Most Common IELTS Speaking Part 1 Practice Questions

 #ielts #ieltsspeaking #ieltstips #ieltsprep #ieltspreparation 

Part 1 of the IELTS speaking test lasts for 3 or 4 minutes and the examiner will ask you 2 or 3 questions on 3 topics about your personal life from a list of 25 possible topics.   

These are the most common speaking topics for part 1 of the IELTS speaking test. They are topics which appear frequently in part 1 of the IELTS speaking test. You should prepare ideas and practise answering these questions using advanced vocabulary and a range of grammatical structures to maximise your results.

Home 

1. Where is your home?

2. Do you plan to live there in the future?

3. Do you live in a house or a flat?

4. Who do you live with?

5. What is your neighbourhood like?

6. What is your favourite room and how is it decorated?

7. Do most people live in houses or flats in your country?

8. What facilities are there near your home?

9. Are there many rooms in your home?

10. What would you change about your home?

 

Hometown 

1. Where is your hometown?

2. Do you like your hometown?

3. What is your hometown like?

4. Do you often visit your hometown?

5. What is the oldest place in your hometown?

6. What is there for a tourist to do in your hometown?

7.Has your hometown changed much since your were a child?

8. Is there good transportation in your hometown?

9. Is your hometown a good place to bring up children?

10. How could your hometown be improved?

Work 

1. What is your job?

2. Where do your work?

3. Why did you choose that job?

4. Do you get on well with your colleagues?

5. Is it a popular job in your country?

6. What responsibilites do you have at work?

7. Do you like your job?

8. Do you plan to continue this job in the future?

9. If you had the chance, would you change your job?

10. What was your first day like?

Study 

1. What do you study?

2. Where do your study?

3. Is that a populary subject in your country?

4. What are the main aspects of your subject?

5. Do you like this subject?

6. Do you plan to get a job in the same field as your subject?

7. If you had the chance, would you change your subject?

Sport Vocabulary You MUST Know For IELTS

#ielts #ieltsprep #ieltspreparation #ieltsexam #vocabulary #ieltsvocab #sport #freeieltslesson

Sport is an important topic in IELTS and you may be asked sports questions in your speaking test, listen to information about a particular sport or activity in the listening test or read about sport in the reading exam. The following activities are designed to help you develop your sport vocabulary for IELTS.

Activity 1

Complete the table with the correct vocabulary

running       football        snowboarding        scuba diving          net                                                         rink               court                        goggles                         gloves 
course          boxing           weightlifting            fins            clubs

Sport	Place	Equipment
1	pitch	ball / goal
2	ring	_____ / shorts
3 tennis		ball / ___ / raquet
4	ocean / sea	oxygen tank / ____
5 golf		_____ / irons
6	pool	costume / _______
7	mountain slopes	board
8	gym	weights
9 ice-skating		skates
10	track	shoes / spikes

Activity 2

Do any of these sports appeal to you? Why/Why not?

Which of these activities do you think are most popular? Explain why.

Record yourself speaking the answers or write your answers in the comments!

Activity 3

Describe at least one example of each type of sport. Use a dictionary to help you.

1. Motor

2. Winter

3. Water

4. Equestrian

5. Indoor

6. Track and field

7. Team

8. Indoor

Record yourself speaking the answers or write your answers in the comments!

Sources

Ready for IELTS:Sam McCarter:2010:Macmillan Publishers:Thailand

IELTS Grammar: 8 Collocations You Need to Know to Increase your Speaking Score

 #IELTS #IELTSspeaking #ieltsgoals #ieltsprep #ieltspreparation

In English some adjectives are followed by a particular preposition in sentences with the verb to be. Sometimes the preposition is different depending on whether you are referring to people or things. 

Unfortunately there aren't really any rules about using prepositions with adjectives (or any other type of words), you just have to learn them for your IELTS test. You can of course use an English dictionary to check the correct collocation, but today we will focus on some of the most common collocations, which are used to describe how we feel about something or someone. 

happy/sad/angry/annoyed/upset/passionate/mad about 

good/bad at

late/ready/famous for

different from 

interested in 

afraid/fond/frightened of

keen on

bored/capable of

As you will see, using adjective + preposition collocations can instantly make a very simple sentence into one that shows greater grammatical knowledge of the language, which will help increase your score in IELTS speaking and other exams, if they are used accurately. 

For example, the simple sentence I love dogs can be changed to I'm absolutely mad about dogs. Using an adverb is a good way to emphasise your opinion when you are speaking about your hobbies or interests. 

The following adjective + preposition collocations are most useful in part 1 of the IELTS speaking test, where the examiner will ask you to talk about yourself.

Activity 

Rewrite these sentences using the verb to be and the adjective in brackets with an appropriate preposition. 

1. I love swimming (mad)

2. I hate going to the gym (keen) 

3. I can write well in English (capable) 

4. I enjoy watching films and going to the cinema (fond) 

5. I love learning English (passionate)

6. I love football (fanatical) 

7. I don't mind cooking but I certainly like eating! (indifferent) 

8. I can't stand waiting in long queues at theme parks (bored)

9. I can't wait to move to England for my internship (ready)

10. I hate spiders! (afraid)

Write your answers in the comments!