IELTS test Tutorial and help

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[Educated]

Questions from the Interviewer of the IELTS Test
1. What is the meaning of your given name?
2. Does your name affect your personality?
3. Tell me something about your hometown.
4. What are the differences in accent between your hometown and Beijing?
5. What is the character of the people like in your hometown?
6. What is people's favourite food in the region where you live?
7. What will you do during the Spring Festival this year?
8. Are there any traditional festivals in your region?
9. Describe a typical Spring Festival for a Chinese family.
10. Tell me something about the Lantern Festival.
11. How have weddings changed in recent years?
12. Tell me something about the Qing Ming Festival.
13. Describe a traditional wedding ceremony.
14. How do Chinese usually celebrate birthdays?
15. Are there any traditions concerning the birth of a baby?
16. How do you like Beijing? Compare it to your hometown.
17. What place do you like best in Beijing?
18. What places in Beijing should a foreigner visit?
19. What places would you recommend a visitor to go to in your region/hometown?
20. If you had the choice, where would you choose to live in China?
21. Which parts of China would you recommend a foreigner to visit?
22. Tell me something about your family.
23. Which is the worst place you've been to in China?
24. Who takes the greatest responsibility for bringing up your child in your family?
25. Which is the best place you've been to in China?
26. Who does most of the household chores in your family?
27. Are the traditional sexual roles within the family changing?
28. Why is the divorce rate increasing so rapidly? Is it a problem?
29. What is your opinion of the one-child policy?
30. How do you discipline your child?
31. Is it acceptable for couples to live together without marrying?
32. If you had the choice, would you have a son or a daughter?
33. Are you going to bring your child up any differently to the way your parents did?
34. What hopes do you have for your child?
35. Do women still have too heavy a burden in their day to day life?
36. Is the increasing influence of the West largely a positive or negative thing?
37. What, according to you, has been the greatest change in recent years?
38. What, according to you, has been the most problematic change in recent years?
39. What, if you are a lecturer what changes have you seen in education over the past few years?
40. Who should bear the responsibility for payment of tuition fees?
41. What can be done to improve education in rural areas?
42. Have recent changes affected your job in any way?
43. Do you agree with private education?
44. What can be done to close the gap between urban and rural areas?
45. If you had the power, what reforms would you carry out within education?
46. Describe a typical working day for you.
47. How do you see yourself in ten years time?
48. If you had the opportunity to change your job, what would you do instead?
49. If you had one million Yuan, what would you do with it?
50. If you could start your life again, would you do anything differently?
51. Do you have any ambitions?
52. Which country/place would you most like to visit?
53. What changes do you think China will see in the next few years?
54. Will any possible future changes affect your job in any way?
55. How do you think you will cope in Britain?
56. Does anything worry you about going to the UK?
57. Are you looking forward to anything in particular in Britain?
58. What are your plans on your return to China?
59. What do you do in your spare time?
60. What will you do if you fail the IELTS?

[Zimic]

The books I use most to train my students are :

Insight into IELTS, Insight into IELTS EXTRA
IELTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Cambridge)
Preparation & Pratice
Practice Now
Prepare for IELTS
IELTS to Success
Practice Tests Plus
Practice Tests 1
Tests from IELTSHELPNOW.com


1. Vast Resource - Most Practical Books.

For the time being, this should suffice the need of the hour. Also, it is advisable if you go according to the plan that I have set out earlier as it has the right mix of easy and difficult (read challenging) questions.

[Kirtikumar]

For learning vocabulary that is better that, you focus on sentences not just words uniquely. When you learn and memorize words in sentences body you can found their best placement on the sentences as well you have to know that every word have different meanings at the different places and this is one reasons that it?s better that you put in practice on English sentences

[Zimic]

Each candidate takes four IELTS test modules, one in each of the four skills, listening, reading, writing and speaking.

Listening

The Listening Module takes around 30 minutes. There are 40 questions. There are four sections. The Listening Module is recorded on CD and is played ONCE only.

During the test, time is given for candidates to read the questions and write down and then check their answers. Answers are written on the Question Paper as candidates listen. When the recording ends ten minutes are allowed for candidates to transfer their answers to an Answer Sheet.

The first two sections are concerned with social needs. There is a conversation between two speakers and then a monologue. The final two sections are concerned with situations related more closely to educational or training contexts. There is a conversation between up to four people and then a further monologue.

A range of accents and dialects are used in the recordings which reflects the international usage of IELTS.

Reading

The Reading Module takes 60 minutes. There are 40 questions, based on three reading passages with a total of 2,000 to 2,750 words. Both the Academic Reading and General Training Reading modules have the same format.


All answers must be entered on an Answer Sheet during the 60- minute test. No extra time is allowed for transferring answers.

Academic Reading

Texts are taken from magazines, journals, books, and newspapers. Texts have been written for a non-specialist audience.

At least one text contains a detailed logical argument.

One text may contain non-verbal materials such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations. If texts contain technical terms then a simple glossary is provided.

General Training Reading

The first section, ‘social survival’, contains texts relevant to basic
linguistic survival in English with tasks mainly about retrieving and providing general factual information.

‘Training survival’, the second section, focuses on the training context, for example on the training programme itself or on welfare needs. This section involves a text or texts of more complex language with some precise or elaborated expression.

The third section, ‘general reading’, involves reading more extended prose with a more complex structure but with the emphasis on descriptive and instructive rather than argumentative texts, in a general context relevant to the wide range of candidates involved.


Writing

The Writing Module takes 60 minutes. There are two tasks to complete. It is suggested that about 20 minutes is spent on Task 1 which requires candidates to write at least 150 words. Task 2 requires at least 250 words and should take about 40 minutes.

Answers must be given on the Answer Sheet and must be written in full. Notes are not acceptable as answers. Candidates should note that scripts under the required minimum word limit will be penalised.

Academic Writing

In Task 1 candidates are asked to describe some information (graph/table/chart/diagram), and to present the description in their own words. They may be asked to describe and explain data, describe the stages of a process, how something works or describe an object or event.

In Task 2 candidates are presented with a point of view or argument or problem.

Part of the task realisation is to respond appropriately in terms of register, rhetorical organisation, style and content. Appropriate responses are short essays.

General Training Writing

In Task 1 candidates are asked to respond to a given problem with a letter requesting information or explaining a situation. In Task 2 candidates are presented with a point of view or argument or problem.

Part of the task realisation is to respond appropriately in terms of register, rhetorical organisation, style and content. Appropriate responses are personal, semi-formal or formal correspondence (Task 1) and short essays (Task 2).

Speaking

The Speaking Module takes between 11 and 14 minutes and consists of an oral interview between the candidate and an examiner. All interviews are recorded.

In Part 1 candidates answer general questions about themselves, their homes/families, their jobs/studies, their interests, and a range of familiar topic areas. This part lasts between four and five minutes.

In Part 2 the candidate is given a verbal prompt on a card and is asked to talk on a particular topic. The candidate has one minute to prepare before speaking at length, for between one and two minutes. The examiner then asks one or two rounding-off questions.

In Part 3 the examiner and candidate engage in a discussion of more abstract issues and concepts which are thematically linked to the topic prompt in Part 2. The discussion lasts between four and five minutes.