arrow back icon Top Answers

Talk About A Tv Show You Like To Watch: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What is the program about?
  • When do you watch it?
  • Who do you watch it with?
  • Why do you like to watch it?
Show all 37 answers

Cue 1:What is the program about?

  • Provide a brief summary of the show's plot or theme.
  • Mention the genre of the show, such as drama, comedy, or reality.

Example

The TV show I love to watch is called 'Kumkum Bhagya'. It's a drama series that revolves around the lives of two sisters and their complicated relationships with love and family. The show beautifully portrays the struggles and triumphs of its characters, making it very engaging.

Cue 2:When do you watch it?

  • Mention the specific days and times you usually watch the show.
  • Explain if you watch it live or through streaming services.

Example

I usually watch 'Kumkum Bhagya' every weekday at 9 PM. I prefer to watch it live on television because I enjoy the excitement of seeing the latest episodes as they air. Sometimes, if I miss an episode, I catch up on it over the weekend on a streaming platform.

Cue 3:Who do you watch it with?

  • Describe who you typically watch the show with, such as family or friends.
  • Explain how watching together enhances the experience.

Example

I often watch the show with my mother and younger sister. Watching it together is a fun bonding experience for us. We love discussing the characters and predicting what will happen next, which makes it even more enjoyable.

Cue 4:Why do you like to watch it?

  • Share your personal reasons for enjoying the show, such as the storyline or characters.
  • Mention any emotional connection or entertainment value it provides.

Example

I like watching 'Kumkum Bhagya' because it has a captivating storyline and relatable characters. The emotional depth of the show often resonates with me, and I find myself getting attached to the characters. It’s a great way to unwind after a long day.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, 'Kumkum Bhagya' is more than just a TV show for me; it’s a source of entertainment and a way to connect with my family. I look forward to watching it every week, and it always leaves me excited for the next episode.

    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 Being Too Vague

    Giving vague answers can make your response sound uninteresting. It's important to provide specific details about the TV show to engage the listener.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Include specific examples, such as key plot points or character names, to make your answer more vivid and engaging.

    2: Don't Rush Your Response

    Speaking too quickly can lead to unclear communication and missed details. Take your time to articulate your thoughts clearly.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Practice pacing your speech by pausing between points, which will help you organize your thoughts and sound more confident.

    Avoid Repetitive Language

    Using the same words or phrases repeatedly can make your answer sound monotonous. Variety in language keeps the listener's interest.

    bulb icon

    Tip

    Use synonyms and varied sentence structures to express your ideas, making your response more dynamic and engaging.

    calendar icon

    IELTS Cue Cards asked last week

    Reported by Leap students who gave IELTS

    Describe your favourite food at a traditional festival or a special event in your country
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    Pitampura Test Centre, New Delhi

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 8

    location icon

    Sector 34 Test Centre, Chandigarh

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 6.5

    location icon

    Whitefield Test Center, Bengaluru

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7

    location icon

    Begumpet Test Centre, Hyderabad

    Answer

    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
    anonymous person icon

    Reported by

    Anonymous student Band 7.5

    location icon

    CBD Belapur Test Centre, Navi Mumbai

    Answer

    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

    Movies and TV shows are like my soul mates. Since I was a kid, I used to enjoy watching TV shows and movies a lot. Whenever I used to get back from school, I used to take out my remote and switch on the TV and watch anything that was going on at that time. But now I want to talk about a specific show that I love, love, love a lot and the show is called Rick and Morty. So to give you a little background for what the show is about, it's about two people. One is the grandfather and another one is the grandchild and both of them are kind of science geek. The grandfather is a mad scientist who has achieved various scientific feats and through his scientific feats and achievements, he and his grandchild both ventures into this world of adventure. After I complete my dinner, I take my phone out, I put on the Netflix website and on there I start watching that show right away. That show is about how life, how reality, how science is a very major thing through which you understand your own self and people around you. The show takes a beautiful curve in the world of philosophy, science and research. Not only I, but many of my friends love that show as well. Whenever we have free time between our college hours or our work hours, we kind of talk about that show's next episode anticipations.

    Band 6-7

    Okay, so the show which I always watch on my television or on my cell phone or any devices is called The Good Doctor. It is broadcasted in the Peacock channel. This channel is not available in India, but with the help of some technicians and technology I am able to watch it. This program is about a doctor who is suffering from autism and how he is able to achieve all the targets which was given to him even though he is not a good fit for a doctor because of the issue he is suffering. I usually watch this show in the night before sleep because it helps me to reduce all my tiredness, as well as it helps me to increase my scientific knowledge. I do prefer to watch it alone because it is a quite sensitive show and I do not know how much people would want to like it with me. Therefore I do prefer not to watch this show with everyone. I do like this because it is a science and I came from the same background and I wanted to be a doctor one day but it never happened. With the help of this I am able to learn everything about it and the show has so much drama, emotions, adventures and actions and if I have to say I would definitely ask someone to watch it.

    Band 6-7

    So, a TV show that I really enjoyed watching recently was Gilmore Girls. It is based in the early 2000s in a fictitious town called Stars Hollow. It's centred around this mother-daughter duo who are more friends than a parent and a child. The mother had the daughter very early on, like while she was quite young. So it explores their relationship and they prove to be each other's emotional and social support. I really enjoy the female-centric nature of the show. I enjoy how it explores female emotions and feelings and looks at the world with a female gaze. Other than that, I also enjoy the communal feeling that the show has, where they live in a small town and everyone knows everyone and is friendly and cordial. While there are disagreements within the town, they are resolved with town meetings. There's also a lot of coffee culture that's celebrated in the show, which is a beverage that I also enjoy. I think it's written and directed by a woman, that's why it's able to explore female emotions so perfectly. I usually watched it when I used to come back from work. It helped me de-stress and it also helped me distract from my everyday problems. It proved to be a safe haven for me to just put it on and light a candle and just be in my bed and watch it and then fall asleep. It helped me get a good night's sleep as well because it relaxed me and made me feel comfortable and safe.

