2012年11月24日雅思口语机经[A类]

考试日期：

2012年11月24日

Part 1考题总结

考题总结：

Studies

1. Are you working or studying?

2. Tell me about the school or university you attend.

3. Tell me something about your primary school.

4. What is your major?

5. Do you like your major and why?

6. What courses or subjects do you study?

7. What is your favorite subject?

8. What is the most useful subject?

9. What would you like to do in the future?

10. What are the characteristics 1 of schools in China?

11. What kinds of majors are available in China?

12. What do Chinese people think about teachers?

13. Is teaching 2 a popular job in China, why or why not?

Work

1. Are you working or studying?

2. What do you do for a living?

3. How long have you been doing this job?

4. Do you like your job, why or why not?

5. Do you find your job interesting?

6. What are your main responsibilities 3 in your job?

7. Is working important to you?

8. Have you received any training related 4 to your work?

9. Tell me about your boss or colleague 5.

10. What would be your ideal 6 job?

11. If you could choose another job, what would you choose?

Hometown

1. Where are you from?

2. Where is your hometown?

3. Tell me about your hometown.

4. What’s your favorite thing or place in your hometown?

5. What is famous about your hometown?

6. Tell me about some scenic 7 spots in your hometown.

7. What are the main places of interest in your hometown? What places should foreigners visit in

8. Do you like your hometown? Why or why not?

9. What is the difference between your hometown and Beijing?

10. What are the people like in your hometown?

11. If you could change one thing about your hometown, what would it be?

12. What attractive 8 pieces of architecture 9 are there in your hometown?

13. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live?

