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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.
    Describe a time when your friend damaged something you owned
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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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    Anonymous student Band 7.5

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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

    I can teach someone making a paper craft because I am very good in paper craft. I was taught by my mother paper craft because my mother also is very good in paper craft. She taught me how to make a paper craft. It's a very nice journey to learn how to make paper craft. Now I can make many paper craft and I made many paper craft. Few months ago I started a channel for paper craft on Instagram. There was very good response of my paper craft. I am so happy and glad now that my paper craft has achieved.

    Band 6

    I would like to share the skill which I have learnt during my childhood, that is, swimming. This skill I have learnt at the age of maybe 14, when we have been to the temple in Telangana. There was a pond with crystal clear water. In that, people used to jump and they can do bathing and also swimming. So during that time, my father just taught me how to start floating and thereafter he taught me how to do the hands and leg movement to move forward. And I could master it within no time. And in a very first attempt, I could learn that skill and I could master it within no time. Thereafter, now recently I have started training my children and even they are also able to swim within no time, easily, not making, without much effort. This is one of the skills which will make the entire body fit. This will make all the muscles exercised and this can be done during summer holidays, of course.

    Band 6

    Hi, my name is Rehan. A skill that I possess is explaining things. This is my skill. I learned it back from when I was younger. I learned that I can explain things better than any other people. I can explain any topic better. I eventually help many of my friends during exam time. I always help them a lot while explaining things because I explain very clearly. Mindfully, I believe that I can explain things in a better, qualified way than many other people. I believe that. Many of my friends were impressed by my skills and liked it a lot. I believe that explaining things is an art. Many of the people can't have it. How can people learn it? You should have a calm presence of mind and a calm headed mind also. You should always have a cool mind under pressure. How can you explain things better? If someone is trying to say something, I believe that he should have a clear mind about what he is speaking. He should be confident enough that any other people should understand that he is trying to say something good and actually anything worth understanding or listening to it. I believe that this is actually a quite important skill that I possess that I can make people understand what I really feel and I can even change their minds about a topic. So, I believe that this is my skill and I am really proud of it. Thank you. This is how I am. This is Rehan.

    Band 6

    So, the skill that I would like to teach other people is the Robot Programming skill. So, I learned it through my college days. I did my diploma in Robotics and Automation. So, Robot Programming is essential in my academic syllabus. So, it included Robot Programming both in offline and online mode. So, Robot Programming is all about programming the robot, teaching the points where the robot could manipulate. It can be started by taking the robot programs of starting the points till the end. And it also includes the various points, the more curves and lines. So, since I have participated in the Robot Integration Skills Participate competition, it is very necessary that I know all the experience that are needed from the scratch that can be attained to achieve the goal. So, since the robots are the more futurely more demanded in this session, it is very important to learn about things. It is so interesting and it is easy to learn when the time is there.

    Band 5-6

    support and so the skill that's what I said the skill I can um afforestation is a method which is an easy method but uh and also by studying the strategic planning I can also help them how to bring uh or how to grow the trees well um by how to nurture them as well so um this is one of the skills which I am interested to teach other people and also I can teach them music so music can is considered as a relaxing um exercise um to our ears as well as our mind so I can teach them as well and that also what uh relax them or or release the stresses and um and another skill which I can teach people is um dance okay yeah dance is something um needs some energy but it also makes people healthy too uh instead of sitting one place and one place we can just make them to dance that may that may make them what make the lazy ones who don't do the exercises uh to to do some work or to give some work to their body and also make them a bit healthier than usual and that's all

    Band 5-6

    The skill that I want to teach other people is yoga. I have learned skill when I was into very much feeling lost and I developed this skill at that time and it made me feel more relaxed. I really want other people should do yoga so that it can make them feel positive in themselves and it can make them enthusiastic from within. This skill is going to be very much helpful to them in their later life. They will be more positive thoughts would be catering to them rather than going into any negative things. This is most important and in this world where it is very difficult to maintain the health and it can make one people flexible as well.

    Band 5-6

    Hi, now I am going to speak about my hobbies. My hobby is crotcheting. I like to crotchet very much and I have learned it from YouTube. And I started learning it since one year and now I can crotchet my own mesh top and my own scarves and etc. And I can teach it to others through YouTube or you can come offline to learn it from me. And how I feel about that is I feel so much busy in doing crotchet because there is more things to learn in crotcheting. There is not only about a yarn and a needle, it is about more. There is lot of stitches and etc. And I like to teach it to someone who needs it. And it is my favorite hobby to do. Every time I complete my college, I come to my hostel and I start doing my crotchet. And I have already completed scarf and I got many appreciation for that. Many asked for its pattern and how did you stitch that, what is the stitch and etc. I wish that I could teach others about my skill, what I have learned.

    Band 5-6

    Style of turban and nowadays I'm a turban teacher There are several skills that I know even I am also well as I'm a skilled person so I know several type of skills such as cooking driving riding and swimming as well but here I'm going to talk about one such skill from them that I can teach others this is tying turban I came to know about this skill during my 12th class because at that time my father gave me a turban as a gift and after that when I started to tie the turban earlier days it was too hard for me because tying around six meters of clothes on the head it was quite hard and after that when I started to tie it become a piece of cake for me even though within just two minutes I started to tie the turban and nowadays I can tie it within one and a half minute and apart from that if I talk about how can I teach people to tie the turban firstly I gave them the classes of tying it I teach them how to make the clothes in a perfect shape to tie on the head and after that how to fold the clothes to tying on the heads apart from that if I talk apart from that likewise as mostly whenever I tie the turban I just feel like aching because it looks like a prime for me even though whenever I go anywhere so it is my it enhances my personality so several things I feel about it firstly I feel like this is one of another body part of mine and without it I am quite nervous to go because I think that with the turban I looks nice but after or like whenever I do not tie the turban I do not look that much nice

    Band 5-6

    I have some number of skills but my favorite skill is singing. I sing songs in early morning at least one hour. I get this skill from my mother. She is a good singer. From my childhood she sang songs for me. So I think I get this skill from my mother. I like to teach these skills to others, for others. Mostly I teach my singing skills to my kids in daily one or two hours. Not constantly teach this skill. But sometimes I teach these skills to my friends and when I was singing songs I make my mind refreshing and stress free. So I like my skills so much.

    Band 5

    I would like to share a time management skill, it is a very important skill for me and this skill is improved by my self knowledge and it is given by my friend Sachin, whenever he comes to me and he talk me about this because I am very poor in this skill and he teach me very useful thing in the while, so I think it is very important for me to learn this skill and teach another people to this, it is very important because it help me a lot in my exam time and very another thing such as exam, travel journey and house, etc. I learn this skill in my childhood when I am studying at 5th class.
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