IELTS Speaking Part 1 Topics & Questions

• Do you work or study?

• What is your job?

• Why did you choose this job?

• Do you enjoy your work?

• Do you get along well with your colleagues?

• What was your first day at work like?

• Would you like top change your job in future?

• What is your typical day like at work?

• What would you change about your job?

• What is the most difficult part about your job?

• Do you work or study?

• What do you study?

• Do you enjoy studying?

• Do you get along well with your classmates?

• If you could change to another subject, what could it be?

• Do you intend to use the subject you are studying, in future?

• What is the most difficult part of your subject?

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• Where is your hometown?

• What do you like the most about it?

• What do you dislike about it?

• How often do you visit your hometown?

• What changes would you like to see in your hometown in future?

• Has your hometown changed over years?

• Are there good transportation facilities in your hometown?

• Do you live in a house/flat?

• Who do you live with?

• Is it a big place?

• What is your favourite room?

• How is your apartment decorated?

• Is there anything you’d like to change about your home?

• Do you plan to live there for a long time?

• Do you have a garden?

• What is art?

• Do you like art?

• Have you ever attended art classes?

• Are there many art classes in your hometown?

• What kind of paintings do you like?

• How often do you visit art galleries?

• Do you like to paint?

• What do you like to draw?

• Do you think children get benefit from going to art galleries?

• Do you enjoy your birthday?

• Do you celebrate your birthday?

• What did you do on your last birthday?

• How do people in your hometown celebrate their birthdays?

• Which birthdays are considered important in your country?

• Do you often have dreams?

• Do you usually remember your dreams?

• Do you think we can learn something from dreams?

• Do you like your dreams at night?

• Do dreams affect your mood when you wake up?

• Do you think that some dreams give intuition?

• Do you like hearing about others’ dreams?

• What was the strangest or weirdest dream you have had?

• Do you get bad dreams/nightmares?

• Did you save money when you were young?

• Why is it important for people to save money?

• What is good for economy, to save money or to spend?

• Should children be taught how to manage money?

• Do you think that females are better at saving money than males?

• Do you invest your spare money?

• Are you good at saving money?

• Would you like to become rich someday?

• Which modern technological devices are common in your country?

• Is it good or bad that people rely too much on technology?

• Do you think men and women have different views about technology?

• Why do people spend too much on buying latest gadgets?

• From where do people in your country get news?

• How has internet changed the news in your country?

• Does media play a role in creating a healthy society?

• What is the best age for children to start using computer?

• Should children be refrained from using internet?

• Has technology hampered the childhood of today’s generation?

• Who controls the media most in your country?

• Does the media in your country report whole truth?

• Should the media show graphic violence?

• Is there any international news you felt was good to hear?

• Do you use social networking sites?

• What kind of social networking websites do you like to use?

• Do you like to use facebook?

• What kind of people you’d like to befriend with on social media?

• What is the impact of cell phone?

• Do young people use cell-phone the same way as old people do?

• What is your opinion on selfies with cell-phones?

• Is cell-phone important for you?

• What is the best feature in your phone?

• How many times do you look at your phone?

• What do you usually use your mobile phone for?

• Have your mobile phone habits changed in over a decade?

• At which places are mobile phones prohibited?

• Do you watch television a lot?

• What do you usually watch on television?

• How many hours on television do you like to watch?

• What are the most popular shows in your country?

• What kind of shows do you like to watch?

• What are some advantages of television?

• Should children be allowed to watch television?

• Do you think television has changed in last few decades?

• Are you happy with the age you are now?

• When you were a child, did you think a lot about your future?

• Do you think you have changed as you have got older?Do you think you have changed as you have got older?

• What will be different about your life in future?

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• What is your daily routine like?

• What would you like to change in your daily routine?

• Are all your days similar?

• Tell me about your typical weekday/weekend?

• What do you do in your leisure time?

• How do you balance your work, study and free time?

• Do you take some time out for your hobby?

• What is the busiest part of the day for you?

• Do you think it’s good to remain busy?

• Do you use any time management app?

• How do you manage your time?

• Do you think time management is important?

• Do you think people need to have a day-to-day plan?

• Do you think people can still do their tasks without planning?

• Why do some people don’t plan their day in advance?

• How often do you like to hang out with your friends?

• Do you think friendship is important?

• Which do you prefer to spend time with: a friend or alone?

• What kind of people do you like to be friends with?

• Do you like face-to-face conversation with people?

• Are most of your friends from school or outside school?

• How often do you meet with your friends?

• What do you and your friends do together?

• How do people in your country make friends?

• Do adults and children make friends the same way?

• Do you think it is possible to make real friends on social media/internet?

• Do you find it easy to make friends?

