1-Education Topic IELTS Speaking
1-Education Topic IELTS Speaking
1-Education Topic IELTS Speaking
SAMPLE ANSWERS
1 Sample questions from
speaking part 1, 2 and 3
answered
TOPIC:
1. 2.
KEY VOCABULARY
3. 2 Words and terms frequently
used when talking about
education.
EDUCATION
4.
WORD FORMATION
3 Learn how to use wide viriety
of parts of speech, such as
nouns, verbs, adjectives
4. Who was your favorite teacher? 8. What is special about this subject?
-My Maths teacher. He made the lessons fun and Basically, it is about management of business
exciting by engaging us into different activities operations. It has relevance and social importance
related to our topics. Me and my classmates since it deals with technology, economy, global
enjoyed the games. competitions and the emerging markets.
PART 2
Describe a subject you enjoyed studying at school. The subject I’d like to describe is World History. It was a
You should say: subject taught in highschool. About one hour is allotted
everyday to learn about significant historical events. For
• When and where you started studying it some of my classmates, it was a boring subject but I
• What lessons were like
enjoyed it a lot.
• What made the subject different from other
subjects I remember that our teacher distributed a syllabus on our
• And explain why you enjoyed the subject first meeting which served as a guide on the topics that
will be discussed each week. We were assigned to read
several books and other reading materials. We talked
about famous people, from warriors to philosophers to
artists. We discussed the wars that happened in the past.
We also talked about religion, traditions and customs of
the people during the ancient time.
In a fast-changing world we are in today, education specific major or courses as compared before.
priorities have transformed as well. In our current Education has also involved the use of the modern
society, education opens more opportunities for a technology such as computers and other gadgets
wider skill set that were not offered in the past. For that were not present in the past.
example, colleges and universities have more
Good education is important for both boys and girls. fields such as politics, science, sports and etc. Men
Both should be given equal rights to education. In on the other have also entered some industries that
today’s society, women have proven that they can used to be considered as women’s job such as
do tasks and get jobs that only men used to have. cooking, housekeeping, fashion and etc. I think both
Women have shown their competency in various sexes must be given equal opportunities.
3. How well do you think schools should prepare young people for working life?
Schools are considered our second home. This is avenue to prepare us to enter into another chapter –
where we learn almost everything, starting from the the working life. Schools must extend its training by
basic such as reading and writing. Before we turn educating and guiding the young people to their
into adults, this is the place where we get most of future career.
our training. Therefore, schools should also be the
2. KEY VOCABULARY
qualification a quality or accomplishment These qualifications are just like a ticket for
that makes someone entry into the corporate world
suitable for a particular job or
activity
to study To apply the mind to learning She studied biology and botany
and understanding a subject
by reading, going to school,
university etc
discipline the practice of training In addition , the type of research carried out
people to obey rules or a is exploratory , involving a variety of
code of behavior academic disciplines
distance learning a series of lessons that you Many of these optional modules will be
are not intended to attend available by distance learning .
and instead can take at your
home or another place
secondary school a school for children from 11 The project will involve two primary schools
to 16 or 18 (UK) and a secondary school.
to pass To go through any inspection I recently passed my exams to become a
or test successfully, to chartered structural engineer.
succeed in exam
to conduct organize and carry out They conducted a survey of people 's
attitudes to local environmental issues
acquire to get or gain something There are regular classes where you
can acquire new expertise , or improve
existing skills , with professional tuition .
compulsory something that is The majority of the age cohort attend beyond
compulsory must be done the end of compulsory schooling
because of a rule or law
private classess you have to pay for In fact the percentage of secondary school
pupils in England in private education has
education dropped since comprehensives were
introduced.
make progress someone who makes Why do some people make progress and
progress moves forward, others don't?
improves, becomes closer to
goals
dropout a student who fails to Years ago the official label for `` dropout ''
complete a course of study was changed to `` premature school leaver . ''
and leaves university etc
with no qualifications
coursework work done during a course of Approximately 50 per cent of the overall
study, especially that marks each year are obtained from
contributing to one's mark continuously assessed coursework .
research the systematic investigation While the research reveals many overlaps
into and study of materials and similarities, there are also some
and sources in order to interesting differences
establish facts and reach
new conclusions
subject Area of knowledge taught in Maybe you want to study a subject you
an educational institution particularly enjoy.
to qualify VERB Like student nurses, there are no jobs for them
when they qualify.
to enroll VERB Failure to enroll for a full academic load does not
alter the residency requirement
average NOUN figure of 119.4 indicates that GDP per head in the
South East was 19.4 per cent above the average
in 1988
to average VERB For the past year, Leno has averaged 5.71 million
viewers eachnight to Letterman 's 4.16, according
to Nielsen Media Research
go to verb + school
attend
leave
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