Passage 2. About different water filtration methods.
Passage 3. A survey revealing the attitude of men and women towards the upbringing of children.
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Today's IELTS Academic New Delhi
Listening-
Overall average level
Reading-
Sec1&2 was easy, sec 3 was challenging specially TRUE FALSE NG.
writing task 1- diagram shows how glass is recycled.
Writing task 2- Some teachers think that international student exchange would be beneficial for all teenage school students. Do you think its advantages will outweigh the disadvantages?
IELTS Speaking test in Kerala, India – May 2019
Speaking test
Interview
– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do?
– What is your profession?
– Describe a day at your job.
– How important is it to smile, in your opinion?
– Do you smile in front of the camera? Why?
– Can you trust a person because they smile? Why?
– Do you wear perfume?
– Have you ever received perfume as a gift?
Cue Card
Talk about your favourite music, song or band. Please say
– What is it?
– When and where did you hear it for the first time?
– Why do you like it?
Discussion
– Do you sing? Why?
– How important is it to have a pleasant voice?
– What types of music are popular today?
– Is music too money-oriented nowadays?
IELTS Speaking test tips
Speak clearly (slow and fluently)
Listen to the questions asked carefully, and answer directly
You can add more information to the answers, ensure the answers remain relevant
If required, ask the examiner to repeat the question
Be confident as you speak
Don’t take long pauses
Focus on vocabulary, range of tenses, grammar and sentence structure equally
IELTS Writing test tips
Perform a thorough analysis of assigned tasks and quickly prepare the answers mentally
Divide your time smartly, 20 minutes for task 1, and 40 minutes for task (as it is lengthier and carries more marks)
Try to write over 150 words for task 1 and over 250 for task 2
Avoid repetition of ideas, phrases and words
Ensure that you write a conclusion for task 2
Write precise, relevant answers. Avoid writing long paragraphs and sentences
Use active voice. Avoid writing in passive voice
Do not submit without a thorough revision and proofreading
IELTS Reading test tips
Examine every detail of the figures, graphs or images in the question paper to be precise while answering
If you can’t understand a question, don’t waste time on it. Rather move onto the next, you can always come back later to finish this
Don’t waste time writing on question paper. There is a time limit and you will get no extra time to transfer answers later on
Understand the questions carefully and focus on finding answers from the passage
Be precise, grammatically-correct and to-the-point. Proofread before submission
Try to use all capital letters for your answers
The General and Academic Training Reading tests are usually graded to the same level. However, the texts mentioned in the Academic Reading Test can be more challenging as compared to those mentioned in the General Training Test.
IELTS Listening test tips
Most important: check if your headphones are working, if not, raise your hand
Utilise the time allotted to prepare the questions. Read through them before the recording starts
Listen to the recording attentively and focus more on answers than understanding everything. Remember that the recording is played only once
Take notes on your question paper when listening to the recording
Write within the given word limit for each question
Revise and proofread for spelling and grammar errors before submission
Try to use all capital letters for your answers
What is your full name?
Where are you from?
May I see your passport please.
Sec-1
Do you work or study?
Do you enjoy your study?
How did you travel when you were studying and why?
Was there any other modes of traveling?
Do you like holiday?
What are the different holidays in your country?
Which festival do you enjoy the most?
Do you feel that govt should increase number of holidays?
Why holiday is important?
How do people organise there works?
Why it is important?
Does technology help in it?
Sec-2
Talk about a time when you suddenly changed you plan.
Sec-3
Is it necessary to inform people when you change your plan, why?
Government investment in the arts, such as music and theatre, is a waste of money. Governments must invest this money in public services instead.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Answer :-
As the most of the countries’ revenue is collected from the public through the taxation system, it is imperative that governments spend the available fund for the most effective public services of the nation which is beneficial to society at large. Some people believe that governments should allocate sufficient fund for promoting music and arts as these kinds of entertainment activities help adults as well as children to get much relaxation, reduce their tensions and stresses in their busy day to day life. However, from my point of view, countries should employ most of their funds in important public services such as education, health and transport systems rather spending money on entertainment activities as this sector is less beneficial to the public than that of the important the three sectors mentioned above.
The most important sector of the economy is the education as the development of in this sector is one of the crucial requirements for a sustainable growth of a country in a long run. The governments all over the world have the responsibility to ensure that every citizen of the country is educated, at least to read and write. The investment in this sector will be in the form of establishing more schools, universities and vocational training centres for the school drop-outs and also providing scholarships for continuing higher education.
The next essential sector of the economy is the health. It is vital that everyone in the society has the means to get the basic health benefits. Governments can invest in the health sector in many ways. The medical practitioners should be taken care by providing them with the sufficient remuneration and benefits so that the important skill migration in the medical field of the country could be avoided. Also, the authorities can educate the general public and implement many vaccination programs across the countries to eradicate many diseases such as polio, chicken pox and malaria.
The last but not the least significant sector of the country is the public transportation system. States’ funds should be deployed in putting up proper transport network systems such as the building of metro-train facility around the city. More lanes on the highway roads can be built to facilitate the car-pooling for the commuters. This facility will reduce the carbon fuel emission and helps to reduce the global warming.
