IELTS Speaking Part 2: Cue Cards

Speak for two full minutes on any cue card, with one minute of notes and a clear shape.

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3.8k learnersIntermediate 8 lessons · 80 min English + हिंदी support

What you’ll learn

  • Use the one-minute preparation to write four usable note lines that cover every bullet on the card
  • Speak for a full two minutes using the intro, details, feelings and ending structure without stopping early
  • Describe a person, a place, an event, an object or skill and an abstract topic with the language each one needs
  • Keep going past a blank moment using narrative and feeling phrases instead of silence
  • Finish a cue card with a clear ending and answer the examiner's rounding-off question in one sentence

This course is for

IELTS candidates who go blank or run out of words on the long turn. Part 2 is the long turn: one minute to prepare, then up to two minutes of speaking while the examiner stays silent. Indian candidates typically dry up at forty seconds, list bullet points or wander off the card. This course teaches four-line notes in the prep minute, a four-part structure of intro, details, feelings and ending, and the language for the five card families: a person, a place, an event, an object or skill, and an abstract topic. Every lesson is a timed roleplay with an AI examiner who gives feedback only afterwards. It ends with two full cue cards and rounding-off questions.

Intermediate

level

You can hold a basic conversation but hesitate, translate in your head, or freeze under pressure. We fix that.

Course 4 of 9 in the English Exams track.

Inside every lesson

Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “The One-Minute Prep: Four Lines of Notes” — runs.

  1. 1 min

    Warm-up & goal

    Tutor greets you and states today’s goal.

  2. 2 min

    Learn the patterns

    Learn 2–3 sentence patterns and repeat them aloud.

  3. 5 min

    Live roleplay

    Live roleplay — you do most of the talking.

  4. 1.5 min

    Corrections & retry

    Two specific corrections, then one retry.

  5. 30 sec

    Wrap-up & preview

    One thing you did well and a preview of next time.

Syllabus

Lessons unlock one after another. Completed lessons show your score; you can revisit any lesson.

Your AI tutors

Same lessons, different personalities. Pick one now or switch any time.

Priyanka Thomas

The Neutral Examiner

Lead tutorYour pick

Former IELTS Speaking examiner from Kochi, now a Band 9 trainer, early 40s

Best suited for: Candidates who want the real test experience: exact IELTS phrasing, a neutral face, no help during the test, and a precise band-based debrief afterwards

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Aditya Bhattacharya

The Vocabulary Drill Sergeant

Band 8.5 trainer who runs an IELTS institute in Chandigarh, mid 30s, obsessed with vocabulary

Best suited for: Candidates stuck at Band 6 or 6.5 who repeat the same words, say 'very' and 'good' in every sentence and need to be drilled into using topic vocabulary and idiomatic language naturally

4.9
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Shalini Krishnamurthy

The Steady Exam-Day Coach

Calm exam-day coach and counsellor at a Hyderabad study-abroad consultancy, late 40s

Best suited for: Candidates whose English is fine but who freeze, speak too fast, go blank on cue cards or panic when the examiner shows no reaction, and who need to learn how to stay composed for the full fourteen minutes

4.8
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