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IELTS Speaking Test. Tokyo, Japan.

 
18 October 2021

Part 1.

1. What is your full name?

2. Can I see your identification?

3. Tell me about your hometown.

4. When do the people of your hometown use headphone?

5. Do you use headphone?

6. Can you concentrate in noisy places?

7. How do you do it?

8. Were you a student who listened to every lesson at school?

Part 2. Cue Card.

Describe an exciting book you have read recently. You should say:

*What book it was

* How you heard about it

* When you read it

* And explain why you consider it as an exciting book.

Part 3. Discussion

1. Who reads more, boys or girls?

2. What kinds of books young and old people like?

3. Is it better to read a book and watch its film version or the other way round?

4.Do children read more these days than they did in the past?

5. How has technology helped us to read more and better?

Will the people in the future read more or less?

Idioms for Speaking.

An idiom is an expression that generally has a non-literary meaning. 

For example, if you were very happy because you got an 8 bands in IELTS, instead of just saying "I'm very happy", you could say:

I was over the moon when I saw my result".

Idioms give flexibility to your speaking.

Here is one for you.

Greeen with envy.

Means - very envious

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IELTS Examiner: Tell me about a tou played when you were a child.

Candidate: Well, it was a teddy bear which my father gave me on my fifth birthday. It was soft and fluffy and all my friends were green with envy when they saw it