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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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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.
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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 6-7

My favorite movie is Interstellar. I watched this movie when I was in class 12th. The story explores the viable planets for inhabitation. I love the storyline and the cinematography in the movie. It explains about three dimensions that are there and it adds another dimension called love and explains how love transits all the three. I felt very excruciating, excited and sorrow at the same time because the people who go on exploring these planets will not come back wholly and there is some changes in their characters or some people might be dead.

Band 6-7

just the day before yesterday I watched a movie it was named article 370 which was a documentary movie I usually watch science fiction movies and and sometimes I would like to prefer documentary movies and also in action and thriller movies so in this movie it states the article 370 how it was imposed in India and how the Prime Minister tried its best to remove it from the Kashmir state the movie was very fine and I also during some some of the speeches which were included in the movies I got goosebumps overall rating I would say it was 10 on 10 however article 370 may be boring for some of the people who don't like such a movie

Band 6-7

My favorite movie is the one, it's a Chinese movie which is named as Begin Again. It's a movie about a man who has given up his whole life and his childhood days to be just a cheater or a gangster. And the other side, there's a girl who's a school student, high school student, who's just very focused on her studies and want to achieve more in her life. They both encounter in a place and they love each other. I watched this movie 3 years ago. I loved this movie because of the ending. The ending was not a good ending but also not a bad ending. It's an open ending. You can just think whatever you want. It's up to the audience. The movie is about how the teenage students are able to achieve their life and how they are overcoming the bullying. This movie had a lot of bullying scenes which is also very affective for the children to watch the movies. This movie is also very emotional which made me cry. When I watched this first time, I cried a lot. When I re-watched it, I felt a pang in my heart. I felt the sadness of the movie again and again. That is why the movie name was Begin Again, Over Again. Why it's always Over Again? It taught me how to experience my life and my studies. How I have to overcome the bullying situations. It also showed the friendship part. How one person should be dependent on the other person. If the atmosphere is good, the people will be good. If the atmosphere is bad, the people will be bad. But what about if both are not good? How we have to overcome it? That is what the movie taught me about. I loved the movie, the storyline.

Band 6-7

Nowadays, people are more and more interested in watching movies. Watching movies is becoming one of the favorite hobbies of people. I also am no different to others. I also like to watch movies and various types of different movies. The movie which I like the most was the recent one which I saw was the Pushpa 2 movie. It's a very good action and emotional movie. You can see it anywhere from mobile to theaters. It's currently running in theaters. I watched it recently in theaters on 23rd December. The story is around a man named Pushpa who has been a smuggler, a small-time smuggler to becoming a big don of a syndicate. He rise from power and it will also have a third part from where you can see his fall. The thing I like most about this movie is that it shows a lot of emotional and action sequence which you would like to see more of it. And I do think that overall the movie was a very good blend of emotions and actions. But I would give it a good rating.

Band 6-7

Honestly, I am very particular in choosing movies. That's why I have very limited movies that are my favorites. But still, from those, one is the movie named Thappad, which means a slap. I have watched this movie just a week before. And this movie shows how a married woman is trying to compensate all her efforts in the life of her husband, who is a corporate employee. In fact, a hardworking employee. And he is going to have promotion. And he is being promoted to a foreign firm in London. But he gets demoted because of the so-called nepotism in the company. That's why he gets very angry. And in that anxious behavior, he not knowingly slaps his wife. And that is the reason of her wife asking him for divorce. Then people attack her thinking that how can a slap be the reason of divorce? But she then answers that it is not just a slap. So many things she has been neglecting are coming across her eyes.

Band 6-7

So, my favorite movie is Dangal, which is a Bollywood movie. It's about a female wrestler who initially had worked hard to become a national wrestler and becomes the first woman international wrestler to win an Olympics in a 55 kgs category. Her father is her most inspiring motivational person in her life who encourages and becomes a strict and very good trainer so that she can become the first woman in achieving female wrestler in Olympics. And I watched this film during my Covid period that is in 2020. It's a very inspirational movie for me because the hard work which she has done to become a perfect and the first woman wrestler in the Olympics and initially after her national championship she moves to Pune and she gets distracted from all the various kinds of stuff which she did not do in her national training period. But after losing two times consequently in the international championship then she again contacts her father and she also again starts getting trained by her father and at last with the hard work she has done she finally becomes the first female wrestler in 55 kgs category and it's a very inspiring and motivational movie which causes

Band 6-7

Okay, the movie which I really like is Maricom. I watched it back in 2012. Yeah, in 2012, I watched it. And that day, I was so sad or I would say that I, I would need that movie in my life on that day. So, in Maricom movie, you know, it is a story of a, you know, village girl who fought to all odds to become a boxer. And it really inspired me. In the movie, there was a scene where she went to fight to earn some money to get one of her cows back from someone. That scene really inspired me that, you know, she knew that she would not, you know, even get 30 seconds or 60 seconds with the opponent, but still she fought with full, you know, bravery or courage. That scene inspired me. That when you have a motivation in your life, when you really have to do something, you must give everything to it. It doesn't matter how much you have, it doesn't matter how much the situation, how much worse the situation is looking like, but you must give your best. So, that thing I learned from that movie, which truly inspired me.

Band 6-7

Interstellar is my most favourite movie. I watched this movie 3 years ago and it still fascinates me. This movie is more related to a science and a science lover will love this movie a lot. This movie is a very special movie for me. It is because it includes a very beautiful relationship. I would say it is Interstellar. It is a very beautiful movie directed by Christopher Nolan. I think I watched this movie 3 years ago when I was studying in 10th standard. I learnt about black hole, about the time, everything. At the same time simultaneously I watched this movie Interstellar. This movie gave me goosebumps. After watching this film I dreamt of becoming an astronaut like the hero in that movie. This is a very beautiful movie created by Christopher Nolan. It includes lots of scientific facts. Thank you for watching.

Band 6-7

My favorite movie was Sidharth. I liked the characters, the hero characterization. First he was being very silly like a child and the heroine was very stubborn. Later they fell in love and he traveled miles to see her even though the girl was not seriously in love with him. He swam about 10 to 12 km with a minus degree Celsius water. He traveled illegally in a flight. He slept in a flight cockpit. Anyhow, he love was not sexy.

Band 6-7

My favorite movie is Neeja Banot, which is an Hindi movie. It is based on a real-life story. Neeja Banot is the air hostess who saved lives of many people in a hijacked flight. So when she was flight attendant, means an air hostess, the flight underwent a hijack attack where many of them lost their lives. But Neeja Banot bravely came forward, thinked out of the box and saved many people, not as like many others. Like if I or you were in the situation, we would probably think, what is the benefit of us saving other people? It is always us over anyone, right? So she was very generous and she thought out of the box and also she was in a very abusive relationship before that. After that, she did modeling and also she took a divorce from her husband, which in that time, she must be the first to do that. She made such a brave move and served as an example to the other women. After becoming a model also, she pursued this air hostess job, which is a dream job. She did not ever think what others would think of her or what others would say of her. She is a very well self-made and self-confident woman. So I think she is my favorite role model and also the Neeja Banot movie is my favorite movie. Also, she saved a two-year-old child and he became an air hostess now, flight attendant now. He is a senior flight attendant and he says Neeja Banot is my hero.
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