IELTS Speaking Part 1 Topics – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.Hello my name is Liz in this lesson I'm going to look at the types of topics that the examiner could ask you in IELTS speaking part 1 and at the end of this lesson I'll give you a link so that you can take a look at the topics and questions for yourself the examiner will probably ask you about 12 different questions in speaking part 1 and these questions come from usually 3 different topics these topics are all familiar topics they are topics that are common to everybody throughout the world now the first topic of these three usually come from one of these work study home and hometown you will probably get one of them for your first topic work or study now if the examiner decides to ask you about work or study the first question that the examiner will ask is "do you work or do you study" now the examiner is asking this question only because he or she needs to know which topic to choose to ask the questions so with this question you do not need to expand your answer you can just say very clearly "I work" or "I study" now if you're a students and you've finished university but you aren't not working either then you need to tell the examiner that and you need to say "I've just finished university but I don't have a job yet" and the examiner will then continue and ask you about the topic of study

2.Now with these topics the common questions which the examiner could ask you is where do you study or work why did you choose that subject or job the examiner might ask you about your first day about the people you that you work or study with and other things about your work or your study Now for the topic of home this topic is all about where you live so it could be about your house or your apartment and in that topic the examiner can ask you about the rooms in your house how they are decorated so what you can see on the walls or what you kind of views you have from the windows the examiner might also ask you about the people you live with or the area and street that you live in And the last topic hometown now if you get the topic of hometown this is about the place where you were born or where you spent your childhood and for this topic the examiner often asks you about places in your hometown for example buildings or old buildings in your hometown the examiner might ask you about the weather or transportation in your hometown or if you plan to still live there in the future so those are usually one of those will be your first topic for IELTS speaking part 1 but you have 2 more topics after this so lets have a look at what kind of topics you can get next Here is a list of 18 different topics I would like you to have a look at the list and decide which ones you think the examiner you might be asked about in IELTS speaking part 1 do you think the examiner might ask you about all of them or only some of them well lets have a look we've got family friends hobbies weather happiness sport food clothes school flowers shopping computers going out newspapers childhood holidays dictionaries holidays dictionaries transport do you think it's possible to get all of them in IELTS speaking part 1 Well I will tell you that all these topics are possible in IELTS speaking part 1 I know that many people may have read or heard that topics in part 1 are all easy unfortunately they are not all easy you can see here the topic of happiness or flowers or dictionaries sometimes the topics can be challenging so one of the keys to preparing for IELTS speaking part 1 is to prepare topics and that means to prepare ideas and vocabulary for all the different topics so this is a list of some of the topics you can get in part 1 for speaking if you would like to see more topics and questions as well please follow the link here and that will take you to my blog www.ieltsliz.com and in the blog you will find the topics and questions for part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the IELTS speaking test well that's all for this lesson I will see you again in another IELTS lesson