arrow back icon Top Answers

Describe an activity that you do after school/work: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What it is?
  • When and Where do you do it?
  • Who you do it with?
  • And how you feel about it?
Show all 173 answers

Cue 1:What it is?

  • Begin by clearly stating the activity you engage in after school or work.
  • Provide a brief explanation of why you chose this particular activity.

Example

After school, I love to play cricket with my friends. Cricket is not just a sport for me; it’s a passion that brings us all together.

Cue 2:When and Where do you do it?

  • Mention the specific days and times you usually play cricket.
  • Describe the location where you play, such as a local park or a cricket ground.

Example

We usually play cricket every Saturday afternoon at the local park, which is just a 10-minute walk from my house. The park has a nice open space and a few trees that provide shade.

Cue 3:Who you do it with?

  • Identify the friends or group you play cricket with.
  • Share a little about your relationship with them and why you enjoy their company.

Example

I play with my close friends from school. We have been playing together for years, and our bond has grown stronger through our shared love for the game.

Cue 4:And how you feel about it?

  • Express your feelings about playing cricket and what it means to you.
  • Mention any benefits you gain from this activity, such as relaxation or teamwork.

Example

Playing cricket makes me feel incredibly happy and relaxed. It’s a great way to unwind after a long week of studies, and it also helps me stay fit. I love the thrill of competition and the joy of spending time with my friends.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, playing cricket after school is not just an activity for me; it’s a vital part of my life that brings joy, friendship, and a sense of belonging.

    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: Giving Vague Answers

    Avoid providing unclear or general responses. Vague answers do not give the examiner enough information about the activity, making it difficult to assess your speaking skills.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Be specific about the activity. Include details such as what you do, where and when you do it, and who you do it with.

    2: Neglecting Emotional Connection

    Failing to express how you feel about the activity can make your response less engaging. Emotions help to personalize your answer and connect with the examiner.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Share your feelings about the activity. Explain why it is enjoyable or meaningful to you, which adds depth to your response.

    Ignoring Structure

    A disorganized response can confuse the listener. Without a clear structure, your answer may lack coherence and flow, making it hard to follow.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Follow the cue prompts in order. Start with what the activity is, then discuss when and where you do it, who you do it with, and finally, how you feel about it.

    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

    The activity that I do regularly after college is working out in the gym. The gym is located two kilometers from my residence. It has two floors, one for cardio and the other for weights. It also has indoor courts for badminton, football and basketball. So people who want to work out and relax by playing one of the sports after can use those indoor courts that are available. I usually go to the gym with my friends from university. They accompany me. We take a bike or we go in a car to the gym so that we can go together. We work out for an hour approximately each time. Once we are done with the workout, we usually go for swimming which is also a facility provided at the gym. The swimming pool has varied depths so that we can relax or swim for activity. We usually prefer the shallow one so that we can relax. There is nothing like hydrotherapy which can cool down the body after a heavy workout session. This is one of my favorite activities to do after university because it provides solitude to my mind after a heavy day at college. The lectures can be very excruciating to bear when it is loaded with too many details. So hitting the gym relaxes my mind and the swimming we do after calms me down so that I can go home and start preparing for the rest of the day.

    Band 6-7

    So, as far as I know, when I come to my home after school, I like to read books. This is the kind of activity I usually do in my room when I get my lunch and after that, I went on to my room and started with some of the good novels, which is basically written by the English writers from New York. I have recently been reading one of the great novels by Colleen Howell, that is Redding. It's a kind of suspense and thrill novel. Additionally, my mom also accompanies me with some of the magazines and comics as she has such a genuine way of comical nature. It's like a passion for me to keep on reading books in my room. It makes me feel relaxed, I just have a feeling of being soothed and it is kind of refuging from all the burden and stress which I get from my academic work and stuff like that. This is the thing which is a change of mind for me because I literally feel so great and astonished by the thing. I kind of enjoy and I like to do it every day as I get from my school back to my home.

    Band 6-7

    I am very energetic person and I recently passed my plus two in my school B.P.B.I.P.S. Then I had a lot of activities that I do Here I would like to talk about an activity that I do after the school I do lot of things like playing crickets I have a lot of interest in cricket Then I play activity cricket in the playground of Gandhi Groud in Amritsar which was near about my home only 2 km I go there with my friends and having a bat match with other society masses and we won the match I am also good in football and my passion is football and my hobby is cricket I usually play football with my friends in the ground and sometimes I play cricket

    Band 6-7

    The activity I like the most after work is the painting, which I was doing during my childhood days. I like it most because it keeps me motivated, it keeps me calm, it keeps me more energetic. So I do this activity with my son, who used to come after the school and sit with me to do the painting. Moreover, we do this activity at home. I like to do sketching, I prefer to do sketching. My son also likes to do sketching and brush painting. I feel jolted, I feel happy, I feel excited whenever I do this activity with my son because it keeps me motivating, it keeps me inspirational to do more. It enhances my memory, it enhances my ideas how to prepare, how to do this activity. It gives me ideas also. So I feel like I am on a cloud nine while I do this activity.

