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Describe an English Class/Lesson that You Enjoyed IELTS Cue Card

IELTS Speaking Part 2: IELTS Cue Card

Describe an English class/lesson that you enjoyed.

You should say:

What was taught in the class?
When did you take the class?
Where it was?
What did the teacher do that made you enjoy it?

Note: You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.

Model Answers and follow up questions to describe an English class/lesson that you enjoyed IELTS Cue Card:

Model Answer:

Introduction:

• English is not my mother tongue.
• I had learnt English in my childhood.

When did you take the class?

• However, because of a lack of practice, I thought I needed to revise my basics before I took the IELTS exam.
• So, I recently attended an English class while I was starting my preparation.
• Actually, when I started the preparation, I got some of my writing tasks evaluated by teachers.
• My teachers told me that I was making grammatical mistakes and I was making errors in the usage of tenses, especially.
• At first, I picked up the grammar book by Rennin Martin, but it was too big.
• I think I read the first two chapters and then gave up.
• I didn’t have the time or the patience to read the whole book.

When did you take the class? and Where it was?

• So, I searched for some English tenses lessons on YouTube.
• There I came across a group of lectures on various tenses on a channel called Learn English with Milly.
• The lectures had me hooked from the get-go.

What did the teacher do that made you enjoy it?

• The most interesting part of the lectures was that they made comparisons between the tenses.
• It was like the lectures had been custom-made to address the problem I was facing because the main problem I was facing was in tenses.
• The teacher explained everything in detail, and although the lectures were long, I didn’t get bored.
• I think it was because of the humour.
• After every few minutes, the teacher said something that grabbed my attention and made me alert.
• I never felt like I was attending a lecture but rather enjoying a fun conversation with time.
• I think my English has improved a lot because of those lessons, and I am really glad I stumbled upon those videos.

IELTS Speaking Part 3 : Follow up Questions

Here some examples of follow up questions that you may asked during your speaking part 3 by examiner related to cue card “describe an English class/lesson that you enjoyed ”.

1. What are the benefits of learning a foreign language?
There are many benefits of learning a foreign language. Firstly, it helps students academically, as the skills they learn in one language like comprehension and finding out the main theme of a paragraph can also be applied to their language. Secondly, it opens up more opportunities in the future. For example, it can help students pursue higher education in a foreign country. Similarly, a foreign language can help people secure a job in a company, which deals with foreign clients.

2. What are the benefits of being a foreign language teacher?
The main benefit of teaching another language is that the person can enhance their knowledge of the language. I think people learn much more about the language when they teach than when they study it.
Secondly, foreign languages also tend to get paid better and they might also get opportunities to travel abroad. Finally, I feel the language classes have the most diversity in terms of age. I have seen people as old as seventy learning French and German. So, it never gets boring teaching a foreign language as people get to meet different people.

3. Will computers replace foreign language teachers in the future?
I think computers are certainly beneficial in helping students learn a foreign language. However, I do not think computers can replace language teachers completely. Computers can help students improve their grammar and pronunciation but they cannot help students develop or express ideas. Moreover, there are cultural aspects to a language, which can be only taught by a teacher in my opinion.

4. Is grammar the most difficult part about learning a foreign language?
No, I don’t think grammar is the most difficult part as there are certain rules of grammar. I think it is logical and so it can be learnt with practice. However, pronunciation can be very tricky as I find there are no fixed rules to it.

5. Do you think grammar is important in language learning?
Yes, I think grammar is really important in language learning. If the grammar is wrong, the sentence can give out a completely different meaning and it can lead to misunderstandings and embarrassment.
For example, I taught, and I was taught mean completely different things, just the presence of was in the middle – changes the meaning completely.