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Part 1
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Your Work or Your Studies
What do you do (in a typical day) at work?
Do you like your job?
Would you like to change your job?
Do you think you will need to receive any training in the future?
What job would you like to do in the future?
Why are you taking the IELTS test?
Do you think the first day at work is important?
What subjects are you studying?
Why did you choose that subject?
What school (or university) do you go to?
Why did you choose that university (or, school)?
How do you like your subject?
What's your favourite subject at school?
What's the most difficult part of your course?
What's the most interesting part of your course (your subject)?
For you, what's the most interesting part (or subject or class) of your course?
Do you think it will be easy to find that kind of work?
Did you like your first day at university?
Do you think the first day at university is important?
Your Home& Your Accommodation
Do you live in a house or a flat?
How long have you lived there?
Do you plan to live there for a long time?
Please describe your home a little.
What are the benefits (or, advantages) of living in a flat/house?
What's your favourite room in your home? (Why?)
How do you think your home (your house or your flat) could be improved?
What is the environment like around your flat/house?
Is it easy to travel to and from your home?
Would you say it's a good place to live?
Where do you come from?
Where do you live at the moment?
Does your whole family live there?
Tell me something about your hometown.
What would you recommend a tourist see in your hometown?
Do you prefer to live in a big city or in the countryside?
Would you say it's a good place to grow up?
Would you say that's a good place to live?
Do you plan to live there/here for a long time?
What (other) city would you like to live in (in the future)?
What's the traffic situation like in your hometown (or, where you are living now)?
Collecting
Do you collect anything as a hobby?
Did you collect anything (such as stamps or CD's) when you were a child?
Do you still collect them now?
Why do you like collecting things?
If you had a lot of money, what would you like to collect?
Travelling
Have you ever been on a long trip? (If yes, say where you went!)
Do you like travelling? Why？
Which country would you like to travel to (in the future)?
Weather
What's the weather (usually) like in your hometown?
What changes are there between the different seasons in your country?
What's your favourite season? (Why?)
Do you usually pay attention to the weather forecasts?
Does the weather ever affect what you do?
Do you (or, do people in China) do the same things in the different seasons of the year?
Shopping
Do you like shopping? C
Do you prefer shopping alone or with others?
What time of the day do you prefer to go shopping?
When was the last time you went shopping? C
Do you prefer to buy things in small shops or in big shops such as supermarkets and department stores?
Is there anything you dislike about shopping?
Mobile Phones
Do you have a mobile phone?
What do you use it for?
How often do you use it?
When did you get it?
How did you feel when you got your first mobile phone?
What feature (or, function) of your cell phone do you like the best?
Is there anything you dislike about using cell phones?
Cooking
Do you like cooking?
Who usually does the cooking in your family (or, in your home)?
When did you learn how to cook?
In the future, do you think you will be cooking more than you do now, or less? (Why?)
Sounds
Do you prefer a quiet environment or an environment with some sounds?
What natural sound do you like the most?
What sounds do you dislike?
What sounds remind you of your childhood?
Clothes and Fashion
Do you like shopping for clothes?
Are you very interested in fashion (or, clothes fashions)?
Do many people (in China) follow fashion?
Animals
Do you like animals?
What's your favourite animal?
Are people in your country fond of animals?
Do you think cities are suitable places for keeping a pet?
Colours
What's your favorite color?
Do you usually wear clothes in your favourite colour?
Are there any colours that have a special meaning in your country?
What colour would you choose to paint the walls of your room?
Sport
Are you interested in sport?
What sports do you like?
Do most people in your country like sport?
What benefits do you think sport can bring us?
Do (did) you often play sport at school? (What sport?)
Do you think it's important for children to play sports?
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Part 2&3
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Place
Describe a place you have visited（want to visit）
Why many people want to live in this place?
There’s many problem in transportation in this place?
So why many people still wants to live in this place?
How this place affects people?
Why people like to live in the city?
Describe a place you visited where you learned something
Why do people build museums?
What are they used for?
Why don't some people want to visit museums?
Describe a place you go to that has a lot of noise.
What noises can we hear in a city?
Do you think noise (ever) has any benefits?
Do you think noise can be considered to be a form of pollution?
What harm can noise do to people's health?
How do you suggest this noise could be controlled?
What do you think the government should do about excessive noise?
Object/ Thing
Describe a sport you would like to be good at
Do you think sport are necessary at school?
What do you think are the benefits of international sporting competitions?
Why do you think athletes from certain countries are better at some sports than athletes from other countries?
Describe a type of music that is popular in your country.
What is the importance of music in people's lives?
How do people's preferences in music change with age?
Describe a useful piece of (electrical) equipment that you often use at home
Are there any of those that you think are not very important?
What do you think are the benefits of using modern equipment and devices (in the home)?
Do you agree that older people have difficulties in using modern equipment?
How can we help elderly people to use these modern devices?
Describe a hobby you had when you were a child.
What hobbies do young people in your country have?
What hobbies for children do you think will be most useful for them when they grow up?
describe a favourite subject in high school or secondary school
Do you want to study this subject in the future?
what is the popular subject in high school, why
what is the interesting subject
how can teacher make class interesting
technologies and high school student's study.
Describe something healthy you would recommend
What do you think are the differences between healthy food and 'junk food'?
What things do you think people in China need to do in order to improve their health?
