12日雅思口语考题回顾

　　Part 1

　　Your Work or Your Studies

　　Do you work or study?

　　What do you study as a major in school?

　　What is the development of your major in your country?

　　What do you think the effective ways to learn English?

　　Do you have any science class in school?

　　Who is more important, a teacher or classmates?

　　Would you like to change your job?

　　Do you think you will need to receive any training in the future?

　　Do you think the first day at work is important?

　　What subjects are you studying?

　　Why did you choose that subject?

　　What school do you go to?

　　Why did you choose that university ?

　　How do you like your subject?

　　Whats your favorite subject at school?

　　Whats the most difficult part of your course?

　　For you, whats the most interesting part of your course?

　　Your Home Your Accommodation

　　Do you live in a house or a flat?

　　How long have you lived there?

　　Do you have any outdoor activities in your hometown?

　　Do you plan to live there for a long time?

　　Please describe your home a little.

　　What are the benefits of living in a flat/house?

　　Whats your favourite room in your home?

　　How do you think your home could be improved?

　　What is the environment like around your flat/house?

　　Is it easy to travel to and from your home?

　　Hometown

　　Tell me something about your hometown.

　　What would you recommend a tourist see in your hometown?

　　Do you prefer to live in a big city or in the countryside?

　　Would you say its a good place to grow up?

　　Would you say thats a good place to live?

　　Do you plan to live there/here for a long time?

　　What city would you like to live in ?

　　Whats the traffic situation like in your hometown ?

　　Communication

　　Do you like writing to people?

　　How often do you write an email or a letter?

　　Who do you write to?

　　Do you often write letters?

　　Which do you prefer, to write a letter or write an email?

　　In general, what kind of letter or email do you find to be the most difficult to write?

　　When you are writing a letter , how do you usually start it?

　　Number

　　What is your lucky number?

　　Do numbers have significant meaning to Chinese people?

　　How do you usually memorize numbers?

　　Gift

　　Do you send flowers?

　　Do people in your country send flowers?

　　What are the meanings of sending flowers?

　　What is your last gift?

　　Do you like receiving or giving gift?

　　Is that easy to buy a gift for others?

　　Making friends

　　How do you make friends with others?

　　Where do young people make friends with others? And how about the old people?

　　Do people in your city find it easy to make friends with foreigners?

　　Weather

　　Whats the weather like in your hometown?

　　What changes are there between the different seasons in your country?

　　Whats your favourite season?

　　Do you usually pay attention to the weather forecasts?

　　Does the weather ever affect what you do?

　　Do you do the same things in the different seasons of the year?

　　Cooking

　　Do you like cooking?

　　Who usually does the cooking in your family ?

　　When did you learn how to cook?

　　In the future, do you think you will be cooking more than you do now, or less?

　　Clothes and Fashion

　　Do you like shopping for clothes?

　　Are you very interested in fashion ?

　　Do many people follow fashion?

　　Animals

　　Do you like animals?

　　Whats your favourite animal?

　　Are people in your country fond of animals?

　　Do you think cities are suitable places for keeping a pet?

　　Sport

　　Do you like any sports?

　　What sports are most popular with young people today?

　　Did you take part in any sport in school?

　　Do you think sport is important?

　　Are there any sports facilities near where you live?

　　In the future, what sports would you like to play?

　　Food

　　What food did you like to eat when you were a child?

　　Do you still like that food now?

　　Do you think its good to take children to restaurants?

　　Collecting

　　Did you collect anything when you were a child?

　　Do you still collect them now?

　　Why do you think people like collecting things?

　　If you had a lot of money, what would you like to collect?

　　Films

　　What types of films do you like?

　　Do you prefer to watch films at home or in a cinema?

　　Are there any types of films that you dislike?

　　Do you prefer to watch movies alone or with a group of friends?

　　Museum

　　Are there many museums in your hometown?

　　Do you often visit a museum?

　　Did you go to museums when you were younger?

　　When was the last time you visited a museum?

　　Do you think museums are important?

　　Do you think museums should sell things to visitors?

　　Dancing

　　Do you like dancing?

　　Have you ever learned to dance?

　　When was the last time you danced?

　　Do you like to watch dance performances?

　　Why do you think some people like to dance?

　　Reading

　　Do you like reading books?

　　What kinds of books do you like to read?

　　When you were young, what books made the greatest impression on you?

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

　　Would you like to write a book?

　　Would you like to receive a book as a gift?

　　Daily routine

　　What do you do mainly do with your time?

　　What is the best part of the day for you?

　　When do you do most of your study?

　　Would you like to change your daily routine?

　　Plane

　　Have you ever travelled by plane?

　　How do you feel about travelling by plane?

　　Are you going to travel by plane in the future?

　　Where would you like to go?

　　Part 23

　　Place

　　Describe a room you like to stay when you were a child

　　Do you think a private room is personal privacy?

