The IELTS speaking test was conducted in about 11-14 minutes with 3 different sections. A random topic will be given to the candidate by the examiner and from that questions will be asked, here the topic for the IELTS speaking cue card, talk about an important river in your country. It may help you to improve your knowledge about the IELTS speaking test.

Talk about an important river in your country - IELTS Speaking Part 2 Cue Card

This section consists of cue cards which are also known as task cards, here the candidate will receive the cue card during the IELTS exam. It contains 3-4 questions. The topic for the IELTS speaking cue card is to talk about an important river in your country.

Talk about an important river in your country

You should say:

• What water body is it?
• How do you know about it?
• What are the benefits of the river?
• Explain if it is more important for older or younger people.

Talk about an important river in your country - Model answer and Follow up questions

The IELTS speaking cue card part 3 is also known as in-depth discussion. The examiner will assess the fluency of the speaker. The candidate was expected to talk fluently without any pause. The topic is given to talk about an important river in your country with few model answers and follow up questions.

Talk about an important river in your country - Model answer 1

Introduction:

India is the only country which is covered by three sides of water, Bay of Bengal, Arabic ocean and Indian ocean. Not only the ocean it has so many rivers which gives many benefits to the Indian, specifically there are17 rivers in Tamil nadu here some name of the rivers, they are palar, varaha nadhi, ponnaiyar, vellar, paravanar, cauvery, agniyar etc..

Which water body is that?

Here i am going to talk about the ponnaiyar river, it is also known as Dakshina pinakini in kannada in tamil it is known as Thenpennai or ponnaiyar river. Bangalore, Hosur, Thiruvanamalai and Cuddalore are the major cities on the bank of ponnaiyar river. This is the second largest river in Tamil nadu.

How do you know about it?

I learnt it from a magazine, but I don't exactly remember which magazine it was. They gave so much information about the river, but I have forgotten some points about the river. The river originates in the Nandhi hills in the Chikkaballapura district of karnataka and it flows through tamil nadu, water flows during the monsoon season, when it is fed by the south-west monsoon and the northeast monsoon.

What are the benefits of the river?

Farmers in Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai,Villupuram and Cuddalore were getting water from this river for agriculture irrigation, not only for the irrigation people in some villages in this district were using this river water as drinking water.

Why does it impress you so much?

While reading about the Thenpennai river in the magazine, they mention that it has many sub basins. It made me search about this river in google, then I came to know that it was totally 19 basins. Also, I have gathered so much information about the Thenpennai river from google.

Conclusion:

Water bodies are very important to the people, but some companies and factors, and people were exploiting it by polluting the water bodies. People must know the uses of water and they should stop polluting it.

Talk about an important river in your country - Model answer 2

Introduction:

Without water we can not live as simple as say- no water, no life. Like that Rivers and lakes are very important to our day to day life, those are the large water bodies that contain freshwater which is used as drinking water and also for irrigation.

Which water body is that?

Here I am going to talk about the Sepik river which is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and it is the second largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the fly river. This river flows through the Papua New Guinea, provinces of Sandaum and East Sepik, with a small section flowing through the Indonesia province of Papua.

How do you know about it?

I have learnt it during my school days,when I was in 10 th standard,it was given in the geographic book it was given in the geographic book. It has a large watershed area, and landforms along with swamplands, tropical rainforests and mountains. Often it is said to be the largest unpolluted freshwater wetland system in the Asia-Pacific region.

What are the benefits of the river?

Almost entirely of the products from the river, the Sepik river provides them with food, drinking water, washing and transport. The local economy was increased on the sale of sago, fish, freshwater prawns, eels, turtles and the eggs and skin meat of crocodiles.

Why does it impress you so much?

Sepik river is the longest free flowing river system with 1500 lakes and other associated wetlands, also it is the only river which has a freshwater basin in the whole Asia Pacific region.

Conclusion:

As mentioned above water bodies are not only for irrigation and only for household usage, there are some areas which are using water bodies to earn.