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Describe a piece of good advice that you gave to someone: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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  • Who did you advice?
  • What was the advice?
  • Why did you give the advice?
  • How was it helpful, and how did he/she feel about it?
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Cue 1:Who did you advise?

  • Begin by introducing the person you gave advice to, including your relationship with them.
  • Mention any relevant background information that helps to understand the context.

Example

I advised my younger sister, who is currently in her final year of college. She was feeling overwhelmed with her studies and unsure about her future career path.

Cue 2:What was the advice?

  • Clearly state the advice you gave, ensuring it is specific and actionable.
  • Explain any reasoning behind your advice to provide context.

Example

I told her to take a step back and focus on her strengths and interests. I suggested that she explore internships related to her field of study to gain practical experience and clarity on what she truly enjoys.

Cue 3:Why did you give the advice?

  • Share your motivation for giving this advice, including any personal experiences that influenced your decision.
  • Discuss the importance of the situation to emphasize why your advice was necessary.

Example

I gave this advice because I had faced similar challenges during my college years. I remember feeling lost and stressed about my future, and I wanted to help her avoid that anxiety by guiding her towards practical experiences.

Cue 4:How was it helpful, and how did he/she feel about it?

  • Describe the outcome of your advice and how it positively impacted the person.
  • Share their feelings or reactions to your advice to illustrate its effectiveness.

Example

After following my advice, my sister secured an internship at a local marketing firm. She felt much more confident and excited about her future. She expressed gratitude for my support and mentioned that it helped her gain clarity about her career goals.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, giving advice to my sister not only strengthened our bond but also helped her navigate a crucial phase in her life. It was rewarding to see her grow and find direction, and it reminded me of the importance of sharing experiences and supporting loved ones.

    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 Responses

    Avoid giving vague or general answers that lack detail. This can make your response less engaging and informative, leading to a lower score.

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    Provide specific examples and details about the advice you gave, including the context and the person's situation.

    2: Neglecting Emotional Impact

    Failing to discuss how the advice affected the person emotionally can weaken your response. It's important to show the significance of your advice.

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    Include how the person felt after receiving your advice and the positive changes it brought to their life.

    Ignoring the 'Why'

    Not explaining why you gave the advice can leave your answer incomplete. This is crucial for understanding your thought process.

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    Clearly articulate your reasons for giving the advice, linking it to the person's needs or situation.

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    I recently advised my elder brother on the topic of basically seeing the better in people. So basically my brother, he is a very career oriented person. He is extremely logical and he values brains over emotions. So that's why when his fiance, who is more on the emotional side, there were some differences between them. So I advised my brother to look, basically leave his institutionalized beliefs aside and to see the better in her, basically see that she has different qualities than him and that is an advantage to their relationship and that she does not have to be the exact same replica as you. So that was the advice and I believe that he has taken my advice to heart as they are now happily living in Norway. And this advice is, I think has teamed well because he now appreciates the different qualities in her that he himself does not have and she has, she sees the qualities in him that she does not have and they are now complimenting each other's mistakes and strengths and together they make a great couple and I believe that advice must have played some role in it and I am glad that it helped them build a stronger relationship with each other and yeah that's it. I hope they have a great life ahead.

    Band 6-7

    So, I recently gave an advice to my friend who was undergoing a breakup with her boyfriend. And she was planning to get married soon as there was a compulsion or a pressure from her family's side. So she was just like 24 years old, too young to be married, right? So I was giving an advice regarding marrying too early. She was just 24 years old, as I mentioned earlier. There are a lot of happenings that she should undergo in her life, like the personal development, her career agreement, and she should mainly be independent of her home, not depending on anyone else, even parents or the spouse. So I advised her that she should be an independent woman who can handle all her belongings of her own, not depending. Why I gave this piece of advice to her was, I was one of the victim who suffered and is also currently suffering from this kind of trauma because I was married early in my 20s, not even 20s. To be particular, in my 19 years of age, I got married and I was just graduating from my UG degree, so I don't have more exposure about what

    Band 6-7

    Very recently, me and my best friend were having a talk about overall things happening in the life of her and me and one experience she shared with me where she thought that she was not able to communicate with her parents or her parents were not able to get her point of view and they were not trying to understand her so she was just emotionally down and I advised her to communicate with her parents without any hesitation, I asked her to say whatever she feels or whatever she wants to talk to her parents because the communication is the key of a relationship. If you are able to communicate with a person one on one openly then most of the misunderstandings can be cured because all that was happening was the miscommunication between her and her parents so when I ask her to talk to her parents openly and just communicate with them

    Band 6-7

    So, I gave a good piece of advice to my sister long back in 2018. The advice was related to the management of finances. I gave her advice because I found her to be using money not so judiciously. I found her utilizing the money in a very reckless manner. Although whatever money she has been using, it was her own money, but since she was my sister, I found it obligatory on me to fulfill my brotherly responsibility to advise her how to make the money management, how to ensure that the money which you are earning is rightly utilized. So I told her not to waste money on unnecessary things, on the things which are not exactly required, which can be ignored, which can be avoided, rather we should utilize our money only on very necessary and useful items and sometimes yes we can use our money on some recreation, going out, picnics, but that shouldn't be a daily affair. She listened to me because I'm a kind of a credible person to her. She knows that whatever advice, whatever good lessons I have given her throughout her life, it has actually worked. So she followed, she obeyed my instructions and now she is having a good saving as well.

