IELTS Speaking - Part 1

The questions in Part 1 are on general topics about your life. Your answers are from your
life and experience. There is no right or wrong answer.

About you

1. What is your (full) name?

2. Can I have your name please?
3. Could you tell me your full name please?
4. What shall I call you?
5. How can I address you?
6. Does your name have any special meaning?
7. Is your name important to you?
8. Do Korean people like changing their name? Why?
9. Have you ever changed your name? Why or why not?
10. Why do so many people change their name?
11. Do you work or study?

Study

1. What are you studying?

2. Where do you study that?
3. What’s your major?
4. Is it a popular subject in your country?
5. Why did you choose that subject?
6. If you had a chance, would you like to change the subject?
7. Do you plan to get a job in the same field as your subject?
8. What do you find most interesting about your course?
9. What is your favorite subject?
10. What do you dislike about your study?
11. What do you hope to do after your graduation?
12. What are your ambitions for the future?
13. Do you hope to gain any qualifications?
14. What are the advantages of studying instead of working?

Work

1. Can you describe your job to me?

 2. What do you do for a living?
3. How long have you been doing it?
4. Can you describe one of your typical working days?
5. What’s your daily routine on a working day?
6. Why did you choose to do that job?
7. What things do you enjoy about your work? Why?
8. What do you think is the attraction of your work?
9. What is your ideal job?
10. Do you want to change your current job? Why or why not?
11. Are you willing to keep your job permanently?
12. What are your plans for the future?

Your town

1. Can you describe your city to me?

Tell me something about your hometown.
Where are you from?
Where is your hometown?
Where do you come from?
2. What is the name of the street you live on?
What kind of street do you live on?
3. What is the oldest place in your hometown?
4. What do you like about your city?
5. What is the weather like in your city?
6. What building is considered famous in your city?
7. What is there for a foreigner to do or see in your hometown?
8. What jobs do people in your city do?
9. How has your city changed over the last twenty years?
10. How could your hometown be improved?
11. Is there good public transportation in your hometown?
12. What changes have taken place in your city in recent years?
13. Do you think it is better to live in the center of town or outside in the country? Why?

Free time

1. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

2. How much time do you have each week for doing these things?
3. Why do you like doing these activities?
4. How did you start doing this activity at first?
5. Is there some other hobby or sport you would like to try? Why?
6. How has the way people spend their free time changed over the years?
Holidays

1. What do you do when you have a holiday?

2. Who do you usually spend holiday with?
3. Where do you like to spend your holidays? Why?
4. Can you describe a typical day in your holidays?
5. Why are holidays important to you?
6. If you could take a holiday anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
7. What do people usually do during holidays in your town?

Places to go in your free time

1. What do people do in your town in their free time?

2. Where can they go out for entertainment, or to enjoy themselves?
3. Which do you prefer: eating in restaurants or eating at home?
4. Which are the best places to eat out?

Transport

1. How did you come here today?

2. What is public transport like in your town?
3. How do you think it could be improved?
4. Do you think people should use public transport more? Why (not)?

Shopping

1. How much time do you spend shopping every week?

2. Do you enjoy going shopping? Why (not)?
3. What is your favourite shop and why do you like it?
4. What problems are there with shopping in your area?

Your neighborhood

1. Can you describe the house where you live to me?

2. What is there to do in the area where you live?
3. What do you like about the area where you live?
4. How do you think it could be improved?
5. Do you think it is better to live in the centre of town or outside in the country? Why?
Reading

1. Do you enjoy reading? Why?

2. What sort of things do you read?
3. Tell me something about your favourite book.
4. What are the advantages of reading instead of watching television or going to the
cinema?

Sports and games

1. What sports are most popular in your country?

2. What sports and games did you most enjoy playing
3. When you were a child?
4. Do people take as much exercise as in the past?
5. Why is exercise good for you?

Home

1. Where is your home?

2. Do you live in a house or a flat?
3. Who do you live with?
4. Are there many rooms in your house?
5. What is your favorite room?
6. How are the walls decorated?
7. What would you change about your home?
8. Do you plan to live there in future?
9. What facilities are there in your house?
10. What is your neighborhood like?

Art
1. Are you good at art?
2. Did you learn art at school when you were a child?
3. What kind of art did you like?
4. Is art popular in your country?
5. Have you ever been to an art gallery?
6. Do you think children can benefit from going to art galleries?

