2020年2月19日雅思口语考题回顾(英语学习).doc

2011年2月19日雅思口语考题回顾（英语学习）雅思考试口语考题回顾

考试日期：2011.2.19

Part 1Introduction

1. Tell me something about your work

2. Tell me about your studies

City

3. Tell me about the city you come from.

4. What do you think about the lifestyle in the city

Cooking

5. Do you like cooking

6. When do you usually cook

Reading

7. Do you like to read book

8. How much time do you spend in reading book

9. When you were young, what kind of book did you like to read

10. What kind of book do you like best

11. What do you usually read Why

12. What is your favorite magazine

13. What kind of newspaper do you have in China

House

14. What are the requirements for your house decorations

15. Is the place you are living good for your child Why

16. Do you know your neighbors If not, Why

School

17. How long have you been a student

18. What do you enjoy most about your studies

18. Why did you choose this university

19. What is your major in your university Why did you choose it

20. Why did you choose this school

21. How long have you been a college student

22. Tell me something about your campus life

23. Do you prefer to be a student or to be a working person Why TV program

24. What kind of TV program do you like when you were younger Hometown

25. Is your hometown good for raising a child

Transportation

26. What kind of transportation do you usually take and why

27. How to improve the transportation system in your country

28. How is the traffic in your hometown

29. How much do you spend on transportation Is the fare high

30. How to improve the traffic problem

Communicating

31. What kind of communication do you prefer

32. How often do you use telephone

33. How often do you write an email or letter

34. Which do you prefer to use telephone or email

35. Do you prefer to send an email or write a letter Why

36. When do you use telephone

37. Do you prefer to have a face to face communication or to communicate by phone

Clothes

38. Do you think clothes is important for you

39. What is your opinion about clothes

40. When do you wear formal clothes

Household Chores

41. Do you think it is necessary for a child to help in household chores Why

42. Is there any changes in your household chores now

43. What kind of household chores did you do when you were a child

Shopping

1. How do people shop now

2. What is the difference between the way people shop before and now

3. Do you like shopping

4. Do you often go shopping

5. Do you think that modern people spend too much time on

6. What kind of shop do you like Language

1. Did you learn your English well

Film

1. What type of film do you like Computer

1. Do you use computer

Relax

1. Do you think to it is important to relax

2. How do you usually relax

1. Do you like to make friends with people

2. What kind of friend do you like

3. Talk about a interesting experience of making a friend.

4. Do you need a long time to know a person

Season

1. Which season do you like Why

Family

1. Does your family always treat you as a child

Part 2&3Place

1. Describe a shop

What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping

Why men don’t like shopping

Do you often go shopping Why do you like it

Do you think that it is good for children to go shopping

What type of shop is close to your house

What type of shop do you usually go

What is the difference between going to the supermarket and going to a small shop

Why some people don’t like shopping

2. Describe a city you have visited.

What is the difference between living in the city and living in the suburbs

Does the city provide advantage in any aspect of your life

What kinds of people enjoy living in the city

What are the major problems facing the cities nowadays

3. Introduce a place with a good water resource.

What is the importance of water

Why do people use more water now than before

What kind of the policy should the government make to save the water resources

Why do people like to live in a place close to water

What can they do if they live close to the water

Why children like swimming

4. Introduce a place you have studied or worked.

How is the place

How it looks like

Have you been to other places

Is there any place that you really want to go

Is there any kind of equipment that could make a place more comfortable to study

How can learning affect people’s feeling

Should people spend more time on studying or working

5. Describe a place which is not polluted

Where is this place

What kind of place is not polluted

What do you think about pollution

6. Describe a café or restaurant you have been. What kind of food is popular in China

Do you often go to restaurants to eat

Is food important in Chinese culture

Can food affect your health

7. Describe a hotel

Do you like living in a hotel Why

How is the service of the hotel

Is there anything that needs to be improved 8. Describe a city you have lived in

Does the city affect their people

What type of people are suitable to live in the city

What is the difference between middle/small city and large city

How is the pollution problem in the city

Do you like to live in the city or countryside, and why9. Describe a famous sight.

