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Describe A Rule That Is Important In Your School Or At Work: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is the rule about?
  • What happens when people break the rule?
  • Why do you think it is an important rule?
  • And explain how you feel about the rule.
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Cue 1:What is the rule about?

  • Clearly state the rule and its purpose in your school or workplace.
  • Provide context about how this rule is applied and who it affects.

Example

One important rule in my school is that students must submit their assignments on time. This rule is crucial because it helps maintain discipline and ensures that everyone is keeping up with the syllabus.

Cue 2:What happens when people break the rule?

  • Explain the consequences of breaking the rule.
  • Mention how these consequences affect both the individual and the group.

Example

When students fail to submit their assignments on time, they usually receive a penalty, such as a reduction in marks. This not only affects their grades but also disrupts the learning process for others, as teachers have to spend extra time addressing late submissions.

Cue 3:Why do you think it is an important rule?

  • Discuss the benefits of having this rule in place.
  • Relate it to broader values such as responsibility and time management.

Example

I believe this rule is important because it teaches students the value of responsibility and time management. Learning to meet deadlines is a skill that will benefit us in our future careers, where punctuality is often crucial.

Cue 4:And explain how you feel about the rule.

  • Share your personal feelings about the rule, whether positive or negative.
  • Explain how it has impacted your own experience in school or work.

Example

Personally, I appreciate this rule because it has helped me become more organized. Initially, I struggled with deadlines, but over time, I learned to manage my time better, which has reduced my stress levels significantly.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, the rule of submitting assignments on time is vital in my school. It not only fosters discipline but also prepares us for future responsibilities. I feel that such rules are essential for personal growth and academic success.

    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. Candidates often fail to provide specific details about the rule, leading to a weak response.

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    Tip

    Be specific about the rule. Explain it clearly and provide examples to illustrate its importance.

    2: Ignoring Consequences

    Not discussing the consequences of breaking the rule can weaken your answer. Candidates often overlook this aspect, making their response less engaging.

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    Tip

    Clearly explain what happens when the rule is broken. This adds depth to your answer and shows its significance.

    Lack of Personal Opinion

    Failing to express personal feelings about the rule can make your response less relatable. Candidates sometimes forget to share their perspective.

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    Include your feelings about the rule. Discuss why it matters to you personally to make your answer more compelling.

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    All Answers

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    Band 6-7

    The role that is important in school is to teach children to respect people and to have discipline in their life and value time. So there should be classes or activities that should be conducted. As a part of it a rule should be made in schools saying that each child should treat another student or his friend at school with the same respect and love. Thank you.

    Band 6-7

    teachers every day I'm Sibalesh I'm from escape engineering college in our campus we need to must check in our t-shirts and we need to you know we need to be in a proper procedure and we need to wear our proper shoes formal shoes not supposed to allow her to wear our fancy shoes must we need to wear our ID cards and ties after we need to follow a time at a break time my one lead 15 minutes in outside of the break fast and we are not allowed to roaming on a class times to at the back

    Band 6-7

    The first and foremost rule in our work is we need to attend the client meetings on time. If the meeting is scheduled at 8am, so we need to attend that meeting on time or ahead of time. And we need to be on camera. So if there are any client meetings, we need to have our camera on. And second most thing is when we are speaking with the client, so we should not use daily phrases. We should be very well in our explanation like what kind of work we performed today. So with the scrum master, we need to explain everything. And that scrum master is usually from our client base. So we need to be precise in our answers.

    Band 6-7

    The one rule that we should follow is that you should never let down people around you. That's really important and how can we work on this? We can support each other's efforts. This rule might be most important that people should not feel down while working with you. They should feel supportive and motivated. Never let down anybody in your teamwork or where you work or where you study. I also feel that working with someone who you trust.

