IELTS Speaking Part 2: IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card

Describe a teacher who has influenced you in your education

:You should say

Where you met him/ her
What subject s/he taught
What was special about him /her

and explain why this person influenced you so much

: Sample Answer

I consider myself lucky to get several very good teachers throughout my academic years. Among them, I’d like to talk about Mr Smith who was an extraordinary teacher, a really good mentor and who has a great influence in my education

I met Mr Smith when I was in class 4 and he was our math teacher. Initially, we thought that he would be a moody teacher and we would have to be very polite in front of him. This impression came mostly because of his serious face and tidy dress-up. But soon we found that he is a very friendly person and teaches us very well. He never made things complicated and tried over and over again to explain something to us. He had a unique way of teaching. Seems like he would start an interesting story and later we would find that he would relate the math to the story. Thus everything we learned from him was interesting and that’s why we remember most of the theory and techniques of math he taught us

I’d say he has a great influence in my education because he made a very strong foundation on Mathematics. Later on, I studied Science and Mathematics was the most important subject. I have always been good at math and that’ mainly because of Mr Smith who had a major role in making the subject interesting to me. Before I learned math from Mr Smith, my impression on math was not good and I considered mathematics to be a very difficult and uninteresting subject. But his teaching and influences changed my way of thinking about math and later on math became my one the most favourite subject