‘Project Smart
English’
Say it Right
IELTS Speaking Module
- Frequently asked in stage 1
Warm-up
1. Could you show me your identification
card please?
2. Could you tell me your full name
please?
3. What shall I call you?
4. Does your name have any special
meaning?
5. Why do so many people change their
names?
6. Is your name important to you?
Hometown or birth place
1. Where
do you come from?
2. Where
do you live?
3. Can
you tell me something about your hometown?
4. Can
you tell me some famous landscapes or scenic spots in your hometown?
5. Can
you tell me some history of your hometown?
Personal background and information
1. Are
you a student or do you have a job?
2. What
do you like most about your study?
3. What
kind of job do you prefer after graduation?
4. What
is your major?
5. What
do you do for living?
6. Could
you tell me a typical day of yours?
7. How
do you get your job?
8. Are
you satisfied with your job?
9. What
do you like most about your job?
10. What
kind of job do you prefer in the future?
Hobby or inclination
1. What do you usually do in your spare
time?
2. Do you prefer to stay alone or with
your friends?
3. What do you usually do on weekends and
weekdays?
4. What do you usually do when you go
out?
5. What do you usually do with your
friends?
6. Do you like reading?
7. What kind of books do you like best?
8. Do you like English? Why or why not?
9. What do you think of the importance of
English?
10. What are good hobbies and bad hobbies? Why?
Future plan
1. Why
do you take the IELTS test?
2. What
are you planning to do in the next five years?
3. What
are you planning to do in the next ten years?
4. What
is the first thing you will do when you arrive at the new place?
Traveling
1. Do you like traveling?
2. Do you like travel alone or with your
friends?
3. Have you traveled to other places? Where
are they?
4. What do you usually do when you first
arrive in a new place?
5. What are the benefits of traveling?
6. Why do so many people like traveling
nowadays?
Friends
1. Do you have many friends? Are they casual
acquaintances or close friends?
2. Do you prefer to stay with your family or
with your friends?
3. Do you prefer one or two close friends or
many friends?
4. Can you talk about your best friend?
5. How to make friends?
6. What do you usually do with your friends?
7. Is the time you spend with your friends
as much as that you spend with your family?
Music
1. Do you like music?
2. What are the benefits of listening to
music?
3. What kind of music do you like best?
4. Why do you like this kind of music?
Transportation
1. Can you say something about the
transportation in your hometown?
2. What is the common means of transport in
your country?
3. Do traffic jams often occur in your
hometown or in the city where you live?
4. How to solve the problem?
5. What changes in transportation have taken
place in the past several years in your country?
Building
1. Can you tell me an interesting building
in your hometown?
2. Can you tell me an interesting building
in Guangzhou?
Practice
Questions –Speaking Task
1. Could you tell me your name or how can I call you?
2. What are you doing presently?
3. What is your academic
qualification?
4. What is your future plan?
5. Why are you taking IELTS?
6. To which country are you planning to go?
7. Why have you selected that country?
8. Which course are you going to study there?
9. Why have you selected that course?
10. How will your future help you & your family?
11. How will your qualification
help you in your future?
12. Where have you studied? Alternatively, where are you studying at
present?
13. How good is the place where you studied or were you studied?
14. Where are you working presently?
15. Why did you choose that job?
16. How did you get that job?
17. How helpful is your education in your present job?
18. What are the products or services offered by your company?
19. How many hours in a day do you have to work?
20. What are your responsibilities?
21. What skills are demanded by
your job?
22. Are you satisfied by your job? Or you would like to change it? Yes
or no & why?
23. Can you describe your routine?
24. What are your hobbies?
25. How did you take up your hobby?
26. Who motivated you to take up
your hobby?
27. Do you use camera?
28. Where can you use your camera?
29. Do you like to meet people?
30. Do you meet foreigners in your area? Alternatively, where can you
meet foreigners in your city?
31. Do you do any social work?
32. How do you feel when you do some social work?
33. Do you have any experience with a social worker?
34. Is there any government or non-government agency that handles
social work?
35. Should the government spend huge sum of money on space research?
36. What are the advantages & disadvantages of single religion
& multi religions societies?
37. Do you have any experience with a religious/ spiritual saint?
38. Tell me something about the latest news, which you have read or
heard.
