Both modules
All three parts, with the real timings. Where you live, music, visitors, and how you relax.
This is the third complete IELTS speaking practice test on this site, covering where you live, music and having visitors, then a cue card about what you do to relax.
Part 3 is where the higher bands are decided, because the questions are abstract and there is nowhere to hide behind personal detail. Take a position and justify it rather than saying you have never thought about it, which leaves you with nothing to say.
Part 1 · four to five minutes
Answer each one in two or three sentences: the answer, then a reason or an example. Speak aloud rather than reading.
1Let's talk about where you live. Do you live in a house or a flat?
2What kind of facilities do you have in the surrounding area?
3Would you recommend this area to a friend?
4I’d like to move on to talk about music now. Do you often listen to music?
5Do you use music for certain events in your country?
6Can you play any musical instruments?
7Do you often have visitors to your house?
8Do you prefer entertaining at home or going out?
9What type of food would you serve to guests in your home?
Part 2 · three to four minutes
One minute to make notes, then speak for one to two minutes. Start the timer and it will move you on automatically.
Talk about something you do to relax
You should say:
You should also say if you would recommend it.
Stopping after forty seconds is the commonest problem in Part 2. Plan a beginning, a middle and an end during the minute so you always have somewhere to go next.
Part 3 · four to five minutes
These are abstract and this is where the higher bands are decided. Take a position and justify it, even if you have never thought about the question before.
1Are our lives becoming more stressful?
2Do you think that people take enough time to relax each day?
3Do you think technology will allow us to lead more relaxing lives in the future?
4How has what people do for relaxation in your country changed in the last ten years?
5Do you think that there will be changes in the age of retirement?
6Is it important for governments to promote work-life balance?
The honest limit of a free page
This page gives you the questions, the timings and the pressure of not seeing what is coming. What it cannot do is tell you what your answers would score, because speaking is judged against four criteria: fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation.
Recording yourself is worth doing and tells you how you sound. It does not tell you which of those four is holding your band down, and that is nearly always the thing worth working on first.
IELTStestONLINE assesses your speaking against those four criteria, as often as you like, using a system built by a former IELTS examiner and examiner trainer.
See what membership includesEleven to fourteen minutes in total: four to five minutes for Part 1, three to four for Part 2 including the preparation minute, and four to five for Part 3.
Yes. Speaking and listening are identical in the Academic and General Training modules. Only reading and writing differ.
One minute to make notes, then one to two minutes speaking. The examiner will stop you at two minutes, and stopping early at forty seconds is the commonest problem.
No. Speaking is judged against four criteria by listening to you, so no free page can score it. That is what full membership on IELTStestONLINE is for.
No. Examiners hear memorised material constantly and it lowers your band. Prepared vocabulary for common topics helps; prepared sentences do not.
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