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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking questions from Timor Leste and Uzbekistan – March 2010

IELTS Speaking questions were shared by our friends R from Uzbekistan and F from Timor Leste (thank you very much!). Here they are:

Speaking test 1

Interview

– Can you tell me about yourself, please?
– Where are you staying?
– How long have you been staying at this address?
– Does your place have access to the public transportation?
– Do you think that people need fruit and vegetables? Why?
– Where are you getting the fruit and vegetables?
– Do you eat fruit and vegetables every day?

Cue Card

Talk about a happy event of your childhood, please say:
– what the event was,
– what happened,
– explain when and where it happened.

Discussion

– Do you think wealthy people are happier than not-so-wealthy people?
– Do you think that a job can make a person happy in his/her life?

Speaking test 2

Interview

– Where do you come from?
– Which part of the country is your hometown located in?
– Is it a good place to live?
– Talk about your job, how do you like it?
– What kind of noise do you dislike most?
– What kind of sound do you like most?
– Do you like watching movies in a cinema? Why or why not?
– Which types of movie do you like?

Cue card

Describe a city you visited recently, please say:
– where it is located,
– how the weather is there and what kind of people live there,
– how you got there,
– what you did there,
– explain the reason why you liked or disliked it.

Discussion

– Do you think environment affects our personality?
– How do you feel at home?

IELTS test in Iran – March 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Iran was shared by our kind friend N. who managed to remember the following:

Listening test

Section 1. An Australian lady was ringing an agent, asking what she should do about her house that needed fixing, there were some problems with electricity and with the lock of a window.
Questions: filling in the gaps.

Section 2. About a museum in British Colombia, Canada and the items on display in the museum (dinosaurs, their footprints, etc).
Questions: filling a form.

Section 3. The different attitudes men and women have towards learning mathematics.
Question: filling in a table.

Section 4. A student was talking to her tutor about a survey she had done on ‘Single-Sex Education’ and its effects on girls and boys.
Question: multiple choice and filling in the gaps.

Reading test

Passage 1. Scented plants, their use in industrial sectors of different countries and their effects on different species of ants, honeybees, etc.

Passage 2. Library, the past and present forms of libraries, about libraries going digital and how different the electronic and printed versions of the same book might be.

Passage 3. Pharmaceutical companies, different methods of packaging and labeling, their advantages and disadvantages.

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (a report)
A diagram of a home smokery. Different words on the diagram included air, lid, brick, smoke, box, the ground floor.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)
Famous people play an important role in shaping the characters of others, especially young people – these well known people may act as ‘role models’ for the young. Is it a good or a bad development? Discuss.