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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking questions from India and Azerbaijan – November 2009

IELTS Speaking tests in India and Azerbaijan were shared by our friends (thank you V. and Y.), here are the questions that they remembered:

Speaking test 1

Interview
– Describe your hometown.
– What do you like best about your hometown?
– Does a lot of people ride bicycle in your country?
– Do you know to ride bicycle?
– Why do children like to ride it?
– Do you enjoy parties?
– Which parties are more interesting, of younger or of older people?

Cue card
Talk about a person who cooks well, you should say:
– Who this person is,
– How she/he learned to cook.
– How long she/he has been cooking.

Discussion
– Should children learn cooking at school?
– Should children be taught where food comes from?
– Is it important to spend a lot of time on cooking?

Speaking test 2

Interview
– Where are you from?
– What should I call you?
– Currently where are you living (house or apartment)?
– Which part of your house you like best? Why?
– Where would you prefer to go shopping, big shopping centres or small shopping centres?
– What things you do not like to buy in a shopping centre?
– What is your daily routine?
– What time of a day you like most and why?
– Which activity you would like to change in your daily routine in the future?

Cue card
Talk about a place in your town you like most, you should say:
– What place in your town that is,
– Why you visit the place,
– How often you visit the place,
– When you last visited the place.

Discussion
I was asked some general questions regarding places of entertainment, leisure activities and, in addition, the following questions.

– Should a hospital have modern facilities available to solve the current health problems?
– What facilities are not available in the hospitals in your town?
– What measures governments have to take to solve the traffic problems?

IELTS exam in Melbourne, Australia – November 2009 (Academic Module)

IELTS test in Melbourne, Australia was described by R. (thank you so much!) who remembered it very well, the information is pretty accurate. Here is what the exam was like:

Listening Test

Section 1: A conversation regarding booking a trip.
Section 2: Introduction to a workplace.
Section 3: A discussion about universities between two students and a counselor.
Section 4: A student was talking about a transport project.
Questions: Filling in gaps, multiple choice.

Reading Test

Passage 1: The History of Tea.
Questions: Assign names to the paragraphs, match phrases to paragraphs.

Passage 2: Why the trees go red during autumn.
Questions: True/False/Not given, short-answer questions (using one word).

Passage 3: Regarding stimulating the brain to avoid aging.
Questions: Headings matching, multiple choice questions.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)
The report was about a table and it was showing the different kinds of fuel used during 1990,1996 and 200n in the UK.

Writing task 2 (an essay)
Some people think that professionals like doctors, nurses or teachers should be paid more than sport and entertainment people. Discuss, what is your opinion?

Speaking test

Interview
– What is you name?
– Do you work or study?
– Was there any training involved in your job?
– Do you enjoy your job?
– What are your plans for the future?

– Do you like reading magazines or newspapers?
– What kind of articles do you read?
– Have you ever read a foreign newspaper?
– Do you think its good to read newspapers to learn a new language?

Cue card
Talk about your favorite shop, you should say:
– Where it is located,
– How you came to know about it,
– What they sell there.

Discussion
– Do you like shopping?
– Do you think that people go for shopping when they are upset?
– What do you think, are men’s shopping habits different women’s?
– Do you think it is important to save?
– How would you encourage the society to save money?
– Do you think adults save more money than children do?
– Should schools implant some kind of saving scheme?