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Talk about a time you learned a new skill.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What skill was it?
  • When did you learn it?
  • Where did you learn it?
  • How do you feel about it?
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Cue 1:What skill was it?

  • Clearly state the skill you learned and provide a brief description of it.
  • Explain why you chose to learn this particular skill.

Example

I learned how to play the guitar. I had always been fascinated by music and wanted to express myself creatively through playing an instrument.

Cue 2:When did you learn it?

  • Mention the time frame when you started learning the skill.
  • Include any specific events or circumstances that motivated you to begin learning at that time.

Example

I started learning the guitar about two years ago during the lockdown. With more free time at home, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to pick up a new hobby.

Cue 3:Where did you learn it?

  • Describe the setting where you learned the skill, whether it was formal or informal.
  • Mention any resources you used, such as online classes, tutorials, or a teacher.

Example

I learned the guitar primarily through online tutorials on YouTube. I also enrolled in a virtual class with a local music teacher who guided me through the basics.

Cue 4:How do you feel about it?

  • Share your feelings about learning this skill and how it has impacted your life.
  • Reflect on any challenges you faced and how you overcame them.

Example

Learning the guitar has been a rewarding experience. Initially, I struggled with finger placements and strumming patterns, but with practice, I became more confident. Now, I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I play my favorite songs.

Conclusion

  • Summarize the significance of the skill in your life.
  • Mention any future plans related to this skill.

Example

In conclusion, learning to play the guitar has enriched my life and provided a creative outlet. I plan to continue improving my skills and perhaps even perform at local events in the future.

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: Vague Responses

Providing vague or unclear answers can make it difficult for the examiner to understand your experience. Specific details help create a clearer picture of your learning process.

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Use specific examples and details about the skill, such as what it was and how you learned it, to enhance your response.

2: Ignoring the Cues

Neglecting to address all the cues can lead to an incomplete answer. Each cue is designed to guide your response and ensure you cover important aspects of your experience.

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Tip

Make sure to address each cue in your answer, providing a structured response that flows logically from one point to the next.

Overly Short Answers

Giving overly short or one-word answers can come across as unengaged or uninterested. This limits your opportunity to showcase your language skills and personal insights.

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Tip

Expand on your answers by adding personal feelings and reflections about the skill you learned, making your response more engaging.

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Describe your favourite food at a traditional festival or a special event in your country
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Anonymous student Band 7.5

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Pitampura Test Centre, New Delhi

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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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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 5-6

Good morning sir and good morning ma'am, my skill was driving car and recently me and my father going to on trip and my father say me just drive car and you and I am drive also car after 20 kilometers and I like very driving car and this is my skills.

Band 5-6

Many skills I learned in my life like gardening, farming, herding, but today I would like about I would like to talk about to you in I learned in my favorite skill in web developer during my college start about two years ago. I admit my admission is in my college. After that, I learned this skill in my college in my teachers taught about this skill, like many languages in their course, check Java, VHS, NodeJS and that I it's a very difficult because 300 to 400 line codes in one time and so and error generated for so many times. So I felt very disappointed this situation but I learned the skills and I feel very happy because it's a best career path and to achieving the goals and from higher seller.

Band 5-6

few times so that's the very bad about me but I always try to the but I like learn something new so I install this app and I decide the I can speak English

Band 5-6

Last summer, I visited Goa with my friends for a holiday. It's located in southernmost part of India. This holiday we planned is about one week. We were all very excited about this plan because we get to do the numerous water activities. For example, I thought of doing parasailing, paragliding and scuba diving also. However, God has different plans. He thought it should rain. On the second day, my tourist package gave us a lot of options because it was completely rainy on that day and it's unsafe for all the water activities. So, of all the options, I opted pottery. We stayed at a resort which is actually a luxury resort because one of my friends is super rich. She booked it for us. So, I opted pottery as I mentioned earlier. On one hand, I was very scared to try this because I never have really tried this one. On the other hand, I'm so excited to try this new skill and add it to my budget list or bucket list.

