Real speaking test in India

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 tips to get 7 bands

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 tips and tricks

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 tips and tricks

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 tips and tricks

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

Real ielts speaking

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?

Bands 9 writing task 2

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.

Band 9 writing task 2

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.

Band 9 Writing task 2

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.

Real ielts test in Saudi Arabia

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.

Band 9 Writing Task 2

IELTS Writing Task 2/ IELTS Essay:

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic:

People attend colleges or universities for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge etc.). Why do you think people attend colleges or universities?

You should give reasons for your answer using your own ideas and experience.

Write at least 250 words.

Model Answer 1:

People primarily enrol in a college or university to achieve the necessary education and degree they require to build a career. Apart from the career, people seek higher studies to gain knowledge, to enhance social status and learn more about diverse cultures.

 

The current society and its educational structures are far different than they had been a century back when a self-educated person could gain a good career and parents could arrange private tutors to ensure their children’s education. But in today’s world, universities are the authority to declare a person to have the necessary education to be ready for the job. People are going to universities because this is the most common way of getting the education. The sole purpose of a college or university is to ensure the proper theoretical and moral education to build the ideal citizens the country needs and this is the system which is unquestionably accepted by the society. People who do not have the plan to use their certificate to get a job either because they have other career plans or may be blessed with inherited fortune.

Many go to these educational institutes to learn values, gather ideas and education they require to be good humans. In fact, education is a borderline between a savage person and a good man and this is another reason the society has adopted the idea of education for all.

Some people go to universities to get further education to enhance their horizon or to improve their job position and salary. Others go to the colleges and universities to let the world know that they are educated. Funny this may seem but many people simply consider the higher education as the status they require to get a higher position in the society.

In conclusion, education, experiencing diverse cultures and customs, getting prepared for the future career, improving job position, subject matter interests and social status are the main reasons for people to attend colleges and universities.

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