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Describe a web series you like.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is it called?
  • When did you watch it?
  • What is the theme?
  • What did you like about it?
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Cue 1:What is it called?

  • Start by clearly stating the name of the web series.
  • Mention the platform where it is available, as this adds context.

Example

"The web series I really enjoy is called 'Sacred Games'. It's available on Netflix, which makes it easily accessible for many viewers in India."


Cue 2:When did you watch it?

  • Provide a specific timeframe, such as the year or season when you started watching it.
  • Mention if you binge-watched it or took your time to finish it.

Example

"I started watching 'Sacred Games' in early 2020, during the lockdown. I ended up binge-watching the first season in just a few days because I was so hooked on the story."


Cue 3:What is the theme?

  • Describe the main theme or genre of the web series, such as crime, drama, or thriller.
  • Highlight any significant messages or social issues that the series addresses.

Example

"The theme of 'Sacred Games' revolves around crime and spirituality, intertwining the lives of a police officer and a gangster. It also touches upon issues like corruption and the complexities of modern Indian society."


Cue 4:What did you like about it?

  • Discuss specific elements you enjoyed, such as the storyline, characters, or cinematography.
  • Share any emotional impact it had on you or how it resonated with your personal experiences.

Example

"What I loved most about 'Sacred Games' was its gripping storyline and strong character development. The performances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Saif Ali Khan were outstanding, and the series kept me on the edge of my seat with its unexpected twists."


Conclusion

  • Summarize your overall impression of the web series.
  • Mention if you would recommend it to others and why.

Example

"In conclusion, 'Sacred Games' is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys thrilling narratives and complex characters. I would highly recommend it to my friends, as it offers a unique perspective on contemporary issues in India."


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

Using vague language can make your answer unclear and unengaging. Avoid general statements that don't provide specific details about the web series.

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Be specific about the plot, characters, and themes. Use descriptive language to paint a clear picture for the listener.


2: Lack of Structure

A disorganized response can confuse the listener. Jumping between points without a clear flow makes it hard to follow your thoughts.

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Organize your answer by following the cue prompts. Start with the title, then discuss when you watched it, followed by the theme and what you liked.


Overly Short Answers

Providing very brief answers can make it seem like you don't have much to say. This can lead to a lower score for fluency and coherence.

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Expand on each cue by giving examples and personal opinions. Aim for a well-rounded response that covers all aspects of the question.


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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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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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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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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

Okay, so the series is called Stranger Things and I watched it when I was in my 9th grade. My brother put it in the TV for me so I watched it. And it's about, the theme is about, there are some monsters who want to rule the world and there are kids with superpowers who will fight with the monster and save their world. And what I liked about the series was it had all the type, like it had romance, it also had thriller, it also had action, it had all the genre. So as I was a kid, it was very good for watching that series and many teenagers like me would love to watch that series, Stranger Things. And it has 5 seasons and each episode has like 1 hour, the duration is 1 hour. And the series had many famous actors and actresses. My favorite was Millie Bobby Brown and she is literally engaged now. And Stranger Things, it is in Netflix and it's in English, it's an English series. So I like that series very much and I can watch it many times. I can watch it like over 100 times. And Stranger Things, it was released in 2011, I guess. And there are many type of genre in it, I told you. Yeah, that's it.

Band 6-7

The series I like is Friends, which is an English series, which describes the bond of a group of six friends. It shows the bond of the six friends and how they experience their life in their 20s to 30s, how they handle it during their job time, and the hope depending on each other. I just love the series because it is a sitcom series, which I can watch at any time if I feel depressed, it enlightens my mood. This series I have watched during my college days and during the covid time, one of my friends suggested that I watch it. This has made me learn how to be a good person and how to... Like whenever I feel low, I just watch the series which makes me happy. I am streaming on Netflix and it just has a ton of series where you can watch any episode, it just refreshes your mood.

Band 6-7

Today I would like to talk about the web series I like. The name of the series is Breaking Bad and it was recommended by one of my closest friends named Viraj. Knowing the intelligence and his taste in movies, it was quite a must watch movie for me. I remember watching it during the covid times as lockdown has just hit the world and no other activities were remaining for people to do. So I decided to watch this movie or so called web series. This web series gave and theme of crime, drug abuse and also knowledge about what a person's tendency to do for a living can grow towards a crime. I liked the movie because it was very indulging and many twists were there and one can find it relatable as most of the population had been through a drug abuse.

Band 6-7

Recently I have watched a web series called Breaking Bad, it is typically about a terminal lung cancer patient who is a high school chemistry teacher and a fine day he was inspecting a police report on drug dealing and he stumbled upon an idea of making methylamine, shortly called as meth, to increase his revenue and which is for his cancer treatment because his family was in a financial crisis and couldn't keep up with his financial support and his treatment. So the most, the thing I like about this series is that during the course of life a man is subjected to different kinds of environments and troubles during his lifetime which makes him make sometimes good decisions and bad decisions. I think this web series has shown a detailed biography of a man who is living tough life and with regrets.

