IELTS exam – an update from Vietnam

As you may have noticed, there is a new category in IELTS-Blog – Recent IELTS exams. You can find there everything my students are sharing about their IELTS exams : topics, tasks, stories.

This post is also about a recent IELTS – our friend D. P. Hieu from Vietnam sent an update from an Academic IELTS test he took on 29/7/06.

Listening :

Part 1: Complete a Table about the Recycling process.
Part 2: About Orientation Day.
Part 3: Foods for children.
Part 4: A lecture about a successful company run by a woman in India.

Reading :

Very, very hard.
Part 1 & 3: too complex to describe.
Part 2: About fishing in Alaska (US).

Writing :

Part 1: We were given a normal bar chart showing (and comparing) the number of employed workers in 7 sectors (trading, tourism, manufacturing, etc) in New Zealand in percentages between 1990 and 2000.

Part 2: Earlier developments in technology were more significant than the recent ones. Discuss and present your own ideas.

Speaking:

Quite a lot of questions. The test lasted for exactly 22 minutes (too long, isn’t it?). Yes, that’s true. Phew….
Examiner’s name : Peter Braigtain (or something that sounds like that).

Interview questions

Greeting. Please show me your ID.

Are you a student or do you work?

Where are you studying?

Do you like it? In what way?

Have you many friends? How about close friends?

How can you use time with your friends?

According to you, what is a good friend?

Are you spending time with your family?

Let’s talk about eating at home versus eating out

Advantages of cooking at home.

Please tell me about the person who cooks in your family

Cue Card

Topic: Talk about your dream vehicle.

Discussion

Vehicles’ effect on society in general

Are car ads on TV or radio effective?

Private vehicle VS Public Transport

Let’s talk about the advantages of Public Transport. What do you like best?

What are the disadvantages of Public Transport? What do you dislike the most?

Should the government play the main role in developing public transport? How can it be improved?

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