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Describe your favorite movie.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

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  • Which movie is it?
  • When did you watch it?
  • What is it about?
  • How do you feel about it?
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Cue 1:Which movie is it?

  • Start by clearly stating the title of the movie and its genre.
  • Mention any notable actors or directors associated with the film.

Example

My favorite movie is '3 Idiots', a comedy-drama directed by Rajkumar Hirani, featuring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi.


Cue 2:When did you watch it?

  • Describe the time and setting when you first watched the movie.
  • Share any specific reason or occasion that led you to watch it.

Example

I first watched '3 Idiots' during my college days, about five years ago, at a friend's house during a movie night. We were all looking for something entertaining and inspiring.


Cue 3:What is it about?

  • Summarize the main plot or theme of the movie in a few sentences.
  • Highlight any important messages or lessons conveyed through the story.

Example

'3 Idiots' revolves around the lives of three engineering students and their struggles with the education system. It emphasizes the importance of pursuing one's passion and the idea that success is not solely defined by grades.


Cue 4:How do you feel about it?

  • Share your personal feelings and thoughts about the movie.
  • Explain why it resonates with you or how it has impacted your life.

Example

I absolutely love '3 Idiots' because it makes me laugh and think deeply at the same time. It encourages me to chase my dreams and not just follow societal expectations, which is something I often reflect on.


Conclusion

  • Summarize your overall impression of the movie.
  • Mention if you would recommend it to others and why.

Example

In conclusion, '3 Idiots' is not just a movie; it's a life lesson wrapped in humor. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for inspiration and a good laugh.


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: Avoid Vague Descriptions

Using vague language can make your answer unclear and unengaging. It's important to provide specific details about the movie to create a vivid picture for the examiner.

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Include specific scenes, characters, or themes from the movie to make your answer more interesting and detailed.


2: Don't Rush Your Response

Speaking too quickly can lead to unclear pronunciation and missed points. It may also give the impression that you are unprepared or nervous.

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Take a moment to think before you speak, and pace your words to ensure clarity and coherence in your response.


Avoid Overly Simple Answers

Providing overly simple or short answers can make it seem like you lack depth in your thoughts. This can negatively impact your score.

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Expand on your answers by explaining why you like the movie, discussing its impact on you, or relating it to your personal experiences.


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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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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.

All Answers

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Band 6-7

One of my favorite movie is RRR, a captivating film I recently watched with friends at Sudarshan Cinema in Hyderabad. The movie brilliantly portrays the friendship between two individuals, one a goon tribal and other a military officer. Together they embark a mission to rescue a young girl from Britishers. Finally the movie had a stunning visuals and memorable soundtrack where it is inspired from the real events. It is the movie which is also based on historical background and lot of animals are involved in this film and my favorite part from the film is the interval is bang on.

Band 6-7

My favorite movie is RRR and recently I have watched this movie with my friends in the Sudarshan cinema theater. It is in Hyderabad and the movie is about friendship between the two person. One person is categorized as Gond Tribal and other is Military Candidate where it is a story between the two friends to save a little girl from the military candidate and it was a good experience and fresh movie. Additionally it is a movie based on historical backgrounds and the songs are very good based on a true incidents from the ancient days or past days.

Band 6-7

One of my favorite movie is the Chiller Party movie which is depicting a life of a low socio-economic character and in the other hand we see there are six children who are in a well-to-do society and how they initially try to make the life of this low socio-economic boy hard, trouble him every moment and then they become friends. So Chiller Party was the movie when I watched during the year 2008 and I was very young by then and it was one of my best movie that I watched which made me laugh and cry both at the same time. It was very hilarious at the beginning with the punch dialogues given by the little boy called Chatur and was very very wonderful by him. The actors were incredible, the way they portrayed their characters and then they gave the message of how one should protect himself and do for the wellness of the society because it even shows, portrays a character of a politician who was for his benefit he had tried to eliminate stray dogs which was very bad but at the end he tried to remove a part of essential person's life so which was very much heartbreaking scene. So Chiller Party taught me how to motivate one another through their socio-economic status even if it is bad as well and even if they have those

Band 6-7

So, my favorite movie, in my opinion, would be Legally Blonde. The storyline of the movie is basically about a girl who is shown in the beginning, is shown that is not very smart in her studies and that is the reason why her boyfriend broke up with her. As a result of this, she wanted to become a lawyer and prove herself that she is not as dumb as she seems to be and in the middle, it shows her journey of how she became a lawyer and then later, in the ending of the movie, you can see that she has turned into such a beautiful person who has made a lot of new connections. For instance, there was this one part where she went to a salon for her manicure and pedicure where she made a really nice friend who was there along with her during the whole movie and the friend I am talking about was the person who was actually doing the manicure for her and what's more than that is how empowering the movie made me feel that I would be able to do anything. It made me feel so motivated and so helpful. It is like a stress buster to me whenever I am feeling overwhelmed by my feelings. I think that is the movie I love because of these reasons.

