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Describe something you received for free.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What was it?
  • When and from whom did you receive it?
  • How did you feel?
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Cue 1:What was it?

  • Begin by clearly stating what the item or service was that you received for free.
  • Provide a brief description of its significance or usefulness to you.

Example

I received a beautiful handmade scarf from my grandmother. It was made from soft wool and had intricate patterns that reflected our cultural heritage.


Cue 2:When and from whom did you receive it?

  • Mention the occasion or event during which you received the item.
  • Specify who gave it to you and their relationship to you.

Example

I received the scarf last winter during my birthday celebration. My grandmother, who is very dear to me, gifted it to me as a surprise.


Cue 3:How did you feel?

  • Share your emotional response upon receiving the gift.
  • Explain why this feeling was significant to you.

Example

I felt incredibly touched and grateful when I received the scarf. It reminded me of the love and care my grandmother puts into everything she makes, making it even more special.


Conclusion

  • Summarize the importance of the gift in your life.
  • Reflect on how receiving this free item impacted your relationship with the giver.

Example

In conclusion, receiving the scarf from my grandmother not only warmed me physically during the cold months but also strengthened our bond. It serves as a constant reminder of her love and our 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: Giving Vague Answers

Avoid being too general or vague in your response. Specific details make your answer more engaging and memorable. Vague answers can lead to a lack of clarity.

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Include specific details about the item you received, such as its appearance, purpose, and significance to you.


2: Neglecting Emotional Impact

Failing to express your feelings can make your answer less impactful. Emotions help to connect with the listener and make your story more relatable.

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Tip

Share how receiving the item made you feel at the moment and how it affects you now, using descriptive language.


Ignoring the Context

Not providing context about when and from whom you received the item can leave your answer feeling incomplete. Context adds depth to your story.

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Tip

Clearly explain the situation surrounding the gift, including the occasion and the relationship with the giver.


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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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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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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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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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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

Recently, I got a wallet from my cousin, we had a walk in the mall and we went for shopping. As soon as I saw the wallet in the store, I was in love with it and I was at the over of the world. So she decided me to give that and to make me surprised and feel enthusiastic. So that wallet had a special feature and had a three layered lock system, which would make my keep my money safe. As soon as I saw the material, it was of leather and was in blue in color. So that as soon as I saw that I was like, this is the one which I was I needed. So as soon as I got that, I was like, that was unexpected to me and was very loving gift I ever had from my cousin. That made me feel very positive and at that spot, I felt that if I, I would have not taken that if she wouldn't have gifted me. So I think I'm the luckiest one to get that wallet as it was the last piece from the store. As I got it free, its price was almost 2000, which was too high for me. So I didn't, I was not ready to buy it.

Band 6-7

A few months ago I experienced a very happiness time when I got my lost beloved dog Bruno. It happened on a sunny Saturday evening while I was going for a walk in the park. Bruno being a playful and curious dog suddenly ran off his chasing squirrel and I felt so happy he returned. The long days ago despite my calls he disappeared into the woods and I couldn't find him. I got a part of my family and the emptiness was healing.

Band 6-7

A bike is a vehicle that I received for free because it is a gift given to me by my parents when I turned 18. It was a very special moment for me because it was my birthday and I went out with my friends and when I came back from that party, there's a bike standing beside my door on the ground floor and I asked my father on call that whose bike is this, is there anyone who's been in our home. So he eventually smiled and happily said to me that it is your bike and he gifted me that bike. He handed over me the keys and I was very much overwhelmed with that surprise gift because I was not expecting it to be such a great gift for me. Firstly because from a long time I wanted a bike, a sports bike and a cruise bike, something like that so that I could get to my college more conveniently. Although I opted for another city so I was not able to take my bike there but the moments I spent with my bike is great because at the beginning when I just learned the bike, I used to overspeed a lot, used to go to religious places, temples in early morning, very preciously taking my bike and cleaning it every day. I just loved that feeling that how a precious gift being given to me without any demand and without any much of doing such things like I deserve this but still my father gave it to me out of love.

Band 6-7

I received a gift which was a blender and I received this gift on a Diwali festival. It is a complimentary gift with a fridge and this gift was offered by a salesperson and after receiving this gift I was so excited to use it but I don't know how to use it so I and so I opened the YouTube channel and posted the company name and get the video. In this video he explained all the function which I don't know. After knowing the function of this blender I use it very frequently and this blender was so nice and it saved my time and energy and this gift was very useful for me whenever I am in when I am in hurry so I use it so I use it with a very confidently and my husband also use it for blending. I use it for cold coffee and hot coffee and I also grind it with spices.

