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小站教育小站内部雅思口语教材

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IELTS SPEAKING TASK

Unit One Food 1

Unit Two Education 10

Unit Three People 18

Unit Four Travel 28

Unit Five Computer and the Internet 36

Unit Six Sport and Free-time 43

Unit Seven The Natural World 49

Unit Eight The Media 56

Unit Nine The Festivals 63

Unit One Food

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.


Woody Allen

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Chales Caleb Colton

Question: What are good places for a date, for lunch everyday, and your grandfather’s birthday? Why ?

Part One Style Questions

Food and Restaurants

� What types of food are popular in China?

� What types of food do people eat when they go out?

� Is home food and restaurant food the same?

� What kind of restaurants do you like?

� Do you like cooking?

� Can you cook very well?

� What things can you cook?

� Who is the best cook in your family?

Health

� What is a healthy diet? Why?

� Do you think that chinese people are healthy?

� Is it important to try and stay healthy? Why?

� Is it difficult to be healthy?

� What things are unhealthy?

� What things are unhealthy for us? Why ?

� What kinds of food do you like to eat? Why?

Part Two Style Questions

� Describe a popular dish in your country

� Describe a dish you can prepare

� Describe a restaurant you like

� Describe some food you like eating

� Describe a good meal you have eaten

Part Three Style Questions

� Do you think food has changed much in your country in the past ten years?

� Do people eat well in China do you think?

� Do you think that food is important in your culture?

� Do you think that Chinese food will be more or less popular in the future? Why?

� What about in the future; what types of food will Chinese people be eating?

� Do you think it would be a good job to work in a restaurant?

� What skills would it take to be a good cook?

� Do you think that it is good if people can cook?

� Who does most of the cooking in your culture, men or women?

� What are the differences between eating in a restaurant and eating at home?

� Is it important to have a healthy diet?

� Are their problems with juck food in your country?

� How can we improve some people’s diet do you think?

Activtty One

Making Notes

Think about the topics below. Make some notes about each one

Activity Two

Write here your ideas about Food and Restaurants

� Changes in food / restaurants over last 20 years?

� Do Chinese eat well?

� Benefits of the Chinese diet?

� How to improve people diets?

� Eating at home .VS. Eating in a Restaurant?

� Is food important in Chinese culture?

� Ideas about working in a restaurant?

� Why health is important?

� Who Cooks in Chinese Culture?

� Food in China in the Future?

� What is junk food?

� Chinese .VS. Western food?

Activites Three

Can you put the words into the correct sentences?

1. In Sichuan the food is usually very .

2. My favourite restaurant is not cheap or expensive, so it is .

3. A restaurant with a romatic is good for a date.

4. If we eat food with too many we will .

5. In Shanghai a lot of people buy their breakfast in a in the street.
6. In the north of China the food is very but in the south it is

.

7. It is important to eat lots of _ food so a

diet is important.

8. Some food is very_ so I can not eat too much of it; it makes me feel full very quickly.
9. The is a traditional Chinese cooking implement. You can use it

to , ,_ , and

food.

10. The of European countries is often bread or potatoes, but in

China it is often rice or noodles.
11. The food we eat at home is usually , and the food in restaurants is usually more .

12. We usually go to a

a .

Chinese restaurant to celebrate

13. When my grandmother cooks she doesn’t need a because she had lots of experience but she likes to use fresh
14. Sometimes people to help them lose weight, especially after somethings like Spring Festival because they ate too much food.
15. One popular type of styles of eating in China is ; people sit around a table and cook their own food in soup.
spicy heavy lighter nutritious balanced stir-fry small stall

put on weight good value for money staple diet fry calories steam tradional special occasion easy to prepare filling go on a diet boil atmosphere complicated to prepare hotpot recipe ingredients wok

Activity Four

Can you link the definition to the food?

1. Food that has lots of calories; probably made with lot of il and eggs.

2. Food that just needs water; for example noodles or coffee

3. Food that has been changed in a factory

4. Food that is quick to buy and eat

5. Food that does not have a lot of nutrition

6. Food that is eaten regularly by most people in an area.

7. Food that is cooked in oil

A. Processed food

B. Instant food

C. Fried food

D. Junk food
E. Staple food

F. Fast food

G. Rich food

Vocabulary – FOOD

Staple food

Rice Bread Corn Wheat Toast Tart
Doughnut

Cornflakes

Vegetables Cabbage Spinach Lettuce

Radish Celery Onion Tomato Eggplant Chili Cucumber Mushroom Ginger Potato
Sweet potato Cauliflower Carrot

Fruit Apple Pear Lemon Orange Peach Apricot
Pineapple Banana Plum Cherry Grape Strawberry Blackberry Raspberry Melon
Water melon

Kiwi Mango Pomegranate

Meat Pork Beef Veal Mutton Lamb Poultry

Tableware

Spoon Fork Knife
Chopsticks

Plate Bowl Napkin
(tea/coffee)Cup (tea/coffee)Pot Glass
Salt shaker

Food taste

Sweet Bitter Spicy/hot Sour Salty

Food nutrition

Proteins Vitamins Minerals Fats
Carbohydrates

In a restaurant

Cook Waiter Waitress Cashier Change Guest Dine out Go Dutch
Reserve a table

Order

Run out of… On the house Pay the bill Bottoms up Cheers

Unit Two Education: Preparing for our Future
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. Albert Einstein The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Part One Style Questions

� Tell me about your study.

