IELTS-Blog

Thanks to our friends from Vietnam, I can give you this update from recent Academic IELTS test.

Writing :

Part 1: Two line graph, which shows percentages of employment amongst men and women in England from 1993 to 2000.

Part 2: In order to learn a new language well, you should also get to know the culture and the lifestyle. To what extent do you agree with this idea?

Speaking:

Interview questions

Speech

Topic: Your favorite story as a child

Discussion

As you may have noticed, there is a new category in IELTS-Blog - Recent IELTS exams. You can find there everything my students tell about their IELTS exams : topics, tasks, stories.

This post is also about recent IELTS - our friend D. P. Hieu from Vietnam brings an update from an Academic IELTS test he took on 29/7/06.

Listening :

Part 1: Complete Table about Recyled process.
Part 2: About Orientation Day.
Part 3: Foods for children.
Part 4: A lecture about a successful company run by a woman in India.

Reading :

Very, very hard.
Part 1 & 3: too complex to describe.
Part 2: About fishing in Alaska (US).

Writing :

Part 1: A normal bar chart shows (and compares) the number of employed workers in 7 sectors (trading, tourism, manufacturing….) in New Zealand in percentages between 1990 and 2000.

Part 2: Earlier developments in technology are bigger than recent ones? Discuss. Give your own ideas.

Speaking:

Quite a lot of questions. Lasted for exact 22 min (too long, isn’t it?). Yes, that’s true. Phew….
Examiner ’s name : Peter Braigtain (or something that sounds like that)

Interview questions

Speech

Topic: your dream vehicle!!!

Discussion