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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS Speaking test in Kuwait – August 2021

Thanks to the kind contribution by L.B. we can share these Speaking questions from IELTS in Kuwait:

Speaking test

Part 1 (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?
– How do you spend your time at work?
– What technology do you use at work?
– Do you like watching the sky?
– Can you see the stars and the moon from where you live?
– Did you learn about stars and planets at school?
– Do you like to travel?
– How do you travel usually?
– How do you prefer to travel? Why?
– Did you ever go on a long journey in a car?
– Do you prefer sitting in the front seat or the back seat?
– Would you like to travel to other planets in the future? Why?

Part 2 (Cue Card)

Describe an activity near the sea that you would like to try. Please say

– What is it?
– What do you need to do?
– Why would you like to do it?

Part 3 (Discussion)

– How would you feel about this activity?
– Why do people go to the seaside?
– What benefits do they get from it?
– Do you think they can relax when they go to the beach? How?
– Do you think that younger people like experiencing new water sports more than older people?
– Do you think children enjoy going to the beach?
– How can humans save the environment from global warming?
– Do you think animals are affected by global warming?
– How can people help save marine ecology from the environmental crisis?

IELTS test in Oman – August 2021 (Academic Module)

Our anonymous friend from Oman shared the following questions from a recent IELTS test:

Listening test

Part 1. A man whose items were stolen was talking to a lady on the phone, giving his details. The details included his date of birth, address, email, things stolen, and things he wanted to claim from insurance.

Part 2. An Australian man was talking about a trip to Kangaroo Island.

Part 3. A talk between two students (a boy and a girl) and their tutor (a women) about bilingual babies.

Part 4. A lecture on crime prevention. A man was explaining how to prevent items from getting stolen.

Reading test

Passage 1. About some fossils of birds and the development of flight behaviours in birds.

Passage 2. About the sense of smell and how humans and animals can pick up different scents.

Passage 3. Don’t remember.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a report)

We had a bar graph showing the reasons for absenteeism in European countries in the year 2000, 2005 and 2010.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

Big companies should provide sports and social facilities for local communities. To what extent do you agree or disagree?