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Describe a useful website.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What website is it?
  • What does it contain? How often do you visit it?
  • Why do you think it is useful?
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Cue 1:What website is it?

  • Begin by naming the website clearly and mentioning its primary purpose.
  • Share a brief personal experience about how you discovered this website.

Example

The website I find extremely useful is 'Quora'. I discovered it a few years ago while searching for answers to some questions I had about my career.


Cue 2:What does it contain? How often do you visit it?

  • Describe the types of content available on the website, such as articles, forums, or videos.
  • Mention how frequently you visit the site and what prompts you to go there.

Example

Quora contains a vast range of topics where users ask questions and receive answers from experts and enthusiasts alike. I visit it almost daily, especially when I need quick information or insights on various subjects.


Cue 3:Why do you think it is useful?

  • Explain the benefits of the website, such as the quality of information or community engagement.
  • Share a personal anecdote about how the website has helped you in a specific situation.

Example

I find Quora useful because it provides diverse perspectives on any topic, which helps me think critically. For instance, I once read an answer about effective study techniques that significantly improved my exam preparation.


Conclusion

  • Summarize the key points about the website and its usefulness.
  • Express your overall opinion about the website and its impact on your life.

Example

In conclusion, Quora is a fantastic resource that not only offers valuable information but also connects me with a community of knowledgeable individuals. It has greatly enriched my learning experience.


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 website. Vague answers can make it hard for the examiner to understand your point.

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Provide specific details about the website's content and features to make your answer more engaging and clear.


2: Lack of Personal Connection

Not sharing your personal experience with the website can make your answer less interesting. It's important to connect personally.

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Include anecdotes or reasons why you visit the site regularly to show your personal connection and its impact on you.


Ignoring the 'Why' Question

Failing to explain why the website is useful can leave your answer incomplete. This is a key part of the cue card.

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Tip

Clearly articulate the benefits of the website and how it helps you or others to ensure a comprehensive response.


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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.

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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.

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Band 6-7

A website that has been extremely useful to me, which I have personally used over the years for academic and non-academic purposes, is Canva. As a business student, I really feel that presentation skills and designing skills are extremely essential to excel at a job role, considering the fact that I worked in market research and marketing roles throughout my internships. I really learnt over time that Canva is a tool that helps you excel and make your presentations much better than you can using PowerPoint and therefore I started learning how to use the website from the first year of my college and I got more experience using this website through the years from business fests that I participated in where I was asked to create presentations for simulations of the corporate world and I had to present it to a set of judges and they gave me a lot of pointers on how I could make my PPTs better, what points I could add, how I could brand my content better to make it more interesting and engaging for the audience and using all these tips, I decided that I should sit down and put some time and effort into going on to a website and learning more about the platform and therefore I signed up for a Canva course on this website called Coursera that gave me a one month long plan on mastering the use of the website itself and over time I could see myself improving with the way I created PPTs, with the way I designed posters, with the way I designed social media content and all of this ended up coming to use in my internship experiences.

Band 6-7

Okay, today I'm gonna tell about the website which is known as the Swayam which is a website of the Indian government MHRD Human Resource Development Association of the Indian government. Okay, so what I'm gonna tell is first is about the what's the website about it provides courses on different kind of domains including engineering, architecture, science, basic science, basic humanities and all. So what I like about the thing about the website is that the website is a very detailed website. I can get courses on anything and everything. I very much like this website. There are the courses are generally prepared by NPTEL National Program on Technical and Educational Learning. And the thing is that the the courses on each of the domain are very detailed and there are like pretty pretty detailed and very academically nurturing assignments like after doing an after watching a lecture I get I get like tons of infos and I make notes and everything. Also they also have facility for the examination and getting a certificate from renowned institutes of India which is known as which are known as IITs Indian Institute of Technologies. So if I register for the exam and if I score about 60% on 70% of 100% on the examination and if I score about 40% of the assignments then I get a certificate. The certificates are very helpful because they like determine the way I have prepared for a topic for in for example in chemical engineering if I read about the topic on the fluid mechanics and then I get the examinations and I get a nine out of 10 score then it's pretty well.

Band 6-7

I think the most In order to describe a useful website, let me tell you that Wikipedia is a very helpful and informative website for students or working professionals. I think I have been using Wikipedia for long years and I think it is a genuine website that we can go and search details about anything that is related to historical facts or scientific theories or anything we can go and search. It is very user friendly, furthermore, the language is very simple to understand and grasp and I think these websites help us to reduce our time, I mean our time to spend long hours in libraries to search anything, perhaps we can go straight to the topic and we will get easy information regarding the topic.

