IELTS test in Tehran, Iran – March 2011 (Academic Module)
The following IELTS exam was shared by our kind friend M who recently took her IELTS test in Iran.
Listening test
Section 1. A phone conversation about a children’s complex and its facilities, prices and needs.
Questions: filling in blanks.
Section 2 and 3. Don’t remember.
Section 4. About the library of Alexander, the way they gathered books, and people who were involved in renovating it.
Questions: multiple choice, information matching (match a person to an action, 5 out of 7-8 names).
Reading test
Passage 1. About the history of Homeopathy and its founder Samuel Heinemann, the way of cure and so on.
Questions: True/False/Not Given, headings matching, information matching (statements to paragraphs).
Passage 2. About a lake and the way scientists found out about its history of climate during the last thousand years via the sediment settled at the bottom.
Questions: diagram labeling, True/False/Not Given.
Passage 3. An article about language, it was divided into basic language that was used by apes and their babies which covers just basic communication and the whole language that was just used by human beings, including all emotions, logic, discussion and so on.
Questions: multiple choice, headings matching.
Writing test
Writing task 1 (a report)
We had a table showing percentage of people in 5 countries who lived in cities (urban areas) in 2001, 2005, 2010 and a projection for 2020.
Writing task 2 (an essay)
Some people think that government should support artists (poets, musicians) financially, other argue that money should be spent on other, more important, issues. Do you agree or disagree?
Speaking test
Interview
– Which city do you live in?
– Do you go out often?
– Why do young people spend most of their time outside?
Cue Card
Talk about books that you like to read. Please say
– What kind of books do you read (scientific, novels, poems and so on)?
– Why do you like this kind of books?
– Do you suggest these books to others?
Discussion
– Is reading important? Why?
– What is the role of the Internet on our generation’s lifestyle?
