2023 NEW TOPICS IELTS SPEAKING PRACTICE

IELTS SPEAKING REAL PRACTICE TEST 2023

IELTS SPEAKING PRACTICE 2023
JANUARY - MARCH
PART 1: ART
1. Do you like art?
2. Do you think it would be interesting for you to be an artist?
3. Is there any artwork on the wall in your room?
4. Have you ever visited an art gallery?
5. What forms of visual art are popular in your country?
6. Are there any difference between the art in your country and the art in
Western countries?
7. Do you want to be an artist?

OUT SPACE AND STARS
1. Do you want to travel in the outer space?
2. What would you do if you had an opportunity?
3. Have you ever learnt about stars and outer space?
4. Is it important to study stars?
5. Are you interested in films concerning outer space and stars?
6. Do you want to go into outer space in the future?

JEWELRY
1. Do you like wearing jewelry?
2. What type of jewelry do you like to buy?
3. How often do you wear it?
4. Do you wear a lot of jewelry?
5. Have you ever sent someone jewelry as a gift?

NOISE
1. Do you mind noises?

2. Do any noises bother you?
3. Are cities becoming noisier?
4. Where is there louder noise in cities or in the countryside?
5. What type of noise do you come across in your daily life?
6. Are there any sounds that you like?

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PART 2:
1. Describe a gift you got
You should say:
 What it was
 How you got it
 What you did
 How you felt about it
Ideas:
- a box of chocolates, a boquet of flowers, a bag of fruit, a gift basket filled
with fruits, a gift voucher for spa, restaurant, shopping, dentis, music festival
with celebrities from another country.
- a luxury car to use for a day.
- a book, a bottle of wine or champagne
- a framed photo with one’s celebrity in the image
- a magazine subscription
- a gift coupon, a thoughtful gift, to be awarded with a gift card
How did you you feel about it?

- I was very pleasantly surprised
- I was pleased about it
- I felt very flattered, I was absolutely happy, I was on cloud nine
- I literally jumped for joy
Why?
- It made me feel important
- It made me feel special
How did you get it?
- It was a ‘thank you’ gift from the company because I’d been their customer
for year.
- The company wanted to congratulated me on my birthday as: I was their VIP
customer.
- I was among the first to like the company’s page on Facebook
- It took the time to give feedback on the company’s service.

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Part 3: Gifts and Rewards
1. What rewards fo children want to get?
2. What are children usually rewarded for at school?
3. What rewards can children get from school?
4. What rewards can companies offer to outstanding employees?

2. Describe a person you like or want to work or study with
You should say:

 Who this person is
 How long you have known each other
 How you met
 Why you want to work or study with this person
Ideas:
- to work closely with someone
- to work in total harmony
Who this person is?
- my team member, my colleague, my partner, my boss, my subordinate, my
classmate, my head of X department
How long did you work or study together?
- we have been working or studying together for X years now
- we’ve been working or studying together since X
- If I’m not mistaken, next year we’ll have been working together for 15 years
What do you do together?
- prepared for final assignment, presentations, speeches
- developed and launched new product
- we did research for our dissertations
Why did you like or want to work and study with this person?
- X never against me, X is always willing to give a helping hand to me
- X is really great at problem-solving
- X comes up with brilliant solutions to all problems we discusss
- X assist me deal with different work-related problems

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Part 3: Classmated and colleagues
1. What do you think makes someone a good colleague?
2. What matters most about a colleagues’s personality?
3. Do you think that having good colleague is the most important thing at
work?
4. Are good colleagues important at work?
5. How can children get along with their classmates?
6. What kinds of people are popular at work?
7. Why do colleagues like to criticize each other at the office?
8. How to reduce jealousy and stop criticize each other at work?
9. Why many people don't want others to be better than themself? Do you
think this is selfish?

3. Describe a time when you taught a friend or relative
something.
You should say:
 What you taught them to do
 Whom you taught
 How you taught them
 How you felt about it
Ideas
Whom did you teach?
- my classmate, teammate, friend, my parents, my relative, father or mother,
cousin, husband or wife, one of my distant relatives.
What did you teach them?
- to use a computer, drive a car, ride a bicycle
- to ski, skate, cook soup, make the bed, swim, read or write
- to play table tennis, play the guitar, dance
How did you teach them?

- First, I showed them how to do it and asked them to repeat after me
- I explained how do you it
- I told them what mistakes beginners usually make and how to avoid them

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- I made detailed instructions to refer to
- I read a number of articles which explained how to teach someone to do it
- I broke down this complicated task into smaller steps not to overwhelm the
child
- I tried to show different ways of doing it
- I showed them how to cross the two loops over each other
- I taught them to grab hold of both loops around the left one
How did you feel about it?
- I was happy when it was all over
- I was really proud of myself
- I had a sense of satisfaction and relief

PART 3: SKILLS
1. What practical skills can young people teach old people?
2. How can we teach an older generation to use new technology?
3. What’s the difference between children learning and adults learning what
they have to learn?
4. Where can we learn practical skills?

4. Describe a place you visited that was affected by air
pollution
You should say:
 Where it is and when you visited this place
 Why the air was not good
 How this place was affected
 How you felt about it
PART 3: POLLUTION
1. What can people do together to improve the local environment?
2. How can air pollution be reduced effectively?
3. Do you think moderns means of transportation cause harm to the
environment?

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4. Who should take responsibility for protecting the environment?

5. Describe an unusual meal
You should say:
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What or who organised this meal and where you had it

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What you talked about during the meal

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What you ate and drank

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Why it was special

PART 3: EATING OUT
1. Will you choose a cafe or restaurant when you meet others?
2. What are the differences between a cafe and a restaurant?
3. What kind of people like to go to cafes?
4. What kind of things do you think can make a cafe or restaurant’s
environment better?
5. Is it expensive to eat out in your country?
6. Why do young people like to study in a cafe or karaoke instead of at home?

6. Describe a period in history that interests you
You should say:
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What the period is

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How you know about it

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Why it is interesting

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And explain why you like about it

PART 3: HISTORY
1. Is it hard to protect historical buildings?
2. Do you think everyone should learn history?
3. How can people learn about history?
4. How can children learn history?
5. How can technology make learning history more interesting?
6. Why is it that some leaders fail to learn from the past?

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7. Will museums be replaced by technology someday?
8. Should museums be free?
9. Do you think people should remember their family history?
10. Are history museums useful?
Please note one important thing when you prepare IELTS Speaking
- I have heard that many students in VIETNAM and other countries are trying
to remember all sample answer and learn by root. This means that you will
get a low score for your speaking test, remember that all examiners

distinguish between natural answers and memorized answers. All examiners
regularly receive training to enhance their skills, so candidates who are
always seeking methods to cheat will face suspension of their exam results
and other penalties such as you will be banned from taking the exam for 2
years or permanently. The speaking exam is recorded and handed to the
board for evaluation. Furthermore, each judge's scoring procedure differs by
only 0.5 points. Band score increased up to 1.5 or 2.0 points is rarely.
- There are 5 evaluation criteria for natural answers: Pronunciation,
Listening, Fluency, Word Stress, and Intonation.

“ The real study, the real test of
your own abilities. Those who try to
cheat or who want to achieve
excellent scores without studying
are deceiving themselves.”

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