Band 6-7

If I talk about a web series I like, it's a web series for... मैं तो पहले ही रूगी कुछ नहीं रूगी नहीं दूआर स्टार्ट करती हूँ नहीं बाबा मैंने भी तो रूख क्यों बोला था, it's okay क्या? स्कोड में आची जाते हैं क्यों बोलती है? या नहीं यार मैं इसके लिए नहीं बोला था मैंने तो बोला बेगा अब ज़िन नहीं आ रहा था ठीक है, कुछ नहीं होता थोड़े परे हो जाना थोड़े परे The series I like the most is Twilight and in Twilight... तो वाइन टूरती मैं स्टार्ट करूँ I like a lot of web series but when I talk about a particular one then it has to be the Japanese series called Alice in Borderland I watched it in last October 2024 it was a very amazing series, it was about all the fantasy world where you can play games with your friends but the plot twist was a group of people, a group of friends was stuck in a fantasy world where they have to play a game to get out of that get out of that new world people used to die there, they used to have visa which was the time they are in that world, after if they do not play the game they would die so this is the series which I really like और क्या था last question? उसको मुझे कोई शन्द याद भी नहीं रहते है

Band 6-7

The web series named as Dark. It was a German made web series. The theme of the web series which was scientific oriented and when did I watch? It was two months ago I was watching it. It was like three kind of seasons. Which was more slow and it attention the audience to watch more with interest. Even if you watch one time, two time, three time. You can't understand the theme because it is scientific oriented and time traveler oriented. What I like the most in the web series which was the connecting part between the characters in the different timeline period. Which was so critically demonstrated in the web series. Which was not even bored but it's a tiny glass even you break a thing none of the things were understand for the audience. It was perfectly delivered to the audience which accurate level and so more interesting when you continuously watching the web series. Which attracts audience to watch the most of the times. It is one of the top rated web series in the Netflix. The three different timelines are 1898, 1598 and 2018. A boy named Noah which plays a protagonist role. He was very well acted and lot of people liked him.

Band 6-7

The web series I like is an American web series which is named as Two Broke Girls. It is the story of two girls who are broke, one of them is abandoned by her parents and another one is got bankrupt due to her father and her father is into a jail. So both of them starts to work in a diner as a waitress and at the end of the day they become best friends and the name of both of the girls is Max and Caroline. So the Max is a girl who is abandoned by her parents and she really cooks, she really bakes the cupcakes very well and delicious and Caroline comes from the finance background. So she helps her in building their own, Max's homemade cupcake which is their dream to get settled in their life and for this thing they work hard into the diner and I watched it I think before 2-3 years, I watched it 2-3 years before and it was quite, I enjoyed it very much.

Band 6-7

The web series I describing is called Quota Factory. I watched it in 2019. The team behind it includes director Raghu Babu, writer Subram Khan and actor Jitendra Kumar, Urvi Singh and Amal Khan. What I like most about Quota Factory was its realistic patriotic of the intense pressure faced by the students preparing for the JEE examinations in Quota, India. The series captures the emotional toll of the competitive environment that sacrifice students makes and the importance of friendship and support during challenging times. The back-and-white aesthetic adds a unique and thought-provoking dimension to the storytelling.

Band 6-7

I recently watched a web series which is on Apple TV and HBO and it's called Frong. There is a wide variety of different different characters in it and my favorite characters stand out to be Boyd. He was a great character as he played his role very well. As I think of it, I watched it a week ago and it still have too much mystery in my mind. It have a genre of horror and mystery which I usually don't used to watch but I don't know Frong seem something which I will obviously watch and the story of it goes like there's a village where a family is stuck and they can't go out from the village and every time they try to go out from the village it just that they will come back again to the village and that's not the only thing. At night there are kind of zombie or ghost kind of things which come out and eat the people of the village if they are outside their house and that create so much tension which I really like about it and there is lot of thrill in it and every character have a different story which connects to overall world build up and it is a great series. I would definitely recommend you to watch it or anyone want a suggestion for a web series.

Band 6-7

them. I have almost seen 300 web series from last four years but the web series I liked the most is Turkish web series namely Kurulus Osman. In the Kurulus Osman the main character is Osman Gazi and he is the son of Erzurul Gazi and the actor main actor leading actor is Bala Hatun and she's the daughter of the Sheikh Edebali and during the start of this start of the series you see that Osman is young and he is he is warm-blooded man and he does not listen to anyone and with the passage of time he he has been matured to see the purpose of the life and he married he gets married at the last of the season he gets married to Bala Hatun and in the second season you will see Bala Hatun is not able to get conceived she's not able to get pregnant and unfortunately Osman Gazi has to marry a second woman and namely Malhun Hatun and the Malhun Hatun has two sons namely Oran and Alauddin and Bala Hatun later had one son named Kilgiz Bey and a daughter named Fatima Hatun and in the third season you see very battles of the Muslims fought by Osman Gazi and with his soldiers like Turgut Bey, Orhan Bey and many more other fighters this series gives you very happiness it gives you eternal happiness about your religion you get to
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