39. Do you like cooking?
40. Who cooks food in your house?
41. From who have, you learnt cooking?
42. What food items do you like to cook?
43. Can you tell me how a traditional food dish prepared?
44. Which meal is more important to you? Lunch or dinner & why?
45. Do you write anything?
46. What kind of writing you do?
47. What are benefits of writing?
48. How often do you go to eat in restaurants?
49. Do you like to visit amusement parks & why?
50. When do you like to visit a park?
51. Describe your last visit to an amusement park or a park.
52. What activities do you/ people do in the amusement park?
53. Why do children like to visit amusement parks?
54. Do you celebrate birthdays?
55. What do you prefer, celebrating birthdays with friends or family
members & why?
56. How much should a person spend on birthdays?
57. Are you fond of traveling?
58. Describe your last travel/ excursion.
59. What type of laces do you like to visit?
60. How often do you visit seashore?
61. How do you feel when you visit seashore?
62. What activities people do at seashore/ beaches?
63. Do you like movies? What type of movies do you watch?
64. Which language do you generally speak?
65. Do you wear uniform?
66. Do you think uniforms should be compulsory in schools & work
places?
67. What were the main subjects, which you studied in school/ college?
68. Could you describe your college life?
69. What were the meeting places of youngsters in the past?
70. Is your city good for youngsters?
71. Where did people in the past meet each other?
72. Is there a garden near to your area?
73. How often do you visit it?
74. What do you do there?
75. Do people give flowers to each other’s on festivals?
76. Which flower is used more in your country?
77. How often do you visit your native place?
78. Where do you prefer to live, in a city or in a town/ village &
why?
79. How is the life of people there?
80. How is today’s life different from the past?
81. Which lifestyle is better? Your grandparent’s or yours & why?
82. How will life style of next generation be different from today’s
generation?
83. Why do people use so much plastic?
84. How can we solve the problem caused by so much plastic?
85. What should government do to stop riots?
86. Do you come across places, which are noisy?
87. Can you show me the direction to your house from here?
88. How can we prevent the harmful effect of smoking?
89. Is wedding necessary in life?
90. What difficulties can a single person face at later stage in life?
91. Which is better according to you? Love marriage or arranged
marriage?
92. Do you like visitors/ guests at your house?
93. How do you greet visitors at your house?
94. What places can you show to a visitor in your city?
95. How often do you visit your relatives?
96. How often do you meet your neighbors?
97. What is the difference between a friend & neighbor?
98. What do elders expect from younger generation?
99. What is the effect of TV on new generation?
100. What is the meaning of success to you? Or can you define success?
101. How do you plan to achieve your goals?
102. How famous people impress us?
103. Why famous people impress us?
104. Should a person visit library regularly? Yes or no & why?
105. How often do you pray to God?
106. Why do you pray?
107. Where & when do you pray?
108. Should we pray? Yes or no & why?
109. Have you ever prayed for someone? If yes; then for who & why?
110. What are the reasons behind rise of terrorism these days?
111. What should government do to curb terrorism?
112. What should people do to curb terrorism?
113. What will happen if terrorism spreads all over the world?
114. Why do you think people become terrorists?
115. Should the government spend huge amount of money on space research?
116. Tell me about your spouse.
117. Tell me about your routine.
118. Tell me about your lifestyle.
119. Tell me something about your family.
120. Tell me something about your mother.
121. Tell me something about your father.
122. Tell me something about your siblings.
123. Tell me something about your boss.
124. Tell me something about your city.
125. Tell me something about your country.
126. Tell me something about your state.
127. Tell me something about your childhood.
128. Tell me something about your school where you studied.
129. Tell me something about your favorite personality.
130. Tell me something about your hobbies.
131. Tell me something about your children.
132. Tell me something about your favorite book.
133. Tell me something about your favorite movie.
134. Tell me something about your favorite actor.
135. Tell me something about your favorite food.
136. Tell me something about your favorite friends.
137. Tell me something about your place.
138. Tell me something about your neighbor.
139. Tell me something about your favorite pet.
140. Tell me something about your favorite job.
Additional Personal Questions
1. What is the meaning of your given name?
2. Does your name affect your personality?
3. Tell me something about your hometown.
4. What are the different languages spoken in your country?
5. What are the characteristics of the people like in your state?
6. What is people's favorite food in the region where you live?
7. What will you do during most popular festival this year?
8. Are there any traditional festivals in your region?
9. Describe a typical traditional ceremony for a family in your
region.
