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Describe an experience when you got bored with others.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • When did it happen?
  • Who were you with? What did they do?
  • Why did you feel bored?
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Cue 1:When did it happen?

  • Begin by stating the specific time and place of the experience.
  • Mention any relevant events or activities happening around that time.

Example

It happened last summer during a family gathering at my uncle's house. We had all come together to celebrate my cousin's birthday, which usually involves a lot of fun and games.

Cue 2:Who were you with? What did they do?

  • Describe the people you were with and their relationship to you.
  • Explain what activities they were engaged in that contributed to your boredom.

Example

I was with my cousins and a few family friends. While everyone else was busy playing games and chatting, I found myself sitting on the sidelines, as I wasn't interested in the games they were playing.

Cue 3:Why did you feel bored?

  • Identify the reasons for your boredom, such as lack of interest or engagement.
  • Mention any attempts you made to join in or change the situation.

Example

I felt bored because the games were too childish for my taste, and I didn't know how to engage with the conversations happening around me. I tried to suggest a different game, but no one seemed interested, which made me feel even more disconnected.

Conclusion

  • Summarize your feelings about the experience and what you learned from it.
  • Reflect on how you might handle similar situations in the future.

Example

In the end, I realized that sometimes, it's okay to feel bored, as it can lead to self-reflection. Next time, I might try to initiate a different activity or find a quieter space to engage in my own interests.

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 Responses

Giving vague or unclear answers can make your response less engaging. It may leave the examiner confused about your experience and feelings.

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Provide specific details about the experience, including what happened and how it made you feel. Use descriptive language to paint a clear picture.

2: Lack of Structure

A disorganized response can make it hard for the examiner to follow your story. This can lead to a lower score in coherence and cohesion.

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Organize your answer by following the cue prompts. Start with when it happened, then describe who you were with, and finally explain why you felt bored.

Overly Negative Tone

Focusing too much on negative feelings can create a dull narrative. It may not engage the examiner or showcase your language skills effectively.

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Tip

Balance your response by including some positive aspects or lessons learned from the experience, even if it was boring.

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All Answers

Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

Band 6-7

So, I would like to talk about a recent event which happened on 5th December, 2024. I went to a family wedding at Chhatarpur Farms. The wedding was really well organized and managed by my uncle. However, I got a little bored in the wedding because none of my cousins could come to the wedding. All my cousins are either abroad or they were busy with their exams coming up. One of my favourite cousins who used to always come to the wedding and we used to enjoy and eat a lot at wedding had his CAT exams coming up and all the elderly people were there in the wedding. They were amongst themselves chit-chatting and going through it. I felt really annoyed by the fact that none of my closest cousins, the partner in crime, were not there so that we could have a joyful day. I wanted to have a gala time with the people around me but due to the fact that everyone was busy with their jobs and exams, they could not reach to the moment. I was disheartened and I just went along with my mother and father who were there with me at the time when I was feeling a little monotony in the wedding. However, at the end of the day, I just enjoyed a bit by dancing.

Band 6

I was recently hanging out with my high school friends and I was never fascinated about them. I'm very reserved and a person who speaks less with an introverted personality. So it was a weekend and one fine and in that evening we were hanging out in a particular cafe and they started speaking about cars which I barely know about and if someone and if some group right in front of me talks about something which I cannot relate or I have never done that, that kind of bores me out of the situation and forces me to be aside and not think about anything and moreover I generally don't hang out with people. So I don't take that personally but when people go and speak out of the topic that actually restricts me from generating my opinions and ideas to them. So this was my experience.

Band 6

In my life I love to travel place to place and sometimes with my friends that time will be best for me for enjoyment but I remember a time when I was go for a walk with my grandpa and that time was very upset for me and I felt very bored at that time because he was too lazy and at that time but from this I can say that walking with old people is really getting upset and you can also feeling blue at that time also because it is cold at them so at that situation was tough time for me I was like sweet potato and my grandpa and my grandpa make me early bird and every morning he called me to join the playground and those days were not good for me like I was already bored because there are two reasons one was I didn't I don't like to walk daily in the early mornings and second one is that I was unable to complete a proper sleep so these kind of situations make me very upset moreover I can say that these type of experience are not preferable for me suitable for me

Band 6

So, one day when I was at my workplace, this colleague of mine had his last day of work. So, a couple of his friends had come over to wish him goodbye. And they were colleagues of mine too from the same workplace. Although they weren't too friendly with me, they were on good terms with my fellow colleague who was leaving. So, they kind of decided to throw a kind of surprise party for him with cakes. And they surprised him with a friend of theirs who had left the workplace before. And this all happened in front of me and I felt so lonely. And this led me to feeling bored and kind of listless. Because I wasn't invited, I felt like I wasn't the one who was needed to be there. And I felt as if it was a compulsion for them to invite me because I was just present beside them. And so, when they began telling nostalgic stories about their time together and they had their hidden jokes, I felt so bored out of my mind that I kind of had to step outside for a minute and do nothing basically on my phone. Which is when I decided that it was a good time to say my goodbyes and leave. I gave a tight hug to the colleague who was leaving. Even though he wasn't a good friend, he was a good worker. And he had mentored and guided me throughout my experience. And so, that's how the experience went.

