雅思口语考题回顾

雅思考试口语考题回顾

朗阁海外考试研究中心杨超考试日期： 2015年10月10日

Part 1考题总结

考题总结Hobbies and Interests

1. What are your hobbies?

2. Did you have other hobbies or interests when you were younger?

3. If you had more free time, what would you do?

4. How many hours do you spend each day in your hobby?

5. Do you think it’s important for people to have hobbies, why or why not?

6. What are the most common hobbies for Chinese people?

Hometown

1. Where are you from?

2. Where is your hometown?

3. Tell me about your hometown.

4. What’s your favorite thing or place in your hometown?

5. What is famous about your hometown?

6. Tell me about some scenic spots in your hometown.

7. What are the main places of interest in your hometown?

8. Do you like your hometown, why or why not?

9. What is the difference between your hometown and Beijing?

10. What are the people like in your hometown?

11. If you could change one thing about your hometown, what would it be?

12. What attractive pieces of architecture are there in your hometown?

13. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live?

Home

1. Do you currently live in a house or a flat/apartment?

2. Can you describe your house/flat?

3. What main items of furniture or appliances do you have in each room?

4. Is it a typical house/flat in your city?

5. What kind of house or flat do you want to live in the future?

6. Do you like the decoration in your home, why or why not?

7. Will you move to another house or flat in the near future?

8. What kind of house/flat are you going to move into?

9. What do you think of the area in which you live?

10. How long have you been living there?

11. What are your neighbors like?

Housework

1. Do people do a lot of housework in your country?

2. Do Chinese people like spending time doing housework?

3. Did you do a lot of housework when you were a child?

4. Is it important for a child to do housework?

5. What kind of housework do you have to do in China?

6. What different kinds of housework do man and woman do?

Studies

1. Are you working or studying?

2. Tell me about the school or university you attend.

3. Tell me something about your primary school.

4. What is your major?

5. Do you like your major and why?

6. What courses or subjects do you study?

7. What is your favorite subject?

8. What is the most useful subject?

9. What would you like to do in the future?

10. What are the characteristics of schools in China?

11. What kinds of majors are available in China?

12. What do Chinese people think about teachers?

13. Is teaching a popular job in China, why or why not?

Work

1. Are you working or studying?

2. What do you do for a living?

3. How long have you been doing this job?

4. Do you like your job, why or why not?

5. Do you find your job interesting?

6. What are your main responsibilities in your job?

7. Is working important to you?

8. Have you received any training related to your work?

9. Tell me about your boss or colleague.

10. What would be your ideal job?

11. If you could choose another job, what would you choose?

Writing

1. Do you often write things?

2. Do you write every day?

3. What do you usually write about?

4. Do you like writing to people?

5. How often do you send e-mails?

6. What are your main reasons for using e-mails?

7. Do you like to send e-mails?

8. Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer?

9. Nowadays, how do most people write things?

10. Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting?