    Band 6-7

    A piece of good advice that I gave to someone is to do hard work because without hard work there is no, without hard work there is no possibilities of getting success. In free time people should do whatever they want like dancing, singing, interest is they are interested but they should be focused on one thing like do hard working to get success in their future life. If they followed rule in one time they will feel good and when they started doing practices they will surely success one day. If they hard work one time they will get a positive attitude.

    Band 6-7

    Generally I am not that good at guiding people or giving them any advice on any particular topic but when it comes to academic I am quite confident about it. So my cousin brother who is 2 years younger than me was writing intermediate exams and he was having very much difficulty in max subject. So I gave him a advice about how to pursue your syllabus and how to plan your academics like how to plan your schedule. So I told him according to the marks you weigh the marks in every unit and then according to the marks weightage you study the units and with that you can easily get a good score in your exam and he was quite good in taking that advice from me and he applied this advice and he just studied most weights of units with high marks and he got a good number and actually I also did helped him in studying however he did it on his own at last and when the results came in he passed with a decent number of marks and it made me so proud that my advice even worked and apart from this also I gave advice to some of my friends on what should they do after engineering as we all are engineers and also in terms of academic and career I am good at giving advice to people near me and most of the people

    Band 6-7

    okay so I'm not a person who usually gives a lot of advices but I do remember giving one to my younger cousin so it was about her college life I advised her to enjoy it more you know like I asked her to I advised her to visit more places visit more cafes with her friends attend more cultural activities and do many activities instead of spending more time studying why I gave this why I advised her regarding this is that she was too harsh on herself like she spent a lot of time reading preparing for her exams she even you know she even cancelled her plans and she was doing her projects so when I told her about this she was quite understanding she felt that her needs is being understood

    Band 6-7

    The piece of advice I gave, it was to my mentee. She was my mentee and also a junior from my college. So we used to meet on the online virtual meet for the communication master class. I gave her advice that she should start developing her communication and especially the communication in English. So the advice which I gave was to develop the communication and the reason behind giving advice was she was not good at English, her grammar, her punctuation and her vocabulary was not that appropriate. And after giving the feedback to her, she was very excited, also very happy that without asking I pointed out that where she was wrong and what she needs to be done and what are the areas of improvement she should start improving.

    Band 6-7

    A piece of good advice that I gave to someone was my sister, my younger sister. I advised her to let go things that don't belong to her. Be it in her friendships or in relations or any kind of bond that she shares with someone out of the house. Like from strangers because everyone is a stranger then they become friends and then everything continues. I advised her this because she was facing a lot of backlashes and backbiting from her friends who were once very close to her. Also, this is kind of important to know that people realize things only if they want to. They won't understand if we keep explaining things to them. They need to understand it on their own to implement it in their life. A piece of good advice that I gave to someone was my sister, my younger sister. I advised her to let go of things that don't belong to her. Be it in friendships, relationships and everything. That does not matter. A piece of good advice that I gave to someone was my sister, my younger sister. I advised her to let go of things that don't belong to her. Be it in her friendships, relationships or any kind of bond that she shares with strangers. She needs to understand that what belongs to her will stay and what doesn't belongs to her will find any reason to leave her and move forward. I gave her this advice because she was facing a lot of backlash and backbiting from her friendships. The friendships she had were very close. The friends were very close but they chose to backbite about her and frame her as the villain. But the thing is people need to understand it on their own. I kept advising her not to do this, not to do that. But the things when she realized what's going wrong, where she is wrong, where another person is wrong. She is giving too much efforts. Then she realized what she should do. Even after realizing this on her own, she ended their friendships and isolated her from that person. She faced almost 2-3 backbiters after her completion of 10th and she really needed my advice. But as I said, she needed to realize it on her own. It was very important for her to keep this in her mind forever. Thank you.

    Band 6-7

    Yes I do exercise on a daily basis. I go to gym which is quite far away from my home but I like to visit there by my car. A piece of advice what I give somebody which who is related to the Yeah I have seen one boy who was doing wrong exercise in the gym so one piece of advice what I gave him about doing the exercise in a correct way as I have been in the exercise for last 10 years so I have developed a deep understanding about how exercise works and what are the key factors that one should keep in mind while performing the exercise to get best out of your exercise so yeah he was performing some exercise with great with some yeah I still remember a day where I gave one piece of advice to a boy who was performing exercise in a different way for me that was not the correct way to perform the exercise as I have been in fitness domain for last 10 years so I somehow have developed a great understanding about the techniques which really helps to get best out of the exercise when that boy was performing the exercise his technique was not good according to me so I advised him to do great technique so that he could benefit him from that and I can tell you it took him almost four weeks to understand that technique on which I advised him but he got really benefited about that he told me whatever you told me it really worked on me I would really suggest somebody who is new or beginner to the gym will consult you about the deep understanding and techniques to be followed while exercising and I'm glad I have you that you have advised me so yeah I would tell you people nowadays are going gym hitting exercise hard but still don't know the correct technique to do exercise if you don't have the good technique you may not be able to get the best result out of that so I really suggest somebody if you are new or going gym at first time you should have some trainer or some expert like me who can guide you and who can navigate you through the process of exercise throughout your journey so that you can get great transformation if you have nobody you can watch YouTube channel there are a lot of information floating on free basis where you can benefit it
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