Our friend M. remembered the following questions from a recent IELTS test in Nigeria:
Listening test
Section 1. Health and fitness club membership information, including application guide, fees, dates and level fitness.
Section 2. About volunteering work for university students who are interested an additional work to keep busy.
Section 3. Don’t remember.
Section 4. About the history of hei-tiki sculptures. The signs, symbolic meaning and traditional implications.
Reading test
Passage 1. About technical assistant work in the UK.
Passage 2. Don’t remember.
Passage 3. The history and work of the archaeologist J. Giddio.
Writing test
Writing task 1 (a letter)
You have received a letter about winning a prize in a competition organised by the media house, but didn’t receive that prize. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about it and say
– Describe the competition and prize in details.
– How do you feel about it?
– What do you expect the editor to do about it?
Writing Task 2 (an essay)
Some parents and teachers agree that the behaviour of children should be strictly controlled. Others, however, believe that children should be allowed to do anything and experiment freely. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.