11. When do children begin to write in your country?

12. How did you learn to write?

13. Do you think handwriting is very important nowadays?

14. How can children today improve or practice their handwriting?

15. What impression does a person’s handwriting have on other people?

Sleeping

1. How many hours do you sleep every day?

2. Is it necessary to take a nap at noon?

3. Do old people sleep a lot, why or why not?

4. Do you think younger people sleep more than old people?

5. What are the effects of sleeping too little on people?

6. Do you sometimes find difficult to fall asleep?

7. Are there any methods to help us fall asleep more easily?

Time

1. Do you wear a watch?

2. Do you think it is important to be on time?

3. How do you feel when you are late for an appointment?

4. How do you feel when others are late?

5. Do you think time is important?

6. What is the best way to have a good time management?

Weekends

1. What do you do in your spare time?

2. How do you spend time with your family?

3. What do you usually do on weekends?

4. What did you do last weekend?

5. What do other people in your country usually do on weekends?

6. What are you going to do next weekend?

7. Do you think it is important to make the most of your weekend?

8. Do you feel that weekends now are more important to you than when you were a child?

Weather and Climate

1. What type of weather do you like?

2. What type of weather do Chinese people usually like?

3. Which is your favorite season?

4. Do you do different things in summer and in winter?

5. What do you often do on sunny and rainy days?

6. What is the weather like in your city?

7. Do you have some ways to control the global warming?

Travelling

1. Do you like travelling?

2. In which season do you prefer to travel?

3. Do you think your country is a good place for travelling?

4. What are the effects of the development of tourism?

5. Where would you like to travel to in the future?

6. Do you prefer to travel to the same place or a different place?

Natural places

1. Do you like visiting natural places?

2. What are some well-known natural attractions in your country?

3. Have you even gone camping before?

4. Do you like natural environment?

5. Is there any ways for urban kids to get in touch with nature?

6. Do you have any memories of nature from your childhood?

7. What are the benefits of learning about nature?

8. What can people get from going to natural places?

Museum

1. Are there any famous museums in your hometown/country?

2. Do you think museums are useful for visitors to your hometown/country?

3. Do you often visit a museum?

4. Did you go to any museums when you were a child?

5. When was the last time you visited a museum?

6. Do you think museums are important?

7. Do you think it’s suitable for museums to sell things to visitors?

Holiday

1. Do you like holidays and why?

2. Where do you usually go for holiday?

3. What do you like to do on holidays?

4. If you could go to any foreign country for holiday, where would you go?

5. Do you enjoy short holiday or long one?

6. Is there any difference in what your parents and you do in holiday?

7. What would you like to do next holiday?

8. Do you think holidays are becoming more and more important, why or why not?

9. Do you prefer staying at home to travelling, why or why not?

Shoes

1. Do you like shopping for shoes?

2. How often do you buy shoes?

3. What kinds of shoes do you usually buy?

4. Do you prefer comfortable shoes or good-looking shoes?

5. Do you think it’s good to buy shoes on the internet?

Shopping

1. Do you like shopping or window shopping?

2. Where do you often go shopping?

3. How often do you go shopping in a week?

4. Do you usually do your shopping at one place or at different places?

5. What kinds of shops are there near your home?

6. Do you pay more attention to price or quality?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping?

Teacher

1. Do you have a favorite teacher?

2. Why do you like that teacher?

3. How does this teacher help you?

4. Do you want to be a teacher?

Advertising

1. Are there many advertisements in your country?

2. Why do you think there are so many advertisements now?

3. What are the places where we see advertisements?

4. How do you feel about advertisements?

5. What kinds of advertisements do you like the most?

6. Do advertisements influence your choice about what to buy?

7. Do you prefer advertisements on TV or those in magazines?

8. What kinds of advertisements leave the deepest impression on people?

Relax

1. How do you relax?

2. How do Chinese people relax?

3. How do Chinese young people differ from the old in their ways of

relaxing?

4. Do you think it is good for people to relax too much?

5. What’s the difference between the ways of relaxation today and 50 years ago?

6. Do you think travelling in a peak season is a good way to relax?

7. Do you think it is important to relax after a long hours of work?

8. What would you do if you have a lot of pressure?

9. Do you feel nervous before contests or exams? What do you often do to release your nervousness?

Future Plan

1. What job would you like to have in the future?

2. What do you plan to major in?

3. What do you plan to do after graduation from university?

4. What do you want to do when you retire in the future?

5. Do you have any long-term plan for your life?

6. Do you think people should have a plan for the future, why or why not?

Books and Reading

1. Do you like reading books, why or why not?

2. What books did you like when you were a child? What about now?

3. What kinds of books do you like to read?

4. For children, what do you think are the benefits of reading?

5. Would you like to write a book?

6. Do you like receiving a book as a gift?

Schools

1. What was the first school you attended?

2. Where was it?

3. Was it far from your home?

4. How did you go to school?

5. Did you like your school?

6. What were the good things about that school?

7. Would you say it was a good school?

8. Would you send your child to that school?

9. What different types of schools have you been to?

10. Which school did you like the most, why?

11. Did your parents choose your university for you?

Natural places

1. Do you like visiting natural places?

2. What are some well-known natural attractions in your country?

3. Have you even gone camping before?

4. Do you like natural environment?

5. Is there any ways for urban kids to get in touch with nature?

6. Do you have any memories of nature from your childhood?

7. What are the benefits of learning about nature?

8. What can people get from going to natural places?

Letter

1. Do you often write letters?

2. Whom do you often write to and what do you often write about?

3. Do you prefer to write letters or e-mails?

4. What are the bad effects of writing too many emails instead of letters?

5. Do you like reading letters written by some famous people?

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing letter?

7. Do you think letter will disappear in the future?

Name

1. What’s your name?

2. Does your name have any special meaning or significance?

3. Have you ever changed your name, why or why not?

4. Do Chinese people like changing their names, why or why not?

5. What kind of people like changing their names?

6. What’s their purpose in changing their names?

7. In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?

Colors

1. What’s your favorite color, and why?

2. Do you always wear clothes in your favorite color?

3. Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country?

4. What color would you choose to paint the walls of your room?

5. What kind of color do you dislike?

Friends and Family

1. Do you have many close friends?

2. What qualities make them good friends?

3. Do you live with your family?

4. Do your family and friends still live in your hometown?

5. Do you think family members should live together, why or why not?

6. When do you spend time with your family?

7. What do you do together?

8. Do you often go out with your friends?

9. Is your family very important to you?

10. Do you prefer to spend time with your family or your friends?

11. What do you do in your free time with your friends?

12. Are there any times when you prefer to be alone?

Clothes

1. What kind of clothes do you like?

2. How do you get information about latest fashion?

3. What are the differences in the clothes between now and fifty

years ago?