    Band 6-7

    In my leisure time, I spend my time with my family and with my sibling. In my spare time, I watch movies and I play badminton. Yesterday, I watched a movie called Bajrangi Bhaijaan. It's a Bollywood movie. I watched it on Netflix. It was a great movie. It's an old movie but I haven't watched it at all. It's about an Indian man who brings a Pakistani girl back to her hometown. She is a mute girl and she could not speak. It's difficult for her to communicate. They go to different places to find her home. I play badminton. I learned badminton when I was in my 5th standard. Professionally, I learned it from a national badminton player, my grandfather. He taught me. We practiced for 2-3 hours when I was young. It was very hard and challenging training but I made him proud. I participated in many competitions after that. I play in the park with my nephews and my niece. It's a great deal to make peace of mind and to be healthy.

    Band 6-7

    I love reading books, I mean I'm fond of reading books and every day when I get time or in my spare time all I do is read books and to be very specific about the genre I read self-help books and sometimes fiction books and reading books gives me opportunity to improve my vocabulary and also allows me to gain immense knowledge about the things that I am unaware of and reading books is being like literally a part of me if I could say I would carry books wherever I go like say I would travel and then I would while traveling I take my book with me along with me and I read book and everywhere I go the book is there with me and it's it's like it's been a part of me and I'm really fond of reading books simultaneously as it helps me gain insights about a lot of things it also helps me to understand why it is important to read books because you'll have the flow of thoughts and it helps you think in a different perspective altogether so yeah reading is really important for anyone in that case in conclusion I find my peace in reading books because I don't think any other hobby in that place would give me that satisfaction which reading books does

    Band 6-7

    The activity that I do after my work is reading books or books, so I do it after my work. I do it in my room, so it helps me to gain knowledge. Reading books, you know, when I read book, I come across different words. I find the meaning of those words and it helps me to improve my vocabulary. And if I read self-help books, that helps me, that keeps me motivated. It boosts me up to cultivate new activities and to avoid laziness and to live a peaceful life. If I am reading some books related to history, I gain the knowledge, the facts, you know. So I gain knowledge, I can use it some way in the future. And if I read books about science and technology, that also helps me to gain knowledge. Or if it is a novel, you know, I will gain vocabulary and I will gain knowledge about the flow of writing a novel, flow of writing a story. So how it is, you know, structured and I can, you know, I can feel the emotions or ideas of the author.

    Band 6-7

    After my school, I preferably do the mandala art on a broader scale. At the same time, I feel that it is one of the most important practice to de-stress my mind. I believe that art is the form of self-expression. It allows me to put everything on the paper. I do it with myself. I preferably allow the designs to be taken from the internet. But I draw my own patterns on those designs. Use my own color preferences and choices. Moreover, it is very important that any activity that we do give us the peace of mind. So for me, mandala art is one such activity that gives me peace of mind. I usually spend one or two hours on this. Besides these art forms, I also practice some cooking skills. Because I live with my father and I prepare the food for him. Cooking also helps me to again portray some new experiments in the kitchen as a laboratory. Because the mixing and combinations of new spices and new raw materials allow me to explore and check what all hidden trials can be done in the kitchen as the laboratory. So in conclusion, I believe that mandala art and cooking both are very very essential part for me. Not only as a hobby but also as the daily life skills which I practice on regular basis. They are very very important for me.

    Band 6-7

    Life is full of defining experiences, some planned, others unexpected, that helps to shape our perspectives and personal growth. These moments often stay with us not because of how grand they were, but because of how deeply they resonated with us on an emotional or intellectual level. Today I would like to talk about one such experience. For me, I mostly do dancing. I went to dance classes every day after my school. It has started around the age of 5 and I went to it every day. In weekends, I went in the mornings and during working days, I used to get my classes on 5.30 pm, which is near to my school in my hometown itself and I was very passionate about dancing and I always find it enjoyable and it always makes me more happier than ever. On cloud 9, I would always grant to my parents for joining me in that dance class. I have lots of memories in that class, which always makes my eyes watery.

    Band 6-7

    No audio text available
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
    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