Band 6-7

Honestly speaking, I have used so many types of websites, I think most of the websites that I have used are incredible and very useful and effective. But here I would like to talk about one such website that I usually use on my daily basis and it's very effective and impressive. It is none other than www.youtube.com, it's very useful, actually I came to know about this website when I was in 12th standard and I started to use it and the experience was very good because I used it at a first time and it contains a lot of information. If I face any problem in any subject, I just go on this app and just search it and it provides me a visual content with all of understanding and concepts which is very clear by the helpers and it's also an in-source for us, we can also upload the videos on it and earn more money. That's very useful for me and the one thing that impressed me a lot about it, we can use it anytime when we want to use it and there's no any charges we have to pay because it's totally free of cost and we can afford it at any moment. So it's very impressive, so I also recommend it to my friends, my relatives and poor people who really want to do or learn something at free of cost. So that is the platform where the people can come and can get here.

Band 6-7

So, the website is IELTSMED.com, it has more past question papers related to IELTS and some also some practical question papers that is generated by Cambridge Universities. It is very helpful for me to practice for the IELTS exams and also daily I am practicing through that and also some other websites but I think for me IELTSMED made me to have a good understanding of those assessments and exams.

Band 6-7

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I am happy to inform that I am a web developer myself and I am working on my own website which is a lab grown diamond jewelry website and the name of my brand is CI Zaveri. So I like an e so it is an e-commerce website and it lists a number of products ranging from simple diamond rings to a lot of heavy and high diamond jewelry. So what makes this website attractive is a very good site map wherein any customer who visits the website he or she finds it very easy to navigate through all the pages of website which are well connected. Also I have ensured that the website has a very easy and a swift checkout method wherein the customer can easily proceed wherein the customer can easily proceed and safely check out and make his or her payments on the website itself. I have also integrated a well and a good search engine optimization wherein due to which Google lists my website above other websites and a customer can easily search for my website on internet. I often visit this website for various for various issues for various instances because

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Today I will discuss about the website LeapScholar. It proves to be very useful for me. I downloaded it for my preparation for IELTS exam. The website contains IELTS exam preparation and improvement in English. Today I am talking about the website LeapScholar. This website contains the IELTS exam preparation and improvement in English exam. I downloaded this website for my IELTS exam preparation. It contains the live sessions, mock tests for all types of modules with my grammatical mistakes, pronunciation and all the things. It is the best website for the one who wants to save their time as well as your money. This website contains the teachers which are sophisticated in their fields and which provides the brief description, information about each and every topic. I love to use this website very much because it saves my time and my English is also improving with the help of this. LeapScholar is the best website for the students who want to improve their English with least cost and with saving in time.

Band 6-7

In the modern era of technology, there are multiple important websites present on the internet. But my favorite and personal favorite of the website is Wikipedia. So Wikipedia is a website on which we can explore various kinds of aspects of technology. For example, we can search on sports, technologies, cookeries, etc. So basically on Wikipedia I see the technology which are related to cars because I love automobile industry a lot. So I can see there various kinds of car designs, models, their engines, the ratio of buying of cars, then what kind of trends are there. So on Wikipedia we can also find out the future trends, what would be going ahead. Also on the other side of Wikipedia we can note down some special key points and which can be saved for the further interrogation or aspects which would be requiring for us to see. During our projects, evaluations and all that purposes. Then it's a great website and the main reason I love it is that it's free of cost. We don't have to pay anything because now most of the websites have started charging. So it's a bit useful for students who are not earning and we can explore a lot of things. We can share the data on our emails and then it's a very kind of useful website for everyone. So I love that website a lot. Thank you.

Band 6-7

I came across a website a few years ago named as Wikipedia so mainly it provides information about historical or any public celebrities or anything present on the earth it usually provides information regarding that so I found that very interesting it was very informative and provide each and every date how the things happened when how it got created like what changes over the years what happened to that place and many other things provide were provided by that website so I found that very useful like at at my college time it was really helpful for creating different kinds of projects I was working on it so I could easily got content from that like what things I can write in my project different ideas how I need to like create this things and like what all happened at a particular time you can also like go there and like increase your knowledge as like you can find anything on that like it usually have more information like how things have been going throughout the year and finally I also would like to like thank I would say Wikipedia as like they created a lot of impact in my knowledge as well as I was able to learn more about like different generations of the computer how we started with one of them and where we are now
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