Describe A Time When You Shared Something With Others: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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What did you share?
Who did you share with?
Why did you share?
How is it special?

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Cue 1:What did you share?

Begin by clearly stating what you shared, whether it was a physical item, an experience, or knowledge.
Provide some context about the item or experience to make it relatable.

Example

I shared my favorite book, 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho, with my younger sister. I had read it multiple times and found it very inspiring, so I thought she would enjoy it too.

Cue 2:Who did you share with?

Mention the person or group you shared with, and explain your relationship with them.
Highlight any relevant details about why you chose to share with this particular person.

Example

I shared it with my sister, who is in high school. I chose her because I wanted to encourage her to read more and explore different perspectives through literature.

Cue 3:Why did you share?

Explain your motivation for sharing, whether it was to help, inspire, or connect with the other person.
Discuss any personal feelings or experiences that influenced your decision to share.

Example

I shared the book because I believe it has valuable life lessons about following one's dreams. I wanted to inspire her to pursue her passions and not be afraid of challenges.

Cue 4:How is it special?

Describe what makes this sharing experience unique or memorable for you.
Reflect on the impact it had on your relationship with the person you shared with.

Example

This experience was special because it not only strengthened my bond with my sister, but it also sparked meaningful conversations between us about our dreams and aspirations. Seeing her excited about the book made me feel fulfilled.

Conclusion

Example

In conclusion, sharing my favorite book with my sister was a rewarding experience. It allowed us to connect on a deeper level and inspired her to think about her own future. Sharing something meaningful can create lasting memories and strengthen relationships.

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: Being Vague About What You Shared

Candidates often provide unclear or general answers about what they shared, which can lead to a lack of detail in their response. This makes it hard for the examiner to understand the significance of the sharing.

Tip

Be specific about the item or experience you shared. Use descriptive language to paint a clear picture for the examiner.

2: Neglecting to Mention Who You Shared With

Failing to specify who you shared with can make your answer feel incomplete. It is important to highlight the relationship and context of sharing to add depth to your response.

Tip

Clearly identify the person or group you shared with and explain your relationship to them to enhance your answer.

Overlooking the Reason for Sharing

Many candidates forget to explain why they chose to share something. This omission can make the response less engaging and meaningful.

Tip

Take a moment to reflect on your motivations for sharing. Explain your reasons to provide insight into your character and values.

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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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

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Anonymous student Band 8

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

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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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

Reported by

Anonymous student Band 7

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

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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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.

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Band 6-7

So, I would like to share an experience from back in 2019. I usually visit my maternal grandparents in summers and that was the year when I visited my grandparents with my cousins as well and my cousin is, my sister is very close to my heart because she has been the most amazing person that I really genuinely care about in my life. So, there was this party that was going on with her friends and she asked for a dress from my cupboard and since sisters do not usually exchange a pair of clothing, it was something that I would not usually do and I did it because she actually bribed me with one of her pair of clothing that I really wanted to wear for a very long time, which is why I am able to remember this. Also, it is something special because that dress was gifted to me by my mother on my birthday and I believe in the long run, it would make my sister feel like she can look up to me in the ways that she can admire me and she do love how I carry myself. In parties, so that's the time that I did share my couture with my sister and she took advantage of it because she also got my accessories as well and the matching shoes too.

Band 6-7

So, I shared my PowerPoint presentation with one of my friend who was struggling to make a PowerPoint presentation and her deadline was very close, so that's why I thought of sharing the one which I made along with some alterations in it and some amendments, but the draft and content I shared with her, which eventually helped her to gain insights about what she can do in the next PowerPoint presentation and furthermore, it's like that she was in need though it was related to academic performance and it is something which a personal individual should build on their own self, but then I kind of thought that she is in need and that's why I helped her and it made me feel good because later on when she had another presentation, she got the idea and she prepared it on her own self, so that made me feel more happier and I was kind of very grateful to help her to understand it better and it also gave me a sense of fulfillment that I transferred some knowledge and insight about making a PowerPoint presentation because it seemed as a big deal for her and it's kind of forte for me.

Band 6-7

During my bachelors, I happened to share my bike with my closest friend. Well, it happened so because in the initial days of my college, I was not having any sort of transportation to reach the college in time as I had a bike booked and it was in waiting period in those days and I had a friend who stays just by 500 km away from my home. So everyday he used to pick me up and we used to move to college. This created many of the special memories for me. While running back to home, we used to stop at a nearby canteen and have some puffs and chit chat for a while. We used to talk about the classes we had and many of the gossips which were made in the university. Yeah, it certainly created a lot of memory for me. Even today I cherish it and we talk about a lot when we get together about the days which we used to ride our same bike and enjoy the college days.

