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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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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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Anonymous student Band 8

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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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Anonymous student Band 6.5

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Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

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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.
Describe a time when your friend damaged something you owned
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Anonymous student Band 7

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Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

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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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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

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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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Band 6-7

I would like to speak about a camp that we have done last month. We have done it as a group. It was in a rural area. It was a medical camp. We concentrated more on disability children. Almost 20 people did that camp. It almost took one month to prepare for that camp. The preparation was not only the physical effort. We had to collect the financial help. Many vehicle purposes were also to complete. We had to get sanctions from the DMO office. We all together conducted that camp. The camp was very helpful. It was a great experience. It was the first time we all are doing a camp together. We were only the authorizing team. We only went and purchased the items. The main effort and time was going to the publicity. Nobody was knowing about the camp. We went to the rural area. It was a village. People were very nice. We introduced them to the purpose of the camp. We gave them an introduction. Finally, they agreed. In the rural area, there are still various natural medicines. They are not ready to give their children allopathy or any modern medicine. Somehow, we convinced them and we invited them to our camp. It was a very tough task to invite them to the camp. We did it in a house only. There was a village leader. We did it in his house. It was actually a very nice experience. There were many children who were below BMI and below poverty line. They were below protein level, low deficiency level in vitamins. There were many children with low deficiencies. We provided them medicines. We taught them many exercises. We taught them new lifestyles.

Band 6-7

So, there was a short mini campaign of 10 days in our plant SMS2, basically basic oxygen furnace. So, here was a campaign of 180 tons of converter vessel where a group of team I had to lead to complete the maintenance job as per the targets we have set with the discussion of the higher management. So, the team was of R&D department, so I had to lead the job of lining inside the converter vessel which basically helps or which basically safe the shell of the converter from getting puncture from the hot metal that we pour during the process of our steel making operations. So, that was something which took around 7 to 8 days to get complete. So, during that project there were many difficulties that we faced the time to time. One of those was load testing, before engaging your manpower inside the converter vessel first you have to set up a load testing machine which can lift the pellets and help you to locate it inside the vessel, help you to deliver it inside the vessel, so that the people who are inside the vessel for the lining activity can easily get the pellets or bricks that are composed of magnesium carbide easily to be set up around the converter vessel. So, there are a team of 10 members and we all have to work it together, so it took all 10 days.

Band 6-7

I am working as an AEM consultant at Planet TechMest. Today evening, me and my team decided to go for a team lunch. Our team includes 14 members along with our team lead. All 15 of us went to the venue which is 15 minutes away from our workplace and spent time together. We ordered a lot of tasty food, got to try a variety of cuisines and actually got to work as a team. We could improve our bonding and it showed in our profession.

Band 6-7

Recently, on the 15th of August, which was Independence Day, me and my friends, so we as a group, took some food, packed it, and we went on roads and find the people who are needy, who need food and water, and so we just wanted to do something productive and help someone who are going through some problems, like not even having proper food to eat, or water, or proper shelter. So, whatever money we had, we had some amount of money, so we wanted to be productive about it. So, we brought some food, we packed all of those things, we packed water bottles, and we asked people, like what is their problem, and what are they dealing with. Some children, they were living on the roads, living beside the roads, so we asked them, do they really go to school, or what are they doing. So, they said that they are going to school, but they don't have few stops. So, we provided them books, and some basic needs that a child would need to go to a school. We provided some bags, and also, we gave them food for that time, and after that, I felt that I did something good. So, it was a great feeling, and whenever I get a chance, I would like to repeat those things, I would like to help.

Band 6-7

And I have been with them and I have been with my friends, almost we were 15 numbers in our group. And we have done almost all the things together, from enjoying parties and dinner late night. In Hyderabad we have, we basically out of 15, almost everyone has the car. Basically we do the racing, we own Nicholas Road, Hydex City. These are the activities which we have done in a group basically. Furthermore we used to go out on dinners, we have planned a world tour for 7 countries. We have been to 7 countries, starting with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Mauritius, Maldives, London, USA, Canada, we have been to all these countries. And we used to plan almost, we used to go on for every 3 to 4 years, we used to be on a world tour for every 3 to 4 years. And we have done, we do the business, we do the business of real estate and we have a business company to run. And after like, after a successful venture of dealing in lands, after almost collecting all the profit. We used to plan something, we used to plan something, we have planned world tour last time. Now we are going to plan something else we need to do, that we are basically figuring out. When the best solution comes in our mind, we will do that one. Basically we are a group, we used to do all these things combined with all our commitment, with all our pure hard work. We have achieved so many things in our life. If I were a single man, if I, basically I would not have achieved this much success.

Band 6-7

Yes, I did a project with my friends. There was a group of four people, me and... ...Vontesh and Navi and Prasad. We are a group of four people. We did a project last year. It was a wonderful experience... ...learning new things and getting new knowledge on it. Something on a subject, related to a subject. It was very good. Moreover, we had to share our work. We shared our work, someone doing the paperwork, someone doing the... ...correction, someone doing the PPT and someone doing the report. These types of works we categorised and we split it to ours. Then we took time and we often meet together in the college library. We do a lot of work together and we get new knowledge. If a person is getting the knowledge, he will tell me. If I have a particular knowledge on something, I will share it with him. It was a good group sharing in my surroundings. One more thing, with my lecturer, we did this with the help of a lecturer. We used to get more knowledge. He was with us and we got a good strength. We had published the paper last year. These types of works we did in my college time. Doing this, we got a good bond with each other. We had a good time with each other. It was very pleasant and calm. There were new members who were excited to see the project. We had explained in our college library.

Band 6-7

I did a project named DermAI, a dermatological manifestation project, in which it recognizes the skin conditions and analyzes it, and it also tells the root cause of the disease. I did it with my friend Malati and Priyadarshini. We three decided to do this together, as it was assigned to us, and we created a team bonding, and we had many schedules and time schedules for doing all the things, and I also had an opportunity to present my project at Scopus International, and I also published a paper on it. This project was developed because of the people who are facing many skin conditions. It will help them to recognize the diseases that they have on their skin, and also to cure it. The main idea of the project was to help people who are in need, and they do not need to pay a fee for a project, they just need to upload a picture of their hand, and then upload it into our system, so that while analyzing the issue, it sees how the disease was originated from and where it came, and it also tells about how the people should wear the things that they should avoid, and what the intakes that they should take, so that they can stop the disease from spreading even more. I loved to do it, I did it with my friends, and it had a great success, and we accomplished it on time, because we had a time slot and time schedule for each model of the project. This project has developed me to overcome many challenges, I was given as a team leadership, and I had the chance to collaborate with my friends, and I love to do it all over again.

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.
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