IELTS Speaking Part 1: READING

READING

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

2.What (kinds of) books do you like to read?

3.Did you read much when you were a child?

4.What (kinds of) books did you like reading when you were a child?

5.Do (young) children like reading books?

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

7.What do you think are the benefits of reading to children?

Yes, I'm really into reading because I believe that reading can be both entertaining and educational. Reading broadens my knowledge by opening up the whole world to me. While I'm reading, I can be visiting another country or a different time period, or traveling through space. I can find out how people solve problems or think up new ideas.

Oh, it's a tough question, or it should be more of what books I don't read. I have a really open mind to books and what genre they are. Classic literature, novel, autobiography, historical story...whatever.

Yes, I remember when I was a kid, I'd like to take some historical books from my father's bookshelf, and read the historical stories, which were really entertaining and educational to me. As a result, I'm very familiar with our Chinese ancient history.

It's kind of hard to say but young children that I know around me tend to read fairy tales to cultivate their mental development, but maybe for others, they just want to watch TV and play toys.

I believe if you want your children to be smart, they have to acquire a love for reading, which has numerous benefits. Reading opens the door to child's early academic success, imparts a love of learning and leads to higher grades in every subject. Besides, reading can help children Improve linguistic skills in the form of a richer vocabulary, correct grammar, and more articulate oral communication. On top of

that, books teach child about relationships, situations, personalities, and what is good and what is bad in the world he lives in.

IELTS Speaking 1: WEEKEND

WEEKEND

1.How do you usually spend your weekends?

2.In your country, do men and women usually do the same kind of things on weekends?

3.When do you spend time with your family?

4.What do you usually do on weekends?

5.What did you do last weekend?

6.What do other people in your hometown usually do on weekends?

7.What are you going to do next weekend?

8.Is there anything new that you'd like to do on weekends?

9.Do you like working on weekends?

10.Do you think employees should have to work on weekends?

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

Normally I'll go out to some stunning natural sceneries to let off steam with my family or friends on weekends; but if it's not sunny, I'll stay at home for the whole weekend. Mostly I just use the internet to kill time.

I guess some men play sports while women may just do housework. So men may probably do things to their own interest, by contrast, women spend more time for their families.

I always spends the whole weekends with my family. I barely work on weekends.

Last weekend, I took my son to the Beijing Botanic Garden to go around to see the various plants. Besides we went into the greenhouse exhibition of plants which is very remarkable.

Well, there are so many people in my hometown, it's really hard to say, probably most people tend to stay at home to enjoy the family time, but personally speaking, I guess there are not much entertaining facilities in my small hometown for people to go.

Next week, I plan to go to do some shopping because as the Spring Festival is just around the corner, I need to go to some super markets to prepare some food and other groceries; besides, I have to buy some new clothes for my family for the coming new year, it'a an old Chinese tradition.

Yes, actually I've been thinking about going to the gym on Saturdays. I have to do some exercise, I'm so out of shape now !

Absolutely no ! That's crazy. I have to relax no matter what. Weekends are not for work ! ! !

If I were an employee, I would think this is a horrible idea. Employees are human, we all deserve to have some off-work time.

Yes, the main factor is that after five-day of hard work, I really need some leisure time to let off steam, or travel around to experience the stunning natural scenery. Whereas, when I was a kid, I had plenty of time to play, every day was almost the same.

IELTS Speaking Part 1: CLOTHES

     CLOTHES

1.What clothes do you usually like to wear?

2.Do/did you wear the same clothes at school and at home?

3.Will you change your clothes when you go home today?

4.Did you have any special clothes to wear when you where a child?

5.Did you like them?

Well, actually I don't have an instinct for fashion and my look says I'm a laid-back kind of guy. So I usually wear casual clothes. I'm most comfortable wearing jeans, a T-shirt and my flip-flops. Oh, definitely not. I always wore the school uniforms which was a blue jacket with a white shirt. They were very simple and boring. So when I reached home, I intended to put on my favourite outfits.

Oh, yes. The formal clothes really make me nervous so after I go home later, I'll take them off and change my sweatshirts.

Yes, when I was a child, I needed to wear a uniform at school from primary school all the way to the very last year of high school, which is an institution, so I believed my parents had to follow this tradition.

No, I really couldn't stand the school uniform because the clothes were a bit too old- fashioned; in addition, sometimes I was reluctant to wear them because they were too large. I doubted why they couldn't be a bit more trendy and colourful like the ones in other countries, like Japan and Australia.

IELTS Speaking Part 1: SKY

        SKY

1.Do you like to watch the sky?

2.What is the sky like at night in your hometown?

3.Do you like to watch stars?

4.Have you ever taken a course about stars?

5.Is it important to study stars?

6.What's your favourite star?

Yes, I am really into watching the sky especially at night to count the countless stars when I was a kid. I remember I sometimes laid down in the grass for hours to watch the shining stars when in summer because I was fond of imaging the folk stories about the stars.

Well, as my hometown is a tourism city and there is no any industrial pollution, the sky is always clean and clear, and I can see the stunning night sky with countless and glittering stars and sometimes even the galaxy. But unfortunately in a metropolis like Beijing light pollution makes the night sky invisible.

No, I have never been in any sorts of courses about stars because actually there was no such courses in the schools or university. But fortunately my grandmother once sent me an encyclopaedia about nature in which there were loads of stories about stars, I got the most of the knowledge about stars from it.

Yes, I believe that astronomy has always had a significant impact on our world view as it can help open our eyes, give context to our place in the cosmos and that can definitely reshape how we see the world.

My favourite star constellation is Orion. It's very easy to spot on winter nights. Firstly, it has a huge red giant star, which may explode any time soon. Besides, it has a massive blue star which is very young. On top of that it also has a big nebula where new stars are being born - so it has everything !

IELTS Speaking Part 1: MATHS

        MATHS

1.When did you start learning maths?

2.Do you like maths?

3.Who taught you maths?

4.Who's your favourite teacher so far?

5.Is maths difficult for your to learn?

6.Do you like to use a calculator?

I firstly started to learn maths when I was in the first grade in primary school. I was about seven years old then.

To be honest, I disliked maths at all because there were always too many abstract formulas I had to remember. You know, I was not good at memorising things, so I often used the incorrect formula in the exams, and made lots of mistakes and got low marks as a result.

My maths teacher was an elderly woman. She was very kind and patient, but she always

tended to be demanding with us, she seemed like making the simple theory very complicated. And she liked leaving endless homework to us.

Yes, I'm afraid that I wasn't quick at fingers. And I was also bored with these abstract formulas and found it hard to pick the appropriate ones to solve the maths problems in exams.

No, actually we were not allowed to use the calculator in class or exam because we were asked to calculate the results with pencil and paper. Therefore I'm not used to use the calculator no