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IETLS Speaking Questions Prepared by: Teacher Jenny

PART 1

1. What is your country of origin?

2. Where is your hometown?

3. What does your hometown look like?

4. How long have you been living there?

5. What do you do?

6. What are you studying? What are you working on?

7. What do you dislike about your studies?

8. What do you dislike about your work?

9. What are your interests?

10. Do you like eating in restaurants? Why?

11. What transport do you use most? Why?

12. Where would you like to go on a holiday? Why?

13. Tell me who you would most like to go on vacation with. Why?

14. Any future plans?

15. What are your long-term goals? Short-term goals?

16. How is your relationship with your family?

17. Do you have a modern or traditional lifestyle?

18. What are the best tourism spots in your country?

19. What celebrations or cultural activities do you love about your hometown?

20. Describe your schooling or educational system.

PART 2

Describe a person from your youth who had a great influence on you.

You should say:

…where you met them?

…what relationship these people were to you?

…what was special about them?

…and explain how they have influenced you a lot.

PART 3

(Set 1)

1. Describe a piece of music that has had a big effect on you.

2. Tell me the reason why this piece of music is of big effect on you.

3. Has the effect of music to people changed now compared to the time of your grandparents?

4. What do you think are the positive and negative effects of music in the society today?

5. What do you think will be effects of music in future societies?

6. Describe what you can imagine in the future about these effects.

7. Would there be great changes from now until then?

8. How would it change?

9. Why do you think these changes would happen?

10. Can we prevent these changes from happening? How?

(Set 2)

1. What do you think would happen if cities stopped investing in public transportation?

2. Would there be any problems?

3. How do you think transportation would change in the next 100 years?

4. What might these changes depend on?

5. Do you think the government should spend more money on building roads or railways? Why?