    Band 6-7

    The one rule in my workplace is time management because it's quite crucial especially in delivering projects to our clients. What happened once was that we were all working very serious about the project but we couldn't deliver a project on time which disappointed our clients and we felt really bad. So we brought a new rule where we are going to deliver everything before the deadline. I think this rule is quite important because it teaches the discipline, the consistency in delivering the work and it also creates a nice opinion about us on clients. Moreover, this also helps in developing real-life time management work. Well, currently I'm working as a scientific machine learning in a company called Zentik which is a startup incubated at ISA Bangalore. Here the main rule that the company follows is punctuality because they strongly believe that coming on time and going on time really enhances individuals performance and also increases discipline among the workers, employees. So that is an essential rule that they follow all the time. I wasn't aware of this rule when I joined the company. So I was a bit late, around half an hour late to the office and then I came to know about the rule and then I felt really annoyed and embarrassed because people saw me in a very lame and way and it was quite bad. So I understood the rule and then I started to follow the next week itself and it was quite good. Moreover, this rule also teaches us about the time management, discipline and moreover patience also because we create schedule for this particular timing. Also, not only me, all of the other employees in the company also follow this rule. If we don't follow this rule, what are the penalties? The one penalty will be deduction of some amount of salary from our monthly credit and second is the name. That's quite important. We should create a good impression about ourself on people but we lose that as well.

    Band 6-7

    Being punctual is a rule that is very important in my school because punctuality is very important for the success in life and it helps the students in maintaining discipline and decorum in the school. If the rule is not followed, the students are made to stand outside in the open sun for a very long time. It is a harsh punishment but it is very important because maintaining that rule is essential for the school. This school maintains a very high punctuality just because it is a very integral part for achieving success in life. Students are made to follow this rule by the school because it helps them in the future as it will help them in their work as well as in their lives. It will ensure that they maintain a very punctual behaviour at their workplaces as well as in their important points of life. Therefore, this rule has helped not only the students but also the teachers in maintaining the discipline in the school and it is very helpful for us.

    Band 6-7

    The most important rule of our life is not to abuse anyone verbally or physically. Be it at your school or at work. When we abuse someone, it hurts them, it breaks the trust between both of them and it ends up the relationship that we have. We should not hurt anyone. This can affect the person mentally and it can reduce the productivity that they have and affect their work at a very high proportion. This is the rule that I feel that we should follow for long term and breaking it could affect the person who is abusing it and who is also listening to it.

    Band 6-7

    As I am working professionally in dentistry, the honesty towards the patient is utmost important in our profession as it gives a transparency between the patient and the doctor and as a dentist I am aware of that rule since I am in this profession because it is very empirical for any evaluation or diagnosis. This rule is very important in the viewpoint of a patient as well as a doctor because this gives a patient confidence in a doctor and patient willingly do their treatment with the doctor. Along with this, if people break this rule like any working professional break this rule that will create a disharmony with the doctor and it will create a bad.

    Band 6-7

    I feel that maintaining discipline is the most important rule in our school or even at work also. And I feel whenever anybody tries to break this rule then they usually get punished by the authorities, higher authorities. Moreover, I feel that this is very good and important rule to be followed in any of the institutions because if we are not going to maintain discipline in the school premises or anywhere else then it should spoil the environment of the premises or the institution. Furthermore, I want to say that maintaining discipline or creating no chaos in the classrooms even in the institutions or at the workplaces then we must complete our tasks in time and it will boost our confidence also if we see others to maintain discipline, it inspires others also and we also get inspired by all these things and this is wonderful experience for me because I feel good whenever we maintain discipline My school authorities make rules for the same, make some suggestions for the same that how to maintain discipline, how to indulge students so that they could remain in discipline Discipline doesn't mean that we have to just shut our mouth Discipline means that we have to complete our tasks within the given time limit without creating lot of noise or without creating lot of distraction to others Discipline also means that we have to maintain some specific terms and conditions or we have to follow those carefully and dedicatedly and instead of that I just want to say that maintaining discipline is not bad thing that we have to follow everywhere

    Band 6-7

    The most important rule we have at our work is the punctuality. If you are not punctual, you will not be regarded. And I think that punctuality, you should develop punctuality in your daily life to get success in life, to get success in your work. And punctuality is a good habit, I think. And I really think this is a good rule and it should be applied everywhere, not just in school or at work. It should be applied everywhere, all around the world. Because I know many lazy people who don't wake up on time and they get late from work and ultimately their salary got deducted and as a result they go depressed. So if you are not punctual, it will give you more depression. So to avoid this depression, you should reach on time, you should do everything on time. It makes you healthy and gives you a good lifestyle. And I really think this is a very good rule. I feel really good about it. And I think everyone should stick to this rule to avoid any deduction in their salaries or to avoid any disregard from the colleagues, from your head of department and to be healthy in your life. Yeah. That's it. Thank you.
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