IELTS – Speaking Part-1?

• Listen to the questions carefully.

• Give full answers to the questions if possible but don’t predict

related questions. For example, if you are asked where you live a suitable answer would be ‘I live in the new territories – in a village just outside Delhi, called Bank Town.’

NOT ‘I live in Delhi. It’s a really nice town with quite a large population and lots of seafood restaurants. It’s a lovely place to live as it’s in the countryside. I have lived there for ten years.’

How to prepare for IELTS – Speaking

like a prepared answer and the examiner’s next question might be ‘What’s Delhi like?’.

• Don’t give one or two word answers as the examiner can only rate you on what he or she hears.

• Make sure you relate what you say to what the examiner asks. For example,

Examiner: Do you like playing cricket?

You: Yes, I do but I don’t get much time to play these days.

How to prepare for Part 1

• Make a list of possible topics you could be interviewed on e.g.

your home
your country
your job
your interests
your education
your family
food
festivals
clothes
books
films
transport etc.

• Write questions for each of your topics and get a friend or family to ask you the questions or put them on an audio cassette and test yourself responding to them.

• Record yourself answering the questions and listen to see how you can progress your responses.

• Make sure you know all the vocabulary necessary to talk about these topics. Practice the pronunciation of any new vocabulary.

• Think about the language that will be useful e.g.