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Describe an occasion you wore your favourite clothes: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • When it was?
  • What you wore?
  • Why you wore it?
  • And how you felt about it.
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Cue 1:When it was?

  • Begin by mentioning the specific occasion or event, such as a festival, wedding, or party.
  • Include the time frame, like the month or year, to give context to your answer.

Example

It was during the Diwali festival last year, a time when families come together to celebrate and share joy.


Cue 2:What you wore?

  • Describe the specific clothing items you chose, focusing on details like color, style, and fabric.
  • Mention any accessories that complemented your outfit to create a complete picture.

Example

I wore a beautiful red lehenga that was intricately embroidered with golden threads. I paired it with matching jewelry, including a set of bangles and a delicate necklace.


Cue 3:Why you wore it?

  • Explain the significance of the outfit to you, such as cultural importance or personal preference.
  • Mention any emotional connection you have with the clothes, like memories or compliments received.

Example

I chose this lehenga because it was a gift from my grandmother, and wearing it makes me feel connected to my roots. It also received a lot of compliments from my family, which made me feel proud.


Cue 4:And how you felt about it?

  • Share your emotions during the occasion, focusing on feelings of happiness, confidence, or nostalgia.
  • Reflect on how wearing your favorite clothes impacted your overall experience.

Example

Wearing my favorite lehenga made me feel incredibly confident and beautiful. I enjoyed the festivities even more, as I felt a deep sense of pride in my heritage.


Conclusion

  • Summarize your experience by reiterating the joy of wearing your favorite clothes.
  • Mention how such occasions strengthen your connection to culture and family.

Example

In conclusion, wearing my favorite lehenga during Diwali not only made me feel beautiful but also deepened my connection to my culture and family traditions.


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: Being Too Vague

Candidates often give very general answers without specific details. This makes the response less engaging and informative, which can lead to a lower score.

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Tip

Include specific details about the occasion, such as the date, location, and what made the clothes special to you.


2: Ignoring Emotional Connection

Some candidates forget to express how they felt about wearing their favorite clothes. This can make the response feel flat and uninteresting.

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Tip

Share your emotions and thoughts about wearing the clothes, explaining why they made you feel good or confident.


Lack of Structure

Responses that are not well-organized can confuse the listener. Jumping from one point to another without clear transitions can weaken your answer.

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Tip

Follow the cue card prompts in order, ensuring each part of your answer flows logically from one point to the next.


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All Answers

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Band 6-7

I would like to talk about one of my favorite clothes in my wardrobe which is a saree. I love draping sarees and one of the most exciting thing the most favorite saree I wore it during my brother's wedding. I wore this when it was last December and I had begin the preparations to get the best saree in this town. I went shopping to Pune's very popular saree destination and took up a nice Kanjivaram saree for me to drape. I also bought some matching earrings matching bangles matching blouses and other accessories which would look perfect on me. Saree has been our tradition since ages and Indian culture has its roots very well associated with the saree and everyone I believe every Indian woman looks really beautiful in a saree and the same happened on the day of the wedding. I had hired a salon girl to help me drape the saree and believe me she had done it so perfectly with so elegance that saree was really looking just perfect on me and thanks to her I also received the best compliments from all the guests and my photos also came back stunning. I really enjoy wearing a saree and I always look forward to any occasions like any festival or any Padwa or Diwali, Dussehra any festivals wherein I can pick up my saree and drape it.

Band 6-7

Hence, therefore, furthermore, spontaneously, conspicuously, spontaneously, I am going to say, sequentially, conspicuously, one after one, sequentially it will happen with me, okay? Who wore your favorite clothes? When it was, what you wore, why you wore it, and how you felt about it? Who wore your favorite clothes? Hi, today I would like to share about my past event, about my favorite clothes, okay? About my favorite clothes which I wear in an occasion. I like black color a lot. In that case, I have purchased a black sari recently and I was eagerly waiting for an occasion to wear and that also happened on my birthday. So, it was my birthday and I wore my favorite black sari. I was over the moon on the day and I couldn't really explain the moment how I felt because black color is something related to a negative sign so that no one in my culture will leave me to wear black dress in any occasion. So, in that case, fortunately I got an opportunity to wear what I want and I also planned a trip on my birthday. So, I have two kids. I have planned for a trip nearby a local city called Ooty. So, we all together along with my whole family, I planned a simple trip towards Ooty and I made a list of activities whatever I have to do in the day. So, firstly, we went to a temple which is a Lord Muruga temple. So, there was a huge statue of Lord Muruga and I worshipped him and I later planned for a boathouse. It is very famous in Ooty. So, since I have taken my kids along with me, I have planned for a boathouse and there was a lot of activity towards that.

Band 6-7

Well, I recently wore my favourite lehenga on occasion of my sister's wedding. That was a much awaited day. We have been preparing for this day for around 6 months. So we prepared our dresses accordingly. For various functions we selected different dresses as per the requirement. On Haldi we decided to wear yellow and on the day of marriage we decided to wear ethnic wear lehenga and the lehenga which I wore was somewhat similar to my sister's lehenga. It was full of work, thread work and stars. It was a dream came true to see my sister as a bride. So I wanted to look special and that was the day when I felt it was very memorable. I wanted to make it more memorable by wearing my favourite dress.

