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Describe Your Family: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • How many members do you have?
  • What do they do?
  • What are they like?
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Cue 1:How many members do you have?

  • Begin by stating the total number of family members clearly.
  • Mention the relationship of each member to you for clarity.

Example

I have a family of five members. There’s my father, mother, younger sister, and my grandmother, who lives with us.

Cue 2:What do they do?

  • Briefly describe the occupation or role of each family member.
  • Highlight any interesting or unique aspects of their jobs or responsibilities.

Example

My father is a teacher at a local school, and he loves educating children. My mother is a homemaker, but she also runs a small catering business from home. My sister is still in school, and my grandmother enjoys knitting and telling us stories from her childhood.

Cue 3:What are they like?

  • Share some personality traits of each family member to give a sense of their character.
  • Include any hobbies or interests that make them unique.

Example

My father is very patient and always encourages us to pursue our dreams. My mother is warm-hearted and loves to cook delicious meals for the family. My sister is quite cheerful and enjoys painting, while my grandmother is wise and has a great sense of humor.

Conclusion

    Example

    Overall, my family is very supportive and close-knit. We enjoy spending time together, whether it’s during family dinners or celebrating festivals, which strengthens our bond.

    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 Brief

    Candidates often give very short answers, which can make their responses seem unengaging. This can lead to a lack of detail and depth in their speaking.

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    Tip

    Expand your answers by providing examples or anecdotes about your family members to make your response more interesting.

    2: Lack of Structure

    Some candidates answer questions in a disorganized manner, making it hard for the listener to follow. This can affect clarity and coherence.

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    Tip

    Organize your thoughts by addressing each cue in order: start with the number of family members, then their jobs, and finally their personalities.

    Overly Complex Language

    Using complicated vocabulary or long sentences can confuse the listener and may lead to misunderstandings. Simplicity is often more effective.

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    Tip

    Use clear and simple language to describe your family. Focus on being understandable rather than trying to impress with difficult words.

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    Anonymous student Band 7.5

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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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    Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

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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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    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

    Here are all the answers by real-users practicing speaking for IELTS Cue Cards on our IELTS Prep App.

    Band 6

    My family includes six people, we are three people in my family, my parents and me. If I have to include my in-laws, in total we are seven people, my wife, my father-in-law, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law. They are really nice people. My father was a businessman and he retired at the age of 45 and my mother is a house maker and yeah, they are pretty nice together and my wife, my wife is a designer. My in-laws are really nice people and my father-in-law was a painter and my mother-in-law again was a home maker. My sister-in-law is a chef, she stays in Dubai. So in India we are six people, we don't stay together, we are a nuclear family like my wife and I, we live separate, my parents live separate and my in-laws also live separate.

    Band 6

    My family has 12 members and my father is a father figure in the family as he is the eldest person in the family who takes in charge of all the technical part and health care of the family. My family is very important to me and my mother who is the eldest mother of the family and she makes sure that all remain healthy and she is a housewife with a great cooking skill and she is a chef of the family. My two aunts and uncles with different personalities with one of my uncle is very smart and he is a chartered accountant at a factory and the other one is very good at farming and we don't buy anything as he has a great skill in the farming and my aunts are both housewives with very great skills in the courses, household courses with my granny helping them and my granny is a great storyteller. She has a good choice in stories I must say and my brothers and sisters, I have a brother who is a very humorous, who has a very humorous personality. He is pursuing law, he is in the third year of law and then my other two brothers, one with mechanical engineering and the other with 12 board exams. So they are busy with their college schedule. My sister who is pursuing physiotherapy.

    Band 6

    I have four members in my family. My father is a businessman, my mother is a housewife and I have a brother, a younger brother, who is a model. My father is a very tough man, he doesn't show much emotion and when he shows emotion it's kind of surprising and shocking. About my mother, I think my mother is tougher than my father, she is very strict. Now they are both getting old, so it's kind of sad to know they are getting old. About my brother, he is very hardworking. Despite being in 12th class, he started his own startup and working non-stop from night to day, he hardly sleeps. I think the maximum time he sleeps is 3 hours a day. But how he does it, I don't know, but he does it. My family is like any other family, there are some ups and downs. Basically, most of the time it's down. There are no ups, problems are always there. It's like problems never left. Once you remove one problem, there are two problems. Once you remove two problems, there are three problems. But yeah, it's a beautiful place to stay, with family. I just realized because I'm living in PG, that might be the reason why I'm saying it's a beautiful place to live. If I was living in a home, I might not say the exact word.

