arrow back icon Top Answers

Describe A Special Cake You Received From Others: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • When did it happen?
  • Where did it happen?
  • From whom do you get the cake?
  • And explain why it’s a special cake.
Show all 77 answers

Cue 1:When did it happen?

  • Mention the specific occasion or event when you received the cake.
  • Include the date or time frame to give context to your story.

Example

It was my birthday last year, on the 15th of March, when I received this special cake. My friends had planned a surprise party for me, and I was completely unaware of it until they brought out the cake.


Cue 2:Where did it happen?

  • Describe the location where the cake was presented to you.
  • Make it relatable by mentioning if it was at home, a restaurant, or a friend's place.

Example

The surprise party took place at my best friend’s house. She had decorated her living room beautifully with balloons and streamers, creating a festive atmosphere.


Cue 3:From whom do you get the cake?

  • Identify who gave you the cake and their relationship to you.
  • Share a little about why this person is significant in your life.

Example

The cake was from my close friends, especially from Priya, who is like a sister to me. She knows my favorite flavors and always puts in extra effort to make my birthdays special.


Cue 4:Explain why it’s a special cake.

  • Discuss the unique features of the cake, such as flavor, design, or any personal touches.
  • Explain the emotional significance of the cake and why it stands out to you.

Example

This cake was special because it was a rich chocolate truffle cake, my absolute favorite. Priya had decorated it with fresh strawberries and a personal message written in icing. It symbolized the love and effort my friends put into making my day memorable.


Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, receiving that special cake from my friends not only made my birthday unforgettable but also reminded me of the strong bonds we share. It was a beautiful moment filled with joy and love, and I will cherish it forever.


    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: Lack of Detail in Description

    Failing to provide specific details about the cake can make your answer sound vague and uninteresting. It's important to paint a clear picture for the examiner.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Include details about the cake's appearance, flavor, and any unique features to make your description more engaging.


    2: Ignoring the Cues

    Not addressing all the cues provided can lead to an incomplete answer. This may result in a lower score as it shows a lack of organization.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Make sure to answer each cue in order, ensuring you cover when, where, from whom, and why the cake is special.


    Rushing Through the Answer

    Speaking too quickly can lead to unclear communication and missed opportunities to elaborate on your points. This can confuse the listener.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Take your time to speak clearly and pause briefly between points to allow your ideas to be understood.


    calendar icon

    IELTS Cue Cards asked last week

    Reported by Leap students who gave IELTS

    Describe your favourite food at a traditional festival or a special event in your country
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    Pitampura Test Centre, New Delhi

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 8

    location icon

    Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 6.5

    location icon

    Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7

    location icon

    Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

    Answer

    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.

    All Answers

    Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

    Band 6-7

    A special cake I received from, sorry, I would like to talk about a special cake I received from my husband, which was on my 25th birthday, and he couriered the cake to my home, where he wasn't physically present, but he joined us via a video call, and he also sent me flowers to make me feel special, I, however, further, he also sent me a chocolate cake, which I

    Band 6-7

    Last year, around April, I was going through a breakup which led to the depressive episode of my life. So I wasn't very motivated to celebrate my birthday. I was in my room my whole day but my friend called me up and sent me this restaurant which was known as Caliber and we celebrated my birthday there. It was kind of special because I was in such a horrible state and they tried their possible ways to make me get out of my bed and celebrate the birthday. I was on the verge of giving up on my life. I wasn't expecting that anyone would even remember me on my birthday. My dad even forgot to wish me on the midnight of my birthday. So I was like, who's gonna even remember me? However, they showed up. They remembered me. They showed me love. The cake was not very attractive but it was special.

    Band 6-7

    I have taken a gift cake from my best friend and the first time I have received cake in my class at my birthday and that period is enjoyable and I am very happy to see my friend. They have taken a lot of gifts for me and I am very happy at that time because I have celebrated my 13th birthday.

    Band 6-7

    yes I received a special cake from my two best friends so it happened on my anniversary last week I was celebrating my first year of wedding anniversary and my since my husband was not in the town I was a bit alone so my best friends made sure to send me the special surprises and they took an effort arranged the cake arranged the wedding anniversary cards and they sent me the special cake for me along with the cake I also received a bouquet of plant a small mini plant which is a jade plant and it is good in terms of luck it brings prosperity and it keeps the environment happy also I received a box of chocolates from them so they really made sure that I do not miss my husband more on my anniversary and they made me feel so so so special and out of those cakes one was the chocolate cake which is my favorite flavor chocolate truffle dense cake and other was a strawberry cake which also is my favorite cake I love strawberries as well

    Band 6-7

    Well, here I would like to describe a special moment when I received a cake from my friend. In this modern era, it is casual nowadays to get a cake. It could be on any special occasion like on birthday, anniversary or any other program. Here I would like to shed a light on when I received a cake as a gift from my friend. It was just last month when it was my birthday. My all friends gave me a party on my birthday. They secretly planned a birthday party for me. They had specially selected a flavor for me. That was Black Forest. Black Forest is my favorite flavor in all of the cakes. It was not just a cake but a happy moment for me. It was given by my friends which will be ever time memorable for me. Doing such thing for a friend is challenging for one friend. Because to maintain a good relationship with a friend is obvious.

