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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking tests in Egypt and Turkey – April 2011

Below are two speaking tests given in Egypt and Turkey (see Listening, Reading and Writing tests here).

Speaking Test 1

Interview

– Do you like science?
– Did you enjoy science lessons at school?
– What kind of science do you read about?
– Do you believe celebrations are important and why?
– In your country which celebrations are more important, religious or national ones?
– Describe a celebration in your country.

Cue Card

Talk about a happy event in your childhood. Please say

– what happened,
– who was present at the event and
– why you remembered that event.

Discussion

– What does make people happy?
– Do you believe that people used to define happiness in a different way in the past, or that the concept of happiness hasn’t change with the passage of time?
– Do you believe that old people can be happier than young people?

Speaking Test 2

Interview

– What is your name?
– Are you working or studying?
– What is your job?
– Is your job difficult?
– Do you like traveling?
– When did you go outside of your city and where?
– Do you like your city?
– Do you like holidays?
– Do you go on a holiday alone?
– Do you like eating?
– What is your favorite food?
– What kind of fish restaurants do you prefer?
– What is your favorite restaurant in your city? Why?

Cue card and Discussion parts were not shared in the Speaking Test 2.

IELTS test in Egypt and Turkey – April 2011 (General Training)

IELTS exams in Egypt and Turkey were shared by our kind friends C and S, who collectively remembered the following:

Listening test

Section 1. A conversation about how to become a patient in a medical centre (British accent).

Section 2. A conversation about 2 teams, their training, fees and games (Australian accent).

Section 3. A lecture about the English Channel underground tunnel and a map to label (British accent).

Section 4. Some instructions (in an American accent).

Reading test

Passage 1. Several paragraphs each talking about an art gallery.
Questions: information matching.

Passage 2. Employees in a company and their overtime scheme and regulations.
Questions: multiple choice.

Passage 3. Trips to Bear Mountain.
Questions: multiple choice, True/False/Not Given.

Passage 4. Tree houses, their design and development. Designers and techniques they have used.
Questions: multiple choice, match a name to a statement.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a letter)

You have started a course after reading its details in a brochure. Unfortunately it turned out to be totally different from the description in the brochure. Write a letter to the manager, including the following:

– Mention the details of the course.
– Explain how it was different.
– What course you would like to take instead?

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Children’s opinions are influenced by their friends. Is this a positive or a negative development? What can parents do to influence their children’s opinions?