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BEST IELTS Speaking Interview, 11th August
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PART – 1 INTRO
What is your name?
My name is Happiko Kadhish.
How may I address you?
You may address me as Happiko.
Could you tell me about the accommodation you’re currently living in?
Right now, I’m living with my cousin in a house in Hillsdale. We’re sharing with three other people – another guy from China, and a married couple from Iran.
And do you have a favourite part of the house?
I’d say my bedroom or perhaps the back yard. Yeah – the back yard. We’ve got a small yard that’s mostly brick. I like to sit out there in a rusty old chair. It’s peaceful. I like to look at the blue sky. You almost never see blue sky in Tianjin.
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Do you ever wear a hat or a cap?
Not really. Not in Sydney. I know the sun’s really bad here, and I occasionally wear a baseball cap in summer, but otherwise, no.
Why do some people wear hats or caps?
Well, to keep the sun off, to cover up their bald patches – I had an uncle who did that – and, of course in Tianjin it snows in winter, so lots of people wear hats then. I’ve also noticed that most schoolchildren in Sydney wear hats as part of their uniform.
Do you think headgear was more popular in the past?
Probably. In my grandfather’s photos from the 1960s, lots of people in Tianjin are wearing hats. In the 1970s, there was a cap, like the one Chairman Mao wore, that was kind of obligatory.
Why was headgear more popular in the past?
I’m not sure exactly. Perhaps hats showed your occupation or your social status, or, as I said, they were obligatory. You can still see old guys in Xinjiang – that’s a western province of China – wearing tall black woollen hats because they’re farmers. And some headgear belongs to certain ethnic groups.
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PART – 2 CUE CARD
I’d like you to tell me about someone you think is attractive.
* Who is this person?
* Why is he or she attractive?
*How does this person dress?
And, what do other people think about this person’s looks?
SAMPLE ANSWER
Right. Well, I’m going to tell you about my mother. Perhaps that’s kinda corny, but when I look at her in photos taken when she was a teenager or in her twenties, she was, in fact, very attractive. Firstly, she’s quite tall. Her family comes from Heilongjiang Province, where there are quite a lot of tall people. Her own mother was taller than average for a woman of her time.
So, my mother’s tall, and she’s always had a good figure. Even now, in her fifties, she’s slim and fit. She’s always maintained excellent posture, which I put down to the fact that she’s been a dancer since she was a child. She’s tall, she’s got a good figure, and, most noticeably, she’s got a lovely smile. Her facial features aren’t classically beautiful or completely regular, but that’s also part of her charm. When she smiles, she’s got two little dimples in her cheeks, and her nickname was ‘Dimple’ when she was a kid. She’s got very narrow eyes and high cheekbones and a small chin. Her face is sort of triangular.
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Once, when I was about twelve, we were on an overnight train trip, and a woman sharing our carriage insisted my mother looked like a famous singer. It turned out that when my father first met my mother, he’d thought the same.
But, in my eyes, what’s particularly attractive about my mother is her gentleness. I mean, I haven’t been what you’d call a model son. I scored pretty badly in the Gaokao-that’s the Chinese university entrance exam- and I took almost five years to get my bachelor’s degree. But, in all that time, she still believed in me.
What else? Oh, the way she dresses. In the past, our family didn’t have much money, and Mum hardly ever bought any new clothes for herself, but I remember she always looked elegant in comparison to the mothers of my school friends. Even today, she usually wears fitted dresses in plain colours – not patterns, whereas lots of Chinese women of her generation like floral clothes. Yes, I’d say she’s got flair.
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PART – 3 FOLLOW UPS
Do you think these days, there’s a lot of pressure to conform to a norm, or to look beautiful?
Absolutely. Think of all the gyms and products that are meant to make you thin in some places and muscular in others. We’re bombarded with these products. Before I came to Sydney, I was working in South Korea, and I’ve never seen anyone so obsessed with plastic surgery as the Koreans. Women and men. My boss’d had about five procedures, and he claimed that the only way to get promoted was to look more handsome than the other guy.
Do you think our idea of beauty has changed over time, or basically stayed the same?
Some things change. I mean the big lip thing. My grandmother said that when she was young, women wanted to have thin lips because that looked aristocratic. These days, all the movie stars and singers have suddenly got huge lips. Also, height and shape. In the past, in China, it was considered feminine to be petite and girlish. Now, men and women think being tall is cool, and they want a more western body shape. But equally, some things do remain the same. A round face and pale skin are thought to be most attractive in China. If you read Chinese literature from three or four hundred years ago, those were also important then.
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