IELTS Speaking Part 1 Topics & Questions 1

Main Topics for Part 1

Work
What is your job?
Where do you work?
Why did you choose that job?
Is it a popular job in your country?
Do you like your job?
Do you get on well with your colleagues?
What was your first day like?
What responsibilities do you have at work?
If you had the chance, would you change your job? Do
you plan to continue with your job in the future?

Study
What do you study? Where
do you study that?
Why did you choose that subject?
Is it a popular subject in your country? Do
you like that subject?
Do you get on with your colleagues?
What was your first day like?
What are the main aspects of your subject?
If you had the chance, would you change subject?
Do you plan to get a job in the same field as your subject?

Hometown
Where is your hometown? Do
you like your hometown?
Do you often visit your hometown?
What is your hometown like?
What is the oldest place in your hometown?
What is there for a foreigner to do or see in your hometown? How
could your hometown be improved?
Has your hometown changed much since you were a child? Is
there good public transportation in your hometown?
Do you think your hometown is a good place to bring up children?

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Home
Where is your home?
Do you live in a house or a flat?
Who do you live with?
Are there many rooms in your home?
What is your favourite room?
How are the walls decorated?
What would you change about your home? Do
you plan to live there in the future?
What facilities are there near your home?
What is your neighbourhood like?
Do most people live in houses in your country?

Common Topics in Part 1

Art
Are you good at art?
Did you learn art at school when you were a child?
What kind of art do you like?
Is art popular in your country?
Have you ever been to an art gallery?
Do you think children can benefit from going to art galleries?

Birthdays
Do you enjoy your birthdays?
Do you usually celebrate your birthday?
What did you do on your last birthday?
Can you remember a birthday you enjoyed as a child?
Do most people celebrate their birthdays with a party in your country?
Which birthdays are considered important in your country?

Clothes
Are clothes important to you?
What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
Do you ever wear the traditional clothes of your country?
Where do you usually buy your clothes?
Have you ever worn a uniform?
Do most people in your country follow fashion?

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Daily Routine
When do you usually get up in the morning?
Do you usually have the same routine every day?
What is your daily routine?
Do you ever change your routine?
Is your routine the same today as it was when you were a child? Do
you think it is important to have a daily routine?

Dictionaries
Do you often use a dictionary? What
do you use dictionaries for?
What kinds of dictionaries do you think are most useful?
Do you think dictionaries are useful for learning a language?
What kind of information can you find in a dictionary?
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Evenings
What do you often do in the evenings? Do
you do the same thing ever evening?
Do you prefer to spend your evenings with family or friends? Do
you ever work or study in the evenings?
What is a popular activity for young people in your country in the evenings? Do
you do the same thing in the evenings as you did when you were a child?

Family & Friends

Do you spend much time with your family?
Who are you closest to in your family?
Do you prefer spending time with your family or friends?
Who is your best friend?
Are you still friends with people from your childhood? Is
family important in your country?

Food
What’s your favourite food?
Have you always liked the same food?
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Is there any food you dislike?

What is a common meal in your country? Do
you have a healthy diet?
What do you think of fast food?

Hobbies
Do you have a hobby?
What equipment do you need for it?
Do you think hobbies should be shared with other people? Did
you have a hobby as a child?
What hobbies are popular in your country?
Why do you think people have hobbies?

Internet
How often do you go online? What
do you use the internet for? How do
you get online?
Do you have your own computer?
What’s your favourite website?
Do you think children should be allowed unsupervised access to the internet?

Leisure Time
What is your favourite leisure activity?
What did you enjoy doing in your free time as a child?
Do you prefer to spend your free time with other people or alone? What
is a common leisure activity in your country?
Do most people in your country get two days off a week? Do
you think leisure time is important?

Music
Do you like music?
What’s your favourite type of music?
Can you sing?
Did you learn music at school?
If you could learn a musical instrument, what would it be? Do
you think music is important?

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Neighbours & Neighbourhood

Do you like your neighbours?
Are neighbours usually close to each other in your country?
What is your neighbourhood like?
Do you think your neighbourhood is a good place for children? How
could your neighbourhood be improved?
Do you think it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbours?

