IELTS Speaking · Part 2 · Cue card
Describe a dish you know how to cook
Last updated 2 September 2026
In short
This Part 2 cue card asks you to describe describe a dish you know how to cook. Your long turn has to cover 4 prompts (what the dish is; how you learned to make it; what ingredients it needs; when you usually make it), and the last one carries the most marks.
The cue card
Describe a dish you know how to cook.
You should say:
- what the dish is
- how you learned to make it
- what ingredients it needs
- and explain when you usually make it
How to structure your long turn
- 1
what the dish is
- 2
how you learned to make it
- 3
what ingredients it needs
- 4
and explain when you usually make it
Rounding-off questions
Should young people learn to cook?
Is home cooking being lost in modern life?
Where this leads: Part 3 on food and diet
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