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BEST IELTS Speaking Interview, 24th June
IELTS SPEAKING FULL INTERVIEW
IELTS SPEAKING FULL INTERVIEW
PART – 1 INTRO PART
What is your full name?
My name is Anamika Goyal.
How may I address you?
You may address me as Anamika.
May I see your ID?
Sure, here it is.
How important is the internet to you?
Extremely important. I depend on it for work, research, study and entertainment, so without it I’d be complete lost. How often do you use the internet? I use it constantly throughout the day, every day. I check my emails when I get up in the morning, I use it for work all day and then I watch videos, read books or listen to music through it at night.
Do you use it more for work or in your free time?
I’d say both really. About 50% of my job involves researching and writing on the internet so I would use it for about 4 hours a day. When I get home, I’m normally too tired to go to the gym or play sports so it is really easy to download a movie or stream some music and I normally do that until I fall asleep.
What are your favourite websites?
For work my two favourite sites are WordPress and Google. WordPress is a blogging tool that allows you to publish blogs easily and maintain a professional looking website. Google of course allows me to find the information I need quickly and accurately. In my spare time, I of course use Facebook like everyone else in the world, but my favourite site is The Guardian because it allows me to keep up to date with everything that’s happening.
Do you use apps?
I’m a bit of an app addict. My favourite app at the moment is one called Stitcher. It allows you to listen to podcasts and helps you discover new podcasts. You can download them and then listen to them whenever you have time.
PART – 2 CUE CARD
Describe an event you attended in which you didn’t like the music played.
You should say
– What was the event?
– Where were you?
– What music was like?
– And explain why you didn’t like the music?
SAMPLE ANSWER
I love listening to music. In fact, I listen to music while cooking, while cleaning and even while studying/working. And I generally enjoy all genres of music from pop to rock to jazz.
But few years I attended a concert by Sunidhi Chauhan, and I didn’t enjoy it one bit. There were mainly two reasons for it. First, Sunidhi herself didn’t show up. I was and still am a big Sunidhi Chauhan fan, and it was a great disappointment. The greatest singers of the world could have come to the stage and I would still have been disappointed.
I was really looking forward to hearing Sunidhi live for the first time. So, I was very disheartened. The second reason was the backup singers seemed like amateurs. They didn’t involve the crowd at all. Their performance was very dull and monotonous.
I didn’t feel like I was attending a live performance at all. In fact, after a while, none of us were paying any attention to the songs being played. The music was also too loud, and it was hurting the ears. I remember many people asked the event managers to lower the volume of the loudspeakers. What added insult to injury was that the event managers refused to refund the money. Some of the people even fought and got their money back, but I was too tired to fight then.
I left the concert quite early. More than anything else, I never got an opportunity to hear her live again, I don’t know if I will get an opportunity in the future too. It might remain a dream.
PAT – 3 FOLLOW UPS
Why do so many young people spend a lot of money on concerts?
I think it is mainly because of the experience. Hearing a singer on the screen can never match the feeling of hearing them live. Also, I think it’s about spending quality time with friends.
Do you think older people like the same music as young people?
I feel young people like pop, rock music, basically any music that they can dance to. They don’t care about the lyrics; they care more about the fast beats. Old people are more into soft, slow, music. They actually pay more attention to the lyrics.
Do you think music concerts are suitable for old people to attend?
I think it might be physically taxing for the old people to stand for so long at a concert. But otherwise, I think if the old people can manage the physical exertion, the concerts are certainly suitable. Today many concerts also offer chairs, where older people can sit and enjoy the show rather than having to stand.
