Your least favourite movie
IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card with a full sample answer, a Band 9 model of the two-minute long turn.
The cue card
Your least favourite movie
You should say:
- what it was
- why you decided to watch it
- why it made you disappointed
Sample answer
The movie I'd like to talk about, which I genuinely regard as my least favourite, is a science-fiction film I watched a couple of years back about an alien invasion, though I'll refrain from naming it outright.
I decided to watch it mainly on the strength of the trailer, which looked spectacular, brimming with impressive special effects and an intriguing-sounding plot about humanity banding together against an alien threat. A few of my friends were also going, so it seemed like a good excuse for a group outing to the cinema, and the reviews beforehand, at least from what I'd come across online, were reasonably glowing.
Unfortunately, the film turned out to be a crushing letdown. The special effects were indeed striking, I'll grant it that, but everything else fell flat. The plot was riddled with holes and hinged on characters making bafflingly stupid decisions purely to manufacture tension, the dialogue was painfully cliched, and the pacing dragged badly through the middle stretch, to the point where I actually checked my phone at one point to see how much longer it had left. What disappointed me most, though, was that the ending felt utterly unearned - after two hours of build-up, the resolution was rushed and deeply unsatisfying, almost as though the writers had run clean out of ideas. Walking out of the cinema, my friends and I all agreed we'd squandered both our time and money, and it's stuck with me since as a textbook example of a film that prioritised visuals over any semblance of substance.
Reading a model answer is not the same as saying one. The sample above shows what a strong Part 2 answer sounds like. What it cannot tell you is how yours sounds — whether you hesitate, repeat the question back, or run out of things to say at forty seconds.
You can record an answer to this exact question and get it marked on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and pronunciation — the same four criteria the examiner uses.
Common questions
How long should I speak for in Part 2?
Between one and two minutes. The examiner stops you at two, so aim to still be talking at the ninety-second mark rather than finishing early — running out at forty seconds is the most common problem in this part.
What do I do with the one minute of preparation time?
You get one minute and a pencil and paper. Most candidates waste it writing full sentences they then read aloud, which sounds flat. Note a few keywords against each bullet instead, so you have four things to talk about rather than a script.
Do I have to cover all four bullet points?
They are prompts, not a checklist, and you are not penalised for skipping one. In practice they are the easiest way to fill two minutes, so covering them is usually the simplest way to keep going.
Does it matter if the story is not true?
No. You are assessed on your English, not on whether the events happened. Inventing detail is fine and often easier than recalling a real memory under pressure.
Model answers written and reviewed by The English All-in-One IELTS team. They are teaching models showing what each band looks like, not real candidate scripts.