Describe your favourite city that you have visited
The cue card
Describe your favourite city that you have visited.
How to answer it
This question has come back: candidates reported it on 13 July 2026, 16 July 2026, 27 July 2026. Questions that repeat across sittings are the ones worth rehearsing properly.
This card came back three times in July, which makes it worth genuinely preparing. Avoid the guidebook: pick two or three specific things — a particular street at a particular hour, how people use public space, what the food was like — and connect them to why the place suited you. The Part 3 question about tourist cities as places to live is the one to have an opinion ready for.
What moves the band
- City lexis: it's very walkable, the old quarter, it has a real buzz, it's touristy but it earns it.
- Comparatives keep this answer moving: unlike anywhere else I've been, far more relaxed than.
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 people of different ages prefer city or rural life?
- How do people choose holiday destinations?
- Are tourist cities good places to live?
- Do people prefer modern or historic cities?
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.
Practise these next
Know the number. Now move it.
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