Talk About An Important Conversation You Had | IELTS Speaking Cue Card & Part 3 Questions

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Here's some quick IELTS speaking practice for you, using some questions asked in an IELTS speaking test in Australia this month.

The questions in the video are timed just like in the real IELTS test. When you see the first question you will have 1 minute to plan your answer and then you should try to talk about the topic (and specifically answer the three points) in 2 minutes.

Then you will see the Part 3 discussion questions (there are 4 in total) and you will have approx 40 seconds to answer each question - try to say as much as you can before the next question appears.

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SAMPLE CUE CARD ANSWER:
Talk about an important conversation that you had with someone.
You should say:
- what it was about
- when and why you had this conversation
- how it affected you

Probably the most important conversation I’ve had recently would be a long conversation I had with my best friend about 6 months ago. It was an extremely difficult conversation to have because I knew the possible consequences would really affect me in a bad way.

The conversation we had was about my boyfriend, who I’ve been going out with for a several years now. I wanted to talk it over with my friend because recently I’ve felt that as a couple we have been drifting apart and heading in different directions in life. For example, we had always had the dream of going abroad to study and work. It was a plan we shared and we often used to talk about our future together in a different country – but, and I’m not sure when it happened exactly, things changed some time ago.

After we both graduated from university, I thought we would work for a few years, save some money, and then leave together to go to either Canada or Australia, but gradually we seemed to be talking about our plan a little less than before and then one day when I asked him something related to going abroad, he began to tell me that he was extremely happy in his job at the moment and might be getting an important promotion at work soon. He seemed to be trying to tell me that he was really happy where he was and with his current career development.

I didn’t really think about it that much at the time, but later he began hinting to me that he really didn’t fancy the idea of leaving his job and going to another country to start over again. When he told me I was really surprised because it was something we had always discussed and made plans for – but after a while I realized that I couldn’t change his mind or the way that he feels, so I had to decide if my future would be here with him or to follow my own dream and still go abroad without him.

Anyway, my friend and I spent hours talking and discussing this and it helped me a lot because it really made me accept the fact that he and I now had different visions of our futures, and so eventually I decided to break it off with him, which I did a few weeks later after allowing myself some time to get used to the idea.

Overall, I think it was the best thing to do because we had grown apart in the way we thought, and it’s still my dream to go and live and work in another country and build a life there; the fact that I’ll be doing it on my own now is something I’m still processing but I wasn’t prepared to give up my dream for him, and I had to be honest about that with him. In the end we parted amicably and wished each other the best for the future.

So now I’m planning to leave within a few months for Australia – on my own – as a result of one of the most important conversation I’ve had so far in my life. It didn’t change everything, but it certainly changed a big part of my original plan.