Written by David S. Wills · October 30, 2020
In the IELTS speaking test, you might be asked to describe something that you have recently purchased. This question would of course appear in part 2 of the test and you would need to read the cue card carefully to know what you must do.
In today’s lesson, I am going to show you what the cue card might look like and then run through some guidelines about how you could answer it. Hopefully, this will help you to describe all sorts of products and issues relating to shopping.
[If you to learn about the IELTS topic of shopping, then go here for a complete lesson.]
The Cue Card: Describe Something You Bought Recently
First of all, it is important to realise that every IELTS cue card is slightly different and so you cannot prepare perfectly for them all. You need to read the cue card carefully in order to know what you must say as a response.
For example, in this general area, we could have some of the following possibilities:
- Describe a product that you bought recently
- Describe an item of clothing that you bought recently
- Describe something that you bought long ago
- Describe a product you bought because of an advertisement
- Describe something you have purchased that has been very useful
- Describe something you bought in a sale
- Describe something that you bought for someone else
- Describe an expensive product you would like to buy
As you can see, there are various possibilities. Indeed, if we check Google then we can see the sort of variations on this cue card that people have heard about:
The list could go on indefinitely.
Today, however, we are going to look at this cue card:
Describe something you have recently bought and felt happy about.
You should say:
– what you bought
– why you bought it
– how much it cost you
and explain why you felt happy about it.