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Describe something that you did with someone/a group of people: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What it was
  • Who you did it with
  • How long it took you to do this
  • And explain why you did it together
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Cue 1:What it was

  • Begin with a clear and engaging description of the activity you did.
  • Mention any specific details that make the experience memorable.

Example

I want to talk about a memorable road trip I took with my friends to Manali. It was a spontaneous decision, and we were all excited to explore the beautiful mountains and enjoy some adventure.

Cue 2:Who you did it with

  • Introduce the people you were with, highlighting your relationship with them.
  • Share a little about their personalities or interests that made the trip enjoyable.

Example

I went on this trip with my college friends, Rahul, Priya, and Anjali. We have been friends since our first year of college, and we all share a love for travel and adventure, which made the trip even more fun.

Cue 3:How long it took you to do this

  • Provide the duration of the activity, including travel time and the time spent at the destination.
  • Mention any interesting experiences during the journey.

Example

The entire trip lasted about four days. We drove for around 12 hours to reach Manali, and the long drive was filled with music, laughter, and plenty of snacks, making it feel shorter than it actually was.

Cue 4:And explain why you did it together

  • Discuss the motivation behind choosing this activity and why it was special to do it with this group.
  • Reflect on the bonding experience and any lessons learned.

Example

We decided to go on this trip together because we wanted to take a break from our studies and create some unforgettable memories. The trip strengthened our friendship, and we learned to work together as a team, especially when it came to planning our itinerary.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the overall experience and its significance to you.
  • Mention any future plans with the same group or similar activities.

Example

Overall, this trip to Manali was one of the best experiences of my life. It not only allowed us to unwind but also brought us closer together. We are already planning our next adventure to Goa, and I can't wait to create more memories with my friends.

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 Detail in Description

Failing to provide enough detail can make your answer sound vague and uninteresting. It's important to engage the listener with specific information about the activity.

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Tip

Include sensory details and emotions to make your description vivid. Explain what you saw, heard, and felt during the experience.

2: Ignoring the Group Dynamics

Not mentioning who you did the activity with can lead to a less engaging response. The dynamics of the group can add depth to your story.

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Tip

Describe the roles and contributions of each person in the group. This will help illustrate the collaborative nature of the experience.

Rushing Through the Explanation

Speeding through your answer can leave out important aspects, making it hard for the examiner to follow your story. Take your time to explain.

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Tip

Break down your explanation into clear parts. Discuss the 'why' behind the activity and its significance to you and the group.

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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.
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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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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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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

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Band 6-7

Being a social animal, people have to do so many tasks with their peers and the one task that I remember with my friends is a Luddi dance which we had to perform in the youth fest. It was the time in the last year of November when we were preparing for the dance competition and there are lots of efforts we have to do and we want to win in that competition. We go to college at 8 am and after that we start preparing for the dance position. There was a coach who tells us the different art forms and different steps in every day and we were improving day by day and there are lots of efforts we have to put. There was a DP ma'am, there was a ma'am which helped us to motivate us. Sometimes we feel depressed or we feel frustrated that we can't do but with the motivation of our teacher we do so many things which we thought that we can do. During the competition we won the first prize and at that moment we are very happy and we feel that there are lots of efforts given and seriously that day was very best for us.

Band 6-7

Last summer, me and my friends took, we, uh, me and... competing for fans... Hm.. Last summer, I took a trip with my friends to the garden. We went to Kerala on May 15th. The first thing we did after reaching Kerala was we wanted to explore the streets of Kerala. So we rented a scooter and was riding all over the area. It was so beautiful. It started to rain and we had a little banana leaf to cover our heads and we were just riding all over the streets of Kerala. So it was so beautiful. We saw everything that makes Kerala beautiful. Kerala has a lot of mountains, waterfalls, rivers. So it is the best tourist place that you could ever visit in your entire life. So I wanted to go on this trip with my friends because I wanted to have a beautiful, relaxing and refreshing trip with my friends after working, studying for the past 15 years hardly. So I wanted to take this trip with my friends. We were convincing our parents for more than a year and just got permission to take the trip.

Band 6-7

I was very naughty when I was a child. I remember once upon a time me and my sister we were watching a movie in the midnight. All our family members were fallen asleep but me and my sister was awake. We were watching a horror movie named Conjuring. It was a very thrilling, threatening and wonderful experience. The idea in my mind was that to scare my sister. My sister is a kind of a personality who tries to become brave but in actual he was not. He is not. So I just decided to scare him, threaten him. So after the movie was over he went for a washroom outside the room. I escaped from the bed and was hidden inside the bed, under the bed. When he came I just used to grab her feet and he was so, she was so scared, so scared that she starts screaming. All my family's got awake to see what happened and after that we were beaten by our parents. We get the punishment for what I did to her. That's it. Thank you so much.

Band 6-7

There are a lot of group activities that I have completed with my friends or colleagues. But if I have to tell one, I will describe the most interesting one. It was a project of me that I wanted to make a website and want to start it as a company. So I shared this with one of my friends who has been with me for past 10 years. He told me that he will join me. After that we got into some difficulties in the midway. So I also approached two more people. One is a manager and another one is a back-end engineer as neither of us is good in back-end work. So we also want someone who is good in back-end also. So we started the project in the mid of June. After few months we didn't get much responses but after that we took a new approach and changed the whole UI and UX of the application which changes drastically the way people are approaching to the website and it became very popular. We completed it within three months and by the end of this year we are going to give it publicly and everyone will be able to use it. It was my idea as I want to target the world.

