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Describe a person you would like to study or work with: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Who is that person?
  • Why would you like to study with him/her?
  • What will you study?
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Cue 1:Who is that person?

  • Begin by introducing the person with their name and a brief background.
  • Mention how you know this person or how you became aware of them.

Example

The person I would like to study with is Dr. Anjali Sharma, a renowned environmental scientist. I first learned about her work during a seminar at my university, where she spoke passionately about climate change and sustainable practices.


Cue 2:Why would you like to study with him/her?

  • Discuss the qualities or expertise of the person that attract you.
  • Explain how their mentorship could benefit your personal or professional growth.

Example

I admire Dr. Sharma for her deep knowledge and innovative approach to environmental issues. Studying with her would provide me with invaluable insights and practical skills that are essential for my career in environmental science.


Cue 3:What will you study?

  • Specify the subjects or areas of study you wish to pursue with this person.
  • Explain why these subjects are important to you and how they relate to your goals.

Example

I would like to study topics such as renewable energy technologies and conservation strategies. These areas are crucial for addressing the pressing environmental challenges we face today, and I believe they align perfectly with my aspiration to contribute to sustainable development.


Conclusion

  • Summarize your thoughts on the importance of studying with this person.
  • Reiterate how this experience would shape your future.

Example

In conclusion, working with Dr. Anjali Sharma would not only enhance my knowledge but also inspire me to make a meaningful impact in the field of environmental science. I am eager to learn from her expertise and contribute to a sustainable future.


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: Vague Descriptions

Using vague language can make your answer unclear. It's important to provide specific details about the person to make your response more engaging and informative.

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Tip

Use specific examples and adjectives to describe the person's qualities and achievements. This will help paint a clearer picture for the examiner.


2: Lack of Personal Connection

Failing to explain why you want to study with this person can weaken your response. Personal connections make your answer more relatable and interesting.

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Tip

Share personal experiences or aspirations that connect you to the person. Explain how their qualities inspire you or align with your goals.


Ignoring the Study Focus

Not clearly stating what you will study can leave your answer incomplete. It's essential to specify the subject or skills you wish to learn.

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Tip

Clearly outline the topics or skills you want to study with this person. This shows your intent and helps structure your response effectively.


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I like to taste different types of cuisine. Here I would like to talk about my favorite dish at my traditional festival of Onam which is Sadya. Sadya is popular in my city. We are experimenting these cuisines on Onam festival day. Onam is a famous festival in my city. All family members get together in my home and we make a delicious Sadya. There are many ingredients includes that Sadya. Moreover, we make a big feast that day as well as we create a lot of memories together and we wear that day the traditional dress called Sari and men wear the Dhotis. That festival is really important to us because the whole day we are conducting different kinds of games at our homes and all the family members came together. It's a memorable day in my life. This is the festival. We are making the Sambar and Aviyal. These all the kinds of foods are making with the vegetables.

Talk about a toy you liked in your childhood
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Anonymous student Band 8

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Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

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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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Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

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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.

Describe a time when your friend damaged something you owned
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Anonymous student Band 7

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Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

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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.

Describe a book you recently read
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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

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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

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Band 6-7

I like studying with or rather working with Mr. Narasimhan. He is my financial advisor. I would like to work with him because he has in-depth knowledge about Indian markets, especially shares, stocks and commodities. He has been a good friend of mine. He has taught me several things on stocks, on mutual funds and shares. And he gives me lot of relevant information on buying stocks and the future of Indian economy. He also gives me lots of inputs on when, how and why should I plan my future and what are the products available in the financial market for achieving my goals. He gave me lots of information with regard to several financial products available that would match my goals as well as my future financial health. He always talks about how to save, the purpose of saving and what goals can be achieved through that. He has given me several success stories of people, of how they started saving and what they achieved in life. He also emphasized the need to categorize or rather balance my portfolio in my finance. So, I would like to work with him or rather study with him more detail about all aspects of Indian economy. Thank you.

Band 6-7

I would really like to study or work with my principal because he is a great noble man and he knows how to be effortless in the work in which he is investing. Moreover, he is a great personality to be worked with. I would really like to work with him because moreover I would really like to work with him because he is a great personality to be worked with.

Band 6-7

I would like to talk about a person who is my friend, her name is Shreeja, she is a good company of mine for studies, especially for cracking competitive exam. We have been known each other for the last 10 years and in that particular period of time we know each other and we used to study for competitive exams regularly. She is a good mentor of me because she can understand the thing very quickly and also another one important quality is that she can easily explain the things even if it is complex, she can explain it very simply and try to make us understand very quickly. Even if we are lazy, she used to motivate me and we always give a mutual level of encouragement and she is very perfect for cracking especially the competitive exams. For the coming weeks, we have a competitive exams for getting the lectureship in a college, so currently we are preparing for that, hope we look forward to crack the exam and we will definitely get the position.