Internet

1. Do you often use the internet?

2. How do you go onto the internet?

3. Where do you go onto the internet?

4. What do you do on the internet?

5. Is the internet very popular in China?

6. How can people learn things on the internet?

Leisure 10 time

1. What do you do in your spare time?

2. How do you usually spend your evenings?

3. Do you prefer to staying at home in the evenings or do you prefer to going out?

Mobile 11 Phones

1. Do you use a cell 12 phone?

2. What do you use it for?

3. How often do you use it?

4. Do you like to send short message?

5. When did you get your first mobile phone?

6. How did you feel when you got your first mobile phone?

7. What feature or function of your cell phone do you like the best?

8. Is there anything you dislike about using cell phones?

Museum

1. Are there any famous museums in your hometown/country?

2. Do you think museums are useful for visitors to your hometown/country?

3. Do you often visit a museum?

4. Did you go to any museums when you were a child?

5. When was the last time you visited a museum?

6. Do you think museums are important?

7. Do you think it’s suitable 13 for museums to sell things to visitors?

Name

1. What’s your name?

2. Does your name have any special meaning or significance 14?

3. Have you ever changed your name, why or why not?

4. Do Chinese people like changing their names, why or why not?

5. What kind of people like changing their names?

6. What’s their purpose in changing their names?

7. In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?

Photography 15

1. Do you like photography and why?

2. When did you start to like photography?

3. Do you keep your old photos?

4. Do you often see those old photos?

5. What’s the meaning of keeping old photos?

6. What is your most impressive 16 photo?

Schools

1. What was the first school you attended?

2. Where was it?

3. Was it far from your home?

4. How did you go to school?

5. Did you like your school?

6. What were the good things about that school?

7. Would you say it was a good school?

8. Would you send your child to that school?

9. What different types of schools have you been to?

10. Which school did you like the most, why?

11. Did your parents choose your university for you?

Relatives

1. Do you have many relatives?

2. When you were a child, which of your relatives do you see most often or spend the most time with?

3. When you were a child, did you play more with your friends or with your relatives?

4. In the future, do you think you will have more opportunities to see your relatives than you do now?

5. Who do you feel is the most important member of your family?

6. Who do you feel is the most important relative?

Shopping

1. Do you like shopping or window shopping?

2. Where do you often go shopping?

3. How often do you go shopping in a week?

4. Do you usually do your shopping at one place or at different places?

5. What kinds of shops are there near your home?

6. Do you pay more attention to price or quality?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping?

Sports

1. What sports do you like best?

2. Do you like doing sports, why or why not?

3. Are there any sports facilities near your home?

4. How do sports affect people’s lives?

5. What is the most popular sport in your country?

6. How often do you do sports?

7. Do you think primary school children should have sports classes at school, why or why not?

8. What are the benefits 17 of sports for a country?

9. Is it important for a country to hold Olympic Games, why or why not?

10. What kind of sport do you enjoy watching?

Time management

1. How do you organize your time?

2. Do you think young people and older people organize their time in the same way?

3. Would you say you manage your time well?

4. Where did you learn how to organize your time?

5. How do you think you could better your time?

6. Do you think it’s useful to plan your time?

7. Have you ever been late for anything?

8. If you had more time, what would you do with the extra time?

Toys

1. What toys did you like to play when you were a child?

2. Do you think you learned 18 anything from playing with toys?

3. Did you prefer to play with those toys alone or with other children?

4. If you had children, what toys would you give them?

Weather and Climate

1. What type of weather do you like?

2. What type of weather do Chinese people usually like?

3. Which is your favorite season?

4. Do you do different things in summer and in winter?

5. What do you often do on sunny and rainy days?

6. What is the weather like in your city?

7. Do you have some ways to control the global 19 warming?

Wedding

1. What is a typical Chinese wedding like?

2. What people are usually involved in a wedding?

3. What clothes do groom 20 and bride usually wear?

4. What happens during the wedding?

5. Are wedding important in China, and why?

6. How wedding ceremony has changed over there years?

Weekends

1. What do you do in your spare time?

2. How do you spend time with your family?

3. What do you usually do on weekends?

4. What did you do last weekend?

5. What do other people in your country usually do on weekends?

6. What are you going to do next weekend?

7. Do you think it is important to make the most of your weekend?

8. Do you feel that weekends now are more important to you than when you were a child?

Art

1. Are you very interested in art?

2. Did you create any art such as painting or sculpture 21 when you were a child?

3. Have you ever been to an art gallery or an art exhibition?

4. How often do you visit art galleries?

Bags

1. What types of bags do you use in your everyday life?

2. What do you put in these bags?

3. Do you usually carry a bag when you go out?

4. What sorts of bags do women like to buy?

5. When you are buying a bag, what factors 22 do you consider?

6. Do you think the style of a bag is very important, why or why not?

7. Do you have a bag for special occasions 23?

Birthdays

1. Do you like birthdays?

2. Do people in China celebrate birthdays?

3. Are any birthdays especially important in your country?

4. How do Chinese people celebrate birthdays?

5. How do you like to celebrate your birthday?

6. Do people in China have birthday parties, why or why not?

7. Do you prefer birthday parties with your friends or with your family?

8. Do you think it’s important for people to celebrate birthdays?

9. Do you think it’s important to give a special gift to someone on their birthday?

10. Are birthdays more important for children or for adults?

11. Do children and adults celebrate birthdays the same way?

12. What do children do when they have a birthday party?

Cards

1. Do you ever receive letters or cards?

2. Which do you think is better, to send a postcard or a letter?

3. Do you think it is important to send postcard to each other, why or why not?

Driving and Cars

1. Do you or your family have a car?

2. Do you know how to drive a car?

3. When did you get your driver’s license 24?

4. Do you think it’s important to learn how to drive?

5. Do you think it’s important to pay attention to safety when driving?

6. Do high schools in your country have driving classes, why or why not?

7. Do you think it’s important to have driving classes at school?

Clothes

1. What kind of clothes do you like?

2. How do you get information about latest fashion?

3. What are the differences in the clothes between now and fifty years ago?

4. How do older people feel about younger people’s clothes?

5. What kind of clothes do children usually wear?

6. What are the most fashionable 25 clothes in China now?

Colors

1. What’s your favorite color, and why?

2. Do you always wear clothes in your favorite color?

3. Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country?

4. What color would you choose to paint the walls of your room?

5. What kind of color do you dislike?

Dance

1. Do you like to dance?

2. What type of dance are you interested in?

3. What are the differences between the dances the old people like and the dances the young people like?

4. Is dancing good to people?

5. Does China have any traditional dance?

6. Is traditional dance still popular in China?

Entertainment

1. What do you do for entertainment?

2. What did you do for entertainment when you were a child?

3. What do other people do for entertainment around where you live?

4. What choices for entertainment are there for young people around where you live?

5. Are there any entertainment places near your school?

6. Have you recently been to any place for entertainment?

7. Do you think modern lifestyles give people enough time for entertainment?

Flower

1. Do you like flowers?

2. What are the most popular flowers in China?

3. On what occasions do Chinese people send flowers to others?

4. What special meanings do flowers have?

5. What is the national flower in China? And do you like it or not?

6. Do you know how to grow flowers?

Food

1. Which do you prefer to eat, lunch or dinner, and why?

2. Do you think there are any benefits from eating breakfast?

3. Are you willing 26 to try some new food?

4. Which do you prefer, eating one big meal or eating several small snacks?

5. What do you consider to be a healthy diet?

6. In the past few years, have there been any changes to what people in your country eat?

Friends and Family

1. Do you have many close friends?

2. What qualities make them good friends?

3. Do you live with your family?

4. Do your family and friends still live in your hometown?

5. Do you think family members should live together, why or why not?

6. When do you spend time with your family?

7. What do you do together?

8. Do you often go out with your friends?

9. Is your family very important to you?

10. Do you prefer to spend time with your family or your friends?

11. What do you do in your free time with your friends?

12. Are there any times when you prefer to be alone?

Healthy Lifestyle

1. What do you do to keep healthy?

2. How can people maintain 27 good health?

3. What is a healthy lifestyle in your mind?

4. Is there any sport that you would like to try in the future?