IELTS Cue Card 86: Describe A Game You Enjoyed When You Were A Child
IELTS Speaking Cue Card with Sample Answer. Describe A Game You Enjoyed When You Were A Child. IELTS Speaking Part 2 With Model Answer. Also Sample answer for Part 3 discussion.
Describe A Game You Enjoyed When You Were A Child
You should say:
- what the game was
- when, where and with whom you usually played it
- how you played it
and explain what was special about the game.
Model Answer:
My favorite game as a child was called “hide and seek”.
I would play this game anywhere there were places to hide. Most often this was indoors in my house or my friends’ houses. Sometimes if I was going somewhere with my family and I was bored, I’d play it with my brother wherever we were. I could play hide and seek with as many people as I liked. Sometimes it was only one other person (usually my brother) but you could play it with many other people as well.
Hide and seek is an easy game to play. One person closes his or her eyes and counts to a number. While they are doing this, the other people playing the game have to run away and hide somewhere. Once the person who is counting gets to the number, they shout out “Ready or not, here I come!” and they then search for the people who are hiding.
This game was special to me because it was simple and everyone knew how to play it. This meant that you could play it almost anywhere and with anyone. It was a simple game but it was always changing depending on where you were because there were always different places to hide. It‘s really exciting to find someone hiding and surprise them, and it’s equally fun to hide from the searcher and not be found. I liked to trick the searcher by putting shoes under the curtains so it looked like a person was hiding there when really there wasn’t.
IELTS Speaking Part 3 Question and Sample Answer:
Do children and adults like playing together?
I would say that this depends largely on the adult. Almost all children enjoy playing games, but not all adults do. So, it’s unlikely that an adult would like playing with a child if he or she doesn’t like playing games at all, or if he or she doesn’t like children. However, some adults are still a child at heart and often enjoy playing with their own children or other people’s. Children specially enjoy playing with adults when the adult can do something other children cannot, like giving them rides on their back or showing them how to play a new sport. It‘s good to keep an open mind about adults and children playing together.
Are boys and girls interested in the same games or play activities?
Not really. Most of the time girls and boys enjoy very different types of games. Girls tend to enjoy games where you pretend to be someone like “making house” or “mummy and daddy”. They often prefer talking rather than running around. Boys tend to play noisy, active games that involve a lot of activity. They are more interested in competition than cooperation and so sports are very popular.
Do you think entertainment for children today is good or not?
Today there are many more sources of entertainment than there were years ago. Now we have television, computer games, the Internet and amusement parks. In the old days people often had to make do with what they could find around them and use their imagination. Some people think that children today are less active because they have so much easy access to entertainment, and can’t use their imagination because entertainment is so common. Personally, I think that it’s a good thing children have more entertainment today because they can choose from a wider variety of interests. In the past, sometimes there was very little entertainment at all and children were bored out of their minds.
Do you think it’s important for schools to have after school activities for school children?
Of course! After school activities are extremely valuable. They provide a way for children to relax after working hard at school and build a community spirit amongst the students. They also allow students to learn many things they would otherwise not have access to, like playing a new sport or musical instrument. Some people think that taking part in after school activities is a waste