IELTS Cue Card 6: Describe A Family You Like

IELTS Speaking Cue Card with Sample Answer. Describe A Family You Like (not your own). IELTS Speaking Part 2 With Model Answer.

 

Describe A Family You Like (not your own)

You should say:

• whose family it is
• how many family members they have
• what are they like
• and explain why you like this family.

Tips for answering this cue card topic:

 

For this task, you could choose your neighbours, a friend’s family, or even a famous family. If you have already prepared a description of a person, try to adapt and use some of the same ideas.

 

 Model Answer 1:

A family is a basic building block of society
 I know a lot of families and I am well connected to the families of my
aunts and uncles. So, I belong to an extended family.
 The family I am going to describe here is of my aunt Jyoti.
 She is my father‟s sister.
 My Uncle‟s name is Jagtar and they have two children Deepa and Roop.
 They live in Phagwara in Hargobind Nagar.
 I like their family a lot because even though my uncle and aunt are very
well off, as they are both doctors, they are very down-to-earth.
 Even their children have no airs about them.
 They are liked by all people in my family.
 Both aunty and uncle are very magnanimous and always willing to help
others with their time and money.
 Deepa is doing here masters in biotechnology and Roop is doing
mechanical engineering.
 Aunt and uncle are known for their hospitality.
 At least once a week their invite us all over for lunch or dinner.
 We also invite them over quite often.
 Whenever somebody in the family is not well you can depend on aunt for
help
 Their home has warmth in it which cannot be described in words.
 All the time aunt and uncle seem to have minor quarrels with each but
they take it in the lighter vein and in fact are very amusing.
 In fact you enjoy being with them.
 The way aunt and uncle run their family and their nursing home and
still have time for all of us is amazing.
 They are indeed an ideal family.

Model Answer 2:

I will talk about my best friend Amit’s family. I have known them for ten years now. I met Amit at college. He was a fun-loving person and soon we became great friends. His home was near our college.

As my family lived in another town at that time, I was staying in the hostel. I had some good friends in the hostel but I hated the food they served. Amit knew this. He would frequently invite me to his home. His mother is a kind woman. She is very caring and affectionate. Whenever I visited them she would prepare my favourite dishes and serve them with great love. I found my own mother in her. I also enjoy a great relationship with Amit’s father. He is a retired engineer. We both share the same passion for cricket and electronics.

Amit has an elder brother who works in Germany. I have met him only a couple of times and on all those occasions he was extremely cordial. He is like an elder brother to me. Amit now lives in the Middle East and I am in Singapore. We still talk to each other on phone but I haven’t seen him in a year or so.

However, I make it a point to visit his parents whenever I am in Bangalore. They are like my own family to me and have always treated me as their own son.

Model Answer 3:

Model Answer 4:

Umm… that’s an interesting topic, I would say. There are many families I know about and I am very close with some of these families, but I have never thought that I would have to describe such a family. Well, I think describing Emma and her family would be more convenient and natural for me as she is one of my best friends and I know her family very closely.

Emma has a family with 5 members- her parents, she, Jonathan who is 11 and Emma’s sister Paula, who is a doctor. They live only 5 blocks away from our house and as a friend, I know Emma for more than 15 years. They moved here some 16 years ago and they often visit our house, I would say at least once in a week. Emma is a talented girl with an excellent academic record. The reason she is a very good friend of mine is because of her tender nature and friendly attitude. The first time I met her, I found her very sociable, easygoing, gregarious and cordial. Since then we two are close friends.

Her father, Mr Alex is an architect and would be around 48 years old. He is working in a large private company and stay out of the town most of the time. When he is not working, he remains busy in his garden. He is quite a devoted gardener and I must state that he has got the finest garden in our block. He does not speak much but I had few conversations with him and I found him quite intelligent and he has a sense of humour that makes him more friendly than he appears to be.

Emma’s mother is a school teacher and she teaches English literature in grade 7. She is a beautiful woman who loves every living soul. She is also a great cook. She has a natural talent of cooking a variety of food items and this makes her very famous among our friends. Some dishes she made for us was completely unknown to us and she brought the opportunity for us to taste those for the first time in my life. Her father was a photographer and she travelled a lot in her early age in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa and Europe. She is more like her eldest daughter Paula than Emma.

I guess Emma is a fine mixture of both of her parents and that makes her an excellent person. She is my friend for a long and we two have a very close relationship as friends. I find her very curious and her amiable behaviour and polite way of speaking make her very cordial and affectionate.

