雅思机经：2012年7月28日雅思口语真题

1.Self-introduction and personal information
What’s your name? What does it mean to you?
Are you a student or worker?
What’s your major? Why did you choose this major? What can you learn from it?(student)
What’s your job? Do you like your job? What are you responsible for? What can you get from your current job?(worker)
Activities:
What kind of child were you before?
What kind of activity did you often do in your childhood?
What kind of activity do you often do in the evening?
Family and Friends:
Tell me something about your family.
How important is your family to u?
Do you like making friends? Do you have many good friends?
How often do you contact them?
What do you often do with them?
Which is more important to u, your family or friends?
What is the most important in the friendship?
Hometown:
Where are you from? Do you like your hometown?
What do you like best about your hometown?
Do you think your hometown is a good place for children to grow up?
Can you tell me a good thing in the place that you grew up?
Are there many places of interest in your hometown?
What are the changes of your hometown? What makes them happen?
What was it like when you were younger?
What kind of city would you like to live in?
Entertainment:
Do you like watching TV?
Do parents allow children to watch TV?
Do Chinese people like taking pictures?
How do you reserve your photograghs?
2．Hobbies and interests
Relaxation:
What kind of activity do you often do in your spare time?
How do you often relax yourself?
What is your favorite way to relax yourself?
Do you like reading?
What kind of book do you like best?
Sports:
Do you like sports? What is your favorite sport?
What kind of sport do Chinese people often do?
What kind of sport do elderly people like doing in China?
Do you like swimming? Do you like swimming in the pool or sea?
Do you think it is important for children to know how to swim?
3．House/Apartment
Do you live in a house or flat?
What pleasant thing you will do with your family in your house/ flat?
Which part of your home do you like best?
If you have a chance to redesign your house, what will u do?
What’s on the wall of your house/ flat?
Do you prefer to invite your friends to your home or be invited to your friend’s home?
What makes your house/flat look pleasant?
4．Clothes
What type of clothes do you often like?
Have you ever shopped online before? 
Do you like shopping online?
Do you like fashion?
What do you think about fashion?
5．Language
How many languages can you speak?
Do you think it is important to learn languages?
When did you start to learn English? Is it difficult?
Can you give some suggestions to others about learning English?
How to study English?
6．Holiday
Do you like holidays?
What do you think about the public holidays?
Do you think it is important to have holidays?
How do you often spend your holidays? Where?
7．Color
What is your favorite color?
Which color do you dislike?
In which color would you like your room to be?
Do different colors mean different in your country?
8．Birthday
How do you often celebrate your birthday? With whom?
Which is your most unforgettable birthday party? What happened on that day?
How did you celebrate your last birthday?
What do you think about the birthday?
9．Art
Do you like drawing?
When did you learn it? 
What do you think about painting? 
What do you think about traditional and western paintings?
10．Flowers
Do you like flowers?
Which kind of flower do you like best?
Do people in your country like sending flowers
Do you often send flowers? Are they important to you?
Do you prefer plastic flowers or the real ones?
Would you like to keep flowers in your home or plant them in the open air?
11．Toys
Do you like toys?
What kind of toy did you like in your childhood?
Do you prefer to play with the toy alone or together with others?
What can you learn from playing with toys?
Do you often send toys to kids as gifts?
12．Computer
Do you often use the computer?
When do you often use the computer?
How important is the computer to you?
Do you often send e-mails?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the computer?
13．Wedding
Are you married?
Is there anything necessary in the wedding?
What are the differences on wedding parties between now and in the past?
14．Food
What kind of food is healthy?
In comparison with the food in last 20 years, is the food healthier now or? Which is healthier?
Do you have a healthy diet?
What kind of food do you like?
15．Time
What do you think about being punctual?
Why are people late?
On what occasion being late can be acceptable?
16．Transport
How is the transport in your country?
Is there lots of traffic jam?
Do you like cars? What kind of car do you like?
Do people in your country like driving? Why?
