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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking questions from the USA – February 2010

IELTS Speaking questions from the USA were shared by our kind friend R., who remembered the following:

Speaking test

Interview

– Do you work or study ?
– What kind of training did you get for performing your work ?
– Are you planning to take any more trainings in future ?
– How often do you watch TV ?
– What kind of TV programs do you like to watch ?
– How much time do you spend with your friends ?

Cue Card

Talk about things you would be doing differently work-wise from what you do right now, if given a chance, you should say:
– what would that be,
– why you think you would do it,
– what skills you think you would require to do it.

Discussion

– What would be your advice to a youngster who would want to choose a career?
– How could the education system be improved to prepare youngsters from school?
– What can one do when they are forced to change their line of work?

IELTS test in Indonesia – February 2010 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Indonesia was collectively shared by E. and A.(thank you very much!), who remembered the following details:

Listening test

Section 1: About a market, there was a map, which contained some locations and one of them should have been chosen.
Sections 2-4: Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
There was a comparison of favorite subjects of the students from 2 different schools. It is presented as a bar chart.

Writing task 2 (an essay)
Some people prefer to watch movies at the cinema, others like watching their movies at home, as home theaters become more popular. Discuss, what is your opinion?

Speaking test

Interview

– What’s your name?
– What are you doing at the moment?
– What qualification does your job require?
– Do you like flowers?
– On what occasions in your country people give flower to one another?
– What was the last time you gave someone a bouquet of flowers?

Cue card

Talk about an important letter that you received, you should say:
– Who it was from,
– When you received the letter,
– What it was about,
– Why it was important for you.

Discussion

– What is the impact of illiteracy on your country?
– How could we encourage people to learn how to read and write?
– Why it is important that we begin learning how to write at school?
– Is it important to not have any illiteracy in the society?