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Model Answers and follow up questions to describe an exciting book that you enjoy reading IELTS cue card:
- Books play an essential role in every student’s/ person’s life because books providing knowledge of the outside world, introduce them to a world of imagination, improving their reading, writing and speaking skills, and boosting memory and intelligence.
- I like to read motivational, story and investigation related books.
- Today, I would like to talk about a crime and investigation related book.
When you read it? and What kind of book it is?
- The book name is crime and punishment.
- It is a novel written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly instalments during 1866. It is a murder storybook that is told from a murder’s point of view.
- People did work and study from home. Due to the pandemic, everyone stayed at home last year. At that time, I had much free time, so to utilize the free time, I started to read a different kinds of books.
- As I said earlier, I like investigation and crime-related books, so I downloaded some books online, and crime and punishment were one of these books.
- Book explain a murder’s point of view, behaviour, emotions before and after the murder.
- The novel’s first masterpiece is a psychological analysis of a person, who thinks that he is an extraordinary/ very unusual person able to take on the spiritual(relating to soul or human spirit as opposed to material or physical things) responsibility of using evil means to achieve.
And explain why you think it is exciting?
- I read a lot of books.
- However, the very first book that I read is also one that I still enjoy reading a lot.
When you read it? and What kind of book it is?
- It is none other than the first book of the Harry Potter series, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.
- It was gifted to me by my mother on my 10th birthday.
- Initially, I was really mad at her, because I wanted a recently released video game.
- She told me that she would get me the video game as well but if I gave the book a chance first.
- So, I reluctantly picked up the book and started reading.
- I read just 10 pages and I was hooked.
- I remember I used the word unput downable to describe the book to one of my friends, a few days later.
- I started at 9 PM at night and I finally slept at 7 AM the next morning after finishing the last page.
- Fortunately, it was the summer vacation or my parents would have taken the book away from me at night and made me go to bed.
- Harry Potter needs no introduction – it is a story about magic, a story of good vs evil.
- However, for me, it is also a coming-of-age story.
- It is a story about a boy becoming a man.
- Everything about the book is perfect, the world setting, the characterisation, the magic system.
- More than that, the book isn’t afraid of pulling punches.
- When the protagonist falls into a pit, he doesn’t come out unscathed, he gets hurt just like a normal human being.
- Good characters die, they lose, the road to victory isn’t a straight one.
And explain why you think it is exciting?
- Every fantasy book is about good vs evil, but the exciting books are those, where you cannot predict what would happen next and Harry Potter is one of the best examples of that.
- And in the end, it would always be the book that got me into the habit of reading.
- So, it will always hold a special place in my heart.
- Even now I randomly pick up the book once a month and read two three chapters.
- And I don’t know why but there is always something I feel that I hadn’t read before.