Would the car be more used in the future?

1．Describe an interesting family member(older person)
Part3 Is the history important to family members? Is it important to the society? Why do we need to study history? What is the teenagers’ attitude towards history? What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting old? Will the elderly people live a better life in the future? Who should take care of them?
2．Describe someone who helped you
Part3 Do you think the competition is getting greater? Do your teachers teach you how to compete with others? 
3．Describe a famous person(band singer or musician )in your country
Part3 Do you want to be famous? What do you think about being famous? Why do people want to be famous? Do you think the news about celebrities is reliable? Do you believe the news on TV or newspaper? What makes a person famous? Any there any differences between celebrities in the apst and now?
Where do people in your country often go to watch the concert?
Has the high technology made the music changed?
What kinds of instruments do parents send their children to learn?
4．An older person you want to talk to
Part3 How is the life of elderly people in China? Do you like to live with elderly people?
What is people’s attitude towards elderly people in China? What can we do to improve their life?
5．Describe a happiest person
Part3 What is your happiness? What can make people happy? Are people happier than that in the past?
6．Describe a natural beauty/ a natural protection area
Part3 what benefits can we get from the tourist attraction? When you go to other countries, would you like to visit the city or the natural beauty? Do you think tourism can do harm to the local environment? Whether we should take the cell phone when we visit the natural beauty? Should we protect the natural beauty? What measures should the government take to protect the environment? What can an individual do to make contribution to the environmental protection?
7．Describe a lake
Part3 are there any kinds of underwater sports in China? Why do people like water sports? Do you think the government should invest more money on setting up more facilities for water sports? Do you think the voyage is popular in China? What are the advantages? Will it be more and more popular in the future?
8．Describe an important building/ monument in your country
What kind of people prefer to visit the monument in your country, young people or older ones? What is its importantce to the government and an individual person?
9．Describe an important city in your country
Part3 Do you like living in the countryside? Do you prefer to live in the city or countryside? What are the differences between the city and village life? What changes have taken place in the place? What are the problems in the city? Is the crime serious in the city? How to solve it?
10．Describe a piece of work of art
Part3: are there any art classes in Chinese schools? Do Chinese students have to study courses about foreign culture? What can they learn? What are the differences between Chinese and western culture?
11．Describe a book you would recommend to your friends
12．Describe a toy you used to play with
13．Describe an interesting photo
Part3 where do you like taking pictures? Is photography a piece of art? What is the difference between taking pictures by cell phone and camera? Which method do you like? Are skills required when we take pictures? What are the disadvantages of taking pictures by cell phone? 
14．Describe a wild animal/ a situation coming closed to a wild animal
Part3 Do you like pets? Do you keep pets? Why do people keep pets? What kinds of pets are popular in China? What is the role of animals in your country? How do people treat animals? Should we protect the wild animal? What measures should the government take to protect the wild animal? What makes the animals endangered?
15．Describe a present you gave to your friend 
Part3 What are presents usually given in China? Which situation is suitable to give a present? What is the present you’d like to receive? There are givers and receivers while the gift is given. What are the feelings of the two when giving a present? Would you like to be a giver or receiver? Is present giving important?
16．Describe a TV program
Part3 What kinds of TV programs are available in China? Do you prefer to watch movies at home or in the cinema? Why not go to the cinema? Why elderly people don’t like going to the cinema? Do you think that people will be isolated from the society if they indulge themselves into the TV program? Are there too many Sports TV programs on TV? What are their advantages and disadvantages? What is the importance of international TV program?
17．Describe your favorite weather/ season
Part3 What is the influence of the season on people’s wear? Can you tell me some festivals related to different seasons?What is the influence global warming has on us? As far as global warming is concerned, what should we do to improve the weather?
18．Describe a vehicle you want to own or you would like to buy
Part3 What are advantages and disadvantages of the bicycle? Is it dangerous to ride the bicycle? What do you think about the motorcycle?
