IELTS Speaking · Part 2 Cue Card
Describe a website you use often
A complete preparation guide: the cue card itself, a 60-second prep framework, a band 7.5 sample answer, topic vocabulary, and likely Part 3 follow-up questions.
Cue card
Describe a website you use often.
You should say:
- •What the website is
- •How you found out about it
- •What you use it for
- •And explain why you use it so often
How to use your 1 minute of prep time
Specific to this cue card — not generic advice.
- 1Don't pick the most obvious answers (Google, YouTube) unless you can be specific.
- 2Mention frequency clearly — daily, weekly, multiple times a day.
- 3Describe a single feature in detail rather than saying it does everything.
- 4Compare it briefly to alternatives to show why this one wins for you.
Sample answer (band 7.5)
Read it once for shape, then aloud for rhythm. Don't memorise it — examiners can tell.
The website I use most often, after the obvious work tools, is probably Wikipedia. I know it's not a glamorous answer, but I genuinely visit it three or four times a day. I started using it heavily during university about ten years ago, when one of my professors actually recommended it as a starting point — not for citations, but for getting your bearings on a topic before going deeper. What I mainly use it for is following curiosity threads. If a friend mentions a politician I've never heard of, or I read about an obscure war in a novel, I open Wikipedia and let myself spend twenty minutes wandering between articles. I also use it for very practical things — checking unit conversions, dates, the spelling of foreign place names. The reason I use it so often, more than something like Google, is that it gives you a structured overview rather than a list of links. You don't have to choose; you just read. I've also come to appreciate that it's almost the last big website on the internet that isn't trying to sell me anything, push notifications at me, or run an algorithm. There's something quietly trustworthy about that.
Topic vocabulary & collocations
Phrases used in the sample answer that lift fluency naturally.
getting your bearings
finding your orientation
curiosity threads
lines of interest one follows
wandering between articles
browsing aimlessly between pages
structured overview
organised summary
push notifications
alerts sent to your device
quietly trustworthy
reliable in an unobtrusive way
Likely Part 3 follow-up questions
The examiner will move from your story (Part 2) to broader, abstract questions (Part 3). Prepare answers for these.
- How has the way people get information changed in the past 20 years?
- Are some websites becoming too powerful?
- Should information online be checked by experts before being published?
- Will Wikipedia still exist in fifty years?
- What is the role of free websites in education?
Common pitfalls on this card
- ⚠Just listing 'YouTube, Facebook, Instagram'.
- ⚠Saying it's useful without naming what you actually do on it.
- ⚠Skipping how you found out about it.