The cue card
Describe a meal you had with friends.
How to answer it
Describe the occasion, not the menu. Two sentences on the food is plenty; the rest belongs to who was there, why you were all together, and what the conversation was. The Part 3 run here is unusually long and broad, so keep each of those answers to two sentences or you will be cut off mid-argument.
What moves the band
- Food lexis worth having: we shared everything, it was a proper feast, we sat there for hours, home-cooked.
- For the technology question, pick one concrete change — delivery apps, refrigeration, or crop yields — rather than surveying all three.
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.
- Is home cooking better than eating in restaurants?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of restaurants?
- What foods are eaten at festivals in your country?
- Is food delivery replacing home cooking?
- How has technology changed food and agriculture?
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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Know the number. Now move it.
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