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Describe a piece of equipment you have at home: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is it?
  • What is its use? When do you use it?
  • How is it useful?
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Cue 1:What is it?

  • Begin by clearly naming the piece of equipment and providing a brief description.
  • Mention where it is located in your home.

Example

The piece of equipment I want to describe is my microwave oven. It is a compact, silver appliance that sits on my kitchen countertop, and I use it almost every day.

Cue 2:What is its use? When do you use it?

  • Explain the primary functions of the equipment and how you typically use it.
  • Mention specific times or situations when you find it most useful.

Example

The microwave oven is primarily used for heating food quickly. I often use it during busy weekdays when I come home late from work and need to prepare dinner in a hurry. It’s also great for reheating leftovers from previous meals.

Cue 3:How is it useful?

  • Discuss the benefits of having this equipment at home.
  • Relate its usefulness to your daily life or routines.

Example

Having a microwave oven is incredibly useful because it saves me a lot of time. Instead of spending a long time cooking, I can simply heat up my food in a few minutes. It also helps me avoid eating out too often, which is healthier and more economical.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the importance of the equipment in your daily life.
  • Reflect on how it has improved your cooking or meal preparation experience.

Example

In conclusion, my microwave oven is an essential piece of equipment in my home. It not only makes meal preparation faster but also encourages me to cook at home more often, which is beneficial for my health and budget.

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 equipment to engage the listener and demonstrate your vocabulary.

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Tip

Use descriptive adjectives and specific examples to clearly explain what the equipment is and its features.

2: Lack of Personal Experience

Failing to share personal experiences can make your response less relatable. The examiner wants to hear about your unique perspective and how you interact with the equipment.

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Tip

Include personal anecdotes about when and how you use the equipment to make your answer more engaging.

Ignoring the Cues

Not addressing all the cues can lead to an incomplete answer. Each cue is designed to help structure your response and cover important aspects.

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Tip

Make sure to systematically address each cue in your answer to provide a comprehensive response.

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Describe your favourite food at a traditional festival or a special event in your country
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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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Pitampura Test Centre, New Delhi

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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.

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Band 6-7

My cricket bat is the thing which I would say is my favorite equipment that I had at my home. That bat was actually gifted by my father for my occasion which is a birthday. It is one of the most stylish, elegant and classy bats which you can get all around the globe and he bought that one for me as a token of affection. I use it during my practice sessions, my matches and often I take it during my vacations while we are traveling through train or car as it is easily compatible in any place because it just needs a flat surface and you can easily carry it in your hands. I tend to take it there because I love playing cricket with my cousins and that bat cost is around 100 Euros which is quite expensive and yes, it is a very rare piece which you could get. So, I wouldn't mind even if it is 500 Euros but my father would. It is useful in various ways like it helps me in getting my turns while playing cricket and when I am playing with that bat, I tend to score more runs and the elegance and the style of my playing is on a total different level and it keeps me on cloud nine whenever I am having that piece of wood in my hand. So, it is always the best equipment that I have ever had.

Band 6-7

The equipment that I use in my day-to-day life is scissors. They are available in every house and it only requires one hand to use it. It's harmful but we have to be cautious whenever we are using a pair of scissors or scissors at our home because it has that very edgy and sharp sharp edges and I would say that this equipment is being required and necessary to have because in our day-to-day life we have to cut the tightly sealed packets. We need this to cut our hair as well. We need sometimes to cut a piece of cloth. So this equipment is normally used by everyone from every age group young ones to the old age group as well.

Band 6-7

One piece of equipment that I have at home is the hair dryer which comes in very handy when I have, when I take a head bath. And I think hair dryers are important because medically you are not supposed to leave your hair wet. And it should be dried immediately after you have washed your hair. And I think hair dryers make our life so much easier because you just have to plug it in and use it as per the requirement. And also hair dryers come in various sizes, shapes and colours. And I think it depends, the hair dryer that you want to purchase depends on the kind of usage that you require because I think the one that I have at home is a small portable hair dryer that comes in handy when I have to pack when I am travelling. And the bigger hair dryers are used extensively in parlours and salons where they have to blow dry the hair. And that just makes their work easier. So hair dryers, I use it, I use the hair dryer whenever I have taken a head bath, when I have washed my hair and I want to dry them. It is useful because I don't have to wait for hours to dry my hair. I can use it whenever I want, wherever I want provided there is a socket and a switch, a plug that is working. And I am ready to dry my hair and rock it because wet hair do give a good look. But I think once you have your hair that's dried.

