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Describe An Exciting Book That You Enjoy Reading: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Introduction
  • Overview of your favourite book
  • Talk about what makes this book exciting for you
  • Conclusion
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Cue 1:Introduction

  • Begin by introducing the book you will talk about, including its title and author.
  • Mention briefly why this book is significant to you.

Example

One of the most exciting books I have read is 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho. This book holds a special place in my heart because it inspired me to pursue my dreams and follow my passion.

Cue 2:Overview of your favourite book

  • Provide a brief summary of the book's plot without giving away the ending.
  • Mention the main characters and their journeys.

Example

The story follows a young shepherd named Santiago who dreams of finding treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. Throughout his journey, he meets various characters, including a king, a crystal merchant, and an alchemist, each teaching him valuable life lessons.

Cue 3:Talk about what makes this book exciting for you

  • Explain the themes or messages in the book that resonate with you.
  • Share specific moments or quotes that you found particularly thrilling or impactful.

Example

What makes 'The Alchemist' exciting for me is its powerful message about following one's dreams. One quote that really struck me is, 'When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.' This idea motivates me to chase my aspirations, no matter how challenging they may seem.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, 'The Alchemist' is not just a book for me; it is a source of inspiration. Its exciting narrative and profound lessons encourage me to believe in myself and my dreams, making it a book I cherish deeply.

    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: Lack of Structure in Your Response

    Failing to follow the cue card structure can make your answer confusing. It is important to have a clear introduction, overview, and conclusion to keep the listener engaged.

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    Start with a brief introduction, then follow the cues in order. This will help you stay organized and make your answer easier to follow.

    2: Being Too Vague or General

    Using vague language or general statements can make your answer less interesting. Specific details about the book will make your response more engaging and memorable.

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    Include specific examples from the book, such as characters or plot points, to illustrate what makes it exciting for you.

    Neglecting Personal Connection

    Not sharing your personal feelings or experiences related to the book can make your answer less impactful. Personal connections help to convey your enthusiasm.

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    Explain why the book excites you personally. Share a memorable moment or how it influenced you to create a deeper connection with your answer.

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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.
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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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    My favorite book is Spiritual Values. It looks very beautiful by appearance and also there are many books which I like mostly but it was closest to my heart so mainly these books I need to learn. Mostly in this book we need to know regarding the spiritual value, the karma, how we repeat setbacks to every person. Based on karma we will be surviving, we are getting advantages and disadvantages based on the karma. So while we are doing anything we need to remember those things which we already did in the future to get more improve of future better in the past. We can also easily extract our future regarding the past evaluation and also this book explains mainly about the karma and the values of every person. Conclusion. Every person repeats the karma which is good or bad. Main conclusion is you need to know like every person need to know about the karmas and how you are behaving with every people, you are lying to people, it's setback to you again. So be careful, be rememberable and speak when you are mirroring the people and there are so many people now they are losing karmas based on their daily situation. They have been using lying words for self satisfaction. It's not correct. So mainly if you are focusing on spiritual value you need to know about karma.

    Band 6-7

    The recent book I read which made me exciting was a book called Ikigai. It is a Japanese book which has a core concept of finding a purpose of life. I found it exciting because it shows the centurions life. It's the first time I heard about the centurions in the book because so far my life being 25 years I haven't heard about the centurions but this book especially concentrates on the centurions moreover their culture, their customs, their habits which made them to be the greatest and a unique one in the country. Most of the centurions are been living in the Japanese. There is an island called Jeju in Japan. So that is the most particular island which is been mentioned in that book which gives you astonishing interviews of the centurions and also it was really great to know about their culture and customs and they are very keen on their health diet because it is the one which made them to be a greatest centurions of the century and in addition to that I also loved the way how the book enhances the centurions and their lifestyle. I would really recommend the people to read this book. It's not only about centurions it's also about finding the purpose of our life. As everyone has their own purpose it gives the general concept of finding the purpose in our life and I really recommend everyone to read this book. Thank you.

    Band 6-7

    Recently I came across a very touching and emotional book called I don't want to love you anymore and it's quickly become one of my favorite. It is a powerful story that talk about love, heartbreak and journey of healing. I found this book a few months ago when I was searching for something meaningful to read. The story follows a person who is trying to move on after a painful breakup which shows how hard it is to let go of someone you deeply care about. But it is also teased the importance of self-respect and self-love. The way the author express emotions is very powerful and I felt completely connected to the feeling described in the book. One reason I found this book exciting is because it is full of deep emotions and beautiful quotes. The language is simple but it's very touching. Every page made me reflect on relationships, personal strength and the idea of that pain is temporary but personal growth is permanent. Usually I read this book at night when everything is quiet. It gives me a lot of comfort and made me to realize that healing is possible after any emotional pain. It taught me that learning to love and value ourselves is one of the most important in life lessons. In conclusion, they said I don't want to love you anymore is not just a story about love. It is a powerful reminder that we must respect ourselves, heal ourselves and move forward stronger than before. I had a strong emotional impact on me and I would highly recommend it anyone looking for a meaningful, inspiring read.

