Succeed In IELTS - Speaking And Vocabulary (StudentS Book) By Andrew Betsis, Sula Delafuente, Sean Haughton

IELTS SP E A K IN G G U ID E

Chapter 1 Audioscript

Understanding the Test LI Listen to a candidate talking about the IELTS test I . Fill in the gaps as you listen to answer Questions I -6. What is different about the 3 parts of the test? How many expressions with ‘end’ do you hear? Although I’d practised for hours on end, I was still quite nervous before my speaking test because I didn’t know what to expect. In the end it was really not as bad as I thought it would be. In Parts 1 and 2 the topics were much more personal and I mostly spoke about myself, my family, friends and experiences I’d had. I did notice the test changed in Part 3; the questions seemed more formal to me and I had to speak more about local/global and local/global issues. I suppose at the end of the day it was like any interview, I had to listen carefully to the quesư tions and make sure my answers were clear.

Chapter 2 2 L2 Listen to three candidates answering Part 1 questions below. Which responses logically answer the questions (A) and which ones go off-topic (0)? Write an A or 0 next to each speaker. Speaker 1: Q 1 Was it difficult to get accepted on this course? Um in some parts you just getting so much difficulty, because you’re just dealing with the Mathematics..it was so hard...you know, just er solving all the problems, and you should thinking about it was so hard, but totally it was not so hard you know. It was easy-peasy... Q 2 Will you have to study more before you start working? I think I shouldn’t go to the factory or some operation work you know, just to get used to the work, get used to it, I can solve a lotta things, then I can do things much more better.

Speaker 2: Q 1 Was it difficult to get accepted on this course? Um..getting to university is a little bit hard in my country. There’s er.. so much competition and we have to go through an entrance exam, but ultimately it was fine. I could get through... and um...yes it all worked out for me in the end. Q 2 Will you have to study more before you start working? Yes, I have to gain some experience if I want to work, um because what we learn in the university is a little bit impractical and theoretical you know. We have to - gain some experience by working in factories and places like that.

Speaker 3: Q 1 Was it difficult to get accepted on this course? Um..l think it’s a little easy to...get a course in university. Q 2 Will you have to study more before you start working? No, unfortunately I don’t have any course.

Chapter 2 Explaining your likes and dislikes 1 L3 Listen to 2 candidates answering the Part 1 question below. Make notes in the table as you listen. - Do you like keeping flowers in your house? Speaker 1: If I’m honest, I don’t care that much for flowers. My wife is the one who usually buys them...of course I buy them for her birthư day and our wedding anniversary, but apart from that, I don’t pay much attention to them if they’re in our home and I certainly wouldn’t buy them unless I had to. Flowers are really not the be- all and end -all of my life. If they’re there, then they’re there, but really, I could quite hapư pily live without them. Speaker 2: Absolutely, I can't imagine my life without them. I try and have fresh flowers in the house each week just because to me, they are incredibly beautiful and they have such a good smell. I also love the vibrant colours- the reds, the pinks, the yellows. When you look at a bunch of flowers, you can’t help but feel happy...(laughs)...Well that’s what happens to me anyway!

Chapter 3 2 L4 Listen to a candidate answering the following Part 2 topic card and answer the questions. - I’d like you to describe a vehicle you would like to own. Yes, I would like one day to have a kind of vehicle...! don’t know what’s the name...it’s a type of imaginary vehicle and I’ve had it in my mind about the past ten years or more...I’m an architect so designer is part of my life... It’s a kind of chair you sit on it and you can fly with it.... it just …