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Describe an unusual but interesting building you would like to visit: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • Where it is?
  • How it looks like?
  • Why you went there?
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Cue 1:Where it is?

  • Begin by mentioning the location of the building, including the city and country.
  • You can also add a brief context about why this location is significant or interesting.

Example

The building I would like to visit is the Lotus Temple, located in New Delhi, India. It is situated in a beautiful garden area, making it a serene place amidst the bustling city.

Cue 2:How it looks like?

  • Describe the architectural style and unique features of the building.
  • Use vivid adjectives to paint a picture of its appearance and surroundings.

Example

The Lotus Temple is designed in the shape of a lotus flower, with 27 free-standing marble petals. The white marble shines brightly under the sun, and the surrounding pools of water reflect its beauty, creating a peaceful atmosphere.

Cue 3:Why you went there?

  • Explain your motivation for wanting to visit this building, whether it's for its architecture, cultural significance, or personal interest.
  • You can also mention any experiences or feelings you hope to gain from the visit.

Example

I want to visit the Lotus Temple because I am fascinated by its unique architecture and the peaceful environment it offers. I have heard that it is a place for meditation and reflection, and I believe it would be a great opportunity for me to experience tranquility away from my busy life.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, the Lotus Temple is not just an architectural marvel but also a symbol of peace and unity. I am eager to visit it and immerse myself in its beauty and serenity.

    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 less engaging. Candidates often fail to provide specific details about the building, which can lead to a lack of interest from the examiner.

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    Use descriptive adjectives and specific examples to paint a clear picture of the building's appearance and features.

    2: Ignoring the Cues

    Not addressing all the cues can result in an incomplete answer. Candidates sometimes focus on one aspect and neglect others, which can affect their overall score.

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    Make sure to answer all the cues: location, appearance, and your reasons for wanting to visit the building.

    Overly Simple Language

    Using overly simple or repetitive language can make your response sound unprepared. Candidates may miss the chance to showcase their vocabulary and fluency.

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    Incorporate a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to demonstrate your language skills and keep the response interesting.

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    It's a tip top from that mountain view, you can see different places from there. There is a wide variety of flowers over there and many other botanical gardens over there. We can sit over there and see, cover the entire place of surrounding and it's very calm and very peaceful environment. It's like a amazing place. There is no other people disturbing. We can hear only the flow of air, the unblowing of wind and wide varieties of birds are making noise there. You can see different, different flowers. Only the amazing view we can explore from there. And I like to travel many other places like Kerala and Karnataka, but this Ayurvedic Whenever I go there, I feel every time it's new for me. One time I can sit there and think about my friends and talk about my lifestyle and how my life is going on. Whenever we go there and sit there, the mind is completely settled and very relaxed and calm. And even though we go there very tensed and stressed, we become very peaceful, very peaceful and peaceful. So whenever I go there, I prefer to sit on the rooftop and explore the places over there and sit very peacefully without speaking to anyone and relax my mind in a peaceful way.

    Band 6-7

    I would like to visit there's a building in Rajasthan which is well known and famous because it is known to be haunted it is a very old palace built in the 18th century the building looks really old there are no residents there sometimes it is even restricted for the tourists after evening hours but I would really like to visit it in the daytime just to see how it looks just to see the vibes there and I'll definitely visit it with my friends I won't do it alone just for the experience of it the thrill of it maybe in the morning hours we'll go there we'll look around the different rooms the type of architecture the walls the grounds there it will be a good exercise for us as well because it is located it is a small trek if you have to reach there from the sea level so a lot of people have heard a lot of strange stories about that place that is the reason many people are really afraid to visit it and there's also a warning at the entrance that you are restricted to enter this place after 7 p.m. so yes that is one place I would like to go and explore with my friends thank you

    Band 6-7

    I would love to talk about place which is situated in Pali district named as Goram Ghat. I visited that place in 2022 in winters. That place was so beautiful and mesmerizing. I couldn't take my eyes off from that place when I arrived there. I saw a scenery everywhere full of trees, a tremendous amount of mountains, ranges where we can climb and see a full sight of that place. Then we climbed to the top of the highest peak mountain Odhga and then because that was almost 30, not 30, it's 3.5 km, 45 degree hill trekking that took almost 6 hours of trekking up. But if we have to come down, it will be taking 6 hours and we would miss our train. So we climbed up and stayed overnight with a Maharaj named as Guruji in temple known as Mahadev Mandir. And we enjoyed a meal which was made by us, a famous kind of roti, Tukad Ram. We really enjoyed that. Then on next early morning we climbed down, then took our train.

