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Describe A Skill That You Can Teach Other People: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is it?
  • How did you learn it?
  • How can you teach others this skill?
  • How do you feel about this skill?
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Cue 1:What is it?

  • Clearly define the skill you can teach, making it relatable and specific.
  • Mention why this skill is valuable or interesting to others.

Example

The skill I can teach others is cooking Indian cuisine, particularly vegetarian dishes. Cooking is not just a necessity; it’s an art that brings people together, and Indian food is known for its rich flavors and variety.

Cue 2:How did you learn it?

  • Share your personal journey of learning this skill, including any challenges faced.
  • Mention any resources or people that helped you along the way.

Example

I learned to cook from my grandmother, who was an excellent cook. I spent many weekends in her kitchen, watching her prepare traditional dishes. Initially, I struggled with the spices and techniques, but with her guidance and practice, I gradually improved.

Cue 3:How can you teach others this skill?

  • Explain your approach to teaching, including any methods or tools you would use.
  • Mention the importance of hands-on practice and encouragement.

Example

To teach cooking, I would organize small workshops where participants can cook alongside me. I believe in a hands-on approach, so I would guide them step-by-step through the recipes, explaining the significance of each ingredient and technique. I would also encourage them to experiment and find their own style.

Cue 4:How do you feel about this skill?

  • Express your personal feelings about the skill, including any pride or joy it brings you.
  • Mention how it has impacted your life or the lives of others.

Example

I feel a great sense of pride in my cooking skills. It brings me joy to see my friends and family enjoy the meals I prepare. Cooking has also allowed me to connect with my culture and share it with others, which is incredibly fulfilling.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, teaching cooking is not just about sharing recipes; it’s about sharing a part of my culture and creating memorable experiences. I believe everyone can benefit from learning this skill, as it fosters creativity and brings people together.

    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

    Avoid being too general when describing the skill. Vague answers can make it hard for the examiner to understand your point.

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    Provide specific examples and details about the skill to make your answer clearer and more engaging.

    2: Neglecting Personal Experience

    Failing to share your personal journey of learning the skill can make your answer less relatable and interesting.

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    Include a brief story about how you learned the skill, highlighting challenges and successes to connect with the examiner.

    Lack of Teaching Methods

    Not explaining how you would teach the skill can leave your answer incomplete and unconvincing.

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    Outline clear steps or methods you would use to teach the skill, demonstrating your understanding of effective teaching.

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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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    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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    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.
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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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    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

    I would strongly say it is Volleyball, as I was since playing it for the past three years, I had learnt several things, several techniques, training sessions, I did a lot of training. As I was playing, my position is a libero who actually defends the ball when a spiker hits from the opposite direction. Ever since I was playing, that position, due to my height, I was short actually, so that position fits me so well. I could say that playing as a libero had made me feel delightful. I can teach this to anyone. I also had taught this skill to some of my friends who were actually struggling to do the receive and reception from the opposite side of the court. It makes me feel, this position is actually so cool and it is the backbone of the team where the receives are actually received.

    Band 6-7

    Well, my favourite hobby is something which many people are scared of. And I am thrilled to share this that my favourite hobby is public speaking. I was very young when I learnt this skill. It was not something which came naturally to me. But because I was a child, I was a child who kept on participating in a lot of competitions. And by the time I found out that mic is something and the stage is something which gives me an identity. Not everybody can be a good speaker because it takes a lot of courage and confidence to be on the stage. But as soon as you enter into the world of competitions where you try to improve yourself by every word you speak, then automatically you get into it. Moreover, I am a girl who is very debating. I love debating. If I have a point and I need to prove it, I will go to any extent to prove that I am right. I love giving my ideas a voice. Because we live in a country where if you don't speak for yourself, then people will get a chance to suppress you. And that is why I feel that being a girl and pursuing a hobby like public speaking is the best combo one can ever ask for.

    Band 6-7

    Recently I developed an interest in the field of fitness and gym. I was searching about various activities that I could do in my leisure time. This is when I came across fitness. I tried fitness for over a year and now I can happily say that I am mastered in it. I do regular fitness at least for 2 hours a day which gives me my health and mental peace. The way I do my fitness is inspired by Michael Jordan. He is a person with good physique and hence he is my inspiration. I am happy to say that I can give and spread knowledge to others also. I help my friend in fitness journey because I know the ways, procedures and methods of doing this. The nutrition that needs to be taken, the diet that has to be maintained and even the quantity and supplements that need to be taken. I am a natural body weight lifter so I can say that I know the knowledge of what has to be done in the precise way. I can help others build their own dream physique and have also made many transformations for few of my candidates. I think that each and everyone should try this fitness thing because it is a great opportunity to transform themselves, have a positive attitude, build discipline and also encourage others to provide hygiene environment around others. This also helps mental peace and stability and gives you confidence.