　　How many rooms do u think is best?

　　Do you think students should share a room?

　　Do you think it is important to have own room for people?

　　Are there any advantages for children to share rooms with other children?

　　How many rooms does a typical Chinese family need?

　　Do you think future rooms will be better than todays?

　　Describe a small but successful company

　　What are the features of successful companies?

　　What are the advantages and disadvantages of family business?

　　Do private companies bosses would like to have a rest?

　　What are the differences between the manufacturing industry now and the past in China?

　　Describe a place you would like to attend a university or a college

　　Do you think there is any difference between schools in countryside and in the city?

　　Do schools need any improvement in the future? Why ?

　　Should children have computers at home?

　　Which is better for students, a big gym or a big library?

　　Describe a place near the water you have visited.

　　In which aspects do people in this place use water?

　　Do you think people in cities use more water than those in countryside?

　　Do you think water can be saved? And how?

　　Do you think people will accept travel by sea?

　　What are the benefits of shipping goods by sea?

　　Describe your favorite restaurant

　　How should we be encouraged to have a healthy eating habit?

　　Do people care more about nutrition nowadays?

　　Describe a modern building that you think is interesting.

　　Do you prefer old buildings or modern buildings?

　　What do you think are the advantages of modern buildings over old buildings?

　　Do you think the appearance of a building is important?

　　Do you think government buildings should be more practical than attractive?

　　Do you think interesting modern buildings can be used to attract tourists?

　　What facilities do you think modern cities should have?

　　Describe a place you have visited(want to visit)?

　　Why many people want to live in this place?

　　Theres many problem in transportation in this place?

　　So why many people still wants to live in this place?

　　How this place affects people?

　　Why people like to live in the city?

　　Describe a place you go to that has a lot of noise.

　　What noises can we hear in a city?

　　Do you think noise has any benefits?

　　Do you think noise can be considered to be a form of pollution?

　　What harm can noise do to peoples health?

　　How do you suggest this noise could be controlled?

　　What do you think the government should do about excessive noise?

　　Object/ Thing

　　Describe a broken thing in your family

　　What kind of thing can be easily broken?

　　How do people usually dispose of broken things?

　　Describe a car you want to buy in the future

　　What type of transportation tools can be found in your city?

　　When people buy cars, what kind of cars do they usually prefer?

　　What is the transportation development trend going to be in the future?

　　Describe an advertisement

　　How many ways are there to advertise? Which one is the best and popular?

　　What do you think if consumers will have to pay for advertisement? If you disagree with this, then do you think advertisement should be banned?

　　What are the advantages and disadvantages of advertisement?

　　What will happen if advertisements get banned?

　　Describe something you are interested in and want to learn in the future

　　What should the government do for the retired people?

　　What do you think of new things?

　　Do adults have enough ability to accept new things?

　　How fast do adults react to new things?

　　What is the importance of knowledge?

　　Is it necessary to learn practical skills?

　　Is it any difference between students in art and students in science?

　　Describe and advice you received from others under certain situation

　　Do your family members always give advice to you?

　　How do you think of these advices? Do you receive them all?

　　Is there any difference between the advice from your friends and advice from your family?

　　Does your family give any advice about relationship? What do you think of it?

　　In modern society, there are some people specializing in giving advice about work. What do you think of these people and their advices?

　　Describe a well-known story from your country.

　　Why do you think kids like listening to stories?

　　Describe a quiz show you watch on TV that you are interested in attending.

　　Is quiz show popular in China?

　　Why young people do not like quiz shows?

　　Are there many competitions in everyday life?

　　Some people say that competition has some disadvantages. Do you agree?

　　Do you think that people are born to be competitive?

　　Describe a useful piece of equipment that you often use at home

　　Are there any of those that you think are not very important?

　　What do you think are the benefits of using modern equipment and devices ?

　　Do you agree that older people have difficulties in using modern equipment?

　　How can we help elderly people to use these modern devices?

　　Describe something you bought which is valuable

　　Why do people like to buy expensive but useless things now?

　　What influence peoples consumption behavior?

　　Is there any effective ways to reduce such influence?

　　What can high technology bring to us?

　　Does high technology makes our life simpler or more complex? Is this change good or bad?

　　Describe a food from other countries

　　Do you like cooking? Why u like cooking?

　　Do you think high-tech influence our cooking

　　Do you think there are more children can cook nowadays?

　　Do westerners have an unhealthy eating habit? How about Chinese people?

　　Describe something healthy you would recommend

　　What do you think are the differences between healthy food and junk food?

　　What things do you think people in China need to do in order to improve their health?

　　Do you think modern people do enough regular exercise?

　　Do you think its important for children to learn about a healthy lifestyle?

　　Do you think the media can play a role in educating people about health?

