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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 have one skill, that skill is graphic designing and I learned this skill in my cousin brother's office and I learned this skill in my childhood, it's not my childhood, it's in my age of 13 to 14 and I learned more, I learned photoshop, color, illustrators and many softwares to create something like this. Like banner, posting card for advertisement and I teach this software like color draw and I teach photoshop for editing and something else for using for own opinion and I work as a graphic designer. That skill is help for me for job and I build myself and editing all time, that's my interest and my hobby is learning something new like photoshop, illustrators and color draw and many designing software like canva. And photoshop like that and I like to a card, I like designing like interior designing and architect, that's my interest for in this categories and one day I will and one day I must learn all designing software.

    Band 6-7

    The skill that I can teach other people is to write poems and other literary works. I have learned this skill at my school by my school teachers. And I can teach various people how to write by first telling them about the rules of figures of speech because it plays an amazing role. If anyone wants to learn how to write any literary specific work, they first need to understand the grammar and then they have to have a good grasp over idioms and phrases and even over the figures of speech. So I would love to enlighten them first about those grammar rules and then I would move forward to correcting them when they are writing any of the works. And I basically love reading and writing literary works. And I have read a lot of books. Furthermore, I have also written several poems which I have posted on social media accounts. And furthermore, it's a leisure activity for me, it's a hobby for me which sometimes makes me feel good, lightened and also quite special. When I post it on social media and on X handles, then I get a lot of appreciation that boosts my self-confidence and even my need to teach some other people about it.

    Band 6-7

    So if I have to describe a skill that I can teach to other people it is definitely going to be a musical instrument which is a guitar. So when did I learn it? In covid pandemic I started learning guitar through a known teacher which was already teaching my friend. So my friend recommended me to that teacher. Furthermore I would teach the skill which is the guitar with a defined path which I am having right now which was given by my teacher. Through which I can teach other people in a very structured manner and I can assure that in a couple of years if they remain stick to me they will be playing their favourite songs without any struggle on the guitar. I feel really happy about this skill because it acts like a stress buster for me whenever I am under the weather like I am having any fever or cold or I am not feeling good. This musical instrument particularly helps me in many ways at that particular point of time. I feel really joyful after I play it and while I play it because I used to hum with it and also I play my favourite songs along while playing the guitar which helps in making a coordination as well. And additionally playing my favourite songs helps me in busting my stress as well because

    Band 6-7

    A skill that I want to teach other people or I can teach other people is definitely riding. I love to ride bikes and I started riding when I was in 6th class. I used to take my driver's bike and I used to roam in the lanes of my city. Until then, I did not have a favorite bike but in 10th class, I saw a cafe racer bike which caught my attention. It was the Continental GT650 from Royal Enfield. I had dreamed about it for around 4 years and after 4 years of a dream, it came true. In my first year of my degree, my parents bought me my dream bike. Ever since then, I started riding the bike, cherishing every moment. It gives me a lot of mindfulness and I go out on my bike whenever I am stressed. I can teach other people this skill by sitting behind them. I already taught 3 of my friends how to ride a bike.

    Band 6-7

    A skill that I can teach other people is probably painting because from childhood I have learned painting by my own and I know every detail like from starting to paint to become expert in painting. So, I learned it by myself but I can teach people as I can show them how to draw with making some lines and make them help easy to draw. So, indeed painting is a tough thing to learn very accurately or you know it's hard to learn but I can make sure that people can do a good painting and probably do probably in two months because I have some tricks up my sleeve about painting. How to do it, how to make it quick and how it can be done.

