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Describe A Website Which Helped You To Do Something: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Which site is it?
  • How did you know about it?
  • How did it help?
  • Why do you visit it often?
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Cue 1:Which site is it?

  • Begin by naming the website clearly and concisely.
  • Provide a brief description of what the website is about.

Example

The website I want to talk about is 'Coursera'. It is an online learning platform that offers courses from various universities and institutions around the world.

Cue 2:How did you know about it?

  • Share how you first discovered the website, whether through friends, social media, or advertisements.
  • Mention any specific course or feature that caught your attention.

Example

I first heard about Coursera from a friend who was taking a course on data science. She recommended it to me because she found the content very engaging and informative.

Cue 3:How did it help?

  • Explain the specific ways the website has assisted you in achieving your goals.
  • Mention any particular skills or knowledge you gained from using the site.

Example

Coursera helped me significantly in enhancing my skills in digital marketing. I enrolled in a course that covered SEO and social media strategies, which were crucial for my job.

Cue 4:Why do you visit it often?

  • Discuss the reasons that motivate you to return to the website regularly.
  • Include aspects like the variety of courses, user-friendly interface, or community support.

Example

I visit Coursera often because it offers a wide range of courses that cater to my interests. The platform is user-friendly, and I appreciate the ability to learn at my own pace. Additionally, I enjoy the community discussions that enhance my learning experience.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, Coursera has been an invaluable resource for my personal and professional development. It has not only provided me with essential skills but also inspired me to continue learning and exploring new subjects.

    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. Candidates often fail to provide specific details about the website, which can weaken their response.

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    Tip

    Be specific about the website's name and its features. Use examples to illustrate how it helped you.

    2: Lack of Personal Experience

    Failing to share personal experiences can make your answer less relatable. Candidates sometimes talk about the website in general terms without connecting it to their own life.

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    Include personal anecdotes about how the website impacted you. Share specific instances of how it helped you achieve something.

    Ignoring the Cues

    Overlooking the cue prompts can lead to incomplete answers. Candidates may miss important aspects of the question, resulting in a disorganized response.

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    Structure your answer by addressing each cue in order. This ensures you cover all necessary points and create a coherent narrative.

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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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    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

    There are several AI websites available these days on internet. This helps us to do our task with ease and in very short period of time. One of the website which I mostly use is Carot Pro. It's an AI website to enhance your old pictures or blurry pictures into crisp and clear and with the high quality output. I often use it because this helps me to improve my not so clear pictures into a very high-definition pictures. These days AIs have a very big role in sorting out our things in a very simpler manner and photo enhancing AI tools like Carot Pro definitely comes in a picture which helps us to ease our work burden in a very short period of time. I often think that the way AI is taking control in our society, our brains and somewhat you can say that that it's killing the talent of people. It might end up very soon that people will have no skills to do anything of their own and that situation will be very dangerous for everyone, for human society and human mankind.

    Band 6

    So, a website which I used most and which helped me do something was Canva. So, it is basically a website used for creating creative resumes or any posters or any kind of banners for any event. So, I used that website during my placement time. So, it really helped me to get a job in Shanti. I prepared the resume using Canva. It is a free website, very useful for students. And I used it during my college days for getting placed in a company and sending resumes to other companies as well. So, it was very freely accessed to students. And I came to know about it from my professor and other seniors as well. I was really amazed by the overall user experience it provided. And something I truly admire from Canva is that it is easily accessible for everyone. Other websites like Pigeon and other sites ask around 20 to 25 dollars per month for the users to use it. So, it is a great advantage than other websites. And another thing which is worth mentioning about Canva is the user interface. It is very much simple and very creative. So, it can easily make us to complete a project within an hour or about two hours. And it can help the professors and students to create a PowerPoint presentation in a very creative manner and attract the users' interest. And to sum it up, it was truly a special website, useful for making videos.

    Band 6

    To begin with, most of the website I used to visit is postindia.in which is a post office website to know where our passport is, like when I went to the passport office, one of the employee gave me this website name that is called www.postindia.in. In this website, we can find out where the passport is going, we can track the passport and when it arrives and also the status of this passport and the original degree and all, we can find out. I find it recently in few weeks back and I often visit this website to know the current status of something that I applied in the post, that I sent through the postman or through the website. So to work forward, I usually wanted to visit this website for my applications and for other documents. This is a very useful website for me to track my details and my originals.

    Band 6

    Hi, so basically I would go for this website, it's basically a tool, an AI tool, which I use, recently I used for preparing for this IELTS exam, it's called, an AI called Gemini, so where I did most of my practice for writing a test, so I usually, you know, give a question to the Gemini, I'll just send a picture to the Gemini AI, and I'll share the answer image also in the next slide, so the Gemini would, you know, evaluate depending on the, you know, the IELTS evaluation methods, in terms of lexical resources, cohesive, cohesion, grammar and everything, so I would ask to, ask the Gemini to give the band also, and I think the way it gives the band, the way it evaluates, it's, you know, it's more precisely to the IELTS exams, I thought of it, I don't know whether it's, you know, correct or not, so not only writing, so before, you know, when I was, let's say, in my work, so I use this Gemini or other, you know, AI tools, like Meta and all, so when I use these tools for my own work, let's say for writing a mail or something, mail and doing some, you know, urgent work, where I would, I won't be having time to, you know, write something, to prepare something, I would ask these AI tools to, you know, prepare something for me, and with instantly they'll give you a better answer and better answer.