Band 6-7

So, I bought something from Zepto, the hair rollers, for a function I was going to, actually a Christmas party, and I was expecting them to be a larger size, but they were not that large, and I asked them for a return, but they were not convinced that I was not getting a return or a refund, so I just tried my best to convince them, then I started at the start of the day, I actually talked to the 5 people, 5 people through the day, and at the end of the day, the 5th person was like, yeah, I'll give you your refund, and also you can keep the rollers, I was like, what? I actually didn't need the rollers, because I needed them in the particular size that I want, but they told that you can have it, the rollers have a nice gesture, and I actually loved it, like, it was a really nice gesture, and, yeah, so, however, no, I got the rollers for free, and I actually, they're not that bad, just not the size I wanted for the occasion. Thank you!

Band 6-7

The gift that I recently received for free was AirPods Pro 2. This gift was given to me by my sister. Recently last month, I went to Dubai as a tourist. Since Covid, this was my first travel outside India. We went to Dubai for 4 days. We planned accordingly, visiting the greatest tourist attractions in Dubai, visited Dubai Museum, Dubai Frame, Dubai Aquarium and so on. At the last day, we visited Atlantis. After the last day, we had 3 or 4 hours, so we tried visiting Gold Souk, which is a local market in Dubai. While visiting there, we were buying spices from Dubai. And suddenly, my sister gave me a present, which I was not expecting. It was AirPods Pro 2. Before visiting Dubai, I had told to my sister that my AirPods is not working and that I don't have a proper earset. But I didn't expect that she would give me AirPods Pro 2. This made me a bit emotional as my sister is not living with me. She has been married last year and is living far away, some 5000 miles away from my home, living in UK. After a very long time, we as a family travelled together. In the travel, the travel experience was really great and adding on to it, she gifted me AirPods Pro 2, which also elevated the experience even further. Today was a very special day of my life. With my family, I shared really nice moments and looking back at it, it really cherishes to feel over the day.

Band 6-7

okay so it's not been long but recently I had been to a cafe local cafe so I went there with my friends and we ordered some french fries and a medium-sized pizza but when we received the order then we noticed that the french fries were not edible much so we asked for a refund but since it was a cafe and they were not allowed to give any refund instead they offered us they could help us utilize the money by you know giving some free pastries which we couldn't resist to say no so we got the free pastries chocolate flavor and a red velvet one those were really amazing and I was first doubting like whether it would be a good choice to have a free pastry but when we had that I immediately made up my mind and I was so much convinced that we took a good decision by taking those free pastries so yeah

Band 6-7

There are not much things which I have received for free in the past but the few things which I received and the most important thing which I received was from my brother and it was a smart watch which was an Apple watch and my brother gave it to me on my last birthday which we celebrated in a restaurant in Murthal and we all celebrated it with my family and we all had a good day on that day. So my brother gave me a smart watch which was very nice and it had many different functions as it was of orange color and it had functions like artificial intelligence which will track your health like your blood pressure or any other sort of functions and one of the most important function which it carries was that if you were in any kind of emergency situation then it will call to the police or any sort of the contacts which will help you. So my brother gifted it to me because I lost my old smart watch so I was in need of a new watch therefore he knew that I want a smart watch therefore he gifted me that one. So I was very amazed and feeling very nice after getting a new watch as I got it from my brother so it was also very nice as I was not expecting to get a smart watch from my brother.

Band 6-7

During my life received a different kinds of free gift, here I would like to talk about a gift I received on my last birthday, I vividly remember that each moments it was happen on my last birthday, that gift was provide with my husband for me, it was a iphone news series, it cost around 1 lakh, that day he was surprise me, moreover that day lot of surprise for me, my all family members came in my home and we make a delicious cuisine, I like the biryani that's why we make that cuisine, furthermore he provide that gift after cutting my cake, it was a wonderful day in my life, I felt joyful and surprise that time he provide that gift for me in a amazing box, first time I received this kinds of gift, it was a big and a lot of features available in that phone, that was I was surprised, it cost around 1 lakh, that phone bought in a popular

Band 6-7

I received a gift from my friend, his name is Husna, he gifted me a pair of headphones which was around 7000 INR, which was costly around 7000 INR and it's quite heavy and expensive. I feel complete, when I got that headphones I was completely surprised and unexpected gift because anyhow Husna knows how headphones are very desired for me but when she gifted me it's completely unacceptable day because it's a very expensive one, right now in my headphones collection that's the dreamy headphones for me because it's cost very much but I can't afford it but anyhow Husna got to know that that particular headphones are how precious for me and she just gifted me, it's really awesome.

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