4. How do older people feel about younger people’s clothes?

5. What kind of clothes do children usually wear?

6. What are the most fashionable clothes in China now?

Collecting

1. Did you collect anything when you were a child?

2. Do you still collect them now?

3. Do you collect anything as a hobby now?

4. Why do you like collecting things?

5. Do people in your country like to collect things?

6. Why do you think people like collecting things?

Part 2&3考题总结

考题总结Describe an environmental law you would like to see in the future. You should say:

what the law would be;

why the law is needed;

how this law would be enforced;

and explain how it would benefit the environment.

Describe an artistic activity you did at school or university.

You should say:

what the activity was;

when and where you did it;

who you did it with;

and explain how you felt about this activity.

Describe a song that impressed you a lot.

You should say:

what song it is;

when you first heard it;

what the song is about;

and explain why this song impressed you so much.

Describe a time you waited for something.

You should say:

when and where it happened;

what you waited for;

how long you waited for it;

and explain how you felt about waiting.

Describe a house or flat that you like (not your home).

You should say:

where it is;

how often you visit the place;

what it looks like;

and explain why you like it.

Describe an article you read online or from magazines about healthy living

You should say:

where you read it;

when you read it;

what the article talked about;

and explain what you learnt from the article.

Describe something you would do if you were given a day off.

You should say:

where you would go;

what you would do there;

who you would go with;

and explain how you think you would feel at the end of this day.

Describe a long walk you enjoyed.

You should say:

where you went;

who you were with;

why you had the walk;

and explain why you enjoyed it.

Describe a famous person you knew from news.

You should say:

who the person is;

what the person does;

when you got to know about him or her;

and explain whether you would like to meet him or her.

Describe a long journey that you had by car.

You should say:

where you went;

how long it took you;

who you went with;

and explain how you felt about this trip.

Describe someone you know who always travels by plane.

You should say:

who the person is;

what the person does;

why this person always travels by plane;

and explain how this person feels about flight travel.

Describe a success you had in your life.

You should say:

what you did;

when you did it;

what difficulties you met;

and explain how you felt about it.

Describe a street where you like to go.

You should say:

where it is;

how often you go there;

what you do there;

and explain why you like going there.

Describe something important you once forgot to do.

You should say:

what you forgot;

when and where this happened;

why you forgot it ;

and explain what the result of your forgetting was.

Describe a foreign country you would like to visit (for the first time). You should say:

which country it is;

how you got to know this country;

what you know about the country;

and explain why you would like to visit it.

Describe a festival that is important in your country.

You should say:

when people celebrate this festival;

what people do to celebrate this festival;

and explain why it is important in your country.

Describe a person whose job is useful to the society.

You should say:

who the person is;

where the person works;

what the person does;

and explain why you think this person's job is important.

Describe an occasion when someone or something made noise. You should say:

when and where it was;

who/what made the noise;

why they made noise;

and explain how you felt about this noise.

Describe a time you watched the sky.

You should say:

when and where it was;

who was with you;

what you saw;

and explain how you felt about watching the sky.

Describe a time you borrowed something from others.

You should say:

what you borrowed;

who you borrowed it from;

what you borrowed it for;

and explain why it was useful to you.

本次考试考题精选范例解析1. What would you do if your friends are upset?

中式回答：

I will always support them no matter what happened.

地道回答：

I will always be on their sides no matter what happened.

2. Is there anything you want to change about your room?

中式回答：

Yes, I don’t like the color of the desk in my room, so I want to reprint the desk with another layer of paint.

Yes, I don’t like the color of the desk in my room, so I want to reprint the desk with another coat of paint.

3. Do you think money can make people happier?

中式回答：

I don’t think so. For me, both the poor and rich are equal, because they have the same right to enjoy life.

地道回答：

I don’t think so. For me, both the rich and poor are equal, because they have the same right to enjoy life.

雅思口语趋势分析和备考指导2015年10月份除了以上一些新题之外，各位考生还应该注意以下几个延续考到的老话题：

1. a paid job you or someone you know

2. a change that will improve your local area

3. a park or garden you like to visit

4. a café or restaurant that impresses you

5. someone you know who dresses well

6. a place where you can read or write (not your home)

7. a small successful company

8. an educational trip you went on when you were in school

9. an educational TV program you have watched

10. a place where you like to go and relax

11. a person you know who speaks a foreign language well

12. a time you got up extremely early

13. a time when you were surprised to meet someone

14. a time you had disagreement with a friend

15. something a child did that made you laugh

16. a gift for someone that took you a long time to choose

17. an indoor game you played when you were a child

18. a special trip you would like to have in the future

19. something interesting that you want to learn more about

20. a picture or photograph in your family

21. an age or a stage of life that was enjoyable/important to you

22. an activity you do to keep fit

23. an electronic machine or device that you would like to buy

24. a team you were part of