Band 6-7

Recently, me and my friend, we both went to an MUN Model United Nations competition. Initially, I was not really imagining myself or considering myself being able to talk and make bonds with people. However, it was such a great experience. Since I thought, when I went there, I was just thinking that maybe I'll just have one friend with whom I'm going to talk. I'm going to have conversations. I'm not good at networking. I'm an introvert person. However, when I went with my friend, it boosted my competition. It boosted my confidence. However, my seat partners were different people, not my friend. Me and my friends were sitting away from each other. I was a bit nervous in beginning that conversation with them. I was not really able to commence the conversation with them. However, once the competition began, when the ED of our committee asked us to have conversation with other people, asked us to have discussion with other people in order to decide our topic for the next committee session, and we began talking to each other, we quickly matched our vibes. Our vibes just matched. It was such a great experience. We did a lot of things together. We were working together. We were discussing together. We were having fun. We were dancing. We were eating together. Even we went out and we were great together.

Band 6-7

I did my final year project with one of my very close friend Vaibhav. He is like a really generous guy and also very intelligent. We were working on a machine learning project. It was synthetic aperture radar to an optical image conversion thing. And it took us around four months to complete. There were a lot of challenges that we faced together. And we solved them with our intuition. Also, I believe he was the guy whom I really wanted to work with. Because he knew machine learning way before when I was going to study that. He also got the internship in the first year which was really nice. I thought he would be not like a friend or partner who will help me. But more like a mentor who will guide me throughout our project. So, Vaibhav was the one whom I have been with. I have learnt most of the things in AI from him. And also, the project played a really significant role in our engineering. Overall engineering grades because we got 9 out of 9. So, it was like 100% in our last semesters. Which was really nice. And I really love working with this guy. Because the way he thought of implementing his ideas. There are some structures in the code when you write a code. And he was really good at it. And he taught me that thing. That was really nice. So, I believe the overall project got completed in three months. Even though the timeline was for six months. So, that's it.

Band 6-7

So, me and a group of my friends in the summer vacation after my 11th board exams, there was a group of four of us who decided all together that we all wanted to go to go-kart track together and have some fun go-karting. So what we did when we got there was, at first it was looking like the weather was going to inhibit us from enjoying the day as the clouds were forming and it was starting to look very grey in the sky. So on the way to the go-kart track we were all talking on the phone and it was very unsure whether we were going to be able to execute our plan but in the end we were able to have fun and we all did go-kart together in which I got second place which was a little annoying because I didn't get the bragging rights that I wanted to by winning but afterwards we were able to plan to stay out a little bit later by going to a nearby ice cream parlor so we all booked a taxi and we got in and we went over there. What happened while we were there, we realized that since the vacations had just started no one had plans at home either so we decided to each call our parents individually and try to convince them that we would all stay over at one of our friend's house to have fun throughout the night. Once we were able to call each of the sets of parents separately we convinced them saying that we would start home early in the morning as soon as we woke up which did happen so we were able to convince them all. When we went over to my friend's house we went to the nearby turf to play some football for a bit which we played for nearly an hour which did knock all the energy out of us so once we got back home all we really did was have dinner and start watching a movie until each of us fell asleep at whatever time our body decided was the end of the night for us.

Band 6-7

Well, throughout my life, I did a lot of group work with my friends and family members, but here I want to describe one of the major projects that I enjoyed also. So that is a school project when I was in my 10th standard. So my teach, so our teacher gave us a project on any topic that we have to describe it, it's our choice. So we decided to have the project on sustainable development. So this project having four days to complete it, so we are five friends and five members in our group that we have a different different ideas and creativity that we showed in our project. So basically, there is a teamwork and it takes three days only, because of the hard work and dedication that we show in our project work is extremely so helpful for us, because it having a time of four days only and we also have our personal life and academic world. So we hardly give three hours of a day to our project. And it was a great time that I have this project and learn a lot of things from this. It was a teamwork and we show and the our empathy and our dedication to this. And lastly, it also described the unity we show in this project and this work. And lastly, after the year passes in our annual day, we got rewarded from our chief minister, because of that project that we have. So it was so precious and so valuable that describe each and everything on a sustainable development and how to save our environment.

Band 6-7

so one time when I did something with a group of people was three years ago when I went on a trek to the outskirts of the Argur district it is to a peak known as Jindagar peak which is the highest point in the Eastern Ghats of India it is situated nearly 200 kilometers away from the city of Ishaqapatnam so we started off in the morning and I went along with my friends to that trek it took us around four hours to visit the first base camp and from there on we went trekking we were on foot it took us around four hours four to five hours to reach the second camp where we saw a beautiful sunset along with lots of greenery with lots of greenery and we sang some songs did some dances and went stargazing in the night and the next day we went to the main peak we started off our trek around 8 o'clock in the morning and from there on we took pics along the way

Band 6-7

There are not many activities that I have done with a group of people lately, however there is one project that I have done with my office team to deliver it on the time. In order to execute a smooth and errorless transition of our project, me and my group had worked day and night for at least couple of months to impress our client. Furthermore, it was a very hectic and tedious job to get it done with individual efforts, however we managed to do it in teamwork along with our manager's advices and support. We were able to execute that task very effortlessly. On top of that, our client was very much impressed with the work that we have delivered and they also compensated us with gifts. The gifts were like new phones and laptops to each of us. Apart from that, we also had lunch organized by our client. It was at the restaurant nearby to our office, so it was very unique that they prepared all of the dishes by their own to give the best experience as we gave them the best project dish.
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