Band 5-6

So, when I was 18 years old, I learned, I used to eat very, so, once upon a time, when I was, so, when I was 14 years old, I used to eat sandwich a lot, so, I used to eat sandwich outside a lot, sandwich a lot in the outside, I used to eat sandwich a lot, so, I used to eat like a street sandwich, like, from the street, I take the sandwich, I don't know how to cook, so, I really wanted to stay healthy and maintain the hygiene, so, my mother told me, because she's a chef by profession, so, my mother told me to try to make a sandwich by yourself, so, I made the sandwich, I practiced to make a sandwich at my home, so, when I was 14 years old, I learned, I used to eat a lot of sandwich, I used to eat a lot of sandwich out, I used to eat a lot of sandwich from the street, from the street stores, from the street stores, so, when I was going through a, yeah, so, I don't know how to cook, so, I think that, I thought that eating outside, eating a lot of sandwich outside, it's not that much healthy for me to eat, so, when my mother is chef by profession, so, I told her, so, she told me to, so, when I was 14 years old, I used to have sandwich a lot, so, when I was 14 years old, I, like, daily basis, I eat sandwich outside on a street stores, so, I think, I thought that that would not be, not be very much healthier for me, so, when my mother is chef by profession, so, she told me to try to make a sandwich by yourself at home, so, I tried to make a sandwich by myself at home and it takes a lot of time to make a sandwich, it is a very complicated thing to cook, I don't know how to cook, so, I tried to make a sandwich that day, so, I've learned a lot of, a lot of recipes from the internet, I collected the ingredients and I just started making the sandwich, I, generally, just, you have to place the, cut the veggies and all and toast the bread and you have to put the sausages and, so, I just feel like cooking is a very most popular and most interesting skill people could learn, so, now, I can literally learn to make small things for myself, but I think that by cooking, you have to be very concentrated on your cooking work that time, because it is a very complicated skill, I really enjoyed it, because I think that cooking, if you are cooking something, it just refreshes your mind quickly, I just feel like very relaxed and very happy after making that sandwich and ate that sandwich very happily, but I just thought that

Band 5-6

I think skills are very important for everyone life because with the help of skills many people show their creativity as well as earn lot of money with the help of different type of skill but however today I will talk about a time when I learnt a new skill the name of the skill was cooking skill well I am very excited to learn about how to make delicious food as well as sweets because my mother is very good cooking and they make a lot of delicious food for me and my kids well I am very excited to learn about cooking when I remember that in covid-19 prediction time when I am free at my home and that time I excited I am

Band 5-6

I am learning English language currently from an online platform called English Wrote Me. They help me with reading task, listening task, video and vocabulary task as well. Doing these activities daily will help me to improve my English. So I am putting time to improve my language and I hope my language improve from basic to little more basic. And I used other platforms like CV app, bookvo where they helps to communicate with other peoples for 30 minutes. So and I believe communication is the key to improve any language. And I do love learning Hindi. Hindi is one of my favorite language. But still I make mistakes in Hindi and I am trying to learn language. Learning language makes me feel happy. It gives me boost confidence.

Band 5-6

The skill that I have learned in my childhood was photography skill. If my memory serves well, it was the time when me and my sister went to the trip to Wonderland and she took a scenic view of some of the view that was present near the Wonderland. So I was just amazed by her photography and I just said her to please let me know how you clicked at photographs and like she was also very like curious about her belongings and her things. So she made me learn that photography skills and then I even took I even practiced a lot and even I took some of the pictures of that view like I remember there was a like shower kind of thing so where I took photographs of my sister and like that was the time I have learned the skill and I felt like cherry on top when I have learned that skill because it was my dream to learn that skill and I move and I just moved mount over mountains for learning that skill. I was so enthusiastic of learning.

Band 5-6

Yeah, I would learn new skills, I developed my languages in English, these were difficult when I was developing English languages, grammatically resource and lexical resource or speaking, listening, writing, these are my improved skills. I day by day develop this language, this is over my new skill but not completed in fulfilling, just moderate in Tamil and English. I fully speaking in Tamil but I was speak in English in developer, I day by day corrected my language English, these were my new skill but I'm not, but another skill. However, my another skill is typing, I because fast typing, I know just more, more time I miss my typing skills, so I prefer generally on typing.

Band 5-6

Today, I would like to say about one of the skill is baking cakes. I am little health freak because making cakes in bakery sometimes they will show uncleanliness so and they will use bakery persons will use maida powder that is not good for health that's why I wanted to learn it to make at home because sometimes it is it is difficult to make but it is easy to use when we in parties when we use this one and I love to do cakes because it is tasty and it is useful and children also like to eat well and it it will be the business man will be good to making cakes and it gives so much of happiness whereas they feel healthy when the people feel
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