IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card 710 with Model Answer

Describe a person you recently met

: You should say

who the person is
how you met him/her
where you met him/her
and explain what you liked/disliked about this person

: Model Answer

I like to travel and meet new people. As a result, the number of my acquaintance is on the rise. Recently I met Mr Joseph Robertson in Singapore

Mr Joseph Robertson, the tall guy, is a shopkeeper by profession. He owns a small shop at the centre of the city in Singapore. He is middle-aged and proudly owns a gymnast-like body. His eyes are dark blue and he has been living in Singapore since his birth. His family shifted there about one century ago. He is great in nature and loves to gossip. I discovered that he owns a capacity to make people comfortable with him. I was amazed by this capacity. Besides, when he talks, he is never rude even if he gets angry. I have never seen such a cool-headed man in my life before. When his customers try to bargain with the prices, he gently tells them about the product qualities and tells them that the prices are not negotiable

I met him suddenly when I needed a change of money to pay the taxi fare. The taxi driver had no change with him and it was a troublesome situation for me. I asked for the change to some shopkeepers but nobody came into my support except Mr Robert. He cordially changed the money and helped me paying the taxi fare. It was the introduction between us. Later, I went to his shop for several times and had chats with him for hours. He mostly sold some items made with stone and metal. His shop was filled with lots of such items and all of those were attractive. There were small statues made with metal, hair clips, metal bracelets, metal bangles, stone-made show pieces, Buddha statue made with metal and many other tourist knickknacks. As the sitting arrangement in his store was not too much comfortable, at times we sat outside of the store and talked till he closed his small shop

I went to Singapore last month to have some business deals with a local trader there. But unfortunately, the trader went India to have some other business and apologised to me for such unusual event. He also advised that I should stay in a local hotel and he should bear the expense as he made a mistake here. But I refused his proposal and stayed there by my own costs. During the stay, I went to shopping and travelled into different parts of the city. Suddenly one day, I was troubled by the change and Mr Robertson came to my help. His shop was adjacent to my hotel where I stayed in. I had some deep conversations with the man, and I came to know about many issues of him. I also shared my own experiences and events of my life. Gradually a sense of friendship developed between us. I added him on my social network and invited him to visit my country

Initially, I thought that he might be pretending to be good and grab me as one of his customers. But when I met with him and passed moments, I found that he is a gentleman. He is a very good man with an amicable behave. He never becomes rude with the others even if he receives some misbehaves from the other people. The most attractive part of him is the speeches he delivers. He is a man of intelligence and smartly deals with the situations. I like him as he is honest and hardworking. Interestingly, Mr Robert did not marry and owns a different point of view about marriage. He believes that he is not to be married for his outgoing nature. He is unable to fall in love with a woman who will try to own him only for her. As he did not find such a lady who will not be conservative, he did not marry. He is on the view that he might not get someone liberal and thus he would not marry. I also liked him for his such extraordinary thoughts