    Band 6

    I am very attached to my family members and as we say that family members do stand with you on your downs and ups. I really feel very attached towards my family. We are four people living in my house. It's my father, mother and my brother and me. I am the younger one. My father is a businessman whereas my mother is a housewife. My brother works in a law firm industry and I have just pursued my graduation in food nutrition and dietetics. So if I talk about my family, we are a very small family and we live very happily. One of my major happy moments to live or we can say happy time to spend with my family is our dinner period where we all sit around the table. We don't use our cell phones or any social media activities or even televisions. We just sit together, we eat food, we discuss about how our day went.

    Band 5-6

    We are a nuclear family and in my family there are four members. I consider myself, I have two siblings. We are a nuclear family and in my family there are five members. I have two siblings and they both are my brothers. My mother and my sister-in-law used to live in our house. We all are working. My brother is a jeweller and he has a business of jewellery. My sister-in-law works in a real estate company where she is assigned as a manager. My mother is a tailor. She used to design clothes for her customers. My younger brother is currently pursuing his graduation from Igno University. I currently work as a visa filing officer in an immigration company called the Iqalat Educational Services.

    Band 5-6

    I would say that in India mostly everyone gives respect to their family and family is the most important thing that is considered in India and every single person has a family and they respect each other and I do have a family. My dad is an engineer and he works for an MSC based company and my mother, she was a principal and she resigned her job and she is taking care of me in my home. My brother, he is an automotive electrical engineer, automotive engineering and he works at UK for Tata Technologies and myself. So we four are a family and yeah it's kinda, we are like a weird family because we four have different mentality, for example when we buy a product we four give some four different opinions, it will start a fight between us, it's kinda enjoyable and I think family is not only a group of people but it's also an emotion in India.

    Band 5-6

    I have a small and loving family. They are member of members in my family. My father, mother, siblings and me. My father is head of the family. He works hard and take care of all our needs. He is very kind and always help others. My mother is a heart of our home. She manages everything so we cooking, cleaning and making sure we are all happy. She is very caring and always supports me in everything I do. If I have a brother or sister, we playing for fight and laughing together. Sometimes we argue but we always make because we love each other. We love so much from each other and share all our secrets. We like to spend time together eating meals, watching movies or going outside during festival or special occasions. We celebrate together and make a beautiful memories. My family teaches me good values like respect, honesty and kindness. I feel safe and happy with them. I am really thankful to have such a loving family in my life. We want to add some real family details into this.

    Band 5-6

    My family is a bunch of six members, including my father, my mother, me and my two brothers, my grandma. Everyone enjoy each other and love each other extremely. Our familial ties is very much good because we very much appreciate each other, help each other. We enjoy every moment with each other. My family is a bunch of six members, including my mother, my father, me and my two brothers, my grandma. My family is a bunch of six members, including my mother, my father, me and my two brothers, my grandma. We love each other very much and our familial ties are very much good because we appreciate each other. We love each other. We share everything with each other and we enjoy playing with each other. We give... My family is a bunch of six members, including my father, my mother, me, my two brothers and my grandma. Our familial ties are very much good because we appreciate each other. We love each other very much. We share everything with each other. We eat food all together. We watch movie on Sunday all together. Every month we go for a holiday and enjoy some place and everyone is very much happy with each other. We love each other very much and my family is very much good. I love my family.

    Band 5-6

    so I live in a joint family which consists of nine members so there's my mother and father and my younger sister and alongside that my father's brother which is my uncle and his wife aunt and their kids we all live together our grandparents also used to live with us but they expired recently my parents my brother my father and my uncle are in a family business of pharmaceuticals whereas both my mother

    Band 5

    right now I am a 20 year old my father is 45 year old and my also my mother is the same age is to me not of is a different if my mother was my mother has only some 54 and I also my sister is a 23 and now I am talking about of my family my family we are four member and first is me second is my mom and third is my sister and most like about in my family it has all time we whenever we going to new place that time we we can't decide to how can I eat in hotel because in my family member is as not have it in a eating in a restaurant and that time we we can't decide it to how we can decided how to eat in a restaurant in many more restaurant about this family and us not not talking about in my family was my family member all is good every person energy person and also my mother is a homemade my father is a farmer my sister is a nursing my professional is a nursing and my I am doing we can here in engineering diploma also we can enjoy every day because we all the face smile always and also make happy to an extension person
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