雅思机经：2011年3月19日雅思口语真题

考试日期

2011.03.19

Part 1

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?
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 Hometown & Your Accommodation
Do you live in a house or a flat?
How long have you lived there? 
Where do you come from?
Where do you live at the moment?
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? 
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? 
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)?
Sea
Have you ever see the sea?
How do people feel about the sea?
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?
Sports
Do you like (to play/to do) any sports? 
What sports are most popular with young people today?
Did you take part in any (organized) sport in school? 
Do you think sport is important?
Are there any sports facilities near where you live?
In the future, what sports would you like to play?
Food
What food did you like to eat when you were a child?
Do you still like that food now?
Do you think it's good to (often) take children to restaurants?
Films
What types of films do you like?
Do you prefer to watch films at home or in a cinema?
Are there any types of films that you dislike?
What kinds of films did you like to watch when you were a child?
Color
What color do you usually wear?
What would be the color of your future house?
What is the color most people in your city or your country like?
News
Do you read news on TV or on the newspaper? Why?
Do you read news on the Internet? Why?
What is the most interesting news you've recently read?
Dancing
Do you like dancing?
Have you ever learned to dance?
When was the last time you danced?
Do you like to watch dance performances?
Why do you think some people like to dance?
Reading
Do you like reading books?
What kinds of books do you like to read?
When you were young, what books made the greatest impression on you?
What do you think are the benefits of reading to children?
Would you like to write a book?
Would you like to receive a book as a gift?
Flowers
What is the most famous flower in China?
What meaning do people associate with this flower?
When do Chinese people send flowers? (Why?)

Part 2&3

Place
Describe a visit
Describe a sport centre or a cinema
How about the sports facilities in your city?
Are sports popular with a whole family or young people in your country, why?
How do people in your community think about leisure sports?
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 an educational program you have seen
Describe a historic object
Describe something that is broken at your home.
Describe something you usually use at home(except computers)
Describe an expensive thing you bought
Describe an interesting job.
What benefits does a company normally provide its employees?
Describe a type of music that you like.
Why?
What type of music do Chinese people like?
In what ways do Chinese people listen to music?
Compare the differences between the music younger and older people enjoy.
Do music company make music for money?
Do people become a singer because it is their dream?
Why do many people want to be singers?
Describe a book you liked to read in your childhood.
Describe a hobby in your childhood
what hobby it is
what involved
why you liked it
What games did children play in the past times?
What games children play nowadays?
What are the influences of the hobbies in the past on children?
What are the influences of the hobbies in the past on children?
Which is better?
Describe an advertisement.
Why do companies use famous people in Ad? Do you feel fair?
Can famous people affect the company?
Should children see ads? .
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 traditional story.
Describe an occasion when you were late.
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?
Describe a piece of news you received via phone or email.
What are the differences between young and old people's communication method?
Which one is more efficient, face to face communication or text massaging?
What are the advantages of communication technology?
Is communication skill important? Why?
Describe a quiz show.
Describe a program you took part in
Describe a thing you are saving money for.
Describe a photo you took
Describe what you did to protect the environment.
Describe a relaxing day.
Describe an ideal job.
Describe a small but successful company
Describe a game you played when you were younger
Describe something you are good at.
Is talent important for learning things?
Who can help children learn?
Do the young or the old learn better? Why?
Why do children do bad things?
What can parents to educate their children?
Describe a toy you played in your childhood
Which do children prefer, watching TV or playing toys? Why?
Can playing toys make children more creative? Why? 
Describe a sport.
How do sports benefit students?
Do you think Chinese people pay enough attention to sports?
Do sports bring positive or negative effects on the relationship between different countries?
Describe an outdoor activity
What outdoor activities you like?
What are the outdoor activities people usually have?
Name some outdoor jobs. What are their benefits?
Describe something good you have done for your health.
Describe an ideal home or apartment
Describe a foreign food you want to try
Describe a movie you have seen recently.
Event
Describe a walk with a friend that you remember.
What are the benefits of walking?
How do you think people could be encouraged to walk more?
Describe something u do to change your lifestyle/to keep you fit
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? yeah, 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?
Describea change of your life style you want to do to keep healthy
Describe a long journey
Where did you go in the last long journey?
Why did you go there?
Who did you go with?
How did you go there?
What if people become homesick when travelling?
Do you think people would be increasingly interested in travelling?
Describe an important occasion when you were late
Do you think it’s important to be on time?
Person
Describe a family member you admire
Who should make decisions in a family?
Describe a famous person.
Do celebrities have enough privacy?
Describe a friend you keep in touch with.
Describe a successful person
How do successful people balance their family and work?
Describe a friend you've known for a long time.
Which is better, old friends or new friends?
Describe your favourite TV program or radio presenter
Who he/she is
which program he/she presents
is he or she good at the job
Describe a person speaks different language from you.
How you met him/her
How you communicate with him/her
Describe how family members get along with each other.
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?
Describe a person you helped.
Do you think parents should teach their child to help people?
Do you think children will help people in school?
Do you think children want to help 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?