Describe A Place In Your Country That You Think Is Interesting: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

Where is it?
How did you know it?
What special features does it have?
And explain why you think it is interesting.

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Cue 1:Where is it?

Begin by stating the name of the place and its location in your country.
Provide some context about the region or city it is in, mentioning any notable landmarks nearby.

Example

The place I find interesting is the city of Jaipur, located in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is famously known as the Pink City due to the distinct color of its buildings. Jaipur is surrounded by beautiful hills and is part of the larger Golden Triangle tourist circuit.

Cue 2:How did you know it?

Share a personal story about how you first learned about this place.
Mention if it was through travel, school, or perhaps a recommendation from friends or family.

Example

I first heard about Jaipur during a school project on Indian heritage sites. Later, I visited the city with my family during a summer vacation, which made me appreciate its rich history and culture even more.

Cue 3:What special features does it have?

Highlight the unique aspects of the place, such as architecture, festivals, or local cuisine.
Mention any specific attractions that stand out, like forts, palaces, or markets.

Example

Jaipur is home to several stunning forts and palaces, such as the Amer Fort and the City Palace. The intricate architecture and vibrant markets, like Johari Bazaar, are filled with beautiful handicrafts and traditional jewelry, making it a shopper's paradise.

Cue 4:And explain why you think it is interesting.

Discuss your personal feelings about the place and what makes it special to you.
Connect its historical significance or cultural richness to your own experiences.

Example

I find Jaipur interesting because it beautifully blends history with modernity. The stories behind the forts and the vibrant culture of the local people make it a fascinating place to explore. Every time I visit, I discover something new, whether it's a hidden café or a local festival.

Conclusion

Example

In conclusion, Jaipur is not just a city; it's a treasure trove of history and culture. Its unique features and the warmth of its people make it a place I always look forward to visiting again.

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 less engaging. Candidates often fail to provide specific details about the place, which can lead to a lack of interest from the examiner.

Tip

Include specific features, such as landmarks or activities, to create a vivid picture of the place you are describing.

2: Ignoring the Cues

Not addressing all the cues can result in an incomplete answer. Candidates sometimes focus on one aspect and neglect others, which can affect their score.

Tip

Make sure to answer all the cues: location, how you learned about it, special features, and why it interests you.

Overly Simple Language

Using overly simple or repetitive language can make your response sound unprepared. This can limit your ability to showcase your language skills.

Tip

Use a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to express your thoughts more clearly and engagingly.

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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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Answer

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

Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

Answer

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

Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

Answer

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

Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

Answer

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

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

Generally, people move from one place to another place because of various reasons like education, job and good facilities. Here I would like to talk about the place which I found very interesting. No doubt I can say that if the place is Mumbai, it is very elegant and sophisticated place and every nooks and corner of the Mumbai city is covered with street vendors. That is the interesting thing I ever noticed and it is very fashionable city and fashionable people. Exactly before the corona onset, I got a golden opportunity to visit Mumbai. I was there for more than two weeks and these days created an unforgettable memory in my life. Mumbai is known for its artistic hub of the country. It is a home of artistic people to express their talents and creativity. And it is famous for many things like incredible architecture, street food and shopping malls. And the shopping streets are spread among the every nooks and corner. I have visited so many places and the food we get from the streets is very delicious and tasty. I tried so many wide variety of foods. I enjoyed the days I spent in Mumbai. The people are very busy and in this very busy, however, they are ready to taste the street foods, whatever their culture. As far as I observed.

Band 6

A place in my country that I think interesting is Kerala, especially Wayanad, because that is the best and most beautiful place in India, where it is fully covered by greeneries and full of Kerala traditions and their food difference and especially the homestays with the house It has been built in the tree, as it is known as a tree stay, where we can stay there, which is surrounded by the full of greeneries and we can go there for wildlife sanctuaries, we can see wild animals like elephants, tigers, lions and etc and especially Kerala, it is known as God's own country and there everyone are well educated in the education, that is the first place in India, where the literature percentage is high and it is the most beautiful state, I would like to say in my country and there are not only Wayanad, there is some other places like Alleppey, which the houses are separated by a water lake and there are more boats

Band 6

As I grew up, I learned that there's a lot of beautiful places outside my place, which is outside my state, and as I grew up to study abroad in terms of changing my states, I also went to some vacations and met some of my relatives in some other states, even though if I went there, the cities, the place where, it's not like fun, what I mean is that there is no nature, it was all cars, pollution, like buildings and garbage bins and a lot more. It was very hectic, there was no sunlight, I mean there is sunlight, but it was not very clean also. So, as I thought back, my town, I realized that my town is the best place, hometown, as there is a lot of natures, as well as waterfalls, and small streams, rivers, and there are also flower farms in some of the place, in some of the place, and there are some hilly hills, like where people, tourists go around, visit those hilly areas by also taking some pictures, going on a trekking, and there are some gigantic trees where we have never seen before also. So, it was eventually the best, like the best out of all the places I have been. I would say that as a person who loves nature, I really