19．Describe communication ways(telephone, e-mail, letter or text messages)
Part3 Do you think the mobile phone is important?
Do you prefer to make phone calls or send messages?
Do you prefer to send emails or letters?
What are the disadvantages of the mobile phone?
What can the mobile phone bring us in the future?
What will the communication method be like in the future?
20．Describe a difficult thing you did well
Part3: Do you like chanllenge? Is ambiton important? What are problems that teenagers are facing in China now? How to cope with them? What do you think about ambition?
21．Describe a thing you want to buy if you have enough money
Part3 Is bening rich a good thing? Do you think being rich is the most important thing in the world? What do you think people will do if they save a lot of money? Do you think rich people spend more money than others? Do you think rich people waste money?
22．Describe an electronic product you want to own or you would like to buy
Part3 How technology is used in education? What is its influence on children? What are the changes of electronic products? 
23．Describe an item of clothes or jewelry
Part3 what do traditional clothes or national clothes look like? What do you think about the clothes with western style? Are there any differences?
24．Describe an group or team you joined
Part3 Is it good to take part in some group activities? What kinds of group activities are popular in your country? Can elderly people join some group activities? Why the group activity can change one person’s behavior?
25．Describe an ideal job
Part3 What kind of job is the most attractive in China? What kinds of are less attractive? What kinds of jobs are enough paid in China? What kind of job do you think should be higherly paid? What comes first at work, being happy or getting more salary? Why do some people often change their jobs? What do you think about changing jobs?
26．Describe a science course in secondary or high school 
Part 3: Do most of students like science courses? Are girls and boys both interested in science courses? Why do we need to study science courses?
27．Describe an outdoor activity( a physical exercise in the place where you live)
Part3 Do young people and elderly people have the same interest in sports? Do you like indoor activities or outdoor activities? What is the difference? Nowadays people are busy with their work or study, how could we make good use of time to do outdoor activities?
28．Describe a street in your village or city
Part3 living in the countryside or city and their differences /What do you think about living in the countryside? Advantages and disadvantages, including facilities, education etc
29．Describe an etiquette
Part3 what is the etiquette like between you and people you acquainted? Is it different from the one that between you and strangers?
30．Describe your favorite advertisement
Part3 what kinds of advertisements can you see in China? What kind of advertisement is the most attractive in China? Who is easily influenced by the advertisement? What kind of advertisement is good?
31．Describe a couple in a happy marriage
You should say: who they are, how they met, explain why they are happy
Part3 What do the bride and groom normally do on the wedding day? What is the suitable age for people to get married? When will you get married? What is the attitude of Chinese people towards marriage? Do you think it is reasonable to spend a lot of money on the wedding party? 
32．Describe happy family news
Part3: How to get news? Does the measure that the government takes to block some websites work? What is its influence?
33．Describe something made you laugh
Part3 What kind of TV program can make people laugh? Are there any differences between men and women? What are the differences between the book and TV program?
In Chinese culture, do people prefer to express their emotions on face or hide in heart? Do you think it is positive or negative? Do males and females have differences on expressing feelings? Are there any differences between males and females when they deal with relationships with each other
Are comedies popular in your country?
34．Describe what you would like to do if you have a three-day holiday
Part3 what did your parents do in their free time when they were at your age? Are any differences on the leisure time between the past and now? What modern people would do if they went back to the past?
35．Describe the first working day/the day of a course
Part3 How do students find jobs nowadays? Is it very difficult to find a job? Someone said if you have a powerful father, it will be easy for you to find a job, do you think so? Do you think the tutorial in school is important? Do you think it is more difficult for women than men to find a job?
36．Describe an exciting experience
37．Describe an unforgettable experience
Part3: are your parents strict? What will do if you see a famous superstar? Have you ever been to Hongkong?
38．Describe a birthday party
Part3: How do Chinese people celebrate birthdays? Are there any differences between adults and children on celebrating the birthday? How do elderly people celebrate their birthdays? Why?
