IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 699 with Model Answer

Describe a typical day in your life when you were a child

: You should say

who looked after you
some of the people you saw
what you ate
and say what you most enjoyed doing

: Model Answer

childhood. The days were awesome and magical. People realise the days when the childhood is gone and regret. I also dream to go back to my childhood days which were filled with enjoyment

It was the 90’s when I was a child and experienced numerous things that the children of the current days are unable to watch or enjoy. Presently, the age is advancing and with the advancement, there have been great changes among the family issues. I used to live in an extended family in India. The family consisted my parents, my grandparents, paternal uncles and their families. I used to meet regularly with all the relatives like my paternal uncles, aunts and cousins. We had a very good relation and still I share the bond with them. Besides, relatives from my maternal sources frequently visited us. They also loved me much as I was the youngest boy in my mother’s family. So, everyone from my maternal part loved me. My grandparents loved me much after my parents. Unfortunately, now they are in heaven and I pray for them

Since the family was bigger than the other families in the area where we lived in, cooking was an interesting issue. My mother used to cook for everyone at the family while the aunts (wives of my paternal uncles’) came to assist her. The cooking was done by the noon and everyone came to take their lunch. Traditional Indian foods were cooked every day and every member used to take the meal with great satisfaction. But the menu got changed following some religious or local occasions. I can remember that I took some rich foods like polaw, biriyani, different kebabs etc. during the religious occasions. Moreover, my mother changed the menu accordingly when guests from distant parts of the country came to visit use. In the morning the menu contained ruti, with sabji (a type of mixed vegetables) and often egg fry. A cup of tea or coffee followed the breakfast for everyone. During the lunch, most of the times, rice was cooked and was served with fishes or meats. Sometimes, we ate vegetables only on the supper

As I grew up in an extended family, I had the chance to pass my days with my cousins. We were around eight kids together and I was the eldest among them. Though I was eldest, I also had to stay under the care of Ramu Kaka. Ramu Kaka was our private watchman who was appointed for the kids alone. Since the parents could not look after the kids, they appointed Ramu Kaka to look after us. He used to be with us and despite his angry figure; he was too gentle to us. At first, we thought that he would punish us for our misdeeds but he, in fact, did not. Often he had hidden the misdeeds from our parents lest they beat us. He took all the blames on him when any of the kids broke any glass, plate or committed any such mess. Still, I have not found a soft man like him. In the early days of my life, I have done lots of mess with others while Ramu Kaka took care of everything

Now I am a grown up and miss the days. When I was a kid, I used to play with all of my cousins including boys and girls. But now the scenario has been changed. All of us have become busier with our respective tasks and hardly can manage time to be together. I actually miss the days when all of us used to play different indoor and outdoor games. Most of the times, I was the winner in the indoor games like chess and card but my cousins performed very well in the outdoor games like crickets before the lawn of our house. Besides, I used to make fun with my sisters and often got caught with them while smoking cigarette secretly. In fact, I enjoyed the matters much and want to get back in the olden days of my childhood