Speaking, reading

(completing sentences)
Ielts speaking part
• 12-15 minutes
• 3 parts: general questions, describing a situation from the card,
follow-up extended questions based on the card
• The examiner checks your lexical and grammar range, cohesion,
fluency, ability to understand and express your opinion
• They don’t need your knowledge of different things (e.g. how do
modern cars affect ecology?) – you need to show your English
Notes on the speaking part
• I absolutely enjoy hanging out with my friends. I find it funny and it distracts me from my
problems. We usually meet up every week to exchange some news or go to the restaurant or the
cinema.
• Well, it’s hard to say, but I think my parents are the first people I go to if I have a lot on my mind.
They are always ready to listen to me and give some advice or support me.
• A good friend is a person who is always here for me. On the whole, I think we great friends are
people who are happy for us at any moment, who support us.
• I guess, it’s been hard to meet up with friends regularly, considering the current situation with the
pandemic. But these day there are less restrictions, so we have a chance to see each other every
now and then.
• If we speak about parents, we have a call every day or some times and week and then see each
other once a month. We like to have a barbeque outside or just talk about what’s happening in
our lives. As for friends, it feels more relaxed, we occasionally see each other, come over and
spend little time together
reading
• 60 minutes, 40 question, NO additional time for transferring answers
• Section 1 may contain two or three short texts or several shorter texts. Section 2
comprises two texts. In Section 3, there is one long text.
• The first section, ‘social survival’, contains texts relevant to basic linguistic survival
in English, for example, notices, advertisements and timetables.

The second section, ‘Workplace survival’, focuses on the workplace context, for
example, job descriptions, contracts and staff development and training materials.

The third section, ‘general reading’, involves reading more extended prose with a
more complex structure, for example, newspapers, magazines and fictional and
non-fictional book extracts.
Match abstracts 1-8 to topics A-H
Find 7 different number and what
they refer to

Answer the questions. Choose no

more than ONE WORD AN/OR A
NUMBER

1. What will help you to protect if

you recycle one tonne of waster?
2. How many tonnes of paper
products do Australian use each
year?
3. What is the telephone number of
the recycling centre?
Complete the following sentences with
NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER from the passage

1. You should put special bins for

collecting recyclables in different
____________
2. Plastic shopping bags should be put in
the bin with the __________ top.
3. The council will collect your
recyclables every ___________
4. If you call the council, they will tell you
your ___________

Which words in the Reading passage are

paraphrases of the underlined words?
1. Rooms
2. Black
3. Two weeks
4. Collection day
 Complete the following
statements using NO MORE

European Settlement of Australia THAN THREE WORDS.

• European settlement of Australia began in 1788 when a British penal colony was 1. Australia was originally
established on the east coast. From this starting point Australia grew rapidly and founded as a _______
continually, expanding across the entire continent. 2. The major consideration in
colonizing Australia was
• A number of reasons contributed to Britain's decision to colonise Australia. The most Britain’s _________.
important factor was Britain's need to relieve its overcrowded prisons. Several violent 3. It was thought
incidents at overcrowded prisons convinced the British government of the need to
separate unruly elements from the rest of the prison populace. that ________ could be
gained in that part of the
• Additionally, Australia was of strategic importance to Britain, and it provided a base for world due to the access
the Royal Navy in the eastern sea. Also, Australia could be used as an entry point to the provided via Australia.
economic opportunities of the surrounding region. All these points figured in the 4. 4. Lord Sydney took every
decision by Lord Sydney, secretary of state of home affairs, to authorise the factor into account when he
colonisation.
gave official permission for
the __________ of Australia.
• To this affect, on May 13, 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip, commanding eleven ships full of
convicts, left Britain for Australia. He successfully landed a full fleet at Botany Bay on 5. 5. Botany Bay was
January 18, 1788. However, they left the bay eight days later because of its openness abandoned by the settlers
and poor soil, and settled instead at Port Jackson, a few kilometres north. The ships due to the lack of cover
1. british penal colony
landed 1,373 people, including 732 convicts, and the settlement became Sydney. 2. overcrowded prisons and ___________.
Australia Day is now celebrated on 26 January each year, to commemorate this first fleet
3. economic opportunities
landing.  4. colonisation
5. poor soil