Band 6-7

Something special I have shared with someone is food. When I was in college, we were staying together in a hostel room. At that time, we were lacking food and other facilities, but however, my friends, who comes from home, bring some food for everyone. And from a single banana leaf, we all eat together and enjoy the meal. That was the funniest time, we were enjoying all the things.

Band 5-6

So, it was the time when I was in 11th grade and I got compartment in my physics, in my physics subject, so, so, this thing happened due to the lack of study, that got, that got affected with the playoff, that got affected due to the playing of PUBG daily, daily, so, it was a very worse situation for me, I couldn't handle it with myself, so, this thing I have shared with my elder brother who is very supportive and very respectful for me and I am also very respectful towards him, so, he, he is the most reliable person and most guidance person who, like who, who always stand for me, who, who was there when I was in need, he needed, he suggested me, he suggested me, so, he suggested me that these things happen when we usually, when we are in our schooling time, these things got happened, so, nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about, as I, as my teacher told me to come with your parents, so, I told this thing to my elder brother, so, that he can come with me into school, school meeting, school meeting where he can exchange the thoughts, like why I did fail, like what, what hard work I need and where is the progress I have to do most, so, by telling, by, by sharing this, this incident with my, with my brother, like I got motivated that sometimes we don't have to hide our failures with our family because they know better, they know better and they can find out.

Band 5-6

Good morning everyone, about OPL, we have already achieved as a team, we have achieved our target of 3 million, the target is achieved in the quarter 1 only, so we can expect bigger numbers going forward. Also, the key aspect of the whole situation is our contribution has been bare minimum, which is not okay, we have to contribute more to the numbers, to the target and I understand we have our own set of challenges that the customers are contracted and making themselves, we don't have much of the opportunity yet. Now, to justify those things we'll have to come up with the data, so we can use our CPM file, I'm going to upload it on ICH folder, shared folder, so that we all can access that. This is, let's just prepare our own customer's data, like what all services we have sold to them and what are the opportunities you think there is, like I have a customer called Cylogues, so CHP, Truckin and Ocean, we are doing it for them. So, I don't see any opportunity at the origin, we can provide them, I have a customer called Cylogues, so I can see CHP, Truckin, we are doing it for them and since they have regular requirement of nice container, they are always coming up complaining, this container is not good, this, that, so probably we can always go for the PCC, Premium Container Quality, one of the opportunities we have at our side, so you can evaluate your customer, this is your experience with them, what are complaints they have.

Band 5-6

a time when I shared something with others it was my best friend and at that time I had a cute little crush on a guy from our college and I had told her that maybe like you know I will tell him how I feel about him and get over with it and me and that guy were talking in a talking face and after that I got rejected and I still continued doing whatever I was doing like I focused on my work and everything and she was only there in the start where I had told her or she knew that I told that guy that I liked him and all of that but two years cut cut two years off I get to know a rumor about myself saying me and that guy were together and he was heartbroken and I cheated with someone and all of that sort of weird rumor that was going around so at this point it was I just realized that it was her who had told her friend from that year apparently there was another girl who had liked him and all of that but to me it was very devastating and betraying that she out of everyone had done this to me and I just can't believe the fact that she would be the one to do this and it was very moreover she since as I mentioned before that she was my best friend didn't expect that from her and yeah that's why

Band 5

Sharing is a caring and I remember last year I was in twelfth and I go to school and I am in twelfth grade. I have so many bosom buddies from which my bestie's name is Muskaan and she didn't brought tiffin and I share with her and I feel so blessed to share my thing with her because all are eating their lunch and she is watching to all face and I eat with her and I feel very special moment and all are looking at her and no one asking her to eat anything and I usually share with her and she is a very nice and she is down to earth and kind hearted girl and she forget to bring tiffin and that time I am in twelfth grade.

Band 5

So, there is a one time when I have shared my phone with some stranger person. So, there is a one person which I don't know. Actually, I was in market and I was waiting for my mother. And on that time one person came to me and asked for my phone to call someone. That person is a lady who is in hurry. And she was scared because she has lost herself in that market. So, I have shared my phone with her. And she called someone who knows. And after that she called. She thanked me a lot because there is no one who can help her. So, on that time I have shared something with other.