2014 1月-4月雅思口语话题卡

1. Your Work or Your Studies

∙Do you work or are you a student?

1a) Your Work

∙What work do you do?

∙Why did you choose to do that type of work (or, that job)?

∙Was that an easy choice to make?

∙Have you always wanted to do that type of work?

∙Do you like you job?

∙Is it very interesting?

∙Do you think you are more efficient (or, productive) in the mornings or the afternoons? (Why?)

∙Do you plan to continue doing that work? (or, that type of work / or, that job)

∙(possibly the question above is this) Do you intend to change your job in the near future?

∙(Possibly) Do you miss being a student? *

1b) Your Studies

Note: For high school students or recent high school graduates who have not yet started university, the word "school" or the words, "high school" or "secondary school" will be used instead of "university". If you are no longer a student now and have not yet started to work, the questions will be about the last time you were a student, either high school or university, and the questions will be asked in the past tense. For high school students (or recent high school graduates), the word "subjects" (plural) will be used. For university students, the word "subject" will be used, which has basically the same meaning as the American, "major".

∙What subject(s) are you studying?

∙Why did you choose to study that subject? / Why did you choose to study those subjects?

∙Was that an easy choice to make?

∙Have you always studied that subject?

∙(Possibly the question above is this) Have you always wanted to study that subject?

∙Do you like your subject? (Why?/Why not?)

∙Is it very interesting?

∙What was/is your university like?

∙(For high school students & recent HS graduates) What was/is your high school like?

∙(For high school students & recent HS graduates) What was /is your favourite subject at high school?

∙(Continuing from the question above) Will you continue studying that subject?

∙Was there/is there any high school subject that you didn't like?

∙Do you prefer to study in the mornings or in the afternoons? (Why?)

∙(For non-high school students & non-recent H.S.

graduates) What are you going to (or, planning to) do in

the future?

∙(Possibly) Are you looking forward to starting work? *

2. Your Hometown

∙What's (the name of) your hometown (again)?

∙Is that a big city or a small place?

∙Please describe your hometown a little.

∙How long have you lived there? (or, How long have you been living there?)