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

Describe an app you use in your mobile phone

: You should say

what it is
how you use it
what benefits you get from this app
and explain why this mobile app is important to you

: Sample Answer

I own a Sony smartphone and it is powered by the Android mobile operating system. One of the applications I frequently use on my phone is Gmail. This is an email application that allows any Gmail user to send or receive emails. This application enables me to check my emails or send any email whenever I need to. Gmail is a free email service provider which is owned by the tech giant Google
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Both my personal and work email accounts are in Gmail and I have to check for new emails several times and day. I often send emails to my colleagues, friends and family members using this application. The application is quite easy to use ad offers an intuitive interface. To use it, I just have to tap on the app icon and the main interface appears. The home screen shows the Inbox, Compose Email, Search and Menu options. The menu brings several other options including the categorised email viewing option along with the ‘Label’ feature. I can use the ‘Label’ and ‘Tag’ features to manage of categorise my emails. The emails I sent are saved in the ‘Sent’ folder and deleting an email takes just a tap of a finger. The ‘Settings’ and ‘Help’ options are present at the bottom of the menu. The ‘Search’ feature helps me find any email quite easily. Furthermore, whenever, I need to open a document, I can either save it to the local memory or directly open it using Google docs and this is quite convenient for me

The Gmail mobile application is one of the most downloaded and widely used applications that has more than 1 billion users. Gmail used to offer more than 1 GB storage a few years back and these days Google accounts holders have access to a shared pool of storage i.e. every account holder of Google gets 15 GB of free space, which is shared across his Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+ Photos. It also offers 25 MB attachment option in a single email. I often need to send large files, especially to my colleagues and I find Gmail application a lifesaver for me! This application that I use for accessing my email has an advanced spam filtering feature which keeps my ‘Inbox’ clean and keeps away the spammers

I have tried a few other email service providers and their emails access applications before I finally switched to Gmail. In terms of features, storage, accessibility, performance, security, Gmail application is second to none. I have been using this application for more than 6 years and it hardly crashes or cause any problem

Since email has become one of the primary modes of communications and we cannot do without it in modern days. we need to use a handy email application so that we can check or send emails anytime, even when we are on the streets. The Gmail application perfectly match the requirements and expectations I have from such an application. Finally, I would like to say that this is the most important mobile application to me