Birthdays
 1. Do you enjoy your birthdays?
2. Do you usually celebrate your birthdays?
3. What did you do on your last birthday?
4. Can you remember a birthday you enjoyed as a child?
5. Do most people celebrate their birthdays with a party in your country?
6. Which birthdays are considered important in your country?

Clothes

1. Are clothes important to you?

2. What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
3. Do you ever wear traditional clothes in your country?
4. Where do you usually buy your clothes?
5. Have you ever worn a uniform?
6. Do most people in your country follow fashion?

Daily routine

1. When do you usually get up in the morning?

2. Do you usually have the same routine every day?
3. What is your daily routine?
4. Do you ever change your routine?
5. Is your routine the same today as it was when you were a child?
6. Do you think it is important to have a daily routine?

Evenings
1. What do you often do in the evenings?
2. Do you do the same thing every evening?
3. Do you prefer to spend your evenings with family or friends?
4. Do you ever study or work in the evenings?
5. What is a popular activity for young people in your country in the evenings?
6. Do you do the same things in the evenings as you did when you were a child?
Family and friends

1. Do you spend much time with your family?

2. Who are you closest to in your family?
3. Do you prefer spending time with your family or friend?
4. Who is your best friend?
5. Are you still friends with people from your childhood?
6. Is family important in your country?
Food

1. What is your favorite food?

2. Have you always liked the same food?
3. Is there any food you dislike?
4. What is the common meal in your country?
5. Do you have a healthy diet?
6. What do you think of fast food?

Hobbies

1. Do you have a hobby?

2. What equipment do you need for it?
3. Do you think hobbies should be shared with other people?
4. Did you have a hobby as a child?
5. What hobbies are popular in your country?
6. Why do you think people should have hobbies?

Internet

1. How often do you go online?

2. What do you use the internet for?
3. How do you get online?
4. Do you have your own computer?
5. What’s your favorite website?
6. Do you think children shod be allowed unsupervised access to the internet?

Leisure time

1. What is your favorite leisure activity?

2. What did you enjoy doing in your free time as a child?
3. Do you prefer to spend your free time with other people or alone?
4. What is the common leisure activity in your country?
5. Do most people in your country get two days off a week?
6. Do you think leisure time is important?

Music
1. Do you like music?
2. What’s your favorite type of music?
3. Can you sing?
 4. Did you learn music at school?
5. If you can learn a musical instrument, what would it be?
6. Do you think music is important?

Neighbors and neighborhood

1. Do you like your neighbors?
2. Are neighbors usually close to each other in your country?
3. What is your neighborhood like?
4. How could your neighborhood be improved?
5. Do you think it’s important to have a good relationship with your neighbors?

Newspapers

1. How do you usually get your news?

2. Do you often read the newspaper?
3. What kind of news do you usually follow?
4. How do most people get the new in your country?
5. Do you think international news is important?

Pets
1. Do you have a pet?
2. Do you like animals?
3. What’s your family animal?
4. What is a popular pet to have in your country?
5. Did you have a pet as a child?
6. Why do people have pets?

Reading
1. Do you often read books or magazines?
2. What is your favorite kind of book to read?
3. Do you often read newspapers?
4. Do you have any e-books?
5. What book did you read as a child?
6. Do you think it is important to encourage children to read?

Shopping

1. Do you like shopping?

2. What’s your favorite shop?
3. Do you prefer shopping alone or with others?
4. What kinds of shops are there where you live?
 5. Have you ever bought anything online?
6. Do you think men and women have different opinions about shopping?

Sports
1. Do you like sports?
2. What’s your favorite sport?
3. How often do you watch sports on tv?
4. Did you like playing sports as a child?
5. What is the popular sport in your country?
6. How do most people in your country keep fit?

Tv

1. Do you often watch tv?

2. What sort of things do you watch on tv?
3. What is your favorite tv program?
4. Do you ever watch foreign programs or films?
5. What did you watch on tv when you were young?
6. Do you think children should watch tv?

Transport

1. How did you get here today?

2. What’s your favorite weather?
3. Do you like the weather in your country?
4. Do you ever use public transport?
5. Do you like the transport system in your country?
6. What is the difference between taking a bus or a train?

Weather

1. What’s the weather like today?

2. What’s your favorite weather?
3. Do you like the weather in your country?
4. Does the weather ever effect the way you feel?
5. Does the weather in your country ever effect transportation?