Where is it

Why is it famous

Do you think it’s important to have a famous sight in your city

Object

10. Describe a language you want to learn (except English).

Why some children learn language faster than others

What is the difference between foreigner teacher and Chinese teacher in teaching English

Who is responsible in teaching children English The parents or the school

What are the advantages of learning other languages Why do you choose it

Will you go to this country

Does your friend also learn this language

11. Describe your favorite magazine and newspaper.

What is your favorite magazine and newspaper

What information do you get from the magazine

What kind of people read the magazine How popular is the magazine Why

What is the difference between magazine and newspaper

How does the media affect the people

Do people read a lot of newspaper

When did you start to read newspaper

Do you like local or international news

12. Introduce a kind of electrical equipment (except computer). What kind of talent an electrical designer should have

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a computer Should the parents support their children in using the internet 13. Talk about the law.

Do you think it is necessary to create a law Why

Do you think the law is fair

14. Talk about film.

What do you learn from movies

How Chinese people think about foreign movies

What style of movie is popular in China

Which is more popular Chinese movies or foreign movies Do you think the advertisement is important for a movie 15. Describe a project you did while you were studying Should children have homework Why

Do High-school students need to have a lot of homework Do college students have part time jobs Why

How do we learn from our job

Why some parents choose to let their children study at home

Do you believe in Chinese education

What are the disadvantages of not having a computer16. Describe a website.

What is the advantage of Internet

What effect has the internet had on the way people generally communicate with each other

What kind of people uses Internet the most

What do you think of shopping on line

17. Describe your hobbies

Why do you have this hobby

18. Describe the SMS & making a phone call.

Why sending SMS is more popular than making a phone call 19. Describe a type of sport you played when you were a child. What type of sport do you usually do

Do boys and girls play the same sports

Do you agree that having a sport can make a child healthy

Is boxing good for health

What do you think about women joining boxing competitions 20. Describe a type of sport you played when you were a child. What type of sport do you usually do

Do boys and girls play the same sports

Do you agree that having a sport can make a child healthy

Is boxing good for health

What do you think about women joining boxing competitions

Event

21. Describe a recent change in your life.

Do you think children should try new things

Do you think the society has changed a lot What have changed

What are the changes now Is it better now than in the past Why are these changes

Is the past better than the present

Why is the environment getting worst

What kinds of pollution

What is the cause of pollution

Why the gasoline price is rising

29. Introduce a type of physical activity.

Why the government should let people join physical activities

How can the government encourage people do more physical activities Why

What type of physical activity do you like

What do you usually do

How is the sports in the past

Why modern people don’t like to exercise

30. Describe a person who works well in his/her job.

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12 October 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovers The Americas for Spain, painting by John Vanderlyn. On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Fronterawith three ships: a larger carrack, the Santa María ex-Gallega ("Galician"), and two smaller caravels, the Pinta ("The Pint", "The Look", or "The Spotted One") and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Ni?a (lit. "Girl") after her owner Juan Ni?o of Moguer. The monarchs forced the Palos inhabitants to contribute to the expedition. The Santa María was owned by Juan de la Cosa and captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Ni?a were piloted by the Pinzón brothers (Martín Alonso and Vicente Yá?ez). Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile, where he restocked the provisions and made repairs. After stopping over in Gran Canaria, he departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on 6 September, for what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. A lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land about 2:00 on the morning of 12 October, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard. Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land. Columbus called the island (in what is now The Bahamas) San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and based on what one would expect based on the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's venture's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus' San Salvador), Samana Cay, and Plana Cays. The indigenous people he encountered, the Lucayan, Taíno, or Arawak, were peaceful and friendly. Noting their gold ear ornaments, Columbus took some of the Arawaks prisoner and insisted that they guide him to the source of the gold. From the entry in his journal of 12 October 1492, in which he wrote of them, "Many of the men I have seen have scars on their bodies, and when I made signs to them to find out how this happened, they