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Describe a person you only met once and want to know more about.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who is it?
  • When did you meet?
  • Why do you want to know more about him/her?
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Cue 1:Who is it?

  • Begin by introducing the person briefly, mentioning their name and a key characteristic.
  • Share the context in which you met them, such as the event or situation.

Example

I want to talk about a woman named Priya, whom I met at a friend's wedding. She was a distant relative of the bride and had a vibrant personality that immediately caught my attention.


Cue 2:When did you meet?

  • Specify the date or occasion of the meeting to provide a clear timeline.
  • Describe the atmosphere of the event and your initial impressions of the person.

Example

I met Priya last December during my friend’s wedding reception. The atmosphere was lively, with music playing and people dancing, which made it easy to strike up a conversation with her.


Cue 3:Why do you want to know more about him/her?

  • Explain what intrigued you about the person and why you feel a desire to learn more.
  • Mention any specific qualities or stories they shared that left an impression on you.

Example

I want to know more about Priya because she shared fascinating stories about her travels abroad. Her adventurous spirit and the way she described different cultures really inspired me, and I’d love to hear more about her experiences.


Conclusion

  • Summarize your feelings about the person and your desire to connect with them.
  • Mention how you plan to find out more about them, if possible.

Example

In conclusion, meeting Priya was a delightful experience, and I hope to connect with her again. I plan to ask my friend for her contact details so I can reach out and perhaps meet her for coffee to learn more about her adventures.


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 Detail in Description

Providing vague or minimal information about the person can make your answer uninteresting. It's important to engage the listener with specific details.

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Tip

Include descriptive adjectives and anecdotes that highlight the person's characteristics and your impressions during the meeting.


2: Ignoring the Cues

Failing to address the specific cues can lead to an incomplete answer. This may result in a lower score for coherence and relevance.

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Tip

Structure your response by clearly answering each cue: who the person is, when you met them, and why you want to know more.


Overly General Statements

Using general statements without personal connection can make your response feel impersonal. This can hinder your ability to connect with the examiner.

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Tip

Share personal feelings or thoughts about the encounter to create a more engaging and relatable narrative.


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The toy which I liked in my childhood was a panda doll, which makes me pleasant and makes me more blush. The pandas are the most beautiful creatures of the world, which looks gigantic and has pooshy cheeks and they are like stars in the clouds and they dream in me. Furthermore, these have been given by my father. My father is a very very beautiful artistic person, who makes me think of that. Every day you will face every difficulties and make you suffer and move forward. Pandas are always seen in Japanese countries. It is my lifelong dream to visit a Japanese country and click a photo with the original pandas, which makes sounds better.

Describe a time you were in a place where you didn't know the local language
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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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As India is a very large country full of diversity, so there are many places which have their own language and speak their native language. The place which I visited and I didn't know about their language was Leladakh, which is about 300 km away from my hometown and it is a very good place as it consists of different kind of trees, animals and have many scenic views and I visited over there last year in summers as it was the best time to visit because it has many, it was cold over there and we had summers in our area so it was the best time to visit over there and I went over there with my whole family.

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When I was a kid, I had a little pencil box which had these four buttons which gave the pencil box an operative use. When you press the button, the box would open up. When you press the second button, a little part of it would slide out. Basically it was just a little electronical and a fun thing to have and I owned it when I was in 6th. One day after break, I was standing and talking there with one of my friends and another friend of mine was running through the hallway and accidentally she pushed my shoulder and my pencil box hit the ground and it broke into multiple pieces to the point that it was not functional anymore.

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It Ends With Us is a book I read recently. It's by the author Colleen Hoare. It's mainly a story about two teenagers, Atlas and Lily, and how they just handle their life going through high school, adolescence, and just domestic violence at home. Both of them come from very, very different families. However, they have one common determining factor between them, which is domestic violence. The abuse that they've seen their moms go through is just insane, and they connect through that on a different level. They're actually in the same high school, but they never speak to each other until Atlas actually crashes into an empty house next to Lily's villa. When Atlas is homeless and he doesn't have anywhere to go, he just comes and breaks into the house next to Lily's, and Lily helps him with all the daily necessities like clothes and food, medicines and stuff. Furthermore, their friendship blossoms into love, but it doesn't really fructify as Atlas has to leave. This book really gave me a lot of knowledge about domestic abuse and how to deal with it.

All Answers

Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

Band 6-7

I am now going to talk about one of my senior named Ayush whom I met when I was in 11th grade in an annual sports meet conducted in our college. I was a member of the school basketball team in my high school and I met him before the basketball match where he was supporting another section of girls and was teaching them strategy. Before playing the opponent team had a plan to break rules and follow illegal methods to win the game but he was very sweet and kind to let us know what they were planning and we could inform our coaches to supervise them and caution them about the game. He helped us, he also helped us in developing better strategies in the basketball game and how each person can defend their own court. He was a very renowned basketball player in our school but before we could thank him he has left the court area and we never did find him again. He was one of the people whom we met that day who was very honest and kind enough to help us because it was a new area for us to enter because we have never left our college and played an inter-house, inter-school competitions before. Till this day I never met him and we went and searched and asked about him to our teachers with whom they informed us and they informed us that they don't have

Band 6-7

In my life, I have met many persons. Some people I love the most and some people give me true lessons of life and here the person who advised me and I like the person is my school principal. His name is Sardar Kamran Singh. He is about 20. He is about 53 years old. When I saw him first time, it was the time when I met him during my class admission. He was young intelligent at that time and I was so attracted with his personality and way of talking with me like with my parents. He talked very peacefully and calmly. He is apple of my eye because whenever I saw him like on his face there is a different kind of which I can't describe right now. I firstly met him at my school and I want to become with like them. He is also my English teacher so that's another reason that's why I love him the most because English is my favorite subject. I'm keen in English. Apart from this, I can say that the day when I met him in at my function and she gave me medal, he gave me medal. That day was that day for me. So I want to become like that personality who gave me lessons, the true meanings of nature, how to live with persons and in this society. He is very talented man.

