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January 2016

IELTS Speaking test in Pakistan – January 2016

When A took the IELTS test in Pakistan, he was asked the following Speaking questions:

Speaking testIELTS test in Pakistan

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What city were you born in?
– What can you tell me about the city?
– Do you like taking photographs?
– Do you take photos of yourself?
– Do you want to learn professional photography?
– Why do you want to do it?
– Tell me about an English book that you read recently.
– What was good about it?
– Do you prefer to read magazines or books?

Cue Card

Talk about an art or a craft project that you did at school. Please say

– What was the project?
– How did you do it?
– How did you feel about it later?

Discussion

– Do you still have it?
– What did you do with it?
– Does tourism help with heritage preservation?
– What do you think about hand made gifts?
– Do you like them? Why?
– What should the government do to help the hand-made crafts industry?

IELTS test in Bangladesh – December 2015 (Academic Module)

Our friend H took the IELTS test in Bangladesh and remembered the following Reading, Writing and Speaking topics and questions (H didn’t remember anything about the Listening test).

Reading testIELTS test in Bangladesh

Passage 1. About bird migration.

Passage 2. About different phenomena and recent inventions in medical science.

Passage 3. Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given three pie charts for three countries showing travel distances by bus and train in each of these countries. We had to compare them.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

In recent years children have been given more freedom than in the past. Do you think this is a positive or a negative development? Give your opinion and examples.

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What are your future plans?
– Do you use social media such as Facebook?
– Why do you use it?
– How often do you use it?
– How did you first know about it?
– Who recommended it to you?
– What impact does it have on your country?

Cue Card

Describe a street in your hometown that you know well. Please say

– Where is it?
– Do you like it? Why?
– What do you enjoy there in particular?

Discussion

– Do you think a shopping centre should be built near to that street?
– Would a shopping centre improve its attraction?