Hello, Adam Noah form Cue Card School Blog with a new IELTS cue card expected to appear in 2020

Describe a practical skill you learned
- What this skill was
- When you learned it
- How you learned it
- And explain why you think it was important
- How you felt about it?
Cue Card Band 8 answer
• I have learnt many practical skills in my childhood from people around me in my life.
• Here I would like to talk about a very useful practical skill of cooking, which I learnt from my mother.
• I have been slowly learning it from my mother since my childhood.
• My mother is in her forties and she is very tall and beautiful.
• She has a gifted hand in cooking.
• She has her unique way of teaching us, I mean me and my sister, how to cook.
• She never made us feel as if she was teaching us.
• She just kept us involved in the kitchen while she cooked.
• We learnt a lot just by observing her.
• I learnt cooking because I too want to be able to cook like her.
• I also learnt cooking because it is a very useful skill in today’s time.
• Moreover, as I plan to go abroad for my higher education, this skill will be very useful.
• I will not face any food problems.
• I am a vegetarian and I have heard that veg. food outlets are very few in foreign countries.
• This skill has proved very useful because many times I have been able to attend to guests when my mother was not at home.
• My mother not only taught me simple routine cooking but also some Chinese dishes.
• She also taught me how to make pizzas in the electric tandoor.
• She also bakes excellent cakes.
• Whenever anybody in our neighbourhood celebrates a birthday, the cake is always baked by my mother.
• She loves experimenting in the kitchen and she has many of her own recipes which are quick and easy and at the same time very delicious.
• She also presents her dishes very well.
• She says that the look of the dish is as important as its taste.
• I am fortunate, I have a talented mother who has taught me this useful skill
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