Band 6-7

Okay, so my favorite movie is Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani. It was released in somewhere about 2012 or 14. I have watched it probably last December only, in the month of December only I have watched it again on theaters when it was released. And when it was released previously also I have watched it. It's a very beautiful movie. As being a middle class student, a middle class boy, I can't afford to go on trips like Manali, Kullu Manali, Shimla to enjoy the adventures that the characters had over there. But watching that movie feels like yeah I have also done some of the same, done the same things only over there. And the movie is all about adventures, some friendships and very good, like very good journey describing it all. The character over there Naina, I feel a bit of similar to it cause my mom also, my mom and dad also very strict towards me. They don't allow me to go over parties, to go over treks and all. So like a similar character was there, I am playing a similar character in my personal life also. And so I have yet to found a person like Bunny who could take me to long journeys, to long treks where I could enjoy myself, find myself in a better way, better place and enjoy my life, that's all.

Band 6-7

My favorite movie is Guntur Karam as it has many emotions as it says about the storyline between a mother and the son how they both are connected to each other and the emotions among between them how he faces problem regarding his childhood I like the songs in the movie which has three to four songs which has a great vibe great vibe the movie is particularly about the mother sentiment the hero got sentimental to his mother that he misses his mother from his childhood he stays with his father during his childhood his mother left him

Band 6-7

I've seen multiple of movies but one of my favorite movie is entitled The Slumdog Millionaire. It is about the teenage man who joined a show. He is a contestant of a show named Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Surprisingly, he was able to win the prize. Unfortunately, the people thought that he was cheating as they know that he was a poor boy. So the police took him to prison and investigated him. During the investigation, he detailed all his life experiences. That's where he got his answers. I believe this movie is very touching.

Band 6-7

I like titanic movie and it is a romantic movie and I like it so much. It was an rmx titanic focusing on a fictional love story set against the backdrop of the real life disaster. The film begins in the present day and I watched it at 1972. The movie was released on 1978. As it is a love story unfolds the titanic hits an iceberg and begins to sink. I mostly loved that movie because of that love between Jack and Rose. The movie is well known for its emotional depth, the grand rule of the ship and its portrayal of the disaster which changes the lives of everyone abroad. The romance between Jack and Rose remains at the heart of the story. The tragic sinking is a key moment and the film also highlights themes of love, class, disparity and human resilience. The main plot centers around two characters, Rose David Buchater, a young woman from an aristocratic family, and Jack Dawson, a poor artist. They meet abroad to the titanic and despite their social differences fall in love. Rose is engaged to a wealthy controlling man named Carl. But her relationship with Jack helps her discover independence and her true desires. While Titanic is about the ill-fated void view of an RMS Titanic focusing on a fictional love, this film begins in the present day with a treasure hunter searching for a valuable necklace that was lost when the ship sank. And it is a beautiful love story between Jack and Rose and that's the reason why I love my movies.

Band 6-7

Well, the movie or I can say more than movie. I like to watch TV shows. I am not a great fan of movie but one TV show which is my most favorite is Friends. I have been watching since past few years now. It feels like it is go-to movie or TV show for any kind of mood I have got. It is about random days where they casually meet up, where they casually eat, they go on dates. So, it has also improved my English. Watching it, you know, previously I used to not understand different accents even with my clients but watching such TV shows has really helped my English as in I can say it has helped to understand different accents. I feel great while watching this. As I said it is a go-to movie for all kind of mood. I feel sad, I watch it, I feel happy, I watch it, I eat, I watch it. So, yes, it is a nice TV show to watch. You have to try sometime. I like the favorite character in that TV show is I have to say all are my favorite mostly Rachel for fashion, Phoebe for craziness, Phoebe for all fun part, Monica for all the strict and organizing part. I resemble Monica. So, yes, that's how it is and Chandler for all sarcasm.

Band 6-7

I love to watch Super 30 movie because the movie is very good because it is about the poor children who are unable to make into IITs because of lack of fees and talent and that movie Hrithik Roshan is a lead role he plays a lead role in that movie he gathered some students and given training and made them to attempt IIT exams and in that movie the children's are very curious to get in the IITs despite having their economic conditions are very bad and the students also got good ranks in the IIT exams and they settled in IIT colleges this movie depicts the meaning of this movie is when an opportunity is given to poor children's how high they can rise despite their difficulties and IITs are not only for rich people but also for poor people that movie has many encouraging scenes many mesmerizing moments and this movie is about students who struggles for getting into the top colleges it has good motivational scenes
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