    Band 6-7

    I would like to describe a mesmerizing place that I would like to visit it is the building that are situated in India's like Golden Temple, Havelis, historical buildings, Taj Mahal and I would like to visit a Jaipur because it is a pink city there are so many buildings which are historical which resemble our culture and many more things I would like to visit Taj Mahal because it is a sign of love a husband make make this building for his wife to express his love by creating something beautiful the Taj Mahal is built by a white marble stone which is very expensive and it is also very royal and the second place I would like to visit the Golden Temple which is located in Punjab it is it is a temple which admires the golden architecture and the participate in the prayers I would like to visit that places and according to me these places are very beautiful and they are mesmerizing for everybody these sceneries are breathtaking and I will never forget I will never forget their beauty and everything about that

    Band 6-7

    There is a building near my house which is abandoned from around, I have heard it's abandoned from around 20 years. It's a house actually, a two-storied house and it has a lot of trees around it and greenery but the most scary part is it's like a horror house. Sometimes people say that they have listened a lot of voices coming from that house during night time and it also, someone has seen, also seen few shadows there at night time but I am a kind of person who is really interested to go to such houses or such places and if possible I would like to feel and feel those paranormal activities. So, that's the end of it.

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    As a matter of fact, I haven't given much thought to this, but yeah, the pyramids of Egypt have always fascinated me since my childhood, since the time that I had started learning about them. To begin with, the pyramids are believed to be a place where dead pharaohs and kings are mummified and preserved for years. So it would be kind of a haunted and eerie place to visit that would really give an adrenaline rush to me. Additionally, they are believed to be built thousands of years ago when there were no cutting-edge technologies like today. So this fact also makes me awestruck that how those ancient people would have managed to place such heavy pieces of rocks one over the other. And thirdly, what component or what material have they, they might have used that those pyramids have survived so many natural disasters and are standing proud and tall even today.

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    Two years back when I had visited Rajasthan, one of the beautiful places in India, known for its heritage and its richness and their culture as well as the way people dress up over there, the building which I visited there was the palace, the Bikaner Palace which was really wonderful, which had its own unique sculptures and unique structures, so that made it more interesting. Bikaner, that's Bikaner. Well, two years back when I visited to Rajasthan, one of the beautiful places in India, which is known for its culture, heritage as well as its beautiful palaces and buildings which is known for lakes and buildings and palaces which is very beautiful and I find this place very interesting and very unusual because the place which I visited was in Bikaner which was the Bikaner Palace and it was very beautiful inside and yes, it did have some haunted kind of feeling which makes it more unusual. The resort which we stayed in was basically a palace but in that palace, previously the prince, the princess, the queen and the king, whoever stayed there, so the princess had actually had these paintings in the rooms, so each room had a frame kind of painting and that actually was very scary because it was something relating to Annabelle or something that was very scary, some weird face, weird expression, so that made it more unusual.

    Band 6-7

    I wanna go but it is unusual but interesting building I would visit I would like to visit is Burj Khalifa. I had listened so many things about that building that it is too tall, it has many floors, it has speediest lifts in the planet and it is this it has the shape of a flower we see from the top of that building it is so tall it is located in Dubai that is so tall I just wanna go there because I wanna explore many things right there many people told me you should visit there and I was like why but when I'd seen the pictures of that building that building just impressed me and I just want to go there and explore many things right there that's it thank you

    Band 6-7

    So, an unusual building or I would say a temple that I love to visit is the Lord Jagannath temple that is situated in the Puri and it's in Bhubaneswar. It's nearby the capital city which is the Bhubaneswar and this temple is completely dedicated to Lord Jagannath and a very famous festival is celebrated for him that is Rathyatra and this is on 27th of June, 2025. The temple building has its own mysterious thing such as the flag which is at the top. It always flows opposite the wind direction plus there it's the no flying zone and once you step inside the temple building then you would not hear any sound of the sea waves which is coming from the behind and once you come out you will hear the sea sound waves again and another reason is that once you go inside the Mahaprasad which is served, it is made in a kind of seven pots and the top most pot is first heated then the remaining pots beneath it, underneath it is dada dada.

    Band 6-7

    In my own country there is so many monuments, museums and old buildings, the historical buildings are there, in that I mostly I would like to talk about the Taj Mahal which situated in Agra in New Delhi and I went there in my 7th standard when I was studying in 7th standard as a family trip over there. We reached over there after travelling 3 days and we changed our dress, we became fresh up and we travelled to Taj Mahal. So, it's a such a interesting building which made by Shah Jahan. It is a token of love to Mumtaz, his wife and it was built with the marbles, full of marbles and they have written some Arabic words in that tiles. So, it is very interesting and unbelievable, wondering building and also there is so many another buildings in that native itself. We also seen the Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple which all are more interesting and unusual buildings situated in that area itself. But in my life I mostly interested in the Taj Mahal because it is a token of love, it is also a building of love. So, I am very interested in that building and the stories behind that building, the historic stories, the historical things, so many so on.
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