    Band 6-7

    I possess a lot of skills like I'm really good at communicating also great at mathematics and also hold some great computer science skills. So one skill that I can teach other people I think in a very easy way is related to the computer science. It is actually programming in Python. I learned it while I was in 12th standard and at that time there was not any teacher available at my school who could teach me that. So I learned it with the help of internet with the help of YouTube videos. I watched so many of it and I created my basic strong. After learning this skill from the internet I went to the college and I also had a subject related to it and my one of my teacher taught me the advanced programming in Python too and if I had ever given a chance to teach other people I can definitely do that with the help of internet like for example with the help of live sessions through Zoom app or Google app and if someone is not available and is not familiar with the technology and they want one-to-one session physically then I can definitely do that too. So that's it.

    Band 6-7

    I am a multi-talented person and I know many things but most difficult skill that I can learn to others is to produce music. When I was 12 I thought that making music is very difficult but then I saw a video on YouTube it was Alan Walker's video and he demonstrated that making music is very easy and you don't need to know so many instruments to make music you just need one software which is Fruity Loops it is a very common software to make music so I started learning that software since I was 12 and right now I can make music from that software and I also have bought some instruments so yes I am very confident that I can teach this skill to others because I have experience of 10 years in this field and this is the thing that I like the most and it is very easy to demonstrate and teach others what you like there is a thing there is one sentence that I like the most is that love your job and every day will be an holiday and I believe in that

    Band 6-7

    The thing that I can teach other people is sketching. Sometimes I love to sketch and I learned it from printers. I did it as a hobby and it soothes my mind and gives me peace. And it also gives me a mind with an innovative ideas. I would love to teach people that because that's all what you see you can draw but you can draw with the mind and the brain that you have got. And the other thing is a little book of the new technologies that I see from the YouTube world, the online and stuff like this. And the book is something that gives me happiness. It gives me happiness. It is interesting. It gives a lot of happiness. And if you don't want to do the hard work, then you did it. Because it feels like, oh, I got a talent. Well, I am doing it well.

    Band 6-7

    Certainly there is one skill I can teach to others, which is computer skills. I learned this computer skill from my father, basics from my father and after that I learned, I wanted to learn in deep so I took a course, a certificate course from an open university and I learned deeply from there, in which there are four modules, CIT, course name was CIT, Certificate Information Technology, in which there are four subjects, was parted into four subjects, which is CIT-1, CIT-2, CIT-3, CIT-4, in which there is HTML, second is Java, thirdly is how to use MS Office and fourth is how to use all of that combining skill. And all through this skill, the skill I have learned is very hard to teach, hard to get graphs, but by giving them tutorial and giving them time to practice, others can learn it. And I feel excellent about this computer skill, which I learned through rigorous practice.

    Band 6-7

    A skill that I can teach other people is to solve a Rubik's cube. It is one of the best skills I have ever learnt in my life. I learnt to solve a Rubik's cube when I was in 6th grade. A friend of mine taught me how to solve it and by time I learnt it and now I can solve it under 1 minute. It is one of the best skills I learnt in my life. The one thing I am sure is that I can teach the skill to other people for sure but it would take some time to learn but it is not impossible. However, it would be difficult because it is not that easy to learn. There are various equations and formulas so it would take time to apply all of those and solve it and I feel proud because I heard that only 5-6% of people in the world only knows how to manage to solve a Rubik's cube and I feel proud because it is a few million people who knows how to solve a Rubik's cube and I am happy to teach it to other people and I feel proud and I thank my friend who teached me to solve it.

    Band 6-7

    Well, a skill that I can teach others would be painting, because painting is such a nice skill. Also, I learned it from my school, and till now I am doing that skill, I'm practicing that skill, and it has helped me reduce my stress levels, and it's also a relieving hobby to earn, and also, this technique, this art, is widely appreciated in the world. Many people like arts, and there are many institutions for art too. One of my most common art pieces are, well, I drew a bird, a clown, which looked realistic, and my school liked it so much that it even, well, it even kept it inside the art gallery of the school, and, well, I think that people can learn this skill easily, because around the world, there are many institutions that help with the same topic. Well, if I were to teach other people this skill, I would teach them the basics of art, how to hold a brush, how to select colors, how to look at pieces, how to draw real life arts, and et cetera, et cetera.

    Band 6-7

    The skill that I learnt since my childhood is cooking and I have had the opportunity of learning this skill from my mother. As I used to always observe her cook in the kitchen, it always fascinated me. I think it is one of the most stunning skill that a person can have. I intend on sharing this skill with others via social media. I can also give one-on-one classes to children as well as adults. I have known various different types of cooking, various different types of cuisine such as Indian, Mexican, Italian, Chinese etc. According to me, I think that this skill is very important because it adds up to your skills of social survival. Moreover, I think this skill should not be gender biased. It should be learnt and practiced by both men and women. Furthermore, I also believe that this skill is a lot more than just knowing how to cook. Because it teaches one how to feed others and how to take care of oneself as well as others around you. So, cooking is one of the most easiest yet very vital skill that one must learn in their life in order to survive.
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