    Band 6

    I have read many books like Jungle Book and this book is very exciting and there is many types of stories are there and they teach us very good things and there how I prepare myself and how save myself and how can help other peoples and many things there I have learn for Jungle Book and this is very good book for learning English and preparation for my ahead life and how I can learn English and this is very good book for me and I always read this book because I have learn many things to the Jungle Book and there is lots of things are there about our life and many peoples how struggle and how to work many things are there and you can learn how you can preparation or study and how concentrate and how you can learn English and they are very good story Jungle Book and they are very very very good and this make me very good I think this and this divert my mind also and when I I go to holiday or my

    Band 6

    So, reading books has always been my one of the favorite pastimes and the interest I would like to carry through my whole of the life. So, it is one of the hobbies that any person should inculcate into his life because reading books will improve our vocabulary, open our minds to whatever has happened in the past and whatever is going to happen in the future or lets us know the view of a particular person as he being an author from his point of view. So, thus reading books is one of the most important habits any person in the present world should have. So, one of my favorite books which I love to read nowadays is The Daughter from a Wishing Tree. It is written by Mrs. Sudha Moorthy, one of our respectable industrialist in the IT sector today and the founder or the co-chairperson of the Infosys Technology Solutions. She has also been proved to be a one of the most important or one of the most significant writers in her age and most of her books have always been encouraging and enthusiasing for the children of today's age and also the adult of today's age and the women race, whatever has been going on. And this book mainly talks about the importance of women in our Indian mythology from back into our ancient history to until today's date. So, how important are women and their position have been given from the past date through the Indian mythology from Gods and the sages to the kings and the queens and how women were portrayed and how women were worshipped.

    Band 6

    In my life, I have read many kind of books as there are different different kinds of book as novels, thrilling novels, horror novels and any kind of investigating novels. I used to learn more knowledgeable books which gives me more knowledge as one of them that I read daily is dictionary. This books is very interesting as it has many kind of new words that had different meanings in my that I can use in my daily life as this books give me more knowledge than usual as it gives me different new words, which I can in which I can interact with my daily conversation with other people. As this book is interesting because as it is kind of challenge to learn new kind of words in my life as I would really love to I would really love to learn these new words in my daily future things as this only this not only just improve my conversation skills as it also improve my personality as it build a confidence of talking with other people with new words as many times I used to I used to talk with new words that I learned but some people don't know about that word. So I am very I feel very proud to tell that tell meaning of that new word as I think that I am very happy after learning these new words as I am very I have very keen interest of learning these words daily and I used to read this book daily

    Band 6

    Basically, if I would like to describe the book that I really enjoyed reading, the name of that particular book is Gunahon Ke Devta and it is based on Dharamvir Bharti. And if you are talking about what has been written in this book, that there is a story of a particular man who has boundless limitations, who has some moral and ethics and due to some his moral and ethics, he leads to some point of time where he has to choose what is right over what he wants. However, by the time he decided at initial stage what is right rather than what he wants. But after some point of time in his life, he decided to choose what he wants, which is not logical, which is not moral in the sense, which is not very true in the nature of his personal behaviour. This story, in this book, the story revolves around that particular boy and showing the dilemma that we should be very honest with ourselves. In the first case of his life, he chose what was right, but he wanted to choose what was he likes. So in conclusion, I would like to summarise this book. This book shows us that every man or woman should be very honest with himself or herself. Whatever he is feeling in his life, whatever he wants to achieve in his life and if there is a conflict between what he wants and what is right. Sometimes when we reach some point of time where we want something, but it is not moral in the sense, but we have to be very honest with ourselves and we have to choose that. If we are choosing what is right, but we are not happy with that, and if we are choosing

    Band 6

    The exciting book that I enjoy reading is the comic or fusion stories. In that, my favorite story is Panchatantra or any fighting story, any horror stories because reading these books makes me little bit confident and little bit the enhancement of the mind and firstly the book tells about very entertainment and there will be some entertainment in this and you can expect more knowledge from this and your pronunciation skills, your grammar, when you start reading it will improve and your reading skills also improves and your English speaking skills also will improve a lot when you start reading the books and you will gain much knowledge when you start reading the books. Reading book is a very good habit because you will gain more knowledge from it. Moreover, I also like to read tech books because we can get more knowledge from it as nowadays tech is improving a lot and reading tech books improves your technical skills and technical knowledge. Improving your technical knowledge and improving your technical skills makes a lot of difference from others because nowadays technical knowledge is booming a lot and you need everything technically so reading that improves your knowledge, improves your skills, everything so yeah I just wanna read even technical books.

    Band 6

    I would like to talk about an exciting book which I have read recently, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it is written by Rewald. This story is being narrated quite beautifully with beautiful narration. There is a boy who is from a poor family, goes to school every day while passing by the chocolate factory, he sniffs the delicious smell of the chocolate, and he wanted to know how this chocolate is being manufactured, and people around this factory are quite amused as there are no workers moving in and out, and how this factory is running. Enough. Enough. Thank you. Bye bye. Enough. Thank you. Bye bye. Enough. Thank you. Bye bye. Enough. Thank you.

    Band 6

    Well I would like to talk about one book which moved me a lot and which helped me to understand myself a little better. So the book name is Palace of Illusions. So now I heard about this book from my manager in office. She recommended this book. So that's why I started reading it and let me tell you about this book. It is amazing. It is the topic of this book is basically dealing into the greatest war of our India which was Mahabharata. And however it is not from the perspective of men but it is the perspective from a woman named Draupadi. She was the queen of the Mahabharata and she was the wife of Pandavas. The war was between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Both of the parties have done some mistakes in the future and they just ruined their entire life over a pity game on which the Pandavas lost all of his kingdom. And the book is all about why that in the greatest war happened between those two brothers. They were cousins actually and why did that happen and how it moved me.
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