IELTS Speaking
Handouts
2015 Sep - Dec.
济南新航道 教学部
1
Part1
1. Studies
1. Do you work or are you a student? 2. what major/subjects are you studying?
3. Why did you choose to study that major/those subjects? 4. Do you like your major/subjects? Why?/Why not? 5. Is it very interesting?
6. Are you looking forward to working?
7. Do you prefer to study in the mornings or in the afternoons? 8. How did you feel on your first day in that school/university? 9. Do you think your school/university is a good place to study? 10. What is the most difficult part of your studies? 11. What is the most interesting part of your course? 12. Do you have a study plan for your future?
13. Compare the good learning ways in the past and now. 14. What are your extra-curriculum activities?
2. Work
1. What job do you do?
2. Why did you choose to do that kind of job? 3. Do you like your job? 4. Is it very interesting? 5. Do you miss being a student?
6. Have you ever received any training for your work/job before? 7. Would you like to change a job in the future?
8. What's the relationship between you and your colleagues?
3. Hometown
1. Where are you from?/Where is your hometown?/What's the name of your hometown? 2. Please describe your hometown a little.
2
3. Do you like your hometown? 4. How long have you been living there? 5. Is it a big city or a small place? 6. Do you like living there?
7. What do you like most about your hometown? 8. Is there anything you dislike about your hometown? 9. Do you think you will continue living there for a long time? 10. Do you think it's a suitable place to bring up children? 11. What is the traffic in your hometown?
12. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live? 13. Has your hometown changed in recent years? 14. How do you think it might change in the future?
4. Home/Accommodation
1. What kind of housing/accommodation do you live in?
2.Do you live in a house or a flat? 3. Who do you live with? 4. How long have you lived there? 5. Do you plan to live there for a long time?
6. (if you answer you haven’t lived there long) what’s the difference between where you are living now and where you have lived in the past? 7. Can you describe the place where you live?
8. Which room does your family spend most of the time in? 9. What do you usually do in your house/flat/room?
10. Are the transport facilities to your home very good?/Is it convenient for transport? 11. Do you prefer living in a house or a flat? 12. Please describe the room you live in
13. What part of your home do you like the most?/What's your favorite room in your house/flat? 14. In the future, what kind of place do you want to live in?
5. Clothes
1. What clothes do you usually like to wear?
3
2. Do/Did you wear the same clothes at school and at home? 3. Will you change your clothes when you go home today? 4. Did you have any special clothes to wear when you were a child? 5. How often do you go shopping for clothes?
6. What factors do you consider when you are buying clothes?
6. Colors
1. What colors do you like? 2. What's your favorite color?
3. What's the most popular color in China?
4. Are there any colors which have a special meaning in your country? 5. Do you like to wear light colors or bright (or dark) colors?
6. What's the difference between men and women's preference on colors? 7. Do colors affect your mood?
8. What color would you choose to paint your room walls? 9. Do you think different types of people like different colors?
7. Letters & E-mails
1. Do you write many letters or e-mails? 2. Who do you usually write to? 3. What do you usually write about?
4. Do you prefer to write letters by hand or to use a computer? 5. How often do you write an email or a letter? 6. What are the differences between emails and letters? 7. Is it hard to think of what to write?
8. What kind(s) of letter/email do you think is/are the hardest to write? 9. How do you feel when you receive a letter or email?
10. What kinds of letters or emails are the most difficult to reply to? 11. What kinds of emails/letters do you receive that make you feel excited? 12. Which do you prefer, to make a phone call or to write an email? 13. Do you think people will still write letters in the future?
14. How do you communicate with others at work-by email or is it more convenient to
4
communicate face-to-face?
8. Handwriting
1. Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer (typewriter or word-processor)? 2. Nowadays, how do most people write things?
3. Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting? 4. When do children begin to write in your country? 5. How did you learn to write?
6. Do you think handwriting is very important (nowadays)? 7. How can children today improve (or, practice) their handwriting? 8. What impression does a person’s handwriting have on other people?
9. Weekends
1. What do you usually do at weekends?
2. What do other people in your hometown/country usually do at weekends? 3. When do you spend time with your family?
4. In your country, do men and women usually do the same kinds of things at weekends? 5. What did you do last weekend? 6. What are you going to do next weekend?
7. Is there anything new that you would like to do at weekends? 8. Do you like working at weekends?
9. Do you think weekends now are more important to you than when you were a child? 10. Is it important for people to have weekends off?
11. Do you think it is important to make the most of your weekend?
10. Public holidays
1. What public holidays do you have in your country?
2. Do people in your country celebrate foreign festivals (e.g., Christmas)? 3. Do you like public holidays?
4. Which public holiday do you like the most? 5. What did you do during the last public holiday?
6. What would you like to do during the next public holiday?
7. What do other people in your country usually do on public holidays?
5