Band 6

well every place has its unique thing it's completely different from one place to other there are several interesting things from one place to other but all the places in my country India such a beautiful to visit and learn more things about them how their culture and how people use it to lead their life and what are the food they have been taking how this lifestyle is is there in the place if you take for an instance if you take Tamil Nadu the southern part of India it's well known popular known for its culture and well architecture of the temples we see a lot of temples where the design is completely unique and make amazing and surprise of people's by seeing his design and coming to North India where we can see experience the beautiful scenery of the Himalayas in winter we can feel amazing experience as you can come to the western part there are such a place like Mumbai you have Goa, Gujarat it's completely different from one unique place to the other but it has its own they has their own culture they are living their lives which is completely different from the other where there's a more there's more chances of learning new things and that excite the people a lot gaining learning new things as we can see in the east part of India

Band 6

The favorite place in my country is Kodaikanal. Kodaikanal is located in Tamil Nadu. The place has so much of incredible things and the most famous place of Kodaikanal is Gunakev. It's a curve and the place is very dangerous, surrounded by forest and the main highlight of Kodaikanal is the cooling climate. The climate is very cool and refreshing climate. I visited this place in three times. Whenever I get time to visit a place, I must go for visiting this place too. That's my favorite place for me and also Kodaikanal has some incredible food also. The corn, steamed corn and some Tamil Nadu food also. I like all the things in Kodaikanal so much.

Band 6

As I am nature loving person, the best place in my viewpoint would be interesting in India would be definitely the Kaziranga National Park which is situated in Assam which is famous for its rhinos, the variety of rhinos black, white I think so and from childhood I was fond of, I was very fond of animals as well as plants specially wild animals and the plants which grow in forest, flora and fauna and really this Kaziranga National Park which I mentioned is famous for its rhinos as well as elephants and nowadays tigers are also seen in the park and however the ecosystem loving person cannot neglect this place, nevertheless you could also come across, we can also come across the ranges of wild species which we cannot have encountered here face to face, this we have, I and my friends have planned to visit this Kaziranga National Park in next few months but don't know would be implemented or not because some of us are delaying and denying.

Band 5-6

One of the most interesting place in my country is my homeland. It's known as Idukki. One of the place in Kerala. It's one of the place in Kerala. Idukki have all the beautiful things like mountains, waterfalls, tea plantation, etc. I have born and brought up all.

Band 5-6

That place is very interesting for me as I see that that island that is middle in the lake it's keep rotating all around the lake the whole year. Whenever you will go to the Rishi Prasad temple you will keep it you will find that island on a different place every time. I have visited twice in a year and each time I found it on some other place. That is a very interesting thing interesting thing about the lake and besides this thing the nature over there is delightful and it's wonderful for any person who visits for the first time as it as it is already on the top of the hill you can see the whole area from the top and you can feel the breeze that runs on the top clouds are so near to you that you feel that you can touch them even in the evening or in the morning you will find out that the place is full of fog you will keep you will find that place dense in dense fog so for me that place is very interesting and I went with my one of friend and it was a great adventure for us because we didn't go through the road we used we have track we have used the track path for reaching to that place and that track we used it taken us to that place in around seven hours so it was a very great experience for me to visiting that place and I always recommend to my friends too

Band 6.5

one of the most interesting places in my country is Udaipur which is located in the state of Rajasthan in western India it is actually often referred to as the city of lakes and it is incredibly popular among both Indian and as well as international tourists. I first learned about Udaipur through a travel documentary I watched a few years ago the visual was so stunning that I decided to visit the city with my family during my summer holidays we went there by train and the journey itself was quite scenic especially as we entered the lively mountains range in Rajasthan. Udaipur is famous for historical places beautiful lakes and their rich culture one of the main attraction is the city palace which sits on the bank of the lake Pikula and offers a breathtaking view of water and surrounding hills another highlight is the lake palace which is actually a luxury hotel located in the middle of the lake it looks like it's floating what makes the Udaipur truly interesting to me is the perfect blend of history architecture and natural beauty you can walk through narrow colorful street full of handicrafts and then suddenly find yourself in front of the country's old palace the sunset over the lakes are absolutely stunning and magical this is the our journey in Udaipur I think Udaipur is a place that captures the essence of traditional India while also offering a peaceful and visually stunning experience I would definitely visit Udaipur again

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