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Describe a person you have met who you want to work/study with: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who this person is?
  • How you met them?
  • What qualities make you want to collaborate?
  • And explain how you felt about meeting them.
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Cue 1:Who this person is?

  • Introduce the person by name and their relationship to you, such as a classmate or colleague.
  • Mention their background or field of expertise to give context.

Example

The person I want to work with is my friend, Priya. She is a brilliant student in my engineering class, specializing in computer science. Her passion for technology and innovation is truly inspiring.

Cue 2:How you met them?

  • Describe the circumstances of your first meeting, such as in a classroom or during a project.
  • Share any memorable details about that meeting that stood out to you.

Example

I met Priya during our first semester at university. We were paired together for a group project on artificial intelligence. I remember being impressed by her knowledge and how easily she explained complex concepts.

Cue 3:What qualities make you want to collaborate?

  • Highlight specific qualities that you admire in this person, such as their work ethic or creativity.
  • Explain how these qualities would benefit your collaboration.

Example

Priya is incredibly dedicated and has a strong work ethic. She is also very creative, often coming up with innovative solutions to problems. I believe that working with her would not only enhance my skills but also lead to successful outcomes in our projects.

Cue 4:And explain how you felt about meeting them.

  • Share your initial feelings when you met this person and how your perception changed over time.
  • Discuss the impact of this meeting on your academic or professional aspirations.

Example

When I first met Priya, I felt a mix of excitement and nervousness. I was eager to learn from her, and as we worked together, I grew to admire her even more. Meeting her motivated me to push my own boundaries and strive for excellence in my studies.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, meeting Priya has been a significant part of my academic journey. Her qualities inspire me to work harder and aim higher. I truly look forward to collaborating with her in the future, as I believe we can achieve great things together.

    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: Lack of Specificity

    Being vague about the person can make your answer less engaging. Avoid general statements and provide specific details about who the person is and your relationship with them.

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    Tip

    Use clear examples and anecdotes to illustrate your points, such as mentioning specific projects or experiences you shared.

    2: Ignoring Qualities

    Failing to discuss the qualities that make you want to collaborate can weaken your response. It's important to highlight what makes this person stand out.

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    Tip

    Identify at least two or three key qualities and explain how they relate to your goals for collaboration.

    Overlooking Personal Feelings

    Not expressing your feelings about meeting the person can make your answer feel incomplete. Personal emotions add depth to your response.

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    Tip

    Share your genuine feelings and thoughts about the encounter, explaining how it impacted your desire to work or study together.

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    Band 6-7

    Yeah, thanks for asking about the favourite person I would like to work with or study with. Like, I would say I would want to work with my friend or colleague, Jovan, if I get a chance to work again as I recently resigned my job to prepare for those moving abroad and for my studies. So, I would say we met at my office. She joined a week later than me. Then we were put onto the same team. From then we have been working together and I have noticed that we were very compatible and our personalities matched. She is a complete extrovert whereas on the other side I am an introvert and whenever I have to go outside, I always drag her with me. She is always there with me. We befriended each other very quickly and whatever I lack in, she goes on. She makes the plan beforehand and whenever some problem arises at work, with my quick thoughts I would solve it in ease. When she panics, we back each other up and I am an outsider and I am not a native over there. I don't speak their language. So, during those difficult times whenever we have to communicate with someone in Hindi, she pops in and helps me to interact with the patients over there. She is always there for me and even now after me quitting my job, even now she is there, calls me every once in a while and updates me on whatever things going over there at work. I still miss her. I really want to continue working with her. Even she wants to do that. If I ever get a chance to work with her again, I would definitely take it up.

    Band 6-7

    Okay, there's one person who I would wish to work with him in the near future. His name is called Kiran Kumar CTL. He's working as a clinical psychologist in the place where I'm working. You know, currently I'm not into his field, but I would wish to work with him in the near future. I think it is because, you know, I just can't tell one reason. There are quite a lot of reasons why I would wish to work with him. He is very much knowledgeable and it's mainly because of his leadership skill. I crave to work with him. I've seen the way he has managed certain difficult situations and how he's giving presentations to people outside and his assessment skills. I think I literally love the way he channelizes things. In addition to this, I also love his commitment towards the work. He's the sort of person who has got that intrinsic factor towards completion of the task. Once he takes up the job, he tries to analyze it and he is so thorough with it. And he brings up the proper strategies and he would be satisfied only after completing it. And that sort of fulfillment is what he craves for. And not only the commitment, I think there are also other things. You know, there's also dedication he has got towards his work. I think this has impacted the way he is now towards his work and the way he is knowledgeable. I think these are some of the factors which is making me to feel my fulfillment towards working towards him. I literally love the way I met him. He is a very good guy.

    Band 6-7

    Recently I met this person with so much acquired knowledge and skills that I was so fascinated of him. I met him in my college during a live session about what hobbies or interests one can pursue or skills everyone should get to be able to survive in the current market. He was there to give lecture to the students as he was an alumni of that educational institution and he was an MBA graduate which obviously makes him at a high pedestal. Meeting him felt like such a wonderful experience so that time I decided to want to work or study with him because of his knowledge and skills. As one say that a company can fully transform another person I truly believe in that and I truly believe that if I would work or study with that person I would be able to achieve my goals or dreams I want. He was of the same field as I wanted to go in which was an MBA degree as it is a prestigious degree one could have so it was very nice meeting him.

