Practice Cue Card- 4 | Speaking for IELTS PDF Download

Topic 1

• Take one minute to prepare a talk on the following subject.
• Take notes if you like and remember to include reasons and examples.
• You should then speak for between one and two minutes.

Describe a historical place

• What is the place?
• Where is it located?
• What is the historical meaning of the place?

Follow-up:

• What do you think of the future trend of historic places?
• Will government strengthen its protection toward historic places?
• What are the changes brought about by the historic place in local economy, people, etc?
• What is the effect of tourists on the place?

Topic 2

• Take one minute to prepare a talk on the following subject.
• Take notes if you like and remember to include reasons and examples.
• You should then speak for between one and two minutes.

Advertisement

• What are the forms of advertisement?
• What are the functions of advertisement?
• What is the effect of advertisement to people?

Follow-up:

• Do you feel bored and disgusted about advertisement?
• What do you think are the criteria of assessing a good piece of advertisement?
• What will happen if unauthoritative advertisements prevail in the market?

Topic 3

• Take one minute to prepare a talk on the following subject.
• Take notes if you like and remember to include reasons and examples.
• You should then speak for between one and two minutes.

Describe an important letter

• When did you receive the letter?
• From whom did you receive the letter?
• Explain the reasons why it is important.

Follow-up:

• What is the significance of handwriting?
• Does your country have handwriting lesson now?
• Compare the handwriting now and past.
• With the popularity of computers and Internet, will people lose their ability to write letters?

Topic 4

• Take one minute to prepare a talk on the following subject.
• Take notes if you like and remember to include reasons and examples.
• You should then speak for between one and two minutes.

Describe the best present you have received

• Who sent it to you?
• When did you receive it?
• Detailed information about the present.

Follow-up:

• Do you think that present giving will play an important role in Chinese daily life? Why?
• Do you think that the brand name is very important for sales?
• In terms of the media, which do you think will play a main role in present giving, television, newspaper or Internet?

Topic 5

• Take one minute to prepare a talk on the following subject.
• Take notes if you like and remember to include reasons and examples.
• You should then speak for between one and two minutes.

Describe your holidays

• Where do you go for the holidays and how long do them last?
• Who do you go with?
• Talk about any interesting things happening during your holidays.

Follow-up:

• What do the Chinese people mostly do in their leisure time?
• What's the difference between holidays today and 5 years ago and the reasons for the change?
• Do you think people will spend more time on leisure or working in the future?