Part 1
IELTS speaking question bank
IELTS speaking question bank
Corpus Sample Answers
Do you work or are you a student?
1. What work do you do?
2. Why did you choose to do that kind of work?
3. Do many people in your country choose to do that type of work?
4. What are your responsibilities at work?
5. Do you remember your first day at work?
6. What did you do on your first day at work?
7. Did you like your first day at work?
8. (Similar to above) How did you feel on your first day at work?
9. Do you think the first day at work is important?
10. (Similar to above) Do you think a person's first impressions of a new job are important?
1. What subject(s) are you studying?
2. Why did you choose to study that? / Why did you choose to study those subjects?
3. Do many students in your country study that subject?
4. (Similar to above) Is that a popular subject to study in your country?
5. What school/university do you attend?
6. Why did you choose that school/university?
7. What do you plan to do after you finish your studies?
8. Your First Day at University
9. Did you like your first day at university?
10. (Similar to above) Did you have a good first day at university?
11. (Similar to above) How did you feel on your first day at university/high school?
12. Do you think the first day at university is important?
13. How important do you think it is for people to have an enjoyable first day at university (or, school)?
14. (Similar to above) Do you think a person's first impressions of a new school or university are important?
1. What's (the name of) your hometown (again)?
2. Is that a big city or a small place?
3. Please describe your hometown a
4. How long have you lived there?
5. Do you like it?
6. Do you like living there?
7. What do you like (most) about your hometown?
8. Is there anything you dislike about it?
9. Do you think you will continue living there for a long time?
10. Do you plan to continue living there?
11. Where would you like to live?
1. Can you describe the place where you live?
2. What do you usually do in your house/flat/room?
3. Are the transport facilities to your home very good?
4. Please describe the room you live
5. Is there anything you don't like about the place where you live?
6. What kind of decorations does it have?
7. How do you think this room could be improved?
8. What can you see when you look out the window of your room?
9. How well do you know your neighbors?
10. What kind of people are your neighbors?
11. Do you spend much time socializing with your neighbors in your neighbors' homes?
12. Do you like the environment where you live?
13. Would you say the place where you live is good for families with children?
14. In the future, what type of place would you like to live in?
15. What kind of neighborhood/environment/surroundings would you like to live in?
1. Are there many advertisements in your country?
2. Why do you think there are so many advertisements now?
3. Where can we see advertisements now?
4. How do you feel about advertisements?
5. Do you like advertisements?
6. What kind of advertisement do you like the most?
7. Do advertisements (ever) influence your choice about what to buy?
8. Where can we see advertisements?
9. Do you prefer advertisements on TV or those in magazines?
10. What do you think is the purpose of advertisements?
11. What do you think about the developments in advertising in China today?
1. Is there anything that makes you happy lately?
2. What do you do to stay happy?
3. Can you stay happy all the time?
4. Is it important to be happy?
5. What is happiness to you?
6. Do you think it is easy to be happy?
1. Do people in China celebrate birthdays?
2. Are people's birthdays very important in China?
3. How do they celebrate birthdays?
4. Do people in China do anything special to celebrate birthdays?
5. How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
6. What did you do on your last birthday?
7. Nowadays, how do young people in China celebrate their birthday?
8. Do people in China have birthday parties?
9. Do you think it's important for people to celebrate birthdays?
10. Are birthdays more important for children or for adults?
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Speaker 61 (the 3rd response): At first, I choose Special Education because I think it is a very meaningful field, and I think people… there are like… people lacking in Hong Kong; therefore, I choose this field according to my interest. And then I choose English because I would like to have an extra… like experience or extra… extra things to know. Therefore, I choose English as my, like, second language to study.
Speaker 61 (the 4th response): When I were… when I was a child, I think I did not go to picnic a lot, because my parents are not that free as they have to work, and I still have other siblings and they have to take care of them, but sometimes we do go out to, like, have some road trip, like, … because our family have cars, so we might go road trips, but seldom for picnic.
Speaker 61 (the 6th response): Well… having a picnic and cooking at home… so, I’ll say for going on a picnic, we definitely prepare the food beforehand, but when cooking at home, I think we can add or we can, like, have access to many like cooking utensu, utensils. So, for example if I would like to cook for a dinner, I… after I cook it, and then I can add things like … if it’s not salty enough, I can add salt or like pepper, but for picnic, because we are bringing the food outside, therefore, we cannot do many amendment on the food, like, we cannot change a lot. Therefore, I think the food of… the food that we bring to picnic are like prepared… like pre-prepared, but for cooking at home, they are like we can change the … {choked} sorry, we can ch, change them in within.
Speaker 61 (the 7th response): I’ll say not quite many of them go on a picnic, but when I look on my, like, social media platform, I do see some of the girls or boys who are with similar age with me, they went on picnics sometimes, for maybe photograph. But for people older in Hong Kong, I think they more likely to go on hikings more than picnics because maybe they would don’t want to bring as much things, or maybe they think hiking is more an interesting, interesting activity to do rather than just sitting there and eating.
Speaker 61 (the 9th response): Yes. I, I do watch sports matches, so a, as I said, I play volleyball but I don’t only watch volleyball matches. I , I remember it was like 2012, I’m not sure, but that was the World Cup, so like, football matches, so I was really into football that time and I just watch the football matches for, like, I think at least half of them, and I found them very interesting although someone might say it’s very boring to watch for like 90 minutes of a match. Yes, and als, I also watch like badminton matches because my family plays badminton, and also the, like, the Olympics before, and the Winter Olympics now, I also s, do watch some of them.
Speaker 61 (the last response): Yeah, so as I said, I, I play volleyball for a long time, so I think yeah, my favorite sport is volleyball, so I did play quite a few different sports like running or, or like badminton, but I think volleyball really can help us to, like, build a connection with other, with my teammates, so as I like getting in touch with people, so I think volleyball is my favorite sport and it’s very challenging for me too.
Speaker 60 (the 9th response): Oh, they are very important to me, because I hate to be lonely. I need to talk to someone every now and then, because I can’t just sit. Not to say do nothing, but I need someone to confront and talk to, so I hold them. I give them a great importance in my life.
Speaker 49 (the 8th response): OK. Language is very important in terms of communication, and it makes the people from different cultures to understand you easily. So, it provides all access to the, the… Fo s, for example, you go to a different culture, and if you, you’ve been able to speak the local language, it makes all the things you want to do much easier, coz, yeah, i you, you know, you can communicate. It’s most important thing.