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

IELTS Speaking Part 1: Vegetables and fruits

Vegetables and fruits

1.What's your favourite vegetable and fruit?

2.How often do you eat fruits?

3.Are there any special fruits in your hometown?

4.Should we eat vegetables every day?

My top three are broccoli, celery and grape because all of them are both nutritious and delicious. Also, I want to give mushrooms an honourable mention as they are one of my favourite things to cook with, although they are a fungus.

I think I eat fruits at home on a daily basis. I always buy a lots of different fruits in the shopping mall in the weekends for my whole family.

Oh yes, there are loquat trees everywhere in my hometown. Loquat is very sweet and has lots of nutrition and can become medicine.

Yes, we do. We really need to eat vegetables everyday because you simply cannot find another food group that is as perfectly matched to our everyday human needs as vegetables. There are various protein, fibre and vitamin that cannot be found in other food like meat.

IELTS Speaking Part 1: SPORT

    SPORTS
1.Do you like to watch sports on TV?

2.Do you play any sports?

3.Do you have a favourite sports star?

4.What's the most popular sports in China?

5.What kind of sports would you like to try in the future?

6.Have you ever tried any dangerous sports?

Yes, I'm really into watching sports on TV because it entertains me a lot. Besides, I like seeing other people do the things that I can't do and wish I could do.

Yes, I sometimes play football with my friends in the garden during the weekends' morning to get some exercises.

I feel that my favourite sports star is Messi who is a forward in Barcelona. He is the perfect blend of speed, strength, skill and toughness. He is also an icon in the modern football.

I guess the most popular spectator sport in China is basketball. Basketball is also played by many young people, mainly boys, for basketball courts are easy to find and it doesn't require specific facility or expensive equipment other than a basket and a ball.

Well, I guess what I'll try in the future is the tennis because it can help me build my strength and improve my flexibility and balance. Besides, tennis is social, it's a sport I can enjoy with friends if I play regularly.

Oh, no, though my life is quite a bit boring, I'm too scared to do any extreme sports because I don't think I have enough guts to put myself in the difficult situations.

IELTS Speaking Part 1: LEISURE TIME

LEISURE TIME

1.What do you do in your spare time?

2.What do you do to relax?

3.How do you usually spend your evenings?

4.What do you usually do after work/after classes?

5.Do you prefer to stay at home in the evenings or do you prefer to go out?

6.Do you think modern lifestyles give people enough time for leisure?

7.Do you think people today have more time to relax than in the past?

8.Do you think it's important for people to have leisure time?

9.Do old people and young people spend their leisure time in the same way?

10.What do you think are the good points and the possible bad points about having leisure time?

11.How do people in your country spend their holidays?

12.Do you like to travel in your holidays?

13.If you had a child, what leisure places would you go to with your child?

Well, I enjoy self-driving travelling in my spare time. I always drive my car with my friends or family to the rural areas of Beijing during the weekends to loosen up. I feel that self-driving travel can not only enable me to go somewhere I want to at any time, but I can also make my own itineraries and discover the stunning places that others may not find.

Normally, I'll hang out with my friends because I want to loose up, but after being a father, I spend more time at home to stay with my kid, telling stories to him or playing games with him.

If I were to choose between the two, I'll probably spend more time at home to stay with my kid, telling stories to him or playing games with him, whereas, hanging out with friends will reduce my quality family time with my son.

Oh, definitely not, you know, modern lifestyle can bring people convenience, however, the modern fast paced society and fierce competition have made most people spend more time with work, resulting in less quality time with family and friends.

Yes, definitely. After tiring work, people really need to loose up. Apart from earning money, I still need to enjoy family time, hang out with friends to socialise and travel around to experience different lifestyle.

Well, between the two, old people are fond of slow-pace of life compared to young people, for example, old people enjoy walking in the garden or chatting with old friends, on the contrary, young people are fond of energetic activities such as football and hiking in the mountains.

Well, it's kind of hard to say but people that I know around me tend to hang out with friends for dinner, but maybe for others, they will probably go shopping with family in the shopping malls to enjoy themselves.

Well, I'm really into taking my kid travelling around in the natural scenery spots during the weekends to loose up. Although travelling to other places is really time consuming, I still like going out because I believe that staying close to the nature can cultivate people' s mental development