39．Describe a historical event
Part3 Have you ever learned history in your childhood? Do you think it is important for us to learn history? How can we learn the historical event? What do you think about the comment of celebrities in the historical event? What’s its importance?
Is the museum beneficial to us? Should be free for us to visit it?

1. 考场中要积极主动，坦白交代更多内容
考场中，可能处于紧张，或者不自信，很多烤鸭进入考场就好像进入了审讯室，任考官盘问。尤其是在第一部分，很多考生回答过于简短或者表面，甚至有的时候问一句，答一句，逼得考官继续追问why, 这会严重影响烤鸭们的分数。我们要主动的积极的坦白出更多的信息，避免考官问你更多复杂的问题。
Sample Question:
How is the traffic in your country?
很多烤鸭们当下就会想到交通很发达很便利，路上有很多交通工具：The traffic in my country is very convenient. There are buses, taxies, airplanes or even the subway in China.
烤鸭们是不是该想一想，可能每个考生都会这么说，而且听起来很不现实，感觉中国交通只有好处，考官会觉得你在说谎不够坦白，所以他会继续提问Is there lots of traffic jam in your country? 这也是为什么很多烤鸭考完之后出来会说很悲剧，考官刨根问底问了很多问题以至于不记得什么了。
Sample Answer:
Well, great changes have taken place in the traffic in China. There are more and more efficient means of transportation serving in cities, such as the subway, airplanes and air-conditioned buses. The life becomes much more convenient because of it. But as more and more people own private cars, we often get the traffic jam, especially in the rush hour, we can be stuck on the road for one or even more hours.
2. 化抽象为具体，从简单评论开始，寻找亮点
Sample Question
What do you think about painting?
这样的问题足以让很多烤鸭们想要吐血而亡，尤其是没有准备的烤鸭，这个问题可以带来绝对杀伤力的伤害，因为抽象的问题让他们无从开口。但是我们要从简单开始说，它重不重要？它好不好呢？这是最简单的，好在什么地方？是否很珍贵？比如说大作家制作？看到油画感觉如何？很美，会不会让我放松呢？如果按照这样的逻辑，这题就不难回答了。
Sample Answer
Well, in my perspective, painting is very meaning and important to us, especially some priceless ones from the most famous painters. It is the symbol of the artist style. Although I don’t have talent in it, I do like appreciating the beautiful paintings, I can just feel so relaxed as the color is very vivid.

相信有看过笔者之前整理的口语考题回顾并且参加了本月雅思考试的烤鸭们应该会很窃喜，因为正如我之前所说，“在这里我还很想提醒接下来在6, 7月份要参加考试的烤鸭们，针对刚刚指出的疑问和推论，我个人认为我们还是要非常注意一下在去年这个时候非常热门的话题，比如说your favorite bird, your favorite flower, taking pictures, the birthday party you attended, work of art, museum, a piece of law 等等”。事实证明，本月28日雅思口语考试除了法律，以及鸟的话题没有出现，其他的都全部出现，尤其是照片以及生日派对。 
另外，通过对5月到7月的雅思口语考题总结，我个人深刻的体会到了雅思口语考试的一个主流路线，似乎我们可以察觉到考官对于一些方向的问题非常感兴趣，可能很多烤鸭们觉得雅思口语考试话题多样，过于复杂，很难去着手充分准备，但我在这里想提醒大家的是，其实考官主要针对的话题可以分为如下：
1. 幸福感- 精神方面：A happiest person, something made you laugh, TV program, drawing, birthday, photographs, work of art, advertisement等等
物质方面：electronic product, the car, jewelry, clothes, furniture等等
2. 态度和洞察力：country/city, Adult/ children, men/women, Chinese/ western, government/ individual, present/past等等
这两点是雅思口语考试经久不衰的考点，烤鸭们在准备的时候应该结合这两点，带着相对清楚明朗的态度把话题按照笔者提出的两个方向准备，相信会有很大的帮助，希望所有的烤鸭们都能考出理想的分数。