Skip to content

April 2010

IELTS test in Indonesia and Australia – April 2010 (General Training)

IELTS exams in Australia and Indonesia were shared by two students (thank you!), who remembered the following:

Listening test

Section 1. Restaurant Booking Information.
Section 2. Site Plan of Rock Festival.
Section 3. South Africa Eco tour.
Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. BBC TV Program.
Passage 2. Holiday homes.
Passage 3. Professor’s advice to students regarding selecting study materials.
Passage 4. A text about fabrics development and different kind of designers using the fabrics. Different materials used in textile industry, including a set of names of designers who specialized in some special kind of clothing, for the future.(e.g. Liquid metal clothing-Ms. X, Radio clothing-Mr. Y).

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a letter)
You and your family have just rented an apartment and one or two problems occurred. Write a letter to the landlord. Describe the problems and tell him what you want him to do.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)
Nowadays young children are using mobile phones. Some people think it is a positive development, while others think it’s a negative one. Discuss. What is your opinion?

Speaking test

Interview
– Tell me about yourself.
– Where are you from?
– What do you do?

Cue Card 1
Talk about something that you purchased and had not used much, please say
– what it was,
– where you bought it,
– why you bought it,
– why you didn’t use it.

Cue Card 2
Describe a school you went to when you were a child.

Discussion 1
– What advantage is there to moving from a large school to a small one?
– What is the difference between a large and a small school?
– What qualifications should a teacher have?
– Why teachers give so many assignments to pupils?

IELTS test in Latvia and the UK – April 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS exams in Latvia and the UK were shared by our kind friends L and R, apparently the questions and topics were the same. Here is what we know:

Listening test

Section 1. Description of movies in the cinema.
Section 2. Architecture.
Section 3. Biology terminology.
Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. A text about marine life, sea and a clock for sailors.
Passage 2. How companies hire a stars from other companies and what kind of consequences it causes.
Passage 3. About creativity and creative people.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
We were given a table that showed the number of students enrolled in an Australian university in six different departments, like Humanities, Social, Business, Information technology, Biology, and Engineering for female students, students who are not born in Europe and for students whose first language is not English.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)
Society should ban all forms of the advertising because it has no purpose and causes damages. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific examples and personal experiences.

Speaking test

Interview
– Tell me about yourself.
– Tell me about your city.
– What historical places would you recommend to see there?
– What culture events would be interesting for tourists?
– When should they start to teach culture history, history of art at schools?

Cue Card 1
Describe a famous person which impacts you very much, you should say:
– who that person is,
– why he/she impacts you,
– what his / her famous works are.

Cue Card 2
Describe a person whom you live / have lived with for a long time. You should say:
– who the person is,
– how long you have been living together,
– what are the usual things that you do together.