Band 6

Recently, I went out with my friends. There are four people. My classmate, college mate and I have school friends. They both went hiking. Initially, there was good, but after the time goes, I got bored with them. Between the four of us, two are couples. I don't like to go out with couples. I agreed because they are initially friends, even my friends too, but as the time goes, I get bored with them. They are giving me kind of cringe vibes, so I get bored with them. On their day, they made me more frustrated and getting bored with them. I hope I don't get any in this type of situation in future.

Band 6

Okay, so the last time I really got bored was recently when I went to this family function and the reason why I was really bored was because no one of my age was there where I can have a conversation with someone or you know just stroll around because I was I actually went there with my mother and apart from that usually my cousin also comes along but since she was busy that day she couldn't make it to the function hence I was really alone and couldn't really do much where I was just standing or like sitting somewhere around the corner and was just scrolling or doing something I did have a talk with few of the relatives but that's about it and then there was nothing pretty much to do moreover it was really getting boring since there was a lot of time between the event and actual timing where I could eat so the timing slot for eating was going to open at 1 and until then I literally had nothing to do so I just called up few of my friends I did some scrolling and then I was just troubling my mother because she really forced me to come to that event even though I was least interested in coming but all in all I feel it was a boring event I after the having dinner I really went ahead and

Band 6

I remember getting extremely bored during my college days, especially in the second year. The classrooms were extremely boring, both the teachers and the peers that were present there. To explain to you what they were doing, it's more like the participation of students in the class and the dialogue that our instructors were having with us were just too rudimentary and academic of sorts. There wasn't a lot of interesting dialogue happening between us. This led to me getting extremely bored. I would say something that would have improved the experience would be me interacting more, moving the class discussions in a more fruitful and interesting direction. That is something that I have taken away from that experience and I hope to implement in life.

Band 5-6

I often get bored when I attend a ceremony of college event. It's quite hard to attend this because the guest is from any lawyers, any VIPs, but they give guest lecture to us. It's so tough to hear. It makes us so weary and lack of energy. I guess it's tough for me and when they are giving their advices, they didn't think about the peoples who are listening. They are blabbering around whatever they want to convey to us, but they didn't even think about what people experience about our talks, what people think about our talks. They didn't even have a single thought about that.

Band 5-6

Hi, so mostly I don't get bored when I am around with people but there was an incident where I felt very constrained and restrictive which led me to the feeling of the boredom. So it was my very first day at the job, I was very new with the corporate culture and I just recently moved to Hyderabad where all of them were very new for me, when I am surrounded with very new people I was very careful with my words and the thoughts which I should present to them, that's why I got very bored at my first day at the job, to be specific the incident happened after the lunch time, we all were sitting together and we were mostly free and didn't have any task in our hands, the scheduled training was supposed to be done but due to some unpredictable circumstances we have to wait for our instructor to come and give us the lecture and the task which we should perform, we had to wait for around two hours and due to all new faces I was not able to collect the thoughts which are suitable to be presented there, so everyone was very awkward at that moment and no one was speaking much at that point of time I was really bored and I didn't have any task to perform which led me to the boredom, all of the colleagues were very new and they also recruited from the same college at the very same day which led to the boredom for each and every person, I don't

Band 5-6

I go to, for, I go to lawns, I sometime, I have to lawn to, you can't attack, I have to, I have to fun of my friend, but sometime they are a bad friend, I am sometime bothered and people bully me and so that is, that time is very friendly, during a time that, that is very, very, very curious, very scared time and I am scared for, I am, I am afraid and that is my bad life, I am alone, I feel alone and I get bothered with stranger person, just like that, he is not talking to me and I am not talking with, with, with us and they are more, I am not, they are more uncomfortable if I, I like feel, so I can, I can't start to talking with other person, that is a very difficult of the, part of the life and and I think, and I think, I think boring life is a part of the life, boring time a part of the life, you can, I can decide the, I can decide I am not good and I am not fine, I am friendly, I got it, I, I long time, I distance for my relatives, that is why, that is my good thing in life.
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