IELTS exam - update from Vietnam

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

Greeting and show ID…

Student or working?

Where are you studying?

Do you like it? In what way?

Have many friends? How about close friends?

How can you use time with your friends?

According to you, how is a good friend?

Spending time with family?

Eating at home VS going out for meals.

Advantages of cooking at home.

Who cooks in your family?