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Describe a program or app on your computer or phone: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What it is
  • How often you use it
  • When/how you use it
  • When/how you found it
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Cue 1:What it is

  • Begin by naming the app or program and its primary function.
  • Mention why you find it useful or interesting.

Example

The app I want to talk about is called 'Evernote'. It is a note-taking application that helps me organize my thoughts, ideas, and tasks efficiently. I find it incredibly useful because it allows me to keep all my notes in one place, making it easy to access them whenever I need.

Cue 2:How often you use it

  • Specify the frequency of your usage, whether daily, weekly, or occasionally.
  • Explain how this frequency fits into your routine.

Example

I use Evernote almost every day, especially during my college lectures and while working on assignments. It has become a part of my daily routine, as I jot down important points and reminders throughout the day.

Cue 3:When/how you use it

  • Describe specific times or situations when you use the app.
  • Mention any particular features you utilize frequently.

Example

I usually open Evernote during my classes to take notes on the lectures. I also use it at home to create to-do lists and set reminders for upcoming deadlines. The tagging feature is particularly helpful for organizing my notes by subjects.

Cue 4:When/how you found it

  • Share how you discovered the app, whether through recommendations or online searches.
  • Explain your initial impressions and why you decided to download it.

Example

I first found out about Evernote through a friend who recommended it to me during our study sessions. I was impressed by its user-friendly interface and decided to download it right away. Since then, it has become an essential tool for my studies.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, Evernote has significantly improved my productivity and organization. It is a versatile app that I rely on daily, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance their note-taking and task management.

    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: Being Too Vague

    Candidates often provide unclear or general answers without specific details. This can lead to a lack of engagement and lower scores.

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    Tip

    Include specific examples and details about the app, such as its features and your personal experiences using it.

    2: Ignoring the Cues

    Some candidates forget to address all the cues provided, which can result in incomplete answers and missed opportunities to showcase their language skills.

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    Tip

    Make sure to answer each cue clearly, discussing what the app is, how often you use it, and when you found it.

    Overusing Technical Jargon

    Using too much technical language can confuse the examiner and make your answer less accessible, especially if they are not familiar with the app.

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    Tip

    Use simple language to explain the app and its functions, ensuring that your answer is easy to understand for everyone.

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    Out of all the apps I have on my phone right now, the most important and the most valuable app I have is the Google map. This is something I use regularly from my day to day life. It's something I use to navigate from one place to another to explore new places. And it's not only limited to you know, navigation, it is also helpful when it comes to exploring new things or finding out new places like if I want to go for shopping or if I want some marketplaces or even a small shop, something like a vendor, a food vendor or a cotton candy shop, I can easily find it out through this app itself. It is something very reliable. And most importantly, it's very, very specific to what I need and in what area I want it. Along with that, it also has other features where I can post my reviews about a place. So if I don't like a place or if I love a place, I can easily post it on the app itself. I can put my reviews, I can add my ratings and other people can view those ratings and review it. Reviews have added to it. And based on that, they can, you know, finalize the place if they want to go to that place or did not. Along with navigation and exploration, it is something also building a social community where one can trust other's choice or benefit from others or visit. So however, it's a it's primary purpose is for navigation. It is also something for social building feedback session or feedback app one can use. So yeah, overall, I really love this app. This is something Google has brought up a lot of years before, and I'm using it since I've like started.

    Band 6-7

    The app that I want to talk about is ChildGBT. It is an AI tool used for answering various types of questions by people, by users. I use it very often over multiple times a day based on the requirements that I have. I use it for my college projects, my assignments and general curiosity and sometimes I also use it for making varieties of images and concept ideas for my architectural briefing. I found it due to a friend suggesting me while I was stuck with my assignments on structural analysis and my friend suggested that there is this AI tool which can be used for recreating or solving various structural problems and it was easier for me to access it through such tools. Therefore, I downloaded it and found it very intriguing and extremely helpful. It was during my third year of my bachelor's degree when I came across this AI tool. It had really changed my perception on AI because before this I had a lot of skepticism for AI tools but after using it, I found it a very useful tool and it could also be very well versed with different subjects. So, it is definitely a must-use in today's world.

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    Yeah, so the app that is on my phone which I use the most is probably Township. So it's a game, it's a farming game which I play almost every day. I play it every day because it's based on a point system where if I log in every day I get like certain amount of points and I need to be consistent with it to get the maximum amount of points. The game works as if it is a town and I have to farm, I have to market the goods, I have to send the goods abroad, it has a variety of functions. I can also make friends on the app like other people who play the game and I could also go and look at their towns, I can get like a sense of what they are doing as well, I can get some creative ideas from their town as well. One of my most favorite aspects about this game is that it gives me an entrepreneurial sense, like every decision I make is mine. I get to decide which hotels or housing to buy and I get to decide what kind of crops to farm, I get to decide what factories I own. So it's a good way for kids at least to get a business sense of how to run a business or a company and it's just really fun to play and it is a good way to pass time and instead of playing brain-rotten games I think this is a better option of a game. So that's about it from me about this game.