Do you think modern people do enough regular exercise?
Do you think it's important for children to learn about a healthy lifestyle?
Do you think the media can play a role in educating people about health?
Do you think it's a good idea for employers to encourage their employees to live a healthy life?
How can employers do that?
Describe a film you have recently seen.
What kind of movie is popular in China? Why?
What is the difference between Chinese movie and foreign movies?
What do you learn from watching movies?
Do you think it is important for a movie to be advertised?
If foreign movies without advertisement, will it still be so success?
Do you think a movie will be success without advertisement? If yes, why?
What kind of people prefer to watch foreign movies than Chinese Movies in China? Why?
What is the difference between Chinese and Foreign movies?
Describe an interesting wild animal from your country
What kind of relationship do people and animal have?
What is the difference between having a pet now and having a pet in the past?
Is it better to have a dog in city or rural area?
Is vegetarian conducive to protect animals?
Do you think animals should be killed? Why?
Why do people raise pets?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of raising pets?
Why is it popular to raise pets?
What can we use animals for?
Are you a vegetarian?
Should animals be kept in cities or countryside?
What are some of the problems related to raising pets?
Describe something you made yourself (either alone or with others
In China, do many people make things themselves?
What are some reasons why (some) people make things themselves?
In order to make something, what qualities does a person need to have?
Which group is better at making things by hand, men or women?
What are some differences between hand-made things and things made by machine?
Do you think there are any differences concerning the quality of hand-made and factory-made products？
Describe an interesting job you have heard about or read about.
Do you think it's reasonable (or, fair) that people have different salary levels?
What do you think of the working conditions in your country at the moment?
Do you think most people's working conditions in your country are better than in the past?
Do you think working conditions will improve in the future?
In what ways do you think working conditions still need to be improved?
What minimum working conditions should all employees be given, by law?
What effects does (or can ) working overtime have on the lives of employees, especially women?
Describe an advertisement that you think is successful.
You should say:
What is advertised?
What the advertisement contains (the contents of this advertisement)
What is the function (purpose) of this advertisement?
What kinds of people would be (or, are) interested in (or attracted to) this advertisement
And explain why you this advertisement works well.
Describe an exciting message.
Was it from phone or email
What was it about
What did you do after you received it
How are younger people and older people different in receiving messages?
Is it easy to talk to the elderly?
Is it easy to communicate with teachers?
Do teachers need communication skills?
Describe a gift you want to send to somebody.
Who will you send this gift
Why
How do you think the receiver would respond
What do you think of gift-giving
What do you think of donating to charity?
What is the significance in donation?
How would the trend of donation be?
Describe a law.
Is it difficult to become a policeman?
Should policemen bear guns?
Are men more suitable to become police than women?
Are lawyers respected?
What makes a good lawyer?
When do people need laws?
Event
Describe some situation that some people gave u some useful advice
who gave u the advice; When; what happened
Do you always take your parents advice? what advices?
Do you like to take their advice? Why/why not?
Do you think young people should follow the advice from friends or parents?
Why do you think we should follow advice from parents?
Describe a naughty thing you did in your childhood.
what you did
why you did it
and explain how your parents felt about what you did.
or and explain the results of what you did.
What are the differences between the things done by children and adults?
Do children always follow adults' instruction?
When are children thought to be grown-ups?
Do you think it right to assume that an 18-year-old is an adult?
Describe some recent changes to your hometown.
What are some differences between young people in the past and at present?
Among people, what differences in attitudes are there about change?
What kinds of people like change and what kinds of people dislike change?
When governments make changes to society, who usually benefits the most?
Describe a long journey that you have been on.
What are the different forms of transport that people use for long journeys?
How can (or, could) (long distance) transportation be improved?
Describe an important celebration in your culture.
You should say:
when this celebration is held
what people do during this celebration
and explain what you like or dislike about this celebration .
Person
Describe a TV or radio presenter
What skills does a person need to be a TV or radio presenter?
What are some differences between a radio presenter and a TV presenter?
Describe a friend you admire.
What kinds of people do young people (teenagers or children) admire?
Describe a famous artist you admire
Do you think art (or, the arts) is (are) important?
How has art changed (in China) in the past few years (or, decades)?
How important do you think it is for children to have art classes in school?
What are some good ways to teach art to children?
Do you think art and literature (or, the arts) should be taught in universities?
Describe a family (not your own) you enjoyed spending time with.
Can you think of any activities that younger family members and older family members (usually/often/sometimes) do together?
Describe an elder person you know and admire
Do people like to be old?
Do elder people need to be educated?
Is there any lesson for elder people?
Describe a famous foreign person you would like to meet
Why would people want to be famous?
How does fame influence them?
How would they change after being famous?
Describe a person who helped you on an important occasion
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a strong family relationship?
Describe a person who speaks different language from you.
Describe a teacher you had when you were a child and who you liked
What makes a good teacher?
What are the benefits of becoming a teacher?
People say teachers are no longer a desirable job. Do you think so?
Should government encourage the intelligent people to become teachers? Why?
How do you encourage people to become teachers?
Do many young people in your country want to teachers?
What would cause more people to want to be teachers?
What do you think is the most important quality that a good teacher should have?
Do you think there are any differences between male and female teachers?
Do you think it's possible for school students to become friends with (their) teachers?
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