Band 6-7

During one of my official conference in Chennai, I met a person called Mr. Vijay Kumar, who is a Chief Technology Officer of Crayon Technologies, and I met him only once and I had a chance of having a discussion with him for 20 minutes, and it was really impressive the way he demonstrated how the future technology is going to be somewhere around five years back, and the content he described how to plan for the future technology as an IT infrastructure person, and how the design and the predictions to be forecasted in terms of budgeting, resource planning, and the easy scale up and scale down, and it is even before five years he was having a very clear vision towards cloud computing, the technology which we are currently in.

Band 6

There are numerous persons from which I want to meet them, but now here I would like to talk about a person who is Sudeep Maheshwaroop. He is a good motivational speaker and I want to meet him. Apart from this, I want to meet him because he is a very gentle and motivational speaker in which they appreciate to the students that you can do much more better in their life. Not only this, he also tells about the importance of education and when I was in the 12th standard, I was preparing for my 12th exam. My exam was about to the corner and I was suffering from lack of motivation. At that time, Shandev Meshwari came into the Thakar Dwara and appreciated all the students that you can do much more better. Apart from this, all the students got motivated there and they started to enhance the study of theirs. Not only this, he also explained what is good and what is bad for your life and if I get opportunity to meet him, definitely I will get him. When I meet him, I feel very over the moon because I think that he is a very good person in which he tells us and also cares about us. Hammering on the last nail, I would like to say that all the people have their own quality but it depends on person to person which person you are meeting and why you want to meet him once again.

Band 6

In my life, I've met so many people due to some various reasons behind it, but I would like to meet one person who really enhanced my mindset. She is my cousin's friend, her name is Monika, and she is in a really good position at the Pharmaceutical R&D Department. I met her maybe two weeks ago due to some occasions, I think it was my cousin's party, she achieved so many things in her office, so we just got together to enjoy the moment. So that time I met her friend for the first time, and Monika is doing work also along with my cousin, so that time I just talked about and introduced myself with her, and after that I realized he is really a brilliant student, as a brilliant officer in their office, and also I just completed my Master in Chemical Science, and I really want to become a researcher is like her. So I really want to meet her because I want to learn so many things from her, like how to experiment and how to experiment.

Band 6

I would like to describe about this one person whom I had recently met. It was last year in the month of November when I was posted in the neurology department of the hospital where I work as a physiotherapist. This person named Dr. Shukla is a neurosurgeon by profession. He is one of the most famous and super intelligent person and also a great neurosurgeon in Asia. He ranks among the top 10 neurosurgeons in the world. I was so overwhelmed by meeting him and I felt really grateful to get a chance to meet this wonderful personality. I would like to know more about him and would like to encounter his personality as he is considered one of the most dedicated person and his charming and intelligent personality is something which encourages me to know more about him. In future if given chance I would definitely like to read about him and also closely observe him and work along with his team.

Band 6

The person I only met once, that is my father's friend. I met him at our family function. I want to meet him again just because he is very enthusiastic and has a clear goal about everything. He has a knowledge about each and everything and I believe that his knowledge and his experiences will definitely help me in my future. So yes, I want to meet him again. He is very prompt about everything he did. When I met him...

Band 6

Recently, I met a fascinating person through my best travels. After finishing my duty, I returned to my home. That time, I met a person. His name was Ajit. He was a journalist. During the travel, he talked a lot to me relating to our social issues and health problems and the opportunities to the family. He was a nice person and an amiable person. He also lent a hand to the poor people. He told me that he plans to give charity awards. If you wish to join, you can join with him. Moreover, he was a nice and friendly man. He helped me a lot on our personal and public issues. I want to know more about him. As I mentioned, he wanted to give charity awards. Actually, he gave his number to me but it was lost. I couldn't...

Band 6

There are lots of people every day I meet, but today I am going to talk about the person which I met last year. When I was travelling to Ahmedabad by the bus, I met Ajay. He is from Parmur. His hometown is around 5 km, 10 km away from my hometown. So we met during our journey. I met him during our journey. When he sat near my seat, so we started talking about and after that we were friends. We had talked many things on this journey. Firstly, we started to talk about cricket because he is good interest in cricket. So we did a lot of cricket talks. After that I came to know that he lives in Australia and we do a lot of talks. So because of that I want to talk to him because I am planning to go to Australia. So I get to collect information about Australia. I want to ask him about job opportunity, study and many more things about Australia. What is the culture and what type of people live there. So because of that reason...

Band 6

Well, I am introvert person and I have meet a lot of new people in everyday life but today I would like to talk about a person whom I meet once only and I am really interested to know about him. Last year I went to Chandigarh for my passport appointment and I went there by bus and I meet him travelling to Chandigarh for my appointment and he sat next to me and he was using his mobile phone and I was listening music and after some time he got a call from someone and he replied him or her to sell payment shares and which resulted his 3 lakhs rupees and I was totally shocked because he earned around 3 lakhs rupees in few minutes and he was also advising someone to invest their money in Reliance and share some lots of profit to him and honestly speaking I was really impressed by him and it is really hard to earn money on that day. People can earn lot of money with smart work and smart mind and could not control myself to ask him share market to me and then he cut the call and I also asked him too about what can I earn money and he also said me he going to Shimla and he introduced himself and his name is Tarun and I have just begin my first job.
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