plant plant every week and she always try to take care of the plants and she my mom always tell me that if when we plant something it will it will gives us a soothing effect or we are protecting our nature

    Band 6

    A person that comes to my mind while thinking about growing a plant was my sister, her name is Keena Perera and she is one of my elder sisters and we lived in the same house and I noticed that she is very much interested or passionate in planting different types of species, different types of like flowers, small plants, big plants. She is so much passionate and very much interested and it's very clear that she didn't lose any of her interest in growing plants and I see daily, I witness daily that she is watering plants or caring them, all the things I had seen daily in my life and she, as I said early on, she is my elder sister and our parents have two children, the first one was her and the second one was me and we were living in the same house from my birth and we are going in a good term and I think she got the interest of planting or growing plants from my father because I also seen that my father is helping or giving company to her during this caring time of the plants and it's a good thing or a good quality.

    Band 6

    I would like to describe a person from Instagram whom I follow and she grows herbs, vegetables, even fruits and flowering plants. Her Instagram name is cook like a yogi and not only growing plants but she promotes a yogic lifestyle so she describes what a yogic food is, how to cook something natural, how to cook something that is grown in your own garden and she grows these plants in her backyard. She is somewhere, I think she is an Indian but staying in the US. She also gives good life tips as to how to lead a life, how to think positively and also she is kind of motivating. I myself have started growing microgreens and I am using those microgreens in my salads and dips so yes she is kind of motivating.

    Band 6

    All of us like to indulge in different types of leisure activities or spend evenings. So my grandmother used to enjoy planting trees in our courtyard and among different varieties she used to plant different varieties of plants in our courtyard and among them her favorite was the rose plant. She used to plant different varieties of rose which was of different colors and varieties. Some may be clustered, some may be too small even to see and some may be big enough that can be used for different types of decorative purposes. She used to enjoy growing plants in our courtyard because she enjoyed spending time in the garden and enjoying her leisure time while planting the trees and she enjoyed the company of the plants because more than that most of the time she would be in the courtyard enjoying the colors of the flowers and she would be watching the different types of insects and the birds that are coming near her plants. She used to say that along with her the different varieties of the birds and the flies are enjoying the plants that she is planting. So I used to think that she was simply wasting her time by planting the trees and spending most of the time in the courtyard while she used to say that it is not about spending time in the courtyard, it is by planting the trees she is able to relax herself and she can enjoy her leisure time more beautifully.

    Band 6

    Well, here I would like to talk about my mother who is a nature lover and she always try to grow various kind of plants in the kitchen garden and she loves gardening and as she have also done some specific diploma in the botanical, so she has been doing gardening since her childhood and she love to grow various vegetables as she is of opinion that the vegetables and fruits from market are adulterated with the fertilizers, so she always try to grow them at her home in order to make them fertilizer free and she always try to decompose the things and use the manure as a good diet for plant to regrow, so I am also learning this technique from my mother and as she is nature lover and she is of opinion that from plants we learn a lot of things like how to be consistent and how to grow, when proper time come they grow in their own way, so apart from that in this polluted area, so as I am residing in Delhi, so in this polluted area she always try to tell us that the plants are such that provide us oxygen and also help us to breathe naturally, so that's why she is insanely in love with the plants, so this is all about the person who...

    Band 6

    These days, due to global warming and the climatic changes that are occurring all over the world, I believe that it is the responsibility of every citizen to plant more and more trees and to support our forestation. This is very crucial for our future from perspective. I would like to talk about my grandfather, who is an avid gardener and he loves gardening a lot. He is now 82 years old, but still he prefers to plant trees, take care of them, nurture them. He does these all things for the entire day. He retired at the age of 75 and it's been like around 6 to 7 years he has been spending much more time on doing these all things in the gardening. It makes him feel very relaxed and it makes him engaged in doing some of the other things because as now he doesn't have a lot of work to do apart from the household work. It makes him feel very bored and lonely the entire day as he has been working for around 55 to 60 years. So I believe that it's very difficult for him. It makes him feel relaxed. He also is very fond of doing this gardening, previously also used to plant different kinds of plants in our garden area. He usually plants different kinds of flowers which he purchases around after 2 to 3 months he purchases new different flowers from the nursery and then plants them according to the different season. He has also tried to grow some of the vegetables, but unfortunately due to the climatic conditions and not proper nurturing it has not grown, but he also makes the fertilizers at home. He tries out, he manures and mixes up all the soil and the waste and creates a homemade fertilizer and it's amazing to look at the lush green carpet of greenery which we have which provides us fresh flowers and vegetables.

    Band 6

    Well, here I would like to talk about my father only, because in my life I have seen him a plant lover, trees lover, because he has not only decorated the garden with floral plants and many vegetable plants, along with this he has decorated the balcony of our house as well. He in the morning always take care of the plants, he watering to the plants and after that he took care of the plants that if there is cutting required he used to do on the weekends only. I have seen him, he has almost planted more than 100 plants in the balcony. There are some plants which are having medicinal properties like aloe vera he has added and that he use it for his making vegetable curry as well as he apply on his face for his glowing skin. And apart from this he has planted many indoor plants which increase the beauty of the house as well as it has its importance in environment as it release lot of oxygen. And I have seen him a plant lover and a growing plant I have learned from my father and whenever I visit my house my father always motivate me to be a environment concerned and grow plant as much as I can.

    Band 6

    Well, I like to talk about a person who really likes to grow plants and the person is my uncle. He is my father's elder brother and he is very calm, very productive and very active. What I like about him is the most that he is very admirable and very wise man. He is a person who really like to grow plants. Since childhood, I have seen him that every time we go outside to travel and he sees some new plants that he likes, he asks the owner for its seeds and always bring the seeds with him and grow in near garden of our home. I have seen his fascination about growing plants since childhood and I really like the thing that he always is very productive and have a great amount of knowledge of growing plants. I think he has grown up to 500 plants till date and I think once time he was saying that he will plant more than 1000 plants and I think he will really do it and that's the thing that I really admire about him the most. He also get an award from local government, local mayor for planting more than 500 plants in our hometown and I think he will get more awards and rewards for planting trees as it is a very great initiative that he run at Sujalpur. He also have one group known as plant and clean up Sujalpur that is going to be very big in near future.

    Band 6

    Well, one of my friend, his name was Dev, he was more passionate about nature, to grow a plant in different places, he had make a target at that time that he will grow plant every day with the looking that he should grow 10 plants every day, so he was my friend, I always help him to grow, to passionate about what he wants to do in his life and he was totally focusing on to grow a nature, help mother nature to save because in today's time people are only cutting a trees and establishing industrialization and different roads and different road infrastructure, so my friend was so good and so skillful that he has not focus on his career but he has focus on a mother nature, the thing I like about him is that you always motivated with doing his work, he never fail, he never demotivated what he is doing, he always try to grow more fast and more easily and more productively, he has make a one group in whatsapp so that many people can give a different idea that how to do, when to do, so he had joined a different groups which they do on Sunday, so that every young generation people and also a youngster who is doing their NMC job they can also join and motivate them so that the mother nature can save.
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