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Recent IELTS exams

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

IELTS test in India – June 2019 (General Training)

V took a General Training IELTS test in India and below are the Writing and Speaking questions he remembered:

Writing testIELTS test in India

Writing task 1 (a letter)

Your family is moving to a new city. Write a letter to the real estate agency in your new city to enquire about a rental house. In your letter

– Explain when you are moving and the reason
– Describe where you would like to live
– Mention the type of house you need.

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

In many countries in the world people buy clothes and choose hair styles according to the latest fashion. Why is this happening? Is this a positive or a negative development?

Speaking test

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID?
– Do you live in an apartment or a house?
– Can you describe your house?
– Do you have a favourite room?
– Why do you like this room so much?
– Do you like shopping?
– Do you prefer shopping malls or street markets?
– What is the difference between them?
– Would you shop in a street market in a foreign country?
– Why/Why not?

Cue Card

Talk about a skill that you learned that is useful to you. Please say

– What skill it is
– When you learned it
– How you learned it
– And explain how you feel about it now.

Discussion

– What kind of skills do people learn these days?
– How do they learn these skills?
– How have skills that are popular today changed compared to the past?
– Are personal skills important?
– Do some jobs require people to have more personal skills than others?

IELTS Speaking test in Bangladesh – June 2019

The IELTS test questions below were shared by K from Bangladesh:

Speaking testIELTS test in Bangladesh

Interview

– What is your full name?
– Can I see your ID, please?
– Do you work or study?
– If you wanted to change anything in your workplace, what would it be?
– Where do you live?
– Is it a crowded place?
– What do you do during traffic congestion?
– Do you sleep enough?
– How long do you spend sleeping?
– How much sleep is required to keep fit?

Cue Card

Describe a time when someone didn’t tell you the complete truth. Please say

– What was the situation?
– How did you come to know about it?
– What impact did it have on your life?

Discussion

– Do you think it is a good practice to lie sometimes for good reasons?
– Can you explain some outcomes of this?
– Do you think a single lie leads to more lies, to hide it?
– What is your opinion about public figures?
– Do they lie more often than regular people?
– Do you think public figures such as politicians lie more?