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    So, today I would like to talk about an app which I use on my phone as well as computer. It's none other than a social networking app that is called Instagram. I found out about this app during my school days where everyone was creating an Instagram ID to be updated about the new trends and follow the latest news. When I asked them about it, they said me it's an app where you can see what's happening around you, around the world, around the globe and you can post whatever or whenever you want. So, I downloaded it and I started creating some content that basically involves baking and cooking recipes. I often use it and post content on this particular app and I get a lot of reach as well as views. Although my parents support me, I don't get enough time to post the content and I strive to post each video in a month or in a week.

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    So the app I am talking about today is Instagram. I use it very often and to be very precise like 7 to 8 hours per day, I have a page on that. It is my clinic page and I update every day one video for the information and education of the patient. Some videos on before and after of the patient, some informative videos, some do's and don'ts like that. This app I found actually way back and it was just I was using that for personal use but now I am using the professional version of this particular app. I find it very easier to use. It is also available with the edit version. So it is very much easier to edit the videos and then upload them and we can also use the privacy setups. For example, my personal account is just for my friends and family. However, the page which I use for my clinic by Dr. Adesh Tendulkar, it is for the use of public and I believe it is a very much appropriate app and good app and everyone should use this. Keeping in mind what is their funda and what is their priority, what they want to do with that but yes, it could be used for fun, it could be used for information, everything.

    Band 6-7

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    There are various applications in my mobile phone, but the most favorite app of mine is Instagram. And I use this app during my weekdays and weekends. In addition to that, by using Instagram, I can gain my knowledge. It gives me enthusiasm to my lifestyle. Personally I like to watch 3D animation kind of movies and I have followed a lot of influencers who makes videos based on the 3D regarding the history and biology. I saw this app when I was in 10th class. Also I found that it is very beneficial for the students and also for the other human beings as by watching different kind of videos, we can gain our knowledge, enhance our different kind of activities.

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    A program on my phone that I constantly use is ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI-assisted application which has been put in which has been very progressive from the past three to four years or so. ChatGPT is more or less like Google where one can search their queries and find answers to those. ChatGPT is very quick in giving answers and the answers are very appropriate to the context. I started using ChatGPT from the time I was 22 and I have not stopped using after that. I use ChatGPT on a daily basis. Whatever questions, whatever doubts I have, I put them in ChatGPT and it gives me an instant response, which is very accurate and which is very apt for the query that I've enlisted. There is this added feature in ChatGPT where when you upload an image, it can diagnose the changes seen. Sometimes when I cannot see any changes in radiological images such as MRI or CT, I upload it in ChatGPT and it gives me hints as to where I must look. In conclusion, I feel ChatGPT is a very progressive app and hence the future generations can be benefited very much by it.

    Band 6-7

    yeah the app that I use is a video editing app called Filmora I often use it almost on every day so it's an app where we take clips video or audio clips and we edit to make it a big video clip so we can work to make vlogs and it's very easy to use and I found this app on social media and I randomly downloaded and started using it it saves a lot of time for video editing and whenever I have to post any videos on social media I use this app to edit the small photo clips on different days and different timings and I make a big video of all these small snippets instantly hence it will save a lot of time and I can use transitions in between the videos I can use filters I can make it more pleasing and appealing so the final output of the video will satisfy me so this app Filmora has been a life saviour in many ways for me

    Band 6-7

    The app which I would like to talk about is Instagram. Instagram is an app for social media. It is an app where people share their photos, share their opinions on various topics, photos and you know, share memes with their friends and it is a socializing app basically. I have been using this app for almost a decade now and it's very handy and it is owned by Facebook. It's parent company, although it's Meta, but it's the replacement of Facebook actually. I use it often. Every day I almost spend three to four hours on this app. You know, scrolling through memes, sharing my experience with my circle and getting to know about the experience of others. We all enjoy a lot. All my friends share memes, we all get to know about each other and you know, we spend some quality time on this app. We also, this app offers a feature video call where we can group video call amongst all the friends and that's very interesting. All my friends which are living abroad always upload their photos on these apps so that we could know that what they are doing in this life and I also upload my photos on this app so that my friends know what I've been doing in my life. It's a very realistic app and it's also a kind of dating app since a lot of girls are there who use this app to date, to get to know each other and if the vibe matches, then it's the time to date, meet physically.
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