Newspapers
How do you usually get your news?
Do you often read the newspapers?
What kind of news do you usually follow?
How do most people get the news in your country? Do
you think international news is important?

Pets
Do you have a pet? Do
you like animals?
What’s your favourite animal?
What is a popular pet to have in your country? Did
you have a pet as a child?
Why do people have pets?

Reading
Do you often read books or magazines? What is
your favourite kind of book to read? Do you
often read newspapers?
Do you have any e-books?
What books did you read as a child?
Do you think it is important to encourage children to read?

Shopping
Do you like shopping? What’s
your favourite shop?
Do you prefer shopping alone or with others?

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What kinds of shops are there where you live?

Have you ever bought anything online?
Do you think men and women have different opinions about shopping?

Sport
Do you like sport?
What’s your favourite sport?
Do you often watch sport on TV?
Did you play sport as a child?
What is the most popular sport in your country?
How do most people in your country keep fit?

TV
Do you often watch TV?
What sorts of things do you watch on TV?
What is your favourite TV program?
Do you ever watch foreign programs or films? What
did you watch on TV when you were a child? Do you
think children should watch TV?

Transport
How did you get here today?
What is your favourite mode of transport? Do
you ever use public transport?
Do you like the transport system in your country?
What is the difference between taking a bus and taking a train?

Weather
What’s the weather like today?
What’s your favourite weather?
Do you like the weather in your country? Does
the weather ever affect the way you feel?
Does the weather in your country ever affect transportation?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 1 (Accommodation & Hometown)

1. Let’s talk about your hometown. Where is your hometown?

2. What do you like about it?
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3. What do you not like about it?

4. How important is your hometown to you?
5. Do you think you will continue to live in your hometown?
6. Let’s move on to talk about accommodation. Tell me about the kind of
accommodation you live in?
7. Does the place you live in have many amenities?
8. Is there anything you would like to change about the place you live in?
9. Do you plan to live there for a long time?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 2 (Hometown & Weather)

1. What is your country famous for?

2. Where do you live in your country?
3. Is it a interesting place to live?
4. Are you planning to live there in the future?
5. How is the weather today?
6. What’s your favourite kind of weather?
7. Is there any type of weather you really don’t like?
8. What is the climate like in your country?
9. Does the weather affect people’s lives in your country?
10. Do people change in the summer?
11. Does bad weather ever affect transport in your country?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 3 (Work)

1. Do you have a job right now?

2. Do you enjoy your job?
3. What responsibilities do you have at work?
4. What is your typical day like at work?
5. What would you change about your job?
6. What job do you think you will be doing in five years?
7. What skills and qualifications are required for this job?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 4 (Volunteer works)

1. Have you ever worked before?

2. What was your first day at work like?
3. What responsibilities did you have at work?
4. What was your typical day like at work?
5. Have you taken any volunteer works?
6. Why did you do the volunteer works?
7. Do you know any volunteers?
8. How do you define volunteer work?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 5 (Hometown)

1. Can you tell me about your hometown?

2. How has your hometown changed over the years?
3. Is there any way your hometown could be made better?
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4. Are there good transportation links to your hometown?

5. What kind of jobs do the people in your hometown do?
6. Do you have a lot of friends?
7. Who is your best friend and why?
8. Who would you most like to be friends with and why?
9. What kind of person can you make friends with easily?
10. Which is more important to you, friends or family?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 6 (High School & Hometown)

1. Where is your hometown?

2. How often do you visit your hometown?
3. How many people live in your hometown?
4. What is your hometown famous for?
5. What’s the oldest part of your hometown?
6. Who was your favorite teacher in high school?
7. What’s your favorite subject in high school?
8. Do you still remember what happened on your first day of high school?
9. Do you still keep in touch with your friends from high school?
10. Do you miss your life in high school?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 7 (Lifestyle & Work)

1. What do you do in your free time?

2. Do you have a busy social life?
3. Do you lead an active life?
4. Has your life changed much in the last year?
5. What would you like to change about your lifestyle?
6. Do you work right now?
7. Do you get on well with your co-workers?
8. What responsibilities do you have at your work?
9. Are there good work opportunities in your home country?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 8 (Family & Housework)

1. How many people are there in your immediate family?

2. Who do you get on best within your family?
3. Do you have a large extended family?
4. What do you do together with your family?
5. Why is family important to you?
6. Do you do housework at home?
7. What kind of housework do you often do?
8. Did you do housework when you were a child?
9. Do you think that children should do housework?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 9 (Books & TV)

1. Do you like watching TV?

2. How often do you watch TV?
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3. What kind of TV programmes do you like to watch?