� Did/do you enjoy school life? Why/Why not?

� Did you like studying? Why/Why not?

� Did you learn a lot at school?

� What didn’t you like about school? Why?

� Will you study more in the future? Why/Why not?

� Did you make many friends at school? Why/Why not?

� What did you like about your school? Why?

� What job do you want to do in the future? Why?

� Will it be easy to get a job? Why/Why not?

� Do most young people enjoy school? Why do you say that?

� Do you want your children to go to the same school you did? Why/Why not?

Part Two Style Questions

� Describe a teacher you remember

� Describe a school you went to

� Describe a subject you studied at school

� Describe a memorable event from your school life

Part Three Style Questions

� How has education changed in your country in the past 10 or 15 years?

� How is education different in the city to the countryside in China?

� What are the problems with education in China at present?

� How would you improve education in China?

� What is a good teacher do you think?

� Is school an important place in our lives?

� What are the benefits of a good education?

� What are the strengths and weakness of online education?

� Is work experience more important than your educational background when applying for jobs, or is it the other way round?
� What are the choices available open to someone without a university education?

� How do you think education will change in the next 10 or 20 years in your country?

� Does the prestige of your university matter that much when applying for jobs these days?
� Does everyone in your country have equal access to education do you think?

� Do you think that school is too stressful?

� What is a good student do you think?

Activity One

Making Notes

Think about your education history. Make some notes about each one

Important Point: Do you know the words to describe your studies?

Activity Two

Write here your ideas about Education in China

Changes over last twenty years? Benefits of good education? Problems with Education in China? Solutions to Problems
Education in the future? What is a good student? Problems with being a teacher What is a good teacher?

Equal access in China to Education?

Benefits of online education

Activites Three

Can you put the words into the correct stentences?

1. A building where students sleep is called a .

2. Students eat in the

3. The is where students play sport outside.

4. Students go to school to and how to do things.

5. The of education are very high these days.

6. The is an inside place where students play sport.

7. The is where students hang out during break.

8. Students use the _to search information on the Internet.

9. The room where students listen to language tapes is called the

_.

10. Students have lots of because their teachers give them lots of _ and their parents make them work hard.
11. People go to first, then to , and then after that some go on to .
12. It is important that everyone has _ education, so that they have an equal chance in life.

dormitory secondary school language laboratory tuition costs school canteen playground meet their friends primary school learn new things pressure computer room gymnasium sports ground homework tertiary education access to

Activity Four

Here is a list of adjectives to describe teachers, students or the job of teaching. Can you put the adjectives into the correct group and then describe which ones are the most important. (Some words may belong in two or more colums.)

hard-working tiring energetic responsible encouraging motivated attractive satisfying open-minded enthusiastic boring repetitve rewarding stimulating helpful easy-going strict conscientious funny warm and friendly ambitous creative patient well-organized
communicative sexy

Teachers

Students

The job of teaching

Vocabulary – Education

Types of schools Primary (elementary)school Secondary school
High school

Specialized school

Full-time boarding school Public/Private school Night School
Training course College University

Types of education Primary education Secondary education Higher education
Spoon-feed education

Examination

College entrance exam Mid-term exam Pass/fail an exam Grade (mark)
Repeat a year

University

Principal

Dean (Faculty director) Dean of studies
Head teacher

Professor

Lecturer

Undergraduate/Graduate/Postgraduate student

Freshman Sophomore Bachelor’s/Master’s/Doctor’s degree To major/minor in
Introductory course Specialized course Compulsory/optional course

Major Architecture Accounting Philosophy
Information technology (IT) Art
Foreign languages (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese,

Thai…) International trade Marketing
Business & Management

E-commerce Archeology Medicine Psychology Pharmacy Veterinary medicine
European/Chinese/Asian/American/history

Famous university in the world:

Harvard Universty (USA) Yale University (USA) Columbia University U.C.L.A.(USA)
Toronto Universty (Canada)

Cambridge University (United Kingdom) Oxford University (United Kingdom) London University (United Kingdom) Lomonosov University (Russia)
Sorbone (France)

Heidelberg University (Germany) Leiden University (The Netherlands) Sydney University (Australia)
Tokyo University (Japan) Waseda University (Japan) Seul university (Korea)

Unit Three People

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns American comedian

1869-1996

Part One Style Questions

Family

� Tell me about your family please

� Do your parents work? What do they do?

� Do you spend a lot of time with your family?

� What things do you like to do together?

� Would you like to have a bigger family?

� Do you visit your ralatives very often?

� What makes a happy family do you think?

Friends

� Do you often meet your friends?

� How do your friends help you?

� How do you help your friends?

� What things are important in a friend?

� What things do you like to do with your friends?

� Have you known your best friend for long?

� Do you think that you and your best friend will be best friends in the future?

Other people

� Do you spend much time with children?

� Do you see your neighbours often?

� What do you talk about with them?

� Has any one influnced you very much?

� Who are the important people in your life? Why?

� Do you spend much time with older people?

Famous people

� Have you ever met a famous person?

� Which famous person would you like to meet?

� How do people become famous?

� Would you like to be famous?

� What are the good things about being famous?

� Do you think that famous people have problems?

Part Two Style Questions

� Describe an old person you know

� Describe a young person you know

� Describe one of your neighbours

� Describe your best