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Describe an occasion when someone gave you positive advice or suggestions about your work/study
Cue Card
You should say:
- Who the person is
- What he/she said
- How the advice/ suggestion affected you
- And explain how you felt about the advice/suggestions
Sample Answer
So today I would like to talk about an occasion that I received positive suggestions from my friend about how to overcome procrastination.
So it was about 3 years ago when I was a senior student in my university. It was right before my dissertation. I used to have a serious procrastination problem as my Word document was still blank even though it was only a week before the due date.
In fact, I was not worried at all because I was overconfident that I would eventually complete it no matter what happened. But if this went on, I would probably have failed my dissertation. Fortunately, my best friend that was in the same group as me, something I found really frustrating though, did not give up on me. He suggested that we could divide the dissertation into small projects and set a deadline for each one. I did exactly what he advised and submitted my work successfully.
As a result, I graduated with flying colors. Now that I work, I also follow this procedure, which turned out to be quite useful. I feel grateful to his suggestion as without it my life would have followed different paths and it would not be a better one.
Part 3
1. When should parents encourage their children?
Well, I guess there are several situations.
Firstly, maybe when the kids are encountering some obstacles, for example, like they are studying some exam like for the exams or they finish the test and they just failed exams. So it will be the devastating time for the kids so parents can actually give them some encouragement and do not just blame them for this kind of, you know, mistakes they made. So I think it’s very essential to boost their confidence. Otherwise the kids maybe will just give up. And, you know, it’s a vicious circle.
Another situation I think is that when children are doing some sports, like taking part in some sports games, maybe they feel like other, you know, players are all very competitive and capable. So they don’t have enough like confidence so parents can give them the pep talk and help them to just, you know, believe in themselves just like you can make it, you know, definitely you’re the best and stuff like that. So at least let them feel like they can just get through it and they can be the champion.
Who knows, maybe it will work.
2. Should parents always encourage their children?
Well, actually I don’t agree with this this opinion, but I’m not saying that parents shouldn’t encourage their children. Instead, I think parents should encourage their children in different occasions.
It just depends on different occasions.
For example, when their children try something new or do something good and their parents should encourage them to build their confidence, which is very beneficial for their future development.
But on the other hand, if their children do something bad, they fight with their classmates at school. Such things should not be encouraged by parents.
So to be honest, I think it should depend on different situations, that’s all.
3. Do you think negative feedback is more important than positive feedback? Why?
I believe it’s hard to say because it depends on the situations and sometimes these negative feedbacks can have a positive effect.
You know, if someone like your teacher or your parents or your best friend or your homie, they just point out your mistake because they hope you can discover your problem so you can tackle this, so you can tackle that, it can tackle this problem. And their comments can inspire you to be a better person. Sometimes their words can push you to work harder, but sometimes.
But, you know, like these negative comments, feedbacks can also have some negative impact. You know, especially these days on some social media, when you post your photo onto the Internet, there are a group of people, we call it key trolls, and they just deliberately send some comments to make you angry.
So that can definitely influence your mood.
4. Why is negative feedback as important as positive feedback at work or in study?
Well, basically I suppose there are several reasons, and the first one is that even though positive feedback can encourage people and make them have a good mood, but some negative feedback can have a very direct impact on people to improve their work or study.
Simply because some negative feedback can tell the reasons why they make the mistakes or why they poor at some points. So people can learn a lot from that and try to avoid this kind of negative things next time.
And one more thing to mention is that too much positive feedbacks to people, maybe sometimes they will be satisfied with what they have done. So in this case there’s no space or maybe they are not likely to find some things to get improved.
So I suppose that’s why they are equivalent in some time.
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