Mat Clark – IELTS Speaking
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Part One Topic
Restaurants
Reading
Public transport
TV
The sea
Seasons
Clothes
Photography
Hobbies
Sports
Animals
Buildings
Part Two Topic
A restaurant
A book
Form of public transport
TV program
A river, lake or sea
A season
An item of clothing
A photograph
A hobby
A sport
An animal
A building
This list could go on, but the main thing to realise is that most of the topic areas
for Part Two are very similar to Part One. This is to your advantage because it means you
can use Part One language in your Part Two.
There is no danger of repetition here because if you are given a certain topic in
Part One you will NOT get the same topic in Part Two.· So if the examiner asks you
about "animals" in Part One, you will not get the Part Two topic "Describe an animal... "
Instead of making a huge list of Part Two topics it is easier to put all of the topics
into groups or categories.
The most obvious categories are as follows:
(1) Experiences / Past events
(2) Objects/ Material possessioris
(3) People
(4) Places
(5) Media related
(6) Others (anything that doesn't fit into the 5 categories above)
One of the advantages of grouping topics together is that when you look at the
relationships between some of the topics you will see that it is in fact possