Ielts Cue Card - Describe a time when visitors come to your place

1. Visitors are equivalent to God in India and are often given special treatment.
2. Guests visit our home for special occasions like birthday parties, marriages etcetera.
3. I always like these visit as these give us a chance to mingle with people and spend time with our loved ones.
4. I need not to jog my memory to recall an occasion when my cousin visited my home.
5. He came to India for a short trip and he is currently residing in Australia.
6. We were already expecting him in the evening and he come exactly on the time, he has given to us.
7. This is the reflection of the punctuality of the Australian people.
8. We all met him with a big smile on our faces.
9. He met my parents first then gave me a warm and tight hug.
10. Due to my curiosity and eagerness to learn about his country, I bombarded him with many questions ranging from his family, job, environment and liking of Australian people.
11. I was stopped by my mother who served him a welcoming drink.
12. Then he took some time to settle and then answered my each and every question.
13. He told me about his job responsibilities. He is working as the head of printing firm. He said managing a team there is very simple as people there value their work and are punctual than others. And they know they will be reimbursed according to their working hours
14. After this, the topic shifting to the family, my mommy was asking about his wife and children. He showed us their videos and we really enjoyed watching a happy family together.
15. In-between our talks, the snacks were served which were finger-licking delicious  and were praised by my cousin for the authentic flavors.
16. Then he left after promising to visit soon.

Related topics-

1. Describe a guest who visited your home recently.
2. Describe relative who often visits.
3. Describe an interesting talk.

IELTS SPEAKING TOPIC: Perfect Holiday or Vacation

What would be your perfect holiday or vacation be like?
• Where would you like to go?
• Who would you like to go with?
• How would you like to spend it?

Answer

• Vacations give us a chance to get away from year's pain and make some memories with the people who reside deep down in our heart.
• I have always dreamt of an ideal holiday to the Lakshadweep with my family.
• It needs to be of a week or two.
• We will go there by plane probably between the month of December and May because in this time period, climate is quite and cool.
• I have heard that Lakshadweep has alluring marine life, different rural communities and enormous light houses.
• To visit all these in short span, we would like to go through the tour operator as they can seamlessly coordinate our trip.
• So, we would like to live near the sea probably in a homestay to know about native's culture and food.
• I would like to spend my mornings and evenings at the tranquil sea shore with my family watching sunrise and sunset.
• I really wanted to build castles with the creamy sand and will definitely work on getting that perfect tan.
• I would like to lull to sleep by the music of the gently rolling waves and the cool breeze that will blow over my face.
• I will get a chance to go for scuba diving as I love to explore the world under the water and I have heard that Lakshadweep is a house of some of the rarest and vibrant coral species of the world.
• Clicking picture at picturesque location is irresistible, so I would like to collect all my memories by clicking a lot of photographs of my family, beach, fish and beautiful sceneries.
• I know that Lakshadweep is not an ideal place for shopping, but I can collect some traditional beach handicrafts made of corals shells and oyster.
• White sand beaches, blue hued ocean, attractive locations and family time will make my holiday ideal and I would definitely like to plan more outing like this in future.

Vocabulary:

• Alluring: powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.
• Enormous: very large in size, quantity, or extent.
• Span: the length of time for which something lasts.
• Seamlessly: smoothly and continuously, with no apparent gaps or spaces between one part and the next.
• Native: a local inhabitant.
• Tranquil: free from disturbance; calm.
• Lull: calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements.
• Vibrant: (of color) bright and striking.
• Picturesque: visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way.
• Irresistible: too attractive and tempting to be resisted.
• Hue: a color or shade.

Related Topics

1. Describe your plan for a vacation you want to take.
2. Describe a tour you want to make in the future.
3. Describe a family trip you want to plan
4. Describe about a vacation on the beach

Ielts Writing Task 1 General Training - Your local bookshop has invited members of the public to recommend a guest speaker for an upcoming event that will include a series of talks from well-known people.

Your local bookshop has invited members of the public to recommend a guest speaker for an upcoming event that will include a series of talks from well-known people.

Write an e-mail to the bookshop

-suggest a speaker
-say what they would contribute to the event
-explain why other people would be interested too

Answer

Dear Sir 

I have recently seen your pamphlet in the local newspaper in which your are seeking advice from people and wanted to know about the speakers what you can call for an upcoming event. I would like to recommend a person to you who is highly respected in computer field because of his immense contribution. 

The person, I am recommending is Mr. Manohar Singh, who is Head of Computer Science department in Khalsa college. He is well versed in his field and can talk about new innovations at length. As computers have become ubiquitous and fascinates everyone, his talk on the topic will keep the people attentive throughout the lecture because of his attractive way of delivering speech. In addition to this, he is a good orator, he knows how to keep people active during the talk with his short question answer session. 

I hope you will consider this personality during the final selection of the speakers. I hope that your this year's event will be a gran success and source of knowledge and inspiration for the audience. Best wishes. 

Yours sincerely 

Amanpreet Kaur

Ielts Writing Task 1(General letter) You and your family are living in rented accommodation in an English speaking country. You are not satisfied with the condition of some of the furniture.

You and your family are living in rented accommodation in an English speaking country. You are not satisfied with the condition of some of the furniture.

Write a letter to the landlord. In your letter

• introduce yourself
• explain what is wrong with the furniture
• say what action you would like the landlord to take

Write at least 150 words.

You do NOT need to write and addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ..........,

Answer:

Dear Sir, 

I am one of your tenant who has recently shifted to your 141, New Heights apartment. I am writing this epistle to draw your attention towards the house furniture that needs immediate repair or replacement. 

Dinning table which is kept in the kitchen has four chairs but unfortunately, we can only use two as the other two chairs' legs are infested by termites and these can break at any time. The termites are spreading and will soon damage other wooden furniture. The glass top of the center table is also cracked. You know I have two toddlers in my house. I always try to keep them away from the table so that they do not harm themselves while playing around the fragile glass top. 

I request you to replace the chairs and make appointment with the pest control service company so that the spread can be stopped. Also, replace the glass top as soon as possible to make it a secure place for toddlers. Waiting for your quick response and action.

Yours sincerely 

Amanpreet Kaur 

Ielts Writing task 2: Most employers do job interviews before offering a position to a person. Do you think this is the best way to do it, or are there better alternatives? What is the best method of choosing employees in your opinion?

Answer: 

Today, companies are following shark eating shark culture and want to acquire everything by letting down other companies in the business world. Reaching at pinnacle is possible with the intelligent and skillful employees who are recruited after multiple tests and interviews. For a section of society, interview is the best way to hire a person but for me, there are many other ways that can help to check the ability of an applicant with the interview. 

Interviews help to judge the personality of a person whether it is telephonic interview or in-house interview, the interviewer ask some questions from the candidate and answers of these give an insight of a person and help to know the mentality and thinking ability. Moreover, face to face interviews help to check the confidence which is required in this competitive era. If a person is confident, he can represent his company at any platform. Some organisations also conduct technical interviews. These type of interviews are required there field related knowledge is required. For instance, a program developer needs to have knowledge of different programming languages to develop programs while charted accountant must know about balance sheets. 

At the same time, there are some other useful selection ways. Like, written test. Some jobs require a person to enter data in the computer. In these types of jobs, interview alone is not sufficient but can be beneficial if conducted with written test. Another way of hiring a person is physical examination. Defense jobs require physical stamina of a person. So, in these kinds of jobs, the endurance of the person is measured. 

All in all, in some cases interviews work and in other cases, other ability tests are important. As, we cannot wholly or solely favor single test but can favor the combination of the tests to hire perfect candidate for a designation in an organisation.