• Has a friend ever let you down?

• How do you maintain a good friendship?

• Do you ever fight with your friends?

• Would you share everything to your friend?

• What do you usually do with your friends?

• Are you still in touch with your childhood friends?

• How has friendship changed over last few years?

• Why do people need friends?

• What are the qualities of a good friend?

• How can technologies help friendship?

• In what ways friendship formed on the internet different?

• How can friends influence a person’s life in a positive way?

• What kind of things should friends never do?

• Do you think friendship is the most important relation?

• Is it possible to make friends of different generation?

• Do you live in a large or a small family?

• What is a typical family like in your country?

• How much time do you spend with your family?

• What do you like to do together with your family?

• Do you get along well with your family?

• Are there different types of family in your country?

• Who are you closest with in your family?

• In what ways have the families changed in the recent years?

• Should wives and husbands have different roles in the family?

• Which is most important to you: your family or friends?

• Do you like to travel?

• Where was the last place you ever visited?

• What kind of places have you visited in life?

• Which places would you really like to visit?

• What is the best place you have ever visited?

• Has a foreigner ever stayed at your place?

• What is the best way to save money while travelling?

• What are some of the problems of long-distance travelling?

• Has the way people travelled in past changed over few decades?

• What do you do while travelling?

• Why do you think tourism is so developed?

• How people choose their destination?

• What kind of transport do you prefer on holidays?

• Do you prefer travelling alone or in tour group?

• How do you prefer on long travel?

• What are the impacts of tourism in your country?

• Do you think there are any negative impacts of tourism in your country?

• What kinds of tourists are likely to visit your country in the future?

• Have you ever been to a foreign country? Which one is your favourite?

• Do you think your hometown is a great place for holiday? What would you recommend tourists to do there?

• What do you usually do on your summer holidays?

• When is your next national holiday in your country?

• Do you think tourist industry is a good industry to work in for young people in your country?

• Should there be any restrictions on the travel business?

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• Do you like sports?

• Do you enjoy playing games?

• Do you enjoy watching sports?

• What kind of games did you play when you were a child? /Did you enjoy participating in sports when you were a child?

• Do you think grown-ups should play games?

• What games are popular in your country?

• When did you first become interested in sports?

• What do you think is the importance of mental games?

• What do children learn from games?

• Should people go in for sports more?

• Which sport is good for people who do not work-out?

• Why some people enjoy sports than others?

• Can you cook?

• Who cooks in your family or house?

• What is the most famous dish from your country?

• Which is your favourite dish?

• What kind of food do you like?

• What is your main meal of the day?

• Do you prefer eating at home or restaurant?

• On what occasion do you eat special food?

• Do you often dine with your family or friends?

• Are there any fruits or vegetables that you don’t like?

• When do you usually eat dinner?

• What is your favourite cuisine?

• How can we make people eat healthier food?

• Do you think people enjoy what they eat on regular basis?

• Do you think cooking is pleasure or burden for some people?

• Which food from your country do foreigners enjoy?

• Do you think the diet of 21st century is good?

• What kind of new food would you like to try?

• What was the last meal that you cooked?

• What are some reasons that people eat at restaurants?

• What are some kinds of food you never eat?

• Describe a popular food from your country?

• Is food important to you?

• What is your favourite restaurants near the place that you live?

• What is the best restaurant you have ever eaten?

• Have you ever eaten at any restaurant abroad? What was it like?

• What do you think makes the restaurant best?

• Do prefer to eat at home or at restaurants?

• Which is the worst restaurant that you have ever eaten?

• Which is the strangest restaurants you have ever heard of?

• How do you feel about theme restaurants?

• Do you prefer darker or brighter restaurants? Why?

• Why so you think people go to restaurants to celebrate something?

• Which are more popular in your country: fast food restaurants or traditional restaurants? Why do you think that is?

• Some people say that food in an expensive restaurant is always better than food in a cheap restaurant – would you agree?

• Do you think there will be a greater choice of food available in shops in the future, or will there be less choice?

• What effects has modern technology had on the way food is produced?

• How important is it for a country to be able to grow all the food it needs, without importing any from other countries?

• Do you think people pay enough attention to their health?

• Do you think the government is responsible for the public health?

• Do you think there are more unhealthy people these day as compared to the few decades ago?

• How do you think people should encourage their children to be healthy?

• Do you think it is hard to give up smoking?

• How do you usually cope with stress?

• Is there any connection between the person’s style of life and the duration of his life?

• What is your attitude towards smoking?

• In what ways do you try to stay healthy?

• Is it easy to keep fit where you live?

• What do you think is more important, eating healthily or doing exercise?

• What are the health benefits of playing a sport?

• Have you ever had any habits which you consider to be unhealthy?