    Band 6-7

    I would like to talk about an amazing memory about when I received my cake from my two friends whom I met during my post graduate program. So the two friends of mine are Deva Sena and Indranil Mukherjee. So like I was interning in an organization called Biocon and my manager had recommended me for converting as a full time employee. So I shared this exciting news with my two friends and they were also equally excited and felt happy that I am getting a job offer. So one night while I was sleeping, my sister woke me up and she said like someone delivered a cake for you. So I was like who is delivering cake at this odd hour. So I just opened and the letters were like congratulations on your job offer. So I was very excited and it made me feel very happy that someone else is happy for me too. And yeah like few events when others celebrate it for you like it makes you feel special and it elevates your happiness. So I found the memory very fun filled and excited. I was more enthusiastic to join the organization as a full time employee and contribute more towards it on seeing that. So yeah.

    Band 6-7

    March 3rd, 2024. We were at the restaurant with me and my friends, waiting for my other few friends who were going to join us later on. When they arrived, they came with a box of cake. I was wondering what cake would it be? And when they opened the cake box, it looks like one of the favorite thing was printed on the cake. It was cat. They love how much I love cats. So, they have printed the picture of cat on the cake with the typing with the letters on the cake written as, HAPPY FURRY BIRTHDAY ISHA. That's when I thought that this is one of the best cake I ever had in my whole 23 years of my birthday cake. When I started cutting it and my friends started singing me a happy birthday, the cake not only tasted so good, but when I sliced it, there was a special note coming up from the inside of the cake wishing me a happy birthday message from all of my friends. That made this moment very special and I cannot thank enough to my friends who made this moment so memorable that they have chosen my choice, my interest, knowing how much I love cats and they just made the perfect birthday cake ever.

    Band 6-7

    On my 19th birthday, there was a family function and we were all in that function we were like doing having guests doing all the formalities everything and once the function got over after the function because it was my birthday special day couple of my sister's cousins got me a beautiful Belgium chocolate cake which had an image of Taylor Swift on it because at that time Taylor Swift was my favorite artist and I was like a huge fan of her and I was amazingly like I was awestruck by their expression of love towards me by showing their love through this beautiful cake it was also one of the most delicious cake I've ever had and yeah that's about it

    Band 6-7

    One of the incident which I can recall is that last year when I was in a school, randomly just giving lectures about some bioplastics, suddenly my students surprised me with a special birthday cake. It was a day that I didn't expect it from the students, but students were very fond of me and I was fond of my students and they gave me a surprise. It was at my campus, though it's not allowed in the campus, but in the break time we celebrated my birthday and it was such a special occasion, special feeling for me, the students cherishing my work and feeling happy, feeling happy for me to be just a part in their lives and students are randomly just so engaged with the teachers and they just appreciate the teachers and I love the way my students, I love the way that my students just made my day so special and I felt so overwhelmed and I felt so happy that I almost cried out of happiness and that was a day because I don't usually celebrate my birthday, no one actually does that, but my students took such an opportunity, they got that opportunity to celebrate my birthday and on the cake it was written the best teacher ever and I felt so overwhelmed and happy to see that my efforts, my hard work is paying off and my students are loving me because my main goal in my life was to help them.

    Band 6-7

    So, a special cake I received from was probably from my principal when I had won the school national games in badminton for my school. The day I won the school nationals, it was actually our sports day in school and I missed it because I was all the way in Bangalore and I honestly had the best time of my life after winning it. I felt a sigh of relief. I honestly didn't feel proud of myself because I was already hoping to win this and I would have been really disappointed if I didn't. Keeping these expectations high, if I win, I just feel accomplished. I don't feel proud of myself. So the next day when I came back to Pune and came back to school, that was when my principal awarded me with a cake in front of the whole school.
    ielts logo

    Get the IELTS Prep App

    Star rating icon

    4.2

    1M+ Installs

    app download banner image

    Get the app link on your phone

    +91

    Or download app from

    google play storeapp store
    master ielts speaking ad