Describe a friend who enjoys drawing or painting
The cue card
Describe a friend who enjoys drawing or painting.
How to answer it
Describe what they make and how they work, which is far more interesting than how talented they are. Whether they finish things, whether they show anyone, what they do when it goes wrong — these give you a person. The Part 3 question about children drawing more than adults has a good answer in it: children are not yet worried about being bad at it.
What moves the band
- Art lexis: sketch, they've got a real eye for, watercolours, self-taught, a work in progress.
- The free-museums question needs a funding answer, not just a wish — who pays instead.
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.
- At what age should children learn art?
- Why do children draw more than adults?
- Is visiting a gallery better than viewing art online?
- Should museums be free?
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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