Time Management IELTS Speaking Topic | Time Management How do you manage (or, organize, or plan) your time? I normally use an app on my iPhone which allows me to program all the events I have for the week and their duration and then I know roughly how much time I have and when I have to be someplace at a certain time on a certain day and so on. Would you say you manage (or, organize) your time well? Generally speaking, yes. I'm usually quite busy during the week so I need to be well organised, but on weekends I'm normally a bit more relaxed about how I use my time. Do you find it hard to manage your time? I used to, a few years ago, and in fact I didn't do much planning, but as I got busier it became more important to be better organised, so I really made an effort to learn about time management and that's when I started using the app I told you about - that's what made the difference for me, and since then it's just become a habit, so now it's

▹ IELTS Speaking ▹ Sports ▹ Describe a sports event you have enjoyed recently These IELTS Speaking test questions cover the following topics: where did you grow up? describe a sports event that you enjoyed watching how expensive are sporting events in your country? watching sports on TV watching sports live why do sports people become celebrities? IELTS Speaking Part 1 Describe the town or city where you grew up. Well, I grew up in the capital city of my country, but although it’s the capital it’s really not that large compared to other capital cities. It only has a population of around 500,000 [five hundred thousand] people, but it’s the business and financial centre of the country as well as the historic capital. There are many historic and interesting places there as well as newer and more modern areas of the city nowadays. Do you still live there now? No, I don’t. I left there some years ago, after finishing university and moved to anoth

IELTS Speaking Questions & Answers IELTS Speaking Part 2 Cue card Topic Question Talk about a day off and how you would like to spend it. You should say: Where would you like to go? What would you like to do? Whom would you go with? and explain how you usually feel at the end of a day off. International English Language Testing System IELTS Sample Answer If I could choose to do anything … then I would really love to take a helicopter and fly up to the mountains for the day. I’d probably invite a couple of friends to go with me, and we could stay at my uncle’s mountain lodge. It’s quite large and there’s room for at least 12 or 14 people to stay for a weeks or so. It’s fully equipped … it has a big kitchen for cooking and entertaining people, a wet bar by the swimming pool; there’s a spacious patio where you can shoot hoops if you want to and a games room where you can play pool or some other games. We’d probably chill out for a time; we could chat and sw

Here are some IELTS speaking answers for the IELTS speaking questions in Test 4 of Cambridge IELTS Book 7 practice tests about travel to work, technology and housework, technology and work, and a piece of electronic equipment that you find useful. Note that there are many different ways to respond. The examples below are only some possible answers. IELTS Speaking Test Part 1 How do you usually travel to work or college? I usually drive to work because I work in several different locations and it’s not easy to use the bus or train to get to where I want to go. Have you always travelled to work/college in the same way? No. Years ago I used to go to work on the train every day, but that was because I was working in a different place and the train was both the quickest and cheapest option to travel to work at that time. What do you like about travelling to work/college this way? Well, there are several reasons why I like travelling by car to work. It’s more convenient bec

Best Strategy for IELTS Speaking Test | Functional Language Many IELTS test takers worry a lot about the speaking topics which come up in the IELTS speaking test . Some test takers even practice memorizing sample answers for various topics – but this is largely a waste of time. There is a better strategy to improve your IELTS speaking score . It’s impossible to predict which topics will come up in a particular test, although some of the same topics might appear across the world in the same month. But there are literally hundreds of different topics which can be selected – and just because one IELTS speaking test, for example in Australia, has a certain topic one week does not mean that the same topic will be used again the following week or the next month. In Part 1 of the IELTS speaking test some of the topics are more predictable, for example, the examiner normally asks you about yourself, your work , your studies , and where you live – but there are many other possible ques

Talk about an exciting message that you have received by email or phone. You should say: who sent it to you what the message was about who you shared it with IELTS Speaking Answer | An Exciting Message Okay, so about a month ago my friend called me to let me know some important news. She has been accepted for a really interesting position at an international company. She is going to work in recruitment selection, I think they call it head hunting or executive search selection. She has been trying to get into this line of work for some time now, so I'm really happy for her because I know that she really wants to do this type of work. We spent about two hours talking that evening, most of it was about her new job, but we also spoke about some other things. She was very excitied by the news and couldn't stop telling me how delighted she was to finally get such a position. Apparently she will have to do quite a bit of traveling, visiting clients and doing research as

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English Grammar | how to describe the number of / amount of something The internet is becoming accessible to a growing amount of people. [incorrect] The internet is becoming accessible to a growing number of people. [correct] The table shows the number of people who visited the gallery each day. [correct] The table shows number of people who visited the gallery each day. [incorrect] We use number of before a plural countable noun: The chart shows the number of hours students spend on assignments. The table shows the number of passengers who use the airline every month. The information shows the number of people who have more than one child. The graph shows how the number of schools in the area has grown in recent years. The table shows the number of times per day the website was accessed. We use amount of before an uncountable noun: If we look at the amount of energy consumed each month. The amount of food purchased per family has increased in the last 10 years.