The cue card
Describe a boring place you visited.
How to answer it
The trap is that a boring place produces a boring answer. Beat it by making the boredom specific and slightly funny: a waiting room, a town that closed at four, a museum of one industry described in fourteen rooms. Then explain why it was boring — nothing to look at, nothing to do, or nothing at stake — because that reasoning is the language the examiner is marking.
What moves the band
- Boredom lexis: it dragged, there was nothing going on, dull as anything, I was clock-watching.
- Say what would have made it interesting; the contrast gives you a second minute without repeating yourself.
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.
- What situations make people bored?
- Why do students find lessons boring?
- How can people avoid boredom?
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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