    Band 6-7

    I would like to talk about a person I recently met. She was a senior staff in my workplace. She is a team leader of our station and her name is Remya. She has an experience of six years of nursing in the same hospital which has brought her to this position. So, recently I joined in Rinnai Medicity and I was allotted to 5th floor where the TL was Remya and she used to have more consideration for me because I recently passed out and didn't have any previous experience. So, she used to take me with all doctors and run me through all the papers, diagnosis, treatment, medication, contraindication, what all to be responsible for, what all to be taken into concern. All this she used to teach me step by step from the scratch, from the basic. She is a rough person from outside but deep in she is having a very caring and kind character which I realized from my incident. Initially I used to get irritated because all the time she catches me, asks me questions, give me find out and give lot of burdens but later I found that because she taught me or because she punished me to get all the find out, I was becoming more of an intellectual person in front of others. So, she made me from dumb to a better person.

    Band 6-7

    I met Mahesh in my school days. He was a very good person. I met him in my school days when I was studying in 20th grade. He was the one who is my friend. He was very introvert and I am very interested to talk to him because he is quiet and he always concentrate on studies. It also fascinate me and encourage me to go into the same field how he is getting encouraged and I have been asking him several times like how we need to study because he is very intelligent in Maths and I was very poor at Maths. So he was the one who was helping me and also he was guiding me properly and also he was reading some motivational books and also it encouraged me a lot because before I would not read any motivational books and I am very poor at Maths. But once I know the technique to how to solve the problems by him because he has been teaching me how to concentrate and how to learn and also how to practice the Maths. So it was one of the best thing in my life which I have been learning Maths by him and it's very important first of all to concentrate and we need to practice more. Once we practice we can get anything perfect. So it was a thing and moreover I like to discuss about few things because first of all we need to respect everyone which is very important and also learning new things day by day which can encourage us.

    Band 6-7

    Recently, during a workshop, I met a startup entrepreneur, Dr. Madhur Motwani, who is the founder of Proxy Pharma. His startup is based on providing clean nutrition to its consumers. They use dried food products and sell them in powdered form in order to its convenient packaging. I met him and I had a chat with him, which really inspired me to work with him because his motto is very clear that he wants to provide everyone a clean and nutritious diet, which is easily accessible. Therefore, he had opened this startup. In this startup, they freeze dry products like fruits and vegetables and sell them in a powdered form, which can be rehydrated by the consumers when they want to consume it. This ensures that the shelf life is also increased as well as the nutritious value of the food item is also restored and it is also convenient for the consumers. The reason that I want to work with him is I think that this idea is very unique and innovative and it is aligning with my career goals as well.

    Band 6-7

    The person whom I influenced or took work with or studied with is my teacher, Ms. Shalini Sharma. She is from her hometown where I used to study, from Hisar. She is around 24 or 25. She is very quiet and humble. I met her when I joined coaching for my IELTS classes, so she was my tutor for that. At that time I met her. At first, I don't think that at first I got nervous, but she has a very cherished personality and she is very of an optimist nature. She just motivated me and gave me strength to do my preparation very well. And after, it's like a very once in a blue moon for me to meet some teacher like that because I really, to be very honest, I don't share a very good bond with teachers because I am of introvert nature, so the teachers just make me feel inferior, but she is the one who just helped me to score a good band. And she just told me that burning midnight oil doesn't mean that you will get a good score. It is the thing, the self-confidence is the thing, which will give you the main reason to score a good band. And I want to get a personality like her because she is very quiet and humble, so I also want to be like her. And she is so important for me and for my academic plan in IELTS.

    Band 6-7

    I really want to offer the perfusionist from all India medical institute science whose name is Akhilesh and I met him during the perfusion summit which was conducted in 2024 and the venue was Kochi a beautiful hotel and there was a lot of presentations and many brilliant students who taught by him presented beautiful lectures so when he shared his experiences about how to tackle difficult situations and how much complications he have met during his career that all just very much influenced me and I really want to work with him because he has lot of experience and I know that I could I can improve myself when if I get an opportunity to work with him because he is a person who has a lot of experience and in doing thousands of on pump cases during the heart surgery and also all India institute of medical science is a well known hospital for its capability and also infrastructure and as a junior perfusionist it would it will be an amazing delightful experience to work with him and I will feel like on cloud nine if I get to work with him and I am continuously trying in as a to become as a part of his team and in the long run I have learned that experience speaks when we tackle difficult situations so that is why I want to work with him and he is the person who I consider as a role model.

    Band 6-7

    The person who I met was my friend who was just one year older than me and who was my senior at my undergraduate degree curriculum. So he was also a production engineer and I was also pursuing production engineering. We both have a same kind of thinking and also our interest also lies on the same platform. So we had a conversation one day and we both decided to open a business where we could share our thoughts and also executed it at the same time. So this person was totally stranger for me but after having communicating with him, we become good friends and also he has some good kind of knowledge in this manufacturing background and I also have lot of knowledge in various machines dealing with the manufacturing. So this help us both to create a new business where we could execute our knowledges and also become a good entrepreneurship, entrepreneur's man. And this person always admire me and I always feel proud of him because he is the person who motivates me whenever I feel stressed or demotivated.

    Band 6-7

    When I joined in Masterminds Guntur for my CF final coaching classes, I met one girl, her name is Lavanya, I admire her very much because she is a slow learner but she learns very thoroughly and she explains very clearly that I want to take that talent in her, but I am not that much slow learner, I am a quick learner but I can't explain, I can't communicate with others very quickly, I can't convey my answers to others, that's the problem in with me, but when coming to Lavanya, she explains very nicely that when she explains to others, the others will get some more clarification, more clarification, yes, I like that quality in her and also she works very hard and yes, she has passed the CA final exams and I also want to pass group 2 exam this time and I saw her working hard and I also work hard like her and this time I will definitely pass CA final group 2 and I studied very hardly and I also take some tips from her, she has explained to me very well the concepts in our subjects like
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