Describe a place you would like to visit in the future
IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card: Describe a place you would like to visit in the future. 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.
Every other card in this set lets you remember something. This one hands you a place you have never been, and the difference shows up around forty seconds in, when invention turns out to be slower than recall. You are also in would, going to, hope to and plan to for two minutes, and those forms are where accuracy slips for people who are otherwise fluent. How you learnt about it is the bullet that rescues the card, because it is the one piece of true material you hold: a video, a cousin who went last year, a photograph in a school textbook, a scene in a film. Invented material runs out faster than remembered material, which is why the second minute is the one to sketch on your paper.
Angles worth taking
- Name one concrete thing standing between you and the trip: money, leave, a visa, an exam year.
- Choose a single activity and describe it closely rather than listing five you would supposedly do.
- Second-hand detail counts: what your cousin said about the food, what the video actually showed you.
- Keep would and will apart — would for the imagined version, will for any plan that is real.
- Who would you actually travel with? That is the first thing asked once your two minutes are over.
- Somewhere inside India is a fine answer; the card asks for future, not for foreign.
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Parts covered
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Prompts in total
3
Modes
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How a IELTS Speaking session works
Part 1 — the warm-up
Familiar questions about you: work, home, routines. Short answers, but not one-word ones. The examiner is calibrating to your voice.
Part 2 — the cue card
A topic card with prompts, one minute of prep with notes, then up to two minutes speaking without interruption.
Part 3 — the discussion
Abstract follow-ups on the Part 2 theme. Opinions, comparisons and speculation, where the higher bands are decided.
Your band estimate
A score on each of the four official criteria, what pulled it down, and the habit to change before you sit the real test.
What you're scored on
IELTS Speaking is marked on four criteria of equal weight. The estimate reports each one separately, because they rarely move together.
Speak for 1-2 minutes with clear structure and descriptive language.
Fluency and coherence
Whether you keep going, and whether the ideas connect. Hesitation while you search for a word costs less than hesitation while you search for a thought.
Lexical resource
Range and precision, including whether you can paraphrase around a word you do not have instead of stopping at it.
Grammatical range and accuracy
Variety of structures as well as correctness. All-simple-sentences and all-accurate caps out around band 6.
Pronunciation
Intelligibility, stress and intonation. Accent is not penalised; flat stress and swallowed word endings are.
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