Topic 52: Colours What’s your favourite colour?
What can we learn about a person from the colours they wear?
Do any colours have a special meaning in your culture?
Nouns Vibrant colours (= vivid colours)
dull colours
hue (= shade of a
certain colour)
Verbs Signify
symbolize
Idioms Give sb. The red carpet treatment (= treat sb. like a VIP)
Last night, we were
given the red carpet treatment at the banquet.
Red tape (= official rule)
He hated
red tape. See red (= become angry)
Her criticisms were enough to make anyone
see red. In the red (= owing money)
My bank account is 50 dollars
in the red. In the black (= not owing money to any one)
A business must stay
in the black to keep on.
Green with envy (= jealous)
The other boys were
green with envy when Joe bought a car.
Mat Clark – IELTS Speaking
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Summary of Part One Topics All of these Part One topics are the authentic topics that have been used in the
speaking test for the last 5 years.
The speaking test recycles these topics but generally speaking, there will be 10
topics in use for around 3 months. After 3 months these topics will be changed to a
different set of 10.
The speaking test does not introduce new Part One topics very often. On average 8
totally new topics are introduced in a year. These new topics are introduced gradually; so
you will not suddenly encounter new topics in Part One. It is more likely that you will see
one or two new topics introduced in each set of 10 topics.