Band 6-7

The favorite dress, the dream dress that a girl always imagines to wear, is some of the certain events that are conducted in their lifetime. Well, for me, that was an amazing evening of DJ night at my college in Juhu. I wore it in the month of December when we had our college fest going on. I wore a velvet dress which was till my ankle, a dark brown colored dress that had silver pearls attached on it with an oval shaped neck and sleeves till my wrist. It also had a wrist band which was very pretty. The reason that I wore this dress to the party is because it was a part of the dress code and that dress really brought out the curves of my body. I felt mesmerized after feeling the dress. It was a certain amount of satisfaction I obtained after realizing that how comfortable I was after wearing certain kind of dresses. I wanted to post some of my photos in those dresses online but I believe I secretly kept those photos as a savory for myself.

Band 6-7

This occasion occurred on my sister's wedding. It was four months back. It was held in Gallicate. Me and my family was there. I was wearing a red kurta with my brother. My old brothers were wearing a red kurta. It was a very beautiful day that day. My sister was having a wedding. His bride was from Malappuram. He was an engineer in Dubai. It was a very beautiful day. I was spending most of the time with my brothers. We were having a brotherly bond. I was wearing a red kurta that day. That made me have huge self-confidence. That helped me a lot that day to meet our relatives and talk to them in a very convenient and very pleasable manner. I was very much confident in myself. I also took many photos of myself which helped me to showcase myself in those days. It was a very good experience that day. I was very happy because it was my sister's wedding. We planned a lot of things. People were the main attraction that day. We were also having a couple of photos. We were also having car rides. We booked many lots of cars. We took many photos in the cars. Different photos with my brothers, my sister and family. That was a peaceful and happy day for all the family. Those are some of the memorable days that I have spent. Sometimes I look at the photos.

Band 6-7

Here I would like to talk about the occasion where I was able to wear my favourite outfit. It was on last November. So for this event my outfit was, it included a black t-shirt over which I wore a leather jacket. Then I wore blue jeans. Also then I wore a chain which was exactly a dog tag that was similar to the army format. Overall my outfit was very similar to a bike rider's outfit. Now I was dressed for the occasion of a birthday party which was of one of my old friends. And usually when a person gets an opportunity to wear their favourite clothes they would be very happy. They would search through their entire wardrobe. So for me I took more than 2-3 days of planning to decide what I should wear. And in the end I decided that this is going to be my favourite outfit. And that this particular outfit is what I am going to opt for. Now I felt very great. I was really happy that I was able to wear my favourite outfit for an event. And I felt over the moon. And other than that I also felt, I felt really confident about my outfit and about the way it presents of me.

Band 6-7

I wore my favorite dress on my wedding day. It's a fish cut top with a veil and a sandy color, sandy yellow color. There are many stones in the neck region of the gown. It is also embedded in the hand region. Likewise, the most stones are in the upper side and lower portion of the gown. Similarly, the stones are glued in the shoes too. So, it looks much enchanting. All the celebrities and the participants in the marriage appreciate the work of that dress. Some of them asked why it was purchased to my mom. Soon after, the shop owners arrived in that occasion. They also clapped because that was an amazing gown. I also enchanted and starved for years. In addition, their presence do make me so annoying one. The dress which I wore on my wedding day is called a fish cut top.

Band 6-7

An occasion I wore my favourite clothes was recently at my brother's wedding. It was such a celebratory occasion at our house that with the motivation of looking beautiful I ended up designing my own saree and a beautiful blouse to go with it. It was such a beautiful and sweet saree in a white colour for which I designed a backless blouse and I wore it with elegant jewellery and a fairy and block heels. It was looking so pretty. The colour white exudated my face and my features. I completed my look with a lot of minimal accessories but complementing it with bright makeup to compensate for the fact of neutralisation. The saree was significant to me because my mother was the one who wore that same saree for a function and it was like a ceremony where I was celebrating my mother's choice and incorporating my touch into it and having said that it was such a beautiful experience.

Band 6-7

The occasion that I wear my favorite clothes is the occasion which is the most important in Tibetan culture, it's the Tibetan New Year, Lhasa, there I have worn chupa, that is a traditional clothes, I like the chupa, like from my childhood time, like I always used to wear chupa whenever I get time, wearing chupa in Lhasa is like showing your respect to the culture and there are lots of different kinds of chupa, like different places have different designs of chupa, so ours is isang chupa, which is like very simple but very elegant and it makes me feel very proud wearing these clothes.

Band 6-7

So, it was 3rd December 2024, it was my convocation, I graduated that day from Iqfali in the Bachelor's Degree of Artificial Intelligence and I wore a white kurta-pajama which had an unni to it which was also in mesh white with some gold details and I loved that dress, firstly because I was just happy because it was a very joyous occasion, also I bought it with my own savings and I really liked the fit and the style of the dress, it made me look elegant, it wasn't dull, it brought out my natural complexion and it suited me very well, especially because we were all actually requested to dress in white, it was not an obligation, it was more as a request so that everyone would look uniform, when we all take pictures together we would have black coats of the convocation and a black hat so the black and white combo will look really well, I was specially on cloud 9 that day because I got distinction and my degree was again black, so it's like a black, white and black, all matchy-matchy, but it was a very happy occasion for me and that was probably the event that I really prepared very keenly on all the details of my outfit, right down from my hairstyle to my earrings, I wore gold hoops to match with the overall outfit, I also wore a very, you know, chic silver watch on my right hand because I'm a left-hander, I usually wear watches on my right hand and I wore a few simple...
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