• Do you think more about your health now than you were younger?

• What is the most popular way in your country to stay healthy?

• Do you think most people worry about their health as they get older?

• Why do you think some people continue their bad habits despite knowing it will damage their health?

• How can children be encouraged to adopt healthy eating habits?

• Do you think people have become more health conscious in recent years?

• Could government do more to promote healthier lifestyle options?

• What is the best way of helping people with an addiction?

• What is your favourite colour?

• Are there any colors you dislike?

• Are colors important to you?

• Were colours important to you when you were a child?

• Are there any colors that have special significance in your country?

• What colors would you choose to paint the walls of your room?

• Do you think different types of people like different colors?

• What colors are commonly used for the decoration of people’s home?

• Can colors have any influence on people and their mood?

• What colors are important when people buy things?

• Are colors important in advertisements?

• Are pictures in textbooks important?

• Are there any colors you dislike?

• Do you ever like to see at sky? Or Do you often spend time looking at the sky?

• What do you think about when you look at sky?

• Are there often clouds in the sky in your country?

• Is the sky often overcast?

• Is star-gazing quite common in your country?

• Are there often spectacular sunsets or sunrise in your country?

• What is more interesting, the sky during the day or the sky at night?

• What is the best place for people to see stars near where you live?

• Did you study about planets and stars when you were at school?

• What is your favourite star?

• Have you ever taken a course about stars?

• Is it important to study stars?

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• What’s the weather like in your country?

• What’s the weather like today?

• Does the weather affect your mood?

• What kind of weather do you like the most?

• How do rainy days make you feel?

• Does it rain a lot in your hometown?

• Does rain ever affect transportation is your hometown?

• Is there any part of your country where it doesn’t rain much?

• Can you remember any time when it rained heavily in your hometown?

• What is your favourite season?

• Do you like winters?

• Does air pollution affect the weather?

• Do you like sunny days? Or do you like sunshine?

• What do you like to do in sunshine or sunny days?

• Do you like going outside in sunny days on weekends?

• Which months have the best weather in your country?

• Do you like snow? Why?

• Do you watch the weather forecasts?

• Do you like to read books?

• Do you read professional books?

• Do you usually read for leisure or for work purposes?

• Do you read many books?

• What was the last book you read about?

• What was your favourite book or story when you were a child?

• Do you think it’s important that the children read regularly?

• Can a book change the world?

• Which do you prefer reading, newspaper or magazine?

• Do you think reading a newspaper or magazine can help learn a language?

• Why do you think some people prefer magazines to newspapers?

• How often do you go to library?

• Do you prefer to read novels or watch films based on that?

• Is reading as pleasurable in digital format?

• Do you think the books will survive the digital revolution?

• Who is an author that you like? Why do you like their books?

• Do you like reading the traditional literature in your country?

• Do you like reading the traditional literature about your country?

• How do you lend books to others?

• Have you borrowed books from others?

• Do you like watching films?

• Do you prefer foreign films or Indian films?

• Are foreign films popular in your country?

• Do men and women usually like the same kinds of films?

• Do people in your country like to go to cinema for watching films?

• How often do you visit cinema for watching films?

• How do people in your country react to cinema?

• What genre of movies do you really prefer?

• Which genre of movies do you try to avoid?

• Which was the first movie that you watched?

• Do you like to watch movies alone or with your friends?

• What is your opinion on people who blindly follow their favourite superstars?

• Would you like to be in a movie?

• Do you think subtitles are better than dubbing films?

• What makes a film successful?

• Do you think film stars are more important than special effects?

• What kinds of films are not suitable for children?

• Do you take an interest in nature?

• Do you or your family take steps to help the environment?

• Tell me about some of the environmental problems that are affecting countries these days?

• What examples are there of how we damage the natural world?

• In which ways do we respond well to environmental problems?

• Do you think it is the responsibility of governments alone to protect the environment?

• What measures can individuals take to protect the environment?

• Why do some people not consider environmental problems to be serious?

• What do you consider to be the world’s worst environmental disaster caused by humans?

• Do you think large companies and business organizations should be more environmentally friendly? Why? How?

• Why do you think environmental disasters caused by humans happen?

• Do you think there will be more environmental disasters caused by humans in the future?

• Do you think having sense of humour is important? Why?

• Is humour easy to translate from one language to another?

• What kind of things make you laugh?

• Do you like making other people laugh?

• Do you think it is important for people to laugh?

• Is laughing the same as feeling happy?

• What type of programmes do you find funny on Television?

• What types of programmes are most popular in your country?

• Do you like to make people laugh?

• Do you think it is important for anyone to have a sense of humour?

• Do you think insult comedy is the right way of making others laugh?

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