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Recent IELTS exams

Real students tell about their recent IELTS exams: IELTS questions, topics, tasks, answers.

IELTS Speaking test in Ghana – November 2011

Our kind friend F from Ghana has shared his IELTS Speaking questions.

Speaking test IELTS test in Ghana

Interview

– Where do you come from?
– Why do you like the place where you live now?
– Is it a good place to raise children?

– When did you first use the Internet?
– How often do you buy things online?

– In your country, at what age do people celebrate their most important birthday?
– What do people do on their birthdays?

Cue Card

I’d like you to talk about a photograph you once took. You should say

– When you took it
– Who you took it with
– What it shows
– Why you like this particular photograph

Follow up question: Have your friends seen this photograph?

Discussion

– Does one necessarily need skills to take a good photograph?
– What can you say about people who take good pictures, yet have no skills?
– Why do you think some people don’t like having their photograph taken?

IELTS test in Spain – November 2011 (Academic Module)

Our friend from Spain has shared his recent IELTS exam – enjoy.

Listening test IELTS test in Spain

Section 1. Two students were discussing some lectures that they wanted to attend.

Section 2. Two students talked about the content of a course on primitive tribes they’ve taken.

Section 3. How to make a garden for children.

Section 4. About a certain city in England and its socioeconomic state and evolution.

Reading test

Passage 1. About bamboo growing. How it affects other species, the economy, if it’s endangered and so on.

Passage 2. About literature for children in England, from the 17th century to the 1930’s.

Passage 3. Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We had to compare a graph and a chart. The bar chart was showing percentages of male and female smokers in a certain country in 2006, grouped by ages. The graph was showing the evolution of male and female proportion of smokers in that country from 1976 to 2006.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Even though people read the news using the internet nowadays, newspapers still are an important source of information for the general public. Do you agree or disagree with that statement?

Speaking test

Interview
Don’t remember.

Cue Card

Talk about a book that you have read but you would like to read again. Please say:

– Who is the author?
– What did you like or dislike about the book?
– Did any of your friends read the book too?

Discussion

– What kind of books do people of your country read?
– What do you think about people who like to buy and own books?