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IELTS Speaking Test Questions & Answers

IELTS Speaking Test Answers Part 1 Do you like your job? Yes, I like my job. It’s interesting and the people I work with are really friendly and the workplace environment is also great. Do you want to continue in the same job in the future? Well, I think there’s still a lot I can learn while doing this job, and as I said, it’s interesting and the working environment is really good, so I can imagine maybe spending another couple of years working for the company before thinking about moving on and possibly looking for a new challenge with more responsibilities. Is doing things in a hurry a good or bad habit? Firstly, I think there’s a difference between doing things in a hurry, which is normally considered to be a bad thing and doing things with some urgency. In my experience when things get done in a hurry – that’s when mistakes are made or things are overlooked, so I guess I would say it’s a bad habit, as in it’s not something that you should do regularly. ...

IELTS Speaking Topics - A Prize That You Would Like to Win

IELTS Speaking Topics : your job people and handwriting winning a prize rewards for employees money earned by professional athletes IELTS SPEAKING TEST PART 1 What is your full name? My name is Julia Morales Can I see your ID? Yes, sure, here’s my ID card Where are you from? I’m from Caracas Do you work or study? I do both. I’m working at the moment and also studying for my degree in business administration and international finance. What do you do? I work in administration in a national company here in Caracas. I’m an assistant in the Human Resources department. Do you like your job? Yes, I like it a lot – I get to be involved with lots of different projects and work with a variety of people so it’s always interesting. One of the things I like most about the work I do is that most of the projects we deal with are aimed at improving things for the employees of the company – so that’s a good thing and it’s nice to be ...

IELTS Speaking Topics - An Important Conversation

IELTS Speaking Topics Part 1 Do you work or study? I work, I’m a Marketing Manager. Can you describe your job, please. Well, I’m responsible for the marketing department at the company where I work. So, I oversee all national marketing activities and supervise the scheduling and running of all marketing campaigns and some of the public relations activities the company is involved in. Under me, there are several key account managers, who deal directly with clients, and then they have their own teams of specialists and assistants. My role is a key position within the company and I have to work closely with many other departments, such as the sales department, finance, and production, to coordinate certain aspects of our marketing campaigns. My job also involves many meetings and regular contact with our head office in the USA. That is where the head of marketing is located. And the marketing department there is responsible for a lot of the global marketing initiatives, whi...

IELTS - Handwriting, A Prize, Employee Rewards, Employers, Professional Athletes

IELTS questions in this test are about: your job people and handwriting winning a prize rewards for employees money earned by professional athletes IELTS SPEAKING TEST PART 1 What is your full name? My name is Julia Morales Can I see your ID? Yes, sure, here’s my ID card Where are you from? I’m from Caracas Do you work or study? I do both. I’m working at the moment and also studying for my degree in business administration and international finance. What do you do? I work in administration in a national company here in Caracas. I’m an assistant in the human resources department. Do you like your job? Yes, I like it a lot – I get to be involved with lots of different projects and work with a variety of people so it’s always interesting. One of the things I like most about the work I do is that most of the projects we deal with are aimed at improving things for the employees of the company – so that’s a good thing and it’s nice to be part of it. What do you think abo...

Do you think handwriting will still be an important skill in the future?

IELTS Speaking Test Part 3 Questions Do you think handwriting will still be an important skill in the future? No, you can already see the route that technology is taking – we probably won’t need to write anything in the future – it’ll all be done by speech recognition, which already exists, it’s just not perfected sufficiently yet to be applied to all walks of life that it would need to be so as to completely replace writing. I mean, I hardly write anything by hand anymore, most of it is on my phone or laptop, just the occasional note sometimes, that’s about it. So I can easily imagine that we’ll soon not be dependent on writing anything by hand. Handwriting might not disappear altogether though, it will probably still be taught in schools, as a rudimentary skill just like math, but nobody does mental arithmetic nowadays, you just plug the numbers in your phone and it calculates it for you, but it’s still important to know how to. I think writing will become the same, you need t...