IELTS Cue Card 47: Talk About a Team Project You Were Involved In

IELTS Speaking Cue Card with Sample Answer. Talk About a Team Project You Were Involved In.  IELTS Speaking Part 2 With Model Answer. Also Sample answer for Part 3 discussion.

You should say:

•     What the project was
•     Who else was involved in it
•     How long it took

And explain what you learned from this project.

Model Answer 1:
I have worked on several projects both in my school and in my office and out of those, I would like to talk about an electronic project that I worked on in my college level. It was a physics project in our final terms and we had 3 team members. We were asked to create 2 radio devices that would be able to clearly communicate within the 300-metre range.

Our physics teacher Mr. Newphen gave us the talks and I worked on this project with two other classmates of my college. The teacher gave us 15 days time but after 10 days passed, we noticed that more than half of the task was pending and we extended the time. The work took around 22 days for us to complete and show the demo.

We had to create two radio devices that would basically similar to the devices the traffic controlling officers usages. But our device would have a shorter range and would work within 300 metres. Another objective was for us to make such two devices with a very minimal cost.

We had to work hard to make it work. I learned many things from this project like, how to work on a major project with a team, how to reduce the interferences of radio frequency, how to build quality equipment in low budget, how to fine tune a project and many other things that later became handy for my university and office projects.

Model Answer 2:

Just last month we finished a project at the university, it was a research project which involved various entities both here in India and abroad and communication was one of the most challenging aspects of it.

I think there were about 15 people in total in the team. It was coordinated from France by an academic research foundation based there. We were investigating various aspects of environmentally friendly air transport; looking at ways to reduce noise and fuel consumption, and the emission of CO2 into the atmosphere.

The project dealt with researching possible methods of improving current engine technology and involved an indepth study of flight physics as applied to most commercial airliners nowadays, mainly based on lightweight structures and possible changes or improvements which could be made.

The long term aim of the project was to evaluate and then test some completely new types of aircraft structures and concepts.

I think it helped me develop on a professional level more than on a personal level, although I did get a lot of opportunity to interact with different people from various different countries and practice my English a lot. But professionally it was very challenging and very interesting for me. It is the first international research project I have been involved in so it was quite exciting as well.

As I said, there were people from France, Germany, the UK, the USA and some other countries. We used to have regular teleconferences to discuss the progress of the project and any problems we encountered, share research results and information, and discuss possible solutions and areas of further investigation. I was working closely with one of my senior professors here at the university who is very experienced in this field of engineering.

Overall, I think I learned a lot more about collaboration, as well as gaining some useful experience in negotiating and discussing in English.

IELTS Speaking Part 3 Question and Sample Answer:

1.Do you like teamwork? [Why? / Why not?

Yes, I do. I think it is more interesting when various people work together in a team. You can learn a lot more because different peope have different knowledge and also experience. Especially when the people come from different countries around the worls – it can ake it very interesting – because they think in a different way.

2.How does teamwork help?

Well, as I said, it can generate more creativity and sharing of ideas which may not happen otherwise. problems seem to get solved easier when they sre discussed in a team, possibly because there are various ways of approaching problem solving and sometimes having a different perspective, that of a nother person, is enough to see the problem in a different way, and eventually come up with a solution.

3.Do you think children should develop skills for teamwork?

Yes, I think this is why many parents spend alot of time telling their children that it is important to share thihgs with others. Working in a team requires some skills, which you have to learn, but they can be learned early in life as a child. So i think it’s a good idea that children are taught to work in teams to solve problems. They should also be encouraged to develop their problem solving skills so that they can work on their own – but teamwork is important in adult life, so yes, they should be taught how to do it.

4.Does having leadership skills qualify a person to be a team leader?

Not just leadership skills – becasue working in a team is not really about a group of people following a leader – it is more about the individual team memners working together, equally, to solve problems or create whatever it is they are working on. team work requires a lot of different skills, and just because someone has good leadership skills does not mean that they will automatically work well in a team. if they try to dominate the rest of the team members, then there will likely be problems within the team and it will become ineffective.