　　Do you think its a good idea for employers to encourage their employees to live a healthy life?

　　How can employers do that?

　　Describe a film you have recently seen.

　　What kind of movie is popular in China? Why?

　　What is the difference between Chinese movie and foreign movies?

　　What do you learn from watching movies?

　　Do you think it is important for a movie to be advertised?

　　If foreign movies without advertisement, will it still be so success?

　　Do you think a movie will be success without advertisement? If yes, why?

　　What kind of people prefer to watch foreign movies than Chinese Movies in China? Why?

　　What is the difference between Chinese and Foreign movies?

　　Describe an interesting wild animal from your country

　　What kind of relationship do people and animal have?

　　What is the difference between having a pet now and having a pet in the past?

　　Is it better to have a dog in city or rural area?

　　Is vegetarian conducive to protect animals?

　　Do you think animals should be killed? Why?

　　Why do people raise pets?

　　What are the advantages and disadvantages of raising pets?

　　Why is it popular to raise pets?

　　What can we use animals for?

　　Are you a vegetarian?

　　Should animals be kept in cities or countryside?

　　What are some of the problems related to raising pets?

　　Event

　　Describe something you did that is good for environment

　　What should the government do to protect environment?

　　What should ordinary people do to the environment?

　　Why there are some countries do not take any activities to protect environment?

　　Is it the personal matter or a national issue to protect the environment?

　　Will the relationship between countries become closer if we protect the environment?

　　Describe a change in lifestyle that can be beneficial to your body

　　What is the different attitude towards exercise from men and women?

　　Do old people exercise a lot in your country?

　　Describe a walk with a friend that you remember.

　　What are the benefits of walking?

　　How do you think people could be encouraged to walk more?

　　Describe a shopping experience

　　What are the advantages and disadvantages of shopping from Internet?

　　What is the popular trend in young people when they buy things?

　　Why does iPhone becomes so popular?

　　How do we evaluate our living standard?

　　Describe a visit to your friends home

　　Compared with past, do people are too busy to visit others now?

　　Is it important to visit others?

　　Do you think it is important to make visitors comfortable?

　　Describe an unforgettable event in your childhood

　　Do you think parents play an important role in child education?

　　Who is better in education, parents or teachers?

　　What are the causes of spoiling children in modern society?

　　Do you think children should be encouraged to make decisions?

　　Describe a happy event in school

　　The happiness in the past and now, is there any difference?

　　What is the most important factor of being happy?

　　Is personal happiness the most important thing in our work life? If not, what is the most important?

　　Can people be happy without any goal?

　　Are old people happier than the young?

　　What is the influence of advertisement?

　　Describe an outdoor activity

　　What is the difference between outdoor work in cities and in countryside?

　　Compare the advantages and disadvantages of indoor work and outdoor work.

　　What is the difference of white-collars work and outdoor work

　　Describe a cultural event you celebrate

　　Are there any differences in celebration culture between now and past?

　　Is there any same or similar cultural event celebrated worldwide?

　　Person

　　Describe a friend who speaks a different language

　　Where can you meet those people who speak different language?

　　How and what do you talk about?

　　What can you get from them?

　　Why do these people with different language like to come to China? Why is China so attractive to them?

　　Describe a retired person

　　What is young peoples attitude towards the old?

　　Who should be responsible for taking care of the old? And what are their responsibilities?

　　What do retirees usually do for leisure?

　　Do they feel happy after getting retired?

　　Describe a friend

　　Where do you meet her/him?

　　How do people think of her/him?

　　Does she/he have any leadership skills?

　　In your family, who usually make decisions, your father or mother? Whats the situation in your country?

　　At what age do you think children should make their own decisions?

　　Who is better to make decisions, women or men?

　　Describe a TV or radio presenter

　　What skills does a person need to be a TV or radio presenter?

　　What are some differences between a radio presenter and a TV presenter?

　　Describe a teacher you had in your primary school time

　　Do teachers receive respects in your country?

　　How are teachers encouraged in your country?

　　Do many young people in your country want to be teachers?

　　What would cause more people to want to be teachers?

　　What do you think is the most important quality that a good teacher should have?

　　Do you think there are any differences between male and female teachers?

　　Do you think its possible for school students to become friends with teachers?

　　What do you think a qualified teacher should be?

　　What is more important to a teacher, professional technique or caring about others?

　　Do teacher influence childrens future?

　　If a teacher is well-qualified, but children just dont like her, whats the Problem?

　　Describe a famous artist you admire

　　Do you think art is important?

　　How has art changed in the past few years ?

　　How important do you think it is for children to have art classes in school?

　　What are some good ways to teach art to children?

　　Do you think art and literature should be taught in universities?

　　Describe a famous foreign person you would like to meet

　　Why would people want to be famous?

　　How does fame influence them?

　　How would they change after being famous?