IELTS speaking questions from Malaysia-November 2009

Speaking test

Interview
- Describe your home.
- What is the best room in your home and why?
- Do you write letters?
- Do you prefer to write manually or using a computer?
- Do you think that children should be taught to write like in the old days?
- Compare the way you learned to write and the way children today learn to write.
- Do you like shopping?
- When was the last time you did your shopping?
- Where do you prefer to go shopping – big shops or small shops?
- What do you hate most about shopping?

Cue card
Talk about an advertisement you heard or seen, you should say
- what was the advertisement,
- where and how you heard it / seen it,
- what were the items in the advertisement.


Discussion
- Where people usually advertise?
- Who usually advertise?
- Why do they advertise?
- Why businesses advertise their products?
- Should they not target the advertisement to children?
- Should they control the words they use in the advertisement?
- Should the government limit the advertisement?