    Band 6-7

    10 years ago I came across this TV show called Saregamappa in Kannada language. I started watching this program because I was a huge fan of a singer named Vijay Prakash. Later when I started watching the movie, I found out it to be so natural and the singers were really good and it was a very smoothing experience to me. Moreover, this show used to come every weekend where I could enjoy this show with my family, especially with my dad. My dad likes to listen to music, especially the old music. In this show there were competitions like for each week there were different genres given. Especially when the old genre was given as a theme or task, myself and my dad really enjoyed those things. This maintained a very good environment in my family and we had a time to discuss about these things. We spent a lot of time with each other due to our hectic schedules. We have no time to meet each other often. So at the weekend this was kind of relaxing and having more time with each other and enjoying together.

    Band 6

    A TV show that I like to watch is a national wildlife in I like this program because it shows a different kind of animals how their behavior how they're living in their wildlife and how they hunt two different creatures and what are the process how do they leave in this in the big jungle and I used to watch it when I have I get a free time or mostly in the evening because it's the show timing was from 6 to 7 p.m. so I would like to watch it in the evening and me and my family we like to watch it together we bring many food items to eat and we feel it's like a discovery kind of a channel in which we get to know about the animals different types of animals how do they leave how they're eating behavior what do they eat in a whole day and I like this program because we get to know more knowledge about about animals and to discover different kinds of animals creatures in the world which I had no idea about it and I get to know that how do they pray to other animal how do they attack what are their moves and I feel like learning about them is kind of a different knowledge that you will not get to learn or you you cannot get to see in your normal life and it's it's a great channel for the people to know about the animal tendencies and their behavior towards the towards their prey and yeah it's a very different kind of TV show that I like to watch it.

    Band 6

    I think there's lots of TV shows which I like but here I would like to talk about the one of those show which makes me happy. I love gay dramas. So I usually watch gay dramas and I recently watched one of the gay dramas like When the Life Gives You Trinkets. It is based upon the reality and I watched it with my sister and I also refer to everyone to watch this series because it gives the lots of lesson how the one's father struggle for their family and I like that show and I also like to, I also love to watch the timetable dramas and I love to watch all of these things.

    Band 6

    Well, I am not that TV person, as I usually don't get much of the time to sit and spend in front of TV, but yeah, at my leisures, I do like watching some programs. For instance, there is a very popular show trending nowadays, which is the Kapil Sharma show. The anchor in the show is Kapil Sharma, who is known for his humor, the hilarious jokes he makes on people or the comedy in his content are extraordinary, which makes everyone go mad laughing. It comes usually during weekends on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 p.m. in the evening. I prefer to finish all my household chores, finish my dinner and sit in front of TV with my family. We all go crazy laughing at his humor, he is such a brilliant person and such a brilliant show which makes laughing his therapy, healing therapy, we must say that, and due to his humor, everyone laughs and it feels relaxed.

    Band 6

    In my leisure time, I always watch an Indian TV show. Its name is Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chashma. The show is based on the social life problems of a common citizen and it deals it within a more of a humorous way. I watch it every day while having my lunch, dinner or breakfast. Till last year I used to watch it with my sister but now she is married so I watch it alone these days. But still the show is very good and it is refreshing. Every time I watch it there is a new episode on this and it is available free of cost on the YouTube. So it is a very good show. Apart from the social life problems of the common citizens they also try to portray their life that is being affected from the political and the economic landscapes from the country and they also try to educate the masses by varying about the scams that is occurring these days.

    Band 6

    I like to watch Stranger Things which aired in 2016. It's a science-fiction show and it is set up in late 80s. It shows outer dimension, monsters and stuff like that. I watch it because it's very thrilling and the setup of 80s era gave me a sense of peace and I like that the time how people used to dress and the type of music that were made. Additionally, I started watching it alone when it first aired but now I watch it along with my sister as she also likes it very much. It comes season-wise and I watch the seasons as soon as it airs and sometimes I binge watch the show as well. It is a very nice show showing science-fictional stuff like the movies that were made previously. We can say E.T. or in India we have Koi Mil Gaya. These type of shows are like an escape from the modern world problems. You go back in a time where which is very detached from your current reality. Certainly, I can say that everyone should watch that type of shows even it is not your cup of tea.

    Band 6

    I like to watch TV shows as it is part of my daily life. So my favorite TV show that I want to talk about right now is Suits. It has two main characters Mike Ross and Harvey Specter which are actually lawyers and they both fight many lawsuits in each of the episodes it has and they by hook or by crook they find a way to tackle the problems and all the lawsuits they need to fight for the clients. Moreover this is interesting as well because Mike here goes to jail also and Harvey Specter tackles many personal life problems which are beautifully highlighted in the show. Besides that the show has nine seasons and 120 episodes which is a really long duration to watch also with each episode being around 40 to 50 minutes which is which makes it really hectic to complete the series but yeah as I was a fan of it and I liked the starting of it I had to watch it completely so I watched it and now I have watched it around three times so also it is a great series overall as it has many more characters their life stages and what all they do to get together so overall it is a great series that I liked recently
    1 2 3 4
    ielts logo

    Get the IELTS Prep App

    Star rating icon

    4.2

    1M+ Installs

     app download banner image

    Get the app link on your phone

    +91

    Or download app from

    google play storeapp store
    master ielts speaking ad