Describe a typical working day for you.

MORE EXAMPLES

In the name of the most high

1. What is the meaning of your given name?

2. Does your name affect your personality?

Tell me something about your hometown.

4. What are the differences in accent between your hometown and a city like Esfahan?

5. What is the character of the people like in your hometown?

6. What is people's favourite food in the region where you live?

7. What will you do during the Spring Festival this year?

8. Are there any traditional festivals in your region?

Describe a typical Spring Festival for a Iranian family.

Tell me something about the Nourooz Festival.

11. How have weddings changed in recent years?

Tell me something about a famous Festival.

Describe a traditional wedding ceremony.

14. How do Iranians usually celebrate birthdays?

15. Are there any traditions concerning the birth of a baby?

16. How do you like Shiraz? Compare it with your hometown.

17. What place do you like best in Esfahan?

18. What places in Shiraz should a foreigner visit?

19. What places would you recommend a visitor to go to in your region/hometown?

20. If you had the choice, where would you choose to live in Iran?

21. Which parts of Iran would you recommend a foreigner to visit?

Tell me something about your family.

23. Which is the worst place you've been to in Iran?

24. Who takes the greatest responsibility for bringing up your child in your family?

25. Which is the best place you've been to in Tehran/Iran?

26. Who does most of the household chores in your family?

27. Are the traditional sexual roles within the family changing?

28. Why is the divorce rate increasing so rapidly? Is it a problem?

29. What is your opinion of the one-child policy?

30. How do you discipline your child?

31. Is it acceptable for couples to live together without marrying?

32. If you had the choice, would you have a son or a daughter?

33. Are you going to bring your child up any differently to the way your parents did?

34. What hopes do you have for your child?

35. Do women still have too heavy a burden in their day to day life?

36. Is the increasing influence of the West largely a positive or negative thing?

37. What, according to you, has been the greatest change in recent years?

38. What, according to you, has been the most problematic change in recent years?

39. What have you seen in education over the past few years?

40. Who should bear the responsibility for payment of tuition fees?

41. What can be done to improve education in rural areas?

42. Have recent changes affected your job in any way?

43. Do you agree with private education?

44. What can be done to close the gap between urban and rural areas?

45. If you had the power, what reforms would you carry out within education?

Describe a typical working day for you.

47. How do you see yourself in ten years time?

48. If you had the opportunity to change your job, what would you do instead?

49. If you had one million $, what would you do with it?

50. If you could start your life again, would you do anything differently?

51. Do you have any ambitions?

52. Which country/place would you most like to visit?

53. What changes do you think Iran will see in the next few years?

54. Will any possible future changes affect your job in any way?

55. What foods are common in Iran?

56. Does anything worry you about immigrating to another country?

57. Are you looking forward to anything in particular in that target country?

58. What are your plans on your return to Iran?

59. What do you do in your spare time?

60. What will you do if you fail the IELTS?

61. Which instrument do you like listening most?

62. Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument?

63. Do you think children should learn to play the music at school?

64. Who do people travel to work where you live?

65. What traffic problems are there in your area?

66. How do traffic problems affect you/

67. How would you reduce the traffic issue?

68. Do you prefer to a particular friend or a group of friends?

69. What do you most like doing with your friends?

70. What makes a friend into a good friend?

71. what‘s your country changed much since you were a child?

72. Do any colours have a special meaning in your culture?

SPEAKING INTERVIEW 3 Part Format

Part 1 You are asked various questions about your background so that the examiner can discover who you are, where you come from, what you have been doing etc. REMEMBER TO ANSWER PART 1 QUESTIONS IN SOME DETAIL because the examiner is unable to ask questions that are not on his or her "frame" or question list. That is, you cannot expect the examiner to "assist" you to answer well - that is your task: to give full answers to the prompts given. You will probably be asked basic questions similar to those below about the topics shown: For practice, prepare short (but not too short!) answers to the questions that follow... Your background: 1. Where do you come from? 2. Where do you live now (house/flat/neighborhood/area)? 3. What is your hometown well-known for? 4. Why did you choose to come to this country (if studying overseas)? 5. What are you involved in doing at the moment? Your family: 1. How many members are there in your immediate family? 2. Do you have any brothers or sisters? 2. What are they doing at present? 3. Where does your father or mother work? 4. Do you live with your family? Why? 5. What do you and your families do together? Your job or your schooling: 1. Do you have a full-time or part-time job at the moment? 2. Have you ever had a job before? If so, doing what? 3. Why did you choose the job you have (or had)? 4. Did you enjoy studying at your school? What interested you? 5. Who do you study or work with (your classmates or colleagues)? Your interests: 1. Do you have any interesting hobbies or pastimes? 2. What do you enjoy doing on the weekend? 3. How do you improve your English after school hours? 4. Have you travelled to any interesting places recently? 5. If you had lots of money, what would you like to do?

Part 2 In Part 2 of the Speaking Test interview you are required to give a short talk (1-2 minutes only) on a topic given to you by the examiner. You should not find it difficult to talk about the topic given to you because: a) The topic is within your understanding - it is concerned with something you do or should know something about b) The card you are given contains at least 3 suggestions of things to talk about regarding the topic. REMEMBER YOU ARE ASKED TO SPEAK FOR 1-2 MINUTES. A typical card is as follows:

Talk about your English teacher (either your present teacher or a teacher you have had in the past)

-	describe your teacher
-	What is his or her teaching method?
-	Why do you like/dislike him or her?

And how has he/she helped you with your language-learning?

Expect to answer at least one or two follow-up questions
about the talk you just gave.

Part 3 In Part 3 of the Speaking Test interview you are required to talk in detail about a wider topic area than in Part 2. However, there is a link between the topic given in Part 2 and what you are asked to talk about in Part 3: For example, if you are asked to talk about your teacher in Part 2, then the wider topic area in Part 3 will probably be concerned with education in general. Education in general:

1.	How important do you think education is for a child these days?
2.	Has your education been useful for you? Why do you think so?
3.	Do you think that present day schooling is an improvement on the past? In what way?
4.	Are there ways in which schools could be improved?
5.	Why do you think governments do not usually allow parents to educate their children at home?
6.	Is it important to study hard when you are young or can you enjoy your life and return to study when you are grown-up?
7.	What are the advantages and disadvantages of studying when you are... a) young b) mature
8.	Should governments spend more on education than they do at present?
9.	Are teachers paid enough?
10.	Would you force your children to study a particular subject (or subjects) or would you allow them to choose their own profession?

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