Describe a meal you remember well

IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card: Describe a meal you remember well. One minute to prepare, up to two minutes to speak, then follow-up questions.

An intermediate-level session of about 8 minutes. Covers Part 2. 3 prompts in total.

Home food does not always have an English name, and this is the card where that becomes a live problem. You reach the third line, what you ate, and the dish you want is sitting there in another language. Hunting for a translation costs more than the word is worth. Saying it as you would say it at home and then explaining it in a clause of your own, a flatbread cooked straight on the flame, a sweet made only in winter, keeps the answer moving. Nothing on the card asks for the meal to have been good, either. It can have stayed with you because it was the last one before somebody left for another country, or because you cooked it badly for people you wanted to impress, and the closing line, why you remember it so well, is often easier to answer when it was not.