IELTS SPEAKING TEST 2017 - DESCRIBE YOUR NEIGHBORS – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.Hi everybody is Professor T

2.This is an IELTS Speaking Test question that's been on the IELTS in 2017

3.They do change the subjects and topics from time to time to keep things fresh so here's one that's been asked recently describe an interesting neighbor and what makes a neighbor interesting and what kind of neighbor are you to your neighbors so it's all about how we interact with people who are our neighbors and here's an example of how you could answer those three questions I have a neighbor who's from England so we're from a different country he speaks the same language as me but in a very different way so at first we weren't really good friends because there's some competition between America my country and England but we become friends over time and we share more things we do like to joke around about the difference in our accents the difference in sports and politics but it's light-hearted and fun as I got to know this guy I learned that he liked to read so I gave him some books that I thought would be interesting to him plus he has an interesting story since he was a professional soldier and traveled all over the world and he did a lot of humanitarian work as well so I tried to be a good neighbor by not making too much noise but also in helping find out what someone else needs and helping them do it I helped this guy with his garden some times and so if I go to town and buy some special snacks I bring them over for he and his wife just to be friendly and neighborly those kind of things make a good neighbour so I think I'm a good neighbor because I try hard to be respectful and I found things that we have in common and by being conscientious so that kind of answer covers what is a good neighbor and how you interact with your neighbors in your hometown your neighbor might be a family you for a long time or it may be someone new to the neighborhood you can describe somebody in the neighborhood that's interesting maybe there's an older person who has had a lot of experience in some type of business maybe there's a cute little kid in your neighborhood that you like to see grow up or you have fun with maybe your neighbors are your best friends or your cousins that you've known for a long time so there's always someone to talk about who's in neighbor well maybe you don't really know your neighbors some people live in apartment buildings and they don't really know their neighbors because they only see them on the hallway so you can describe something like that and then describe the characteristics of what a good neighbor is and what a bad neighbor is and we know how to be a good neighbor don't steal anything don't don't borrow a guy's car without permission and try to be respectful in terms of noise and so on so that's a good answer for the IELTS - the questions are changed from time to time to make it more interesting for the IELTS examiner's and also to prevent people from preparing too much for the IELTS by memorizing an answer

4.What you want to do is while you're listening to the question take down some notes of advantages and disadvantages what you do and what you don't do and then when you're giving your reply to the question you'll have a very organized way of delivering a great answer that explains about your life and that's the most interesting thing for an IELTS examiner is to learn about someone else's life and to hear a story that's well organized and well told

5.So I wish you good luck, study hard and tell a great story on the IELTS!