IELTS Speaking questions from Moscow, Russia - October 2009

IELTS Speaking questions from Moscow, Russia – October 2009

This is the version of Speaking questions O. from Moscow was asked in her IELTS exam:

Speaking test

Interview
- What’s your name?
- What do you do? Do you study or work?
- Did you have any training done for your job?
- Do you watch a lot of television?
- What kind of shows do you usually watch on TV?
- Do you watch the shows from other countries?
- Were you taught drawing when you were a child?
- Do you think it’s necessary to teach children drawing?
- Why do you think people buy paintings?
- Would you consider buying a painting yourself?

Cue card
Talk about an electronic device that you would like to buy in the future, you should say
- What it would be,
- How you know about it,
- How much it would cost.

Discussion
- A conversation about modern technology:
- Do we still need teachers in the classroom now that we have computers?
- How are the computers used on modern education?
- Why more and more young people choose to study computer technologies at universities and colleges?
- How did the technologies change the society in the past few decades?
O. says: The last question I didn’t get at first, but the assessor helped me a little bit. He rephrased the question so that I understood that he wanted me to speak about the new developments in communications – cell phones, instant messaging, etc.