IELTS exam in Malaysia – May 2009 (Academic Module)
Thanks to Y from Malaysia we know this much about the recent IELTS exam there:
Listening test
Section 1: a telephone conversation between about a mover and an officer
Section 2: a lecture about food science course
Section 3: about recycling
Section 4: about chimpanzees
Reading test
Passage 1: about types of transport
Passage 2: about relationship between odor and humans’ memory
Passage 3: about plain English
Writing test
Writing Task 1 (report)
We had a bar chart describing percentage of people in the age group 25-35 having higher education qualification in 5 countries in 2001.
Writing Task 2 (essay)
Governments should make more effort to promote alternative sources of energy. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Speaking test
Interview
– Introduce yourself
– Do you work / study
Cue card
Talk about a time when you had to wait in a traffic jam, you should say:
– How did you get there
– When was it
– Where was it
– What did u do
Discussion
The questions were about the ways to decrease traffic jams in the big cities.