IELTS Speaking

Tips and techniques

1. Example of a full test
2. Comparing methods
3. How to improve
4. A student’s questions
5. Don’t use these phrases
6. Formula phrases
7. How to feel confident
8. Strange topics
9. Main topics in part 2
10. One topic, all three parts
11. If you don’t know
12. If you don’t know (2)
13. Make it personal

Speaking skills

1. Mirroring grammar
2. Different perspectives
3. Using anecdotes
4. Adding detail
5. Adding detail in part 3
6. Part 3 verb tenses
7. Part 3 paragraph answers
8. Three useful expressions
9. Part 3 longer answers

Model Answers

Part 1 answers

1. Future plans
2. Taking photos
3. Friends
4. Musical instruments
5. Laughing
6. Emails and handwriting
7. Accommodation
8. Work
9. Dancing (negative answers)
10. Communication
11. Clothes
12. Home
13. Using your telephone

Part 2 answers

1. Describe a bad service
2. Describe a book
3. Describe an animal
4. Describe a skill
5. Describe a vehicle
6. TV programme or channel
7. A time you were angry
8. Describe a website
9. Describe a foreign culture
10. Describe an old building
11. A piece of furniture
12. Describe a home
13. Describe a team project

Part 3 answers

1. Difficult jobs
2. Future predictions
3. Good lesson
4. Nice homes
5. Past and future
6. Technology
7. Children’s toys
8. Questionnaires
9. Sport
10. Wildlife
11. Parties
12. Leisure and the economy
13. Emotions
14. Competitions
15. Rivers, lakes and seas
16. Going on holiday
17. Politeness
18. Home life
19. Friends