    Band 6-7

    Well, that's a pretty interesting question. There are couple of things which I want to teach everyone in my perspective, but one among that will be doddling. Doddling is a kind of art where you jot down or you just randomly take a blank paper and start doing your thoughts, your visuals, your kind of hand placements on whatever you think you just put it on the paper. So you just fill the paper with your ideas, your thinking and your kind of imagination. So this is known as doddling. This doddling, I want to take it to all the other members just to give them a glance to their thoughts. They will get to know what they are thinking. They will just see themselves in that paper. They will get to know themselves that these things which are being played in their mind and is going to impact them. Moreover, I also want to make it clear that these doddling also give you a presence of calmness and relaxation because when you are in stress, when you are in a kind of rush, you just need to meditate yourself. In that point of time, if you do something as such that you put your things on the paper or jot down, that will make your stress go with ease. So I would prefer and I also suggest people to learn this more and encourage this activity. In addition to it, I also can start this as a coaching center for the students who wants to learn it, which makes them creative. And this kind of art is also used in

    Band 6-7

    Firstly, I have a lot of skills that I can teach to other people. They can improve their life and become successful in their personal life. Moreover, the most important skill I can tell and give them to the new generation is to become more independent. I learnt this skill from my parents who always taught me this skill. When I was in my home, they always gave me a task to maintain my financial as well as my commercial work. So that has helped me a lot to become more independent and manage my all work. Furthermore, I can teach that skill to the young generation by telling them to live away from their family. With them, they can do their work and learn how to deal with certain situations which they find quite challenging. So, it helps them in the future to become more successful and achieve their objectives. It is an important skill in life and many famous celebrities and the richest person have this skill. So, I feel a sense of satisfaction and joyfulness whenever I achieve this because due to my skill it plays a significant role in my life.

    Band 6-7

    well first of all thank you for this tremendous cue card today I would like to talk about a skill which I think is common but not much people do that because of shyness or anything you can call and I I love the thing because it removes stress from my life and I enjoyed a lot and the best thing is that the skill is very soothing so I by in my childhood I love to dance so from that onwards I just wherever I go I just want to dance and to remove my stress and to be joyful to feel cheerful and cherish the beautiful moments of my life I just love dancing and I taught so many of my cousins and friends dancing because they don't know how to dance and if there is any type of music it is Rajasthani music or foreign language music I just have the music in my ears and I just start dancing I don't want anybody with me and also I taught my niece how to dance and she loves she got first prize in her dancing competition and she was the happiest at that time because she told everyone that my aunt taught me the dance so it's very soothing for everything everyone

    Band 6-7

    So my topic of discussion is which is one skill that I could teach other people, which is cooking. I recently learned how to cook, it was from my mother. The purpose of learning how to cook was because I was planning to study abroad for which I would need at least basic guide to how to cook. So it took me around 2-3 months to actually know how to cook as it was my first time doing so. I think it is really helpful for me even now I try to cook almost once or twice in a week. To teach this type of skill, I believe that practical way is the best way as I don't think that it could be done through online platforms or online apps. I believe that if a person is visiting my house or I am going somewhere to teach the skill, it would require or take me at least 2-3 months as well. As right now I am doing really good at it and I get compliments from people who I serve food that I cooked. After just learning this skill, I feel really good as now I am really as I feel independent nowadays. I feel that if I go anywhere I can survive there without needing the help to going to restaurants or online food order and I just feel like that it is really helpful and it can help me in my daily life.

    Band 6-7

    The one skill I like to teach others is meditation. I've learned this skill before a month when I saw a person who was very productive and then approached him and I asked his secret and he revealed that meditation and yoga was the secret for his success and I decided to follow them as well. So I incorporated meditation in my routine and I'm following it for more than a month. Moreover, meditation helps me in relaxing and gives me a sense of refreshment so I will definitely teach this to other people. Moreover, following meditation everyday will give you a sense of mindfulness and studies say that it helps you to improve your productivity as well. Furthermore, I would definitely teach in various ways. First, I would teach breathing exercise because it's a crucial factor in yoga. You've got to focus on your breathing without any distractions so I would definitely start with breathing exercise. Followed by regular yoga where you stretch your body and do various asanas. This will definitely help your body to get more flex and help you to get a more delicate mind or a peaceful mind. Moreover, yoga helps you to improve your focus and help you to stay without distraction so helps your day go better. So I think yoga is the best way to start a day and I would definitely teach to other people because I feel I'm quite good at meditation and doing mindful exercise and it also enhances our productivity as well.
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