Band 6-7

I have one laptop which is of Lenovo brand. I bought it in 2023 and it is working good. I use this laptop for my official purpose as well as for playing music and watching movies. The main use of the laptop is it decreases my calculation time as well as I can work very efficiently for all my official work and assignments which I could not able to do manually. The use of laptop is very crucial in today's era because without laptop we cannot able to do anything because everything is connected through online and for doing anything online laptop or computer is essential. It is now a part of life without this no office or no assignment can be done in our days. The use of laptop is also crucial because women cannot do these works in such a small time which a computer can do, computer laptop can do. So this is going to be the best use for a laptop.

Band 6-7

I have many equipments in my room but if I have to choose one then I would say I would choose my TV. I choose TV because I can do many things on it. It is LG 55 inches screen K250X model. It is a model which was released in 2023 and it has all the features that any smart device can have. I usually love to watch videos, YouTube videos on it and I usually watch serials on it. It has features known as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It also has many features with connecting HDMI to its port. I can play games in it with the help of my playstation 5. Furthermore, it has been helpful for me in my studies as well. Sometimes I watch educational videos on it and often I learn lot of things from those videos. I remember when I last prepared for my CCN exam, I used my TV a lot to watch videos of certain YouTubers.

Band 6-7

Let's talk about an electric item which is at our home, which is a mixer grinder. It is used for blending different types of ingredients to form a mixture powder. It could be often used to create a paste like ginger garlic paste or often used to blend masalas like spices, various spices like cinnamon, cardamom and create a garam masala out of it. This equipment is used when there is a shortage of any masalas at our home. Generally garam masalas are used in variety of different recipes from chicken curry to biryani. We often use coriander powder in tea to make it more refreshing and like more masala. So this is how we use this grinder. Grinder can be purchased from various local stores or the best option would be to buy from a supermarket. We can get it at a cheaper rate with a reasonable price and a guarantee for a certain period of time.

Band 6

The guitar is the piece of instrument that I have, the piece of equipment that I have in my room. It's a musical instrument and I use it during my free time after I have completed my studies or as a way to escape the constant studying. I use the guitar and it's actually my newfound hobby that I've begun to pursue for a couple of months. I'm still in the process of learning it but yes, I use it during my free time to relax and enjoy and then I get back to my studies.

Band 5-6

Actually, I have so many equipments at my home, but the best useful equipments for me is the blade, means which will be useful for crafting the things for small children, which I recently bought last week, one of my friend have suggested that blade, so which will be very helpful compared to all blades, it is having a new mechanism really. So, it helps in cutting the papers in different shapes and sizes according to which you want to make the article or like a shape. So, this blade was suggested from my friend, he got to know from his cousin. So, after I got this blade, whatever the things such as crafting things like making bags, some little bit of flowers, everything became for me very easy. So, after I got, I was like amazing, the work was done by it is like absolutely fine, which will be very easy to progress our task and which helps me in reducing the time to perform the crafting materials to converting into a beautiful toys and articles. So, it is very great because of this. So, this helps me in making lot of things and it's in the size compared to all blades, the size of this is very less, also helpful in personal things like cutting the plants, vegetables and everything. This is a very beautiful thing according to me, which helps me in calm, simply to tell, making my task easy.

Band 5-6

My equipment is scissor. It is present at my home. It is very useful to me. The scissor helps me to cut anything, a paper, a piece of paper, a piece of cloth or anything like packets of food. It plays a very important role in my day to day life. It makes things easier to me. Scissor is a very useful equipment for me. There are two scissors. I have two scissors. One is of pink and one is of yellow in colour. It is very useful. I use scissor in my cooking activities. I like to cut the ingredients which are in packet form. Scissor can also be used in self-protection. If anyone attacks you, you can use it as equipment to harm others or do your self-protection. It is very useful to me.

Band 5-6

The piece of equipment that I have at my house is phone. Phone is very useful in our daily life. From phone we can play games or we can study. Phone is very useful. From phone we can do virtual things or we can contact directly by messaging someone or by calling. Phone is very useful. I used phone when I was studying or when I was free to play games. Phone also helps us to develop our English or to develop our games or something else. To do the best which you have to do.
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