4. What are the most popular TV shows in your country?
5. Has the internet affected your viewing habits?
6. How often do you read?
7. Do you like reading books? Why?
8. Do you have many books at home?
9. Do you prefer to buy books or borrow them?
10. What are the benefits of reading?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 10 (Home & TV)

1. Who do you live with?

2. What is your favourite room in your home?
3. How is your home decorated?
4. Do you like visitors coming to your home?
5. Do you like watching TV?
6. What is your favourite TV show now?
7. What was your favourite show when you were a child?
8. Do you like watching TV shows from other countries?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 11 (Accommodation & Weather)

1. Do you live in a house or a flat?

2. Is it a big place?
3. How long have you lived there?
4. What do you like about living there?
5. Is there a garden in the place you live in?
6. Do you prefer to hot weather or cold?
7. Tell me about the weather in your country in different times of the year?
8. Which time of the year did you enjoy the most when you were the child?
9. Do you (usually) pay attention to the weather forecasts?
10. Has the weather changed much in your country in recent years?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 12 (Advertisements & Books)

1. Do you like reading books? Why?

2. What book would you take on a long journey?
3. How easy is it for you to read books in English?
4. Have you given up reading a book recently?
5. What kind of people like reading and what kind of people don’t like reading very
much?
6. Do you like watching advertisements?
7. Will you buy something because of an advertisement?
8. How do you feel when you see pop-up ads on the internet?
9. Do you like funny or serious advertisements?
10. What makes a good advertisement?

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Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 13 (Celebrity & Computer)

1. Do you use computers?

2. What do you use a computer to do?
3. Did you use computers when you were little?
4. Do people often use computers these days?
5. Will people continue to use computers in the future?
6. Who is your favorite celebrity?
7. Do you like any foreign celebrities?
8. Would you want to be a celebrity in the future?
9. Do you think we should protect famous people’s privacy?
10. How do celebrities influence their fans in your country?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 14 (Movies & Music)

1. How often do you go to the cinema?

2. Are cinema tickets expensive in your country?
3. What are the advantages of seeing a film at the cinema?
4. Do you usually watch films alone or with others?
5. Which actor would you like to play you in a film?
6. How do you listen to music?
7. When do you listen to music?
8. What’s your favorite kind of music?
9. Is music an important subject at school in your country?
10. What kinds of music are (most) popular in your country?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 15 (Music & Newspaper and magazine)

1. What’s your favorite kind of music?

2. Do you like to listen to live music?
3. Is live music popular in your country?
4. Have you ever been to a concert before? Or Have you ever been to a musical
performance?
5. Do you often read newspapers?
6. Do you prefer to read local news or international news?
7. Which is more popular where you live, newspapers or magazines?
8. Do many people today read newspapers?
9. In the future, do you think more people than today will read magazines, or fewer
people?
10. Do you think newspapers will be very important to you in the future?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 16 (Music & Travel)

1. Where was the last place you visited on holiday?

2. Would you like to go back there again?
3. What kind of tourist destinations do you usually prefer?
4. Has a foreign visitor ever stayed at your home?
5. What’s the best way to save money while traveling?
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6. How much time do you spend listening to music every day?

