Describe a person who makes special things by hand or with technology
The cue card
Describe a person who makes special things by hand or with technology.
You should say
- who this person is
- how you knew this person
- what this person makes
- and explain how you felt about this person
How to answer it
"Or with technology" is doing more work than candidates notice — it lets you talk about someone who 3D-prints, codes, edits film or builds furniture in a CAD program, not only a potter or a knitter. Whichever you pick, the third bullet needs process, not product. Describing the finished object takes ten seconds; describing how they make it, and how long it takes, and what goes wrong, fills the card and gives you verbs an examiner rarely hears.
What moves the band
- Process verbs are the lexical win here: shape, sand, glaze, solder, stitch, render, cut down, start over.
- The fourth bullet asks how you FELT, so answer it — admiring, slightly envious, baffled that anyone has that much patience.
Part 3 questions reported with it
Part 3 follows the topic of the cue card, so these are the discussion questions the same candidates were asked next.
- Do children enjoy doing arts and crafts?
- Is creativity an innate trait or can it be cultivated over time?
- Should all children take art classes?
- What impact does artistic and cultural development have on society?
These are candidate recalls. These are questions reported by test-takers after their exams, not official or leaked IELTS material. Wording varies by test version, location and memory. Use them for timed practice — never as a prediction of what you will be asked.
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