Band 6-7

So I have a friend, her name is Kushima, so she is a very intelligent person and our scores are also similar, like we get similar marks in our test and we just like enjoying, we enjoy when we are together and we just like our companies. So she is my favourite person, when we refer to a friend, like she is one of my best friends and her vocabulary, her studying techniques, her every single thing is perfect and I like, I will like to study English with her and it is quite good, I like to interact with her and I don't feel bad when I am wrong or when I lose confidence, she is always with me to re, to re, to give my confidence back in my bad times, she is always with me.

Band 6-7

When I think about a person I would like to work with, that would be Elon Musk. I have seen countless videos of how enthusiastic and like motivating he is. How he is able to deep work 16 hours a day and absolutely does great things in the field of his study. And I would like to actually work on his current research at Neuralink. And explore new technologies with him, explore how he likes to think about a problem. And see it in real time how he is able to come up with such great solutions. Like the one where he landed the booster engine of a Falcon rocket. And I would like to learn all that and apply it in my field of study which I am currently pursuing. Which is data science and really bring innovative solutions to the world.

Band 6-7

If I had an opportunity to work with my best friend, I would not say no. He is one of the knowledgeable person I have ever known. In terms of mechanical designing, he is the first person I would go to if I have any doubts. In addition, we both have the same mindset and approach, approaching method to a problem. So working together wouldn't be a bigger problem. Furthermore, we have worked in internships and various projects together as a team. So it wouldn't be difficult as much as it would be with a stranger. Since I specialize on simulation, adding a member who has a varying knowledge about modeling would be the greatest addition to my team. My manager would also be very welcoming for this new addition.

Band 6-7

A person I like to work with is my previous boss, Kaushal Yagamage. I was working as a customer service representative at HSBC 12 years ago and he was my senior line manager. I had to report to him via my manager and he was the person I admired most because he had got so many phenomenal qualities like he's a good team player, understanding and he used to motivate the team and he put himself in our shoes to understand the ground levels of the work we used to handle and on top of that he is a flexible person who motivates us not only for working but also for our learning and growth and the other development areas and meanwhile I admire him so much for the nice personality what he has like he is being so humble and very friendly even though he is a senior manager he used to crack jokes and be friendly with everybody even we were school leavers back then. It was really nice working with him and I learned a lot of new things which I have never experienced and even now I have a good connection with him which I will remember forever and having him as my boss was a privilege and I was very lucky to work.

Band 6-7

So, the person I would like to study with is my aunt. Her name is Pradha Gandhi. I have known her since the age of 12. So, at the age of 12, when I am uncle, you know, I let her to the family, you know, the marriage, so I met her. And I have known her since that age and have that connection with her. So, I would like to study with her. Then comes, what would I like to study with her? So, I would like to study with her because I know she is a very intellectual person and I have seen her growing from where she was to where she is now, all because of her intelligence, hard work and how she understands the concepts of various things and how she handles her life. So, she has two kids. So, I have two brothers and the way she manages them and handles them. So, I have been inspired by her. So, I would like to study with her. And what topic would I like to study with her? So, the topic I would like to study with her is about digital marketing. So, she is working in the field of digital marketing and I am going to pursue my career in digital marketing. So, I would like to study digital marketing with her and she will teach me about different things like search engine optimisation, search engine marketing, Google Ads and how the ads run and work and the ad flow, the chain of ads, the chain of thoughts and people's perspective about SEO. So, I would like to study that with her and as I know the basic concepts of these topics but she will enhance my knowledge and she will tell me that where I am lacking and what I am lacking and then she will also help me to get through the difficulties which I will be facing as she is more experienced in that field. So, I think she will help me a lot and also I would like to study about how Google AI over here is taking over the digital marketing section. So, it's a very trendy thing, the Google AI overview.

Band 6-7

Although in past I used to participate with my neighborhood friends and colleagues in many tasks, but in present I need to participate. Steady, that's all. More for you, steady. The person with whom I would like to work, it would be definitely my mentor. His name is Adam. I have been under his training for more than a period of six months during my internship. During those days I realized he has a well teaching method that he can deliver and explain it very smoothly to his students. From that time I have always been thinking to collaborate with him in terms of any future research or any participation which can be held at the state or international level. Where we can both present our research paper or any kind of talent that we have been thinking to forecast to the audience. Above everything he is my teacher, he is my respected mentor whom I met long before, but through his practice and teaching I have mesmerized. And also started to feel deeply that even I need to be like him and I need to bring changes in myself in practice so that I can also gain much confidence and enthusiasm in this field. Therefore in future I am planning to participate in programs which he is going to arrange by himself on his own.

Band 6-7

The person I like to study or work with is my friend. She is a person who actually knows me very well. If I study with her, she will definitely help me throughout the thing and if I struck anywhere, she will definitely help me and clear all my doubts. Also, you can study or work with a person who you are really comfortable with. In that way, I really like to work with her. The person who really understands you, who knows all the secrets, doesn't mean all, but most of it. Most of the secrets about you can really help you wherever you fall down. So, I really like to study or work with my friend.

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