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IELTS Speaking test in Saudi Arabia – September 2023

IELTS Speaking Latest Questions Saudi Arabia September 2023

The following Speaking test questions were shared by our kind subscriber ZF who recently took IELTS in Saudi Arabia.

Preparation Tip: Do a practice session where you answer all of these questions and record yourself. If you don’t have enough ideas for questions on a particular topic, research it and write down some vocabulary words and how to use them in a sentence.

After recording your answers, listen to them and look for fluency (frequent pausing, self-correction, hesitation) or pronunciation problems. Then re-record the questions you’re not happy with, and this time try to sound more fluent and pronounce the words better. Submit your recording for assessment and learn how to score higher.

Speaking test

Part 1 (Interview)

– What is your full name?
– Do you work or study?
– How do you make your work easy?
– Do you have friends?
– What do you talk about with your friends?
– Do you have old friends?
– What kind of bag did you take to school with you when you were a child?
– Do you carry a bag now when you go out?
– Would you like it if somebody gifted you a bag?

Part 2 (Cue Card)

Talk about a piece of clothing that you like. You should say

– what it is
– when and where you bought it
– when you wear it

and explain why you like this piece of clothing.

Part 3 (Discussion)

– How is clothing different for young and old people in your country?
– When do people wear formal clothes in your country?
– Why don’t some people like to wear formal clothes?
– What is your opinion about wearing designer clothes?
– Do prices of designer clothes seem justified to you? Why?
– Is it unethical to copy brands, in your opinion? Why?

IELTS Report, topic: Bar chart describing the percentage of people who ate at least five portions of fruit and vegetables per day

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 Model Answer Band 8

This is a model answer for an Academic Writing Task 1 from the IELTS exam in Uzbekistan, shared recently. This response is likely to get Band 8 or 8.5 in IELTS.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task

The chart below shows the percentage of people in the UK who ate five portions of fruit and vegetables per day between 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words

IELTS Writing Task 1 Bar Chart of percentage of people who ate at least five portions of fruit and vegetables per day

Band 8.5 Model Answer

The bar chart provides information on the percentage of men, women, and children that ate at least five portions of fruit and vegetables per day from 2001 to 2008.

Overall, it can be seen that across the entire period women were the most likely group to have the necessary amount of fruit and vegetables in their diet, and children – the least. Still, by the end of the period the popularity of fruit and vegetables increased among all the participants in the survey.

A closer look at the chart reveals that women had the highest percentage overall, starting at 21% in 2001 and reaching a high of 35% in 2006 after a steady rise in the previous years. By 2008, the figure had declined slightly to 30%.

The ratio of men who had 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day was lower than that of women throughout the period. It remained steady at 17% for the first three years, from 2001 to 2003, but then rose to 27% by 2006 and declined slightly to 26% by 2008.

Children, whose figures were below those of men and women, started relatively low at 12% in 2001. The figure remained the same until 2003, and thereafter there was a noticeable increase to 17% in 2004. From then on, the figures continued to rise until they reached a high of 26% in 2007 before falling back slightly to 24% in 2008.

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