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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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    Anonymous student Band 7

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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

    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.

    Band 6-7

    The skill that I learned in my life is welding. Even though I didn't get that much proper guidance, but when I was studying my engineering, I know a little bit of welding. And after graduating from engineering, when my church decided to construct a new star for Christmas using iron bars, they want a welder to weld the irons. But in the church youth academy, no one has the idea how to weld. So I came forward and showed my idea to the priest and my peers. They all accepted the structure and the idea that I gave them. And after we drew the star structure, we decided to cut the iron bars and weld. But no one knows how to weld that. So I decided to teach them by saying you have to weld this like putting the iron rod and other rod together then welding with welding rod and it will be welded. After a certain time they all learned how to weld tangos. After that I feel amazed of myself and I feel proud because I can teach someone who doesn't know anything about welding. I think it was one of the unforgettable skills in my life.

    Band 6-7

    A skill that I can teach to other people is painting. I used to paint since I was a child. I learned it myself or we can say it was inbuilt talent because all my cousins used to paint. Moreover, they are professional in art. Although I didn't go to any classes, I think I can make a good teacher. I can help people to learn art, to develop their art. I have helped children with their artworks such as sketching and drawing. I used to guide them. In my spare time, I used to paint for long hours. I personally believe that painting refreshes my mind and it is rejuvenating after incessant work. It needs a lot of dedication and concentration to paint a proper picture. As a result, it helps to uncoil the confusions in your mind.

    Band 6-7

    So, I start my answer is like my favorite or my favorable skill is pencil sketches. I love pencil sketches while like actually I love pencil sketches of babies and I teach sketches to other people because my younger brother is also love to paint and sketch. I teach him how to sketch eyes, nose and appropriate shading to the sketch, which pencil you have to use, which shade or which whitener for eyes you have to use. This is some small thing I can learn to the others while sketching. After that, I focusing on realistic sketching, especially of babies. I love to capture their emotions and expressions on the paper. They are so innocent and I think babies sketches are really simple to for beginners. So yeah, that's the skill I teach to other people. After that, second one is I can teach German language because I love teaching new languages. I think I learn new, I love to learn new languages where I can teach some basics of German language and that includes counting, self-introduction or some basic alphabets of German language. It is totally depends on your phonetic sounds. So yeah, I can teach this skill also to other people.

    Band 6-7

    There is one skill I can teach anyone. The skill is dance. I learned it from my sister when I was a kid. And I can teach it by making tutorial videos and music dance covers. And after dancing I feel so relieved and nice. And I can make this easy to people.

    Band 6-7

    I am physiotherapist by profession. Few years back I had attended a workshop where I learnt about a new technique called manipulation. Manipulation is a very skilled technique which is practiced by professionals, professional physiotherapist to reduce pain and increase the range of motions of the joints. It is used in the cases of joint pain and various other injuries. For example, if the neck has become stiff then we use certain maneuvers to increase the flexibility and reduce the pain. When I learnt this workshop I was very fascinating about the results which we get after the manipulation. It was very tricky and difficult to perform initially. Then as soon as I started using the skills over my patients I got to see very positive result from my patient and that is where I decided to further update myself. So I did four levels that is basic, intermediate and advanced level and then I became a certified licensed manipulator. After becoming a certified manipulator I decided to held several workshops regarding the same in order to interact with other physiotherapist students and enhance my skills and knowledge regarding the same.

    Band 6-7

    The skill that I have is being calm in a situation where most people will panic. I first learned this skill, actually it was a gradual phase of learning for me, was when I was 8 years old and from the age of 8 till the age of 20, I had faced a lot of problems in my life, a lot of hurdles which I did not know how to overcome but some way or the other I found ways with which I could overcome those problems and that helped me develop this skill of being calm and composed when things go south. So what I see nowadays is that people panic and once you start to lose your senses you do things wrong even if you are very good at them. So to be calm, to be composed, to have your thoughts clear is something that I could very well teach. It's a hard pill to swallow, I won't disagree but it's something that is quite essential if you want to be successful in your life. To be honest I am not very successful either but I wouldn't say I am the perfect person to teach but the thing is if I can impart even a little bit of what I know to a person and if it can help even a small percentage of that person's life then I think
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