In conclusion, governments should spend a major portion of their funds on highly demanding public-service sectors such as health, education and public transportation rather than spending a huge money on the entertainment sectors such as theatres and music.
IELTS Writing Task 2/ IELTS Essay:
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the following topic:
News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think to influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if the more good news was reported?
Use your own ideas knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.
You should write at least 250 words.
News both in print media and in television should reflect the authentic, unbiased and important news for the audiences and that news play an important role in terms of educating people, informing people about the current world and giving them an insight of political and social view. But sadly this is always not the case and news editors are often broadcast and publish biased and politically influenced news that does more harm than good to the society.
There are various reasons for that. First of all the personal views and political biasedness are two important factors that cause this problem. Newspapers and TV news should ideally be two great media to reach the people with the real and authentic news. People greatly rely on these media to get updates on events and current affairs and the impartial and biased news misleads them often. Often political views of editors and their link to a particular political party lead to this problem. It is not uncommon that a chief editor gets appointed to the position by the powerful political party and he is expected to present news in favour of this party. Second, in many countries government impose strict rules on what type of news can be presented to the public and that also causes problems in terms of fair and accurate news presenting. In many cases, money and corruption are involved for such heinous act. Again, many newspapers heavily rely on other renowned newspapers and internet for current news and if the source is corrupted, that leads to the case of printing and broadcasting impartial and misleading news. The personal threat, political reasons, power, greed, pressure and personal gains, business are the main reasons editors sometimes decide what to broadcast and what to print.
I would not agree with the notion that we are used to the bad news as I have witnessed many cases when a good news gets more attention and audience than bad news. It’s true that bad news is by their nature is appealing to people, but as a whole, we want to know about the true happening. Good or bad, people want to learn the truth. Often people’s attention can be achieved by publishing and broadcasting bad and negative news, but this is now always the truth as events like a peace treaty, world up, noble contributions, achievements, good deeds, and the political positive decision get more readers and viewers than bad news.
In conclusion, we are not used to the bad news and editors to decide which news to be reached to the public or not based on their personal, business and political reasons.
Task 2
To solve the ever-increasing environmental hazards throughout the world, the best way is to increase the price of fuel.
What is your opinion on the above assumption?
You should write at least 250 words.
It is an irrefutable fact that to diagnose the ways for saving the environment is one the serious matters among the countries. Many nations are finding the solutions to this ugly growth. As it has been heard that increasing the price of fuel can be proved as an effective solution. However, I do not endorse this observation.
While spotlighting to the above aspect, I can explicitly say that this prediction can have adverse impacts on a society. Being price of fuel at the peak, the fairs get heavily increased. With that, the people's life would probably get more miserable. This practice will contribute to deteriorate the situation of poor people. For verification, it is illustrated that there are millions of people in the world, who go to their work by public transportation. It has been proved both in developing and developed countries, whenever the price of oil increases; the fairs of public transportation do not take enough time for reaching the climax.
Furthermore, there is no full proof surety that after raising the price of fuel, the car owners would abandon driving their vehicles. The dramatic increase in the folks' income has witnessed that the societies are richer than the past. If they can afford to buy a car then expenditures of oils are not beyond their approach. For instance, in both developing and developed countries, the total number of car holder has increased markedly.
Fuel is not used to run cars only. It is also used to run industries and machines. So increasing prices of it would hurt the industrial productions as well. By increasing fuel price Government would be in a great dilemma and would not be able to control the price of the daily commodity. The increased price of the fuel would only make problem to the poor people while rich people who mostly own cars would find a way to buy it. The main concern is the pollution prevention, not the fuel price. There are other ways of doing so rather than increasing the fuel price. Increasing fuel price would create some international crisis and nations who produce fuel would get benefits from that while the poor nations would struggle.
All things are considered, the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that increment in costing of fuel is not an exceptional measure to reduce the environment hazards rather it is a reactionary work. There are many other solutions that can be applied. Like government should prompt eco-friendly vehicles and public transport by being handover them with extraordinary facilities. It should also make people aware of the menaces of pollution.
IELTS test in Saudi Arabia – May 2019 (Academic Module)
When S recently took the IELTS test in Saudi Arabia the following topics and questions appeared in the exam:
Writing test
Writing task 1 (a report)
We were given a bar chart showing employment figures in various sectors in three different countries from 1980 to 2020. We had to summarize the information.
Writing task 2 (an essay)
Nowadays people mostly use cars rather than bicycles as a transportation preference. What effects are caused by this trend? What can be done to encourage the public to use bicycles more?
Speaking test
Interview
– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do?
– Do you live in an apartment or a house?
– Describe a plant that is popular in your country.
– What are the main difficulties you face with public transport?
Cue Card
Describe a time when you invited friends or relatives to your home or a restaurant. Please say
– Where and when was it?
– What was the place?
– Did you enjoy it? Why?
Discussion
– Are there many festivals in your country?
– Tell me about a popular festival in your country.