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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS test in the UK and Sri Lanka – May 2014 (Academic Module)

IELTS test takers from the UK and Sri Lanka (thank you M and P!) shared the following information about their exams, which were the same.

Listening testIELTS test in the UK

Section 1. A telephone conversation between a woman and a man regarding a first aid training program.

Section 2. Information on holidays and bookings at Australian tourist sites.
Questions: multiple choice, map labelling.

Section 3. Two people were talking about their experience in different areas at their workplace.
Questions: short-answer questions.

Section 4. A talk on helping people with disabilities.
Questions: filling in blanks.

Reading test

Passage 1. About an ancient plant which can help people.
Questions: filling in blanks, True/False/Not Given.

Passage 2. About stress at work with views of different researchers.
Questions: 4 questions on matching the correct person with the comment followed by filling in blanks.

Passage 3. Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given a diagram describing how a desalination plant works (extracting fresh water from sea water). We had to explain the process in detail.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Nowadays many young people get involved in criminal activity. Why is this happening? Give reasons followed by examples and suggest preventive measures to eliminate this problem.

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Tell me about the place you live in.
– What do you dislike about this place?
– Will you stay in this place or do you plan to move away?
– Who does the cooking at home?
– Do you help with cooking?
– What do you think about involving children in cooking?

Cue Card

Describe a beautiful garden that you have visited. Please say

– What garden is it?
– When did you visit it?
– What did you do there?

Discussion

– Do you think more places on earth should be green? Why?
– Do you think gardens are destroyed for the purpose of building new apartments?
– Do you go to nature parks a lot?
– Why do you do it?

IELTS Speaking test in Italy – May 2014

Thanks to F, an IELTS test taker from Italy, we can share these Speaking questions:

Speaking testIELTS test in Italy

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– Tell me about the country you are from.
– Do you like it?
– Do you like the weather there?
– Is that kind of weather suitable for children?
– Do you like museums?
– What museum do you like the most?
– Why do you like it so much?
– Do you remember the museum you went to as a child?

Cue Card

Describe your first mobile phone. Please say

– How old were you when you got it?
– When and why did you buy it?
– How did you feel when you first got it?

Discussion

– Do you like having a mobile phone?
– Is it a good or a bad thing to have a mobile phone? Why?
– What can you do with a mobile phone?
– Do old and young people use mobile phones in the same way?
– What can be done to avoid children getting inattentive in class?