IELTS SPEAKING

 IELTS SPEAKING

The Speaking Test Format and the Speaking Topics for Extensive Practice

 

Speaking module overview

General points

• An interview takes place between one examiner and one
•  candidate for between 11 and 14 minutes.
• The candidate’s speaking is assessed on fluency and
• coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range
• and accuracy, and pronunciation.
• A band mark is awarded between 1 and 9 with 9 being
•  the highest. Half marks e.g. 5.5 are now possible in the
• speaking section.
  Speaking test format

Part 1	Examiner and candidate introduce themselves, candidate answers general questions on familiar topics e.g. family, job, studies, free-time etc.	about 4 to 5 minutes
Part 2	Candidate asked to speak on a given topic (information is written on a task card) for 1-2 minutes. One minute of preparation in which the candidate can make notes is allowed.	4 minutes
Part 3	Discussion on more abstract issue related to the chosen topic in part 2 of the test.	about 4 to 5 minutes

 

Practice Speaking Topics For the extensive practice of Speaking Test Part I

·         Daily Routine

·         Leisure (free time)

·         Studies/ Job

·         Keeping in contact with people

·         Friends and Friendship

·         Family

·         Weather

·         Home town or village

·         Shopping

·         Travelling to work or college

·         Food and Cooking

·         Musical Instruments/ Music

·         Your country

·         Colours

·         Entertainment

Practice Speaking Topics: For the extensive practice of Speaking Test Part II

1.     Describe a science subject you studied in your high school

2.     Describe a situation when somebody helped you

3.     Describe a walk with your friend

4.     Describe a recent recreational trip

5.     Your favourite childhood toy

6.     Your favourite leisure activity

7.     A family member you like to spend time with         

8.     Describe an occasion when you felt very happy

9.     A thing you would like to buy in future

10.   An important event in your life

11.   A picture or photo you have

12.   Use of technology in everyday life

13.   Parks in your country

14.   An important conversation you did recently

15.   An electrical gadget that you use in your house

16.   An exciting text message you have ever received

17.   An important period of your life

18.   Your favourite Newspaper/ magazine

19.   Your favourite movie/ TV program

20.   A teenager you know

21.   Your favourite shopping centre/ shop

22.   Water supply in your country

23.   Your Favourite Restaurant/ eating place

24.   Furniture in your house

25.   A traditional Pakistani meal

26.   An equipment/ machine, you use regularly

27.   Your Favourite Website/ search engine

28.   Someone you admire

29.   A child you know

30.   A job you have/ you would like to have

31.   A skill you have learnt

32.   A house you would like to live in

33.   A country you would like to live in.

34.   Describe a garden you have ever seen

35.   A healthy activity that you do regularly

36.   A childhood teacher you would like to meet   

37.   A gift your have ever given or received

38.   A thing in your house that is not properly working these days

                                        

           

Talk on familiar topics

Talk about a Movie

Yes, I am going to talk about the film 'Secondary school' by I think Tammy Cheung? I'm not quite sure about the name of the producer, but it's been a bit controversial in Hong Kong, it's a documentary and it's about two Band 1 schools, Ying Hua & St Catherine's girls' school. It's interesting the way they did the documentary, there's no commentary, they simply shot various sequences in the playground, in the classrooms, in the staff meetings, in assembly & then edited it & showed what they'd photographed without any commentary & I think it gives a very good picture, a very good impression of what goes on in the schools, although I understand the schools themselves weren't very happy about it; they felt it was rather negative. You have sequences where students were yawning and falling asleep, you had a few sequences where students were speaking English & made some grammatical mistakes, ... teachers made some mistakes. But overall I did not find it a negative film, I found it in some ways quite encouraging because you saw some quite good teaching, you saw that there were quite good relationships between the teachers & the students in many cases, in any class you're going to find some students yawning and falling asleep, I don't think that's anything terrible, but on the other hand, you could see very clearly that both schools were quite conservative in many ways, in terms of the way they are constantly exhorting students to behave in certain kinds of ways, being very concerned about the way they wore their uniform, whether they had their shirts inside or outside their trousers and things like that. Also some surprising sequences like the teaching of needlework: I didn't know that needlework was still taught & that ... one of the things that showed the difference between a girls' school & a boys' school, there was very much a gender difference between the two. But on the whole, I came away with the impression of some very professional teaching and schools where there was some genuine concern for the students, and the students on the whole seemed to perform reasonably well. There was an interesting discussion after the film and again, I was interested that the audience was divided: some people thought it was a very positive picture, some that it was a very negative picture so it shows clearly how the same film can be perceived very differently by different kinds of people.