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Recent IELTS exams

Real students tell about their recent IELTS exams: IELTS questions, topics, tasks, answers.

IELTS test in Iran – October 2021 (Academic Module)

The questions below were shared by our kind subscriber K.S. who recently took her IELTS test in Iran:

Listening test

Part 1. Booking a hotel room over the phone.
Part 2. About art.
Part 3. About hospital facilities and their effect on the patients.
Part 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. The history of computer games.
Passage 2. About the art of perfume creation.
Passage 3. The origin and evolution of language.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We were given one pie chart showing the percentage of forest in the world and another pie chart describing the overall timber production.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Nowadays more people are traveling to other countries. Why is this happening? Is it a negative or positive development?

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do?
– Do you like your job?
– What do you like about your job the most?
– Would you continue in your current job in the future?
– Have you ever lost your way?
– How did you feel when you got lost?
– Do you use technology to find a way to get to a place?
– What is your favorite color?
– What was your favorite color when you were a child?

Cue Card

Talk about your favorite famous person. Please say

– Who he/she is
– Why you like him/her
– How you learned about him/her
– And explain why he/she is your favorite famous person.

Discussion

– Why do some people try to enter the private life of celebrities?
– What are the advantages of being famous?
– What are the disadvantages of being famous?
– What do you think about the poor behavior of some celebrities?

IELTS Speaking test in India – October 2021

The questions below were shared by A.R. who took his IELTS Speaking test in India.

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What do you do?
– Do you live in an apartment or a house?
– Do you like living there?
– Would you like to move somewhere else?
– Let’s talk about clothes.
– How often do you wear special clothes?
– Do you remember wearing special clothes in your childhood?
– When was the last time you wore a special outfit?
– Do you like wearing traditional clothes?

Cue Card

Describe a talent or an interest you had in your childhood (such as singing, dancing, doing crafts, etc). Please say

– What was the talent or interest?
– How did you discover your talent?
– How did you try to develop it?
– Why were you interested in that?

Discussion

– Do your friends know about your talent?
– Do you think it is important for a children to have special talent?
– Should parents help them to develop their talent?
– What do you think about parents forcing their children into something?
– What should everyone do to take their special talent to the next level?