10. Tell me something about your favorite festival.
11. How have weddings changed in recent years?
12. Tell me something about birthday celebrations in your state.
13. Describe a traditional wedding ceremony.
14. How do people in your country usually celebrate birthdays?
15. Are there any traditions concerning the birth of a baby?
16. How do you like hometown? Compare it to where you stay now.
17. What place do you like best in your state?
18. What places in your state should a foreigner visit?
19. What places would you recommend a visitor to go to in your
region/hometown?
20. If you had the choice, where would you choose to live in your
state?
21. Which parts of your state would you recommend a foreigner to
visit?
22. Tell me something about your family.
23. Which is the worst place you've been to in your state?
24. Who takes the greater responsibility for bringing up your child
in your family?
25. Which is the best place you've been to in your country?
26. Who does most of the household chores in your family?
27. Are the traditional gender roles within the family changing?
28. Why is the divorce rate increasing so rapidly? Is it a problem?
29. What is your opinion of the one-child policy?
30. How do you discipline your child?
31. Is it acceptable for couples to live together without marrying?
32. If you had the choice, would you have a son or a daughter?
33. Are you going to bring your child up any differently to the way
your parents did?
34. What hopes do you have for your child?
35. Do women still have too heavy a burden in their day to day
life?
36. Is the increasing influence of the West largely a positive or
negative thing?
37. What, according to you, has been the greatest change in recent
years?
38. What, according to you, has been the most problematic change in
recent years?
39. What, if you are a lecturer what changes have you seen in
education over the past few years?
40. Who should bear the responsibility for payment of tuition fees?
41. What can be done to improve education in rural areas?
42. Have recent changes affected your job in any way?
43. Do you agree with private education?
44. What can be done to close the gap between urban and rural
areas?
45. If you had the power, what reforms would you carry out within
education?
46. Describe a typical working day for you.
47. How do you see yourself in ten years time?
48. If you had the opportunity to change your job, what would you
do instead?
49. If you had one million Yuan, what would you do with it?
50. If you could start your life again, would you do anything
differently?
51. Do you have any ambitions?
52. Which country/place would you most like to visit?
53. What changes do you think China will see in the next few years?
54. Will any possible future changes affect your job in any way?
55. How do you think you will cope in foreign country?
56. Does anything worry you about going to a foreign country?
57. Are you looking forward to anything in particular in the
country you want to go?
58. What are your plans on your return to your country?
59. What do you do in your spare time?
60. What will you do if you fail the IELTS?
IELTS 2 Minutes Presentation Topics:
1. Favorite
personality
2. Favorite game
3. Ideal life
4. City
5. Country
6. TV play
7. Movie
8. Child
9. Your mother
10. Your father
11. Favorite
uncle
12. Favorite aunt
13. Best moment
in life
14. Biggest
achievement
15. Unforgettable
incident
16. Leader
17. Advantages
and disadvantages of shopping
18. Book
19. Novel
20. Wife
21. Husband
22. Your dream
life
23. Passion in
life
24. Best teacher
25. Best
traveling experience
ADDITIONAL
SPEAKING TASKS
1. The role of Communication in today’s
life.
2. The worst homes are better than best
boarding schools.
3. The hazards of two wheelers.
4. Love marriage VS arranged marriage.
5. Success is something to work for &
not wait for.
6. Working at night- its impact on
productivity & its effectiveness.
7. Computers will make man brainless.
8. Books.
9. Friendship, what it means to me.
10.
Why I
don’t like my boss.
11.
The
qualities & skills of a good company manager.
12.
Diet,
health & exercise.
13.
Fashion.
14.
Morality.
15.
A memory
from my childhood.
16.
Something
I hate.
17.
The most
difficult challenge I faced.
18.
Should
there be sex education in schools?
19.
Which
brings greater success in life? Hard work, or luck
20.
Brain
drain. How much are we responsible for it?
21.
Does age
really matter in marriage?
22.
The area
you live in.
23.
The
relevance of school examination.
24.
What
happiness means to me.
25.
Morning
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