7. Are your music tastes varied?
8. What is your favorite song?
9. Do you like to sing along to your favorite songs?
10. Are you learning to play a musical instrument at the moment?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 19 (Internet & Major)

1. How important is the Internet to you?

2. Do you use the Internet more for work or in your free time?
3. Do you think you use the Internet too much?
4. How will the Internet develop in the future?
5. Are there any negative things about the Internet?
6. What is your major? Or what was your major?
7. Did you or do you like it?
8. Is it a popular major at your university?
9. If you could change to another major, what would it be?
10. Would you change it if you had the chance?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 20 (Internet & Outdoor activities)

1. Do you like outdoor activities?

2. What outdoor sports do you like?
3. How much time do you spend outdoors every week?
4. What types of outdoor activities are popular in your country?
5. How often do you use the Internet?
6. Do you think you use the Internet too much?
7. What are your favourite websites?
8. What are the positive and negative things about the Internet?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 21 (Indoor activities & Transportation)

1. Do you prefer public transportation or private transportation?

2. What’s the most popular means of transportation in your hometown?
3. Is it easy to catch a bus in your country?
4. Is driving to work popular in your country?
5. What do you think will become the most popular means of transportation in your
country?
6. Do you like indoor activities?
7. What indoor activities do you like?
8. How much time do you spend indoors every week?
9. What types of indoor activities are popular in your country?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 18 (Major & Sports)

1. Do you work or study?

2. What is your major? Or what was your major?
3. Why did you choose that major?
4. What is the most difficult part of studying that subject?
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5. Do you plan to use the subject you are studying in the future?
6. Do you play any sports?
7. Do you watch sports on TV?
8. What is the most popular sport in your country?
9. How do people in your country stay fit?
10. Is it important for children to play sports?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 22 (Gift & Noise)

1. Do you mind noises?

2. What types of noise do you come across in your daily life?
3. Are there any sounds that you like?
4. Where can you hear loud noises?
5. Do you think there’s too much noise in modem society?
6. Are cities becoming noisier?
7. When do you send gifts?
8. When was the last time you received a gift?
9. Have you received a gift you didn’t like?
10. How do you feel when you receive a gift?
11. Do people in your country send gifts to show their generosity?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 23 (Patience & Politeness)

1. What do you think patience is?

2. Do you think patience is important?
3. Do you think you are an patient person?
4. Have you ever lost your patience?
5. Are you a polite person?
6. Who taught you to be polite?
7. Is it important to be polite?
8. What do you do if others are not polite to you?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 25 (Colors & Weather)

1. What’s the best season of the whole year?

2. What do people normally do in that season?
3. What’s the weather usually like in your country (or, your hometown)?
4. How is the weather here different from the weather in your home country?
5. What colors do you like?
6. What’s the most popular color in your country?
7. Do you like to wear dark or bright colors?
8. What’s the difference between men and women’s preference for colors?
9. Do colors affect your mood?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 27 (Food & Weather)

1. Do you have a healthy diet?

2. Do you prefer eating at home or eating out?
3. Do you like ordering food to be delivered?
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4. Who do you get food delivered with?

5. Do you eat meals differently now compared to when you were little?
6. What sort of weather do you like the most?
7. Would you say the weather in your hometown is suitable for working (or studying)?
8. Would you like to move to a place with the different weather?
9. What season (or weather) do you think is most suitable for work and/or study?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 28 (Clothes & Photos)

1. What is your favourite item of clothing?

2. Are there any traditional clothes in your country?
3. Where do you usually purchase your clothes?
4. Have you ever bought clothes online?
5. Who do you usually take photos of?
6. How do you keep your photos?
7. Do you keep your photographs on your computer?
8. Have you framed any of your photos?
9. Do you prefer to send postcards to people or to send photos that you took yourself?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 29 (Art & Photography)

1. Do you like art?

2. Do you think art classes are necessary?
3. How do you think art classes affect children’s development?
4. What kind of paintings do people in your country like?
5. What benefits can you get from painting as a hobby?
6. Do you like to take photographs?
7. Do you prefer to take photos yourself or to have other people take photos?
8. How often do you take photographs?
9. Do you prefer to take pictures of people or of scenery?
10. Are there any photos on the walls of your home?

Ielts Speaking 1 Practice 31 (Bags & Boat)

1. Have you ever taken a ride on a boat?

2. Do you like traveling by boat?
3. What are the advantages of travelling by boat?
4. Do people in your country like to travel by boat?
5. Will it get more popular in the future?
6. Do you like bags?
7. What types of bags do you like?
8. Do you usually carry a bag (when you go out)?
9. What types of bags do you use in your everyday life?
10. What do you put in these bags?
11. What sorts of bags do women like to buy?

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