 Downloadable Academic Reading sample tasks |
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| Diagram label completion (PDF, 61KB) |
| Identifying information (PDF, 35KB) |
| Identifying writer's views (PDF, 56KB) |
| Matching features (PDF, 22KB) |
| Matching headings (PDF, 26KB) |
| Multiple choice questions (PDF, 21KB) |
| Table completion (PDF, 59KB) |
| Academic Reading answer sheet |
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| IELTS Reading answer sheet (PDF, 130KB) |
IELTS Speaking questions were shared by our friend N from Kazakhstan, here is what we know:
Speaking test
Interview
- What are your favorite colors?
- What do they mean?
- Do you wear clothes in your favorite colors?
- Which colors are important for people in your country?
- Lets talk about fashion: what kind of clothes do you wear?
- Where do you buy your clothes?
- Do you think that in the future you will wear the same clothes as now?
Cue Card
Tell me about a part of your city that is changing, please say
- where is it?
- how is it changing?
- why is it changing?
- how do you feel about that?
Discussion
- Are the changes in the cities good or bad?
- How do people react to them?
- Which facilities should the government make available for people?
- How do you and your friends spend time?
- What are the differences between the way people were spending time in the past and now?
- Should government consider local people’s opinion when deciding on changes in the city?
- Should people know about everything the government is planning?
It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the IELTS results competition in September. Apparently, in September we’ve done even better than before, because there are … wait for it … 11 winners!
Don’t let me say anything else before I present:
Academic Module – 1st place
•Anithadevi Manikandan from India, Band 8.5
•V. Swetha Jeganathan from Malaysia, Band 8.5
Academic Module – 2nd place
•Charissa Maniti from the Philippines, Band 8.0
•Trisita Saha from Bangladesh, Band 8.0
•Juan Manuel Calero Rodrigues from Spain, Band 8.0
•Nessette Alicante from the Philippines, Band 8.0
Academic Module – 3rd place
•Timur Timirkhanov from Kazakhstan, Band 7.5
•Rahul Naik from India, Band 7.5
•Safy Saeed from Pakistan, Band 7.5
General Training Module – 1st place
•Kamran Jamil from Pakistan, Band 8.5
•Roger Peralta from the Philippines, Band 8.5
Our winners come from all over the world, but have one thing in common – their hard work resulted in a score one can be proud of.
IELTS exam in India was described by S as follows:
Listening test
Section 1. A conversation between a holiday company’s executive and a lady named Janet.
Questions: Janet’s address, phone number (filling in the gaps), multiple choice questions about prizes / coupons, date of the prize announcement, type of prize, type of activity preferred by Janet’s teenage children (surfing), type of place Janet prefers to spend her holiday in, type of activity Janet likes to do on a holiday with her husband.
Section 2. Description of Woodside Hotel.
Questions: when it opened, how many branches it has, how much it costs to purchase membership, discounts for members, special offers. Then there were 2 questions to select from answers in a box which restaurant has particular facilities.
Section 3. A talk between Jack and Lee about joining different universities. Lee likes journalism as a profession.
Questions: Why Lee has chosen that particular university, what facilities are there, what are Jack’s interests (science), what facilities are there in Jack’s college campus.
Section 4. A flowchart describing the making of rubber. How it’s collected, transferred, preserved in acid, manually pressed to drain water, smoked, sold.
Questions: filling in the gaps, the questions were about people who used rubber and for what purpose. In chronological order first Brazilians made rubber balls, then Europeans invented vulcanization to make rubber smooth and elastic, then car tires boosted the industry and the last invention of synthetic rubber was made by Germans.
Reading test
Passage 1. Koalas in Australia.
Questions: Multiple choice (A, B, C or D), Yes/No/Not Given, filling in gaps (no more than 2 words).
Passage 2. About a collapse of a steel bridge in London.
Questions: Multiple choices (select the correct opinion of an engineer from the given choices).
Passage 3. About the correct communication of information.
Writing test
Writing task 1 (a report)
There were two bar graphs comparing employment of elderly males and females in Belgium, USA, Japan and Australia.
Writing task 2 (an essay)
People often think about creating an ideal society, but most of the times fail in making this happen. What is your opinion about an ideal society? How can we create an ideal society?
