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100 Ielts Speaking Part One Typical Questions Analysis
100 Ielts Speaking Part One Typical Questions Analysis
Without looking below, choose a number at random. Your partner will ask you that
question from below. Continue until your teacher stops the game, switching roles after
each question. You can try to avoid or get the same questions as other people by
remembering the numbers if you like, but you cant write the numbers down. If you cant
understand the question that you are supposed to ask, ask your teacher what it means. If
the person answering doesnt understand the question, they should ask their partner to
repeat, explain or rephrase the question.
Other useful functions for the person answering the question:
1 Checking (again) what the question means
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Commenting on the question/ Filling silence while pausing for thought/ Dealing
with difficult questions
Commenting on the match or possible (mismatch) between the question and the
answer
Vague language/ Saying you are not sure (e.g. you cant remember exactly)
Explaining things that the examiner might not know or understand (e.g. names
of things which are specific to your country)
Giving reasons
Different (past, present or future) time expressions (a few days ago etc)
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Without looking above, try to remember as much as you can about the questions above,
for example:
Topics
Tenses and other similar verbs forms for talking about the present, past, future and
hypothetical situations (-ing, used to, want, wish etc the grammar of the
questions)
Question stems (= phrases in the questions that could be used to many more
similar questions on the same or different topics)
Look back at the questions to find ones you missed, underlining useful question stems.
Make sure you found all the topics and tenses and similar on the next page. There are at
least four questions for each topic and more than one for some of the tenses etc, but you
only need to think of or find one for each.
------------------------------------------------------------------------Hints: The questions have 25 different topics, 100 different question stems and 11 different
tenses and similar verb forms.
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com 2014