    Band 6

    Basically, it is not a specific website, it is a platform that is called as YouTube. So, how this particular platform YouTube helped me to do something special for myself or something for me to grow up in my career that is making video contents or making fitness videos. As I am very much into fitness industry, I read a lot about nutrition, I read a lot about exercises. So, I would like to also communicate the same thing to different kind of people in our India and I would like to run that Mission India Fit through my YouTube channel. I was going through a blog where I was able to read that in India there are somewhere around 90% of people which faces this obesity problem. So, through my YouTube channel, through this platform, I would like to provide the message that staying fit is one of the best wealth that everybody can achieve. And through the mode of YouTube, I would train each...

    Band 6

    Well, I want to talk about a website LeapScholar that I am visiting from several months and I came to know about that website from a YouTube ad and then I clicked on that ad and I went to the website LeapScholar and I studied about that website and that website is beneficial for learning English so I started to learn English from that website and it helped me a lot to learn English and it will also help me to score good bands in future whenever I will give the exam and it is a very beneficial app for learning English language and vocabulary and it is not only just for learning English vocab and English language it also helps to get a visa and consultancy at a very minimal price like at 99 rupees you can get a full IELTS course and it also helps to practice for the IELTS exam and the counselling sessions are also very good and the app also helps to book your IELTS exam and get your passport or also helps to know about the details for studying abroad and the website is very beneficial for a person who wants to study abroad or improve their English vocab so I would love the app and I am extremely fond of that website and I would also recommend that app to those who wants to learn English and study abroad.

    Band 6

    In this era of cutting-edge technology, there are a lot of websites to help me, but one of the prominent websites that I use regularly is that ChatGPT. I noticed about its presence from the reels from an Instagram influencer. I think that's one of the significant apps I use on a daily basis. It has everything, like it can act as a personal assistant and act as a financial advisor and also a nutritionist. Furthermore, it can be a best friend of ours when we are in our solitude and in addition, it can provide a lot of information with all around the globe and mainly I use this app for my studying purpose during my exam time, when I'm hitting hard the books, I just want to short and crisp all the things in my old module, so I would put all those information in the ChatGPT itself and it will make it simple and in a correct form that is very much helpful for me to study with a short span of time and also it can provide schedules as I mentioned earlier, it can act as an assistant of mine, like schedule all those important meetings, all those important things I have to do and one other thing I noticed it was it can even suggest based on our strength, weakness, by considering all that it can suggest what are the career we should choose, so it is also active.

    Band 6

    About a year ago I discovered one of the artificial intelligence and it was a free site that you can visit and ask any questions so I tried it once. I got to know about it through social media and some of my friends have already tried so they recommended it that it's actually very good and first I was skeptical about it because since it's an artificial intelligence it takes your personal data but then I later give it a try and I used it to get to solve my errors in my python in my python code. I used to get a lot of errors because I was learning it for the first time but chatGPT had made it really easy for it even if you ask it to simplify into a layman's term it will do it even for it will even do that for you so it was really helpful it made me learn python completely and I could perform any code by myself and apart from that I've started using it for almost all of my work for writing an email to any professionals or even preparing for my IELTS exam it was really helpful it even I even started asking it for some personal issues for example I was going through a lot in the past couple of months so I would ask chatGPT for some therapy lessons and it would give me the best advice it actually helped me a lot in my work whether it be some personal question or some academics problems it has helped me in solving everything.

    Band 6

    In today's contemporary era, nowadays websites are playing an important role in helping people. First of all, in order to add a few pointers to it, I would like to tell about which website I have used the most in my time of need. So here I would love to talk about chatjpt which has helped me in completing my school work and my other study related work. So it was back in 2022 when I was in 11th grade and I had to complete my holidays homework. So I was already stressed and did not know from where I had to get all that information. At that moment, one of my friend Anmol helped me by giving me information about chatjpt regarding how it helps people to…

    Band 6

    A website which helped me a lot is Google.com. So, it helps all the age groups, Google helps all the age group of people in a wide variety of range. So, I heard from, I can't say I heard from Google from a particular person because from the childhood we are hearing that we can search this on Google, we can find it in Google. So, everybody is using Google, it is like a part of our life. So, I am using it for, from past, I am using it for long years. And it helps me a lot in finding out doubts and for new knowledge and also. Google helps in studying and if we are having any doubts we can search in Google. Google is up to date how the world is moving and what we don't know, Google is having in every answer. And for children for writing assignments, for exploring their topics, for everything we are depending on Google. Not only for children, for I think those who are using internet for all age group it is very helpful. And for me Google helped me a lot for attending my interviews, for everything. For preparing IELTS also Google helped me a lot. So, it is very helpful in nowadays for everything.
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