Paula, Emma’s sister’ is a doctor and she is married to a doctor as well. She had two children who are both in their elementary schools. As Paula lives with her husband, I have met her only twice and know very little about her. She is beautiful and blunter than Emma.

Finally, Jonathan, the youngest member of the family, is in grade 5 and he is full of new ideas and joy. He always smiles, plays and talks and has a good relationship with me. I like him very much due to his frankness and his respect for anyone who is senior to him. As he stated he wants to become a great detective like Sherlock holmes someday.

This is a good family that anyone would expect as his neighbour. We often visit Emma’s family and have family parties. Our family members have a close and friendly relationship with Emma’s family and surprisingly Emma’s father talks a lot when he is with my father. Probably they love to discuss things together and have common interests and topics to talk about.

 

Model Answer 5:

I am going to talk about a family that I have been in contact since about a year now.They are called as Puri family.This couple were very close school friends of my husband and I met them in the London when I moved here .I guess in one of the wedding ceremonies.
This is very small and lovely family I have ever met.it includes parents and two sweet daughters.Both parents work as a doctor in The NHS trust and work very hard to maintain work-life balance.The best thing I adore about them is that they are always there if you need help,very kind and sympathetic.They always keep their promises ,no matter how small they are.If I think about specific qualities they possess ,then what will be best thing about a mother.
Well,her name is Surabhi.She is very enthusiastic lady and I have always seen her on tip of her toes.Though she works full time,family and kids are her first priority but that doesn’t mean she is not punctual at her workplace.She has a very positive outlook on life ,no matter how impossible it is.She always make it a point to engage kids at home in various activities as well as enjoy other aspects of life like holidays,social status,outdoor playtime and education.
For her husband,he always supports her wife in each of her decision and helps her to life go on. Two daughter are really cute.i appreciate the manners they do have,their curiosity about each thing which is new to them .
Well ,I really love this family .For me,it’s like an ideal family from whom we can learn a lot .

 

 

Part 3 – Two-way discussion:

1. In a typical Vietnamese family, who plays the leading role?

“There is a saying that “Men build the house and women make it home”. I think this is still appropriate today, at least in my country even though women are no longer discriminated. I mean it is true that some men nowadays are increasingly likely to take on the role of househusband and more women than ever become the breadwinners in their families but when looking at a typical Vietnamese family, men are still the ones who play the leading role, I think. I mean the father, other than taking responsibility of a breadwinner, he is always the protector, a strong presence leading his children and his wife to feel safe and securely protected. He’s also a mechanic, a mender, a light fixer, a plumber who is ready to repair broken furniture and machine in the family that his wife can’t do .Especially, a true father is an energetic, dynamic, determined and disciplined model for his children to follow and feel confident when they come to the world. Besides, he also forms in his children the attitudes and powers that they need to succeed in life, protect themselves and their family later”

 

2. In Vietnam, what kinds of family members usually live together?

“Well I think it  actually depends, you know. In cultures where the nuclear family is the norm for establishing a household, members of the extended family live in separate homes, often at significant distances. In societies where the joint family predominates for living arrangements, members of the extended family will live in the same home. In Vietnam, you can see both. I mean the former is often applied for urban area, a family with parents and their children although in many case a grandparent or both grandparents from either the wife or husband will join them to take care of their baby. And extended family can be seen at mountainous area with the presence of ethnic minorities where almost all members who are blood relatives live together”

 

3. Should young and middle-age people live with old people?

“In my opinion, youngsters and elderly people should spend more time together, yeah I mean even live together. People should shoulder the responsibility to take care of their elderly parents who has been willing to sacrifice everything for them. In addition, sharing home together will strengthen their relationship, bridge generation gap, not to mention the moment given for grandparents to get along with their grandchildren, educate them with priceless experience and knowledge which can never be learned from any theoretical sources. All of those things will bring a happy family atmosphere that should be had in every households, I think”

 

4. How do grandparents educate their grandchildren in your country?

“Firstly, as grandparents have lived for many years and have brought up their own offspring, they have much experience in raising and educating children. For instance, they might tell their own period stories to shape morality perception in their grandchildren. Secondly, grandparents are family members who tend to spend much more time, effort and love with their grandchildren than their parents can’t do because they are too worried and busy with their career, their jobs so valuable lessons learned from their grandparents are even more worth  Finally, youngsters looked after by their grandparents are likely to become more family-oriented and appreciate the value of a happy family”

 

 

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