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IELTS test in Australia – March 2013 (General Training)

The IELTS test taker M from Australia (thank you!) shared the Writing and Speaking questions from a recent exam:

Writing testIELTS test in Australia

Writing task 1 (a letter)

You friend has an idea for a start up business. Write a letter to him/her to say that you are interested to become a partner. Include in your letter:

– What do you think about the idea?
– Why do you want to be part of this business?
– Give some suggestions.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Some people think that young learners should not have school subjects such as sport or physical exercises, and that these subjects should be replaced. What is your opinion? Add any relevant information and give examples from your own experience.

Speaking test

Interview

– What’s your full name?
– Where do you come from?
– Do you work or study?
– What are you studying?
– What do you like to do after classes?
– How many hours do you think is enough for you to sleep daily?
– Do you think it is convenient to sleep for short periods of time?
– Do you think elderly people need to sleep fewer hours?
– Do you prefer to read news in the Internet or in a newspaper?
– Do you prefer to read local news or international?

Cue card

Tell me about your ideal holiday/vacation. Please say

– Where would you go?
– Whom would you like to go with?
– What would you do there?

Discussion

– Where do people from your country prefer to go on vacation, locally or abroad?
– Do you think people should plan their vacation before they go? Why?
– What things do they need to plan?
– Do you think a holiday has to be expensive to be enjoyable?

IELTS essay, topic: Public libraries should only provide books, not videos or DVD, agree or disagree?

Public libraries should only provide books and should not waste their limited resources on expensive high-tech media such as software, videos or DVDs. Do you agree or disagree?

With the proliferation of high-tech media, some people that the public libraries would be rendered obsolete if they not offer software, videos or DVDs to their users while assert it’s only a waste of limited resources and the libraries should offer books only.

High-tech media is, in many ways, indeed superior to the books in terms of entertainment, attraction, and functionality. For instance, videos and DVDs function as a visual means to assist people to have a first-hand experience even though those people have not physically visited or seen the objects which are introduced in the books. Also, despite audio-visual equipment would be prohibitive to install, the capital cost would be lowered by appealing to a sizable number of users.

More importantly, software could assist the library goers to access the Internet to update their knowledge on a daily basis; in contrast, books typically take multiple months to be published, which in turn their contents outdated to some extent. In addition, upon learning that the computer literacy has become an essential skill recently, public libraries should take on the responsibility to educate users how to operate a computer.

Furthermore, it is a common practice for most public libraries to share their resources via the Internet. In this way, even if one book of interest cannot be found in one library, the borrower still could locate the book other libraries and then request the librarians to transfer the book to that particular library.

In conclusion, public libraries would benefit in multiple ways if they equipped with the high-tech media.

This is a good essay. There are only a few errors indicating that the writer needs to take care with verbs, prepositions and sentence formation (mouse over the words underlined in blue shows corrections). Overall, this work seems worthy of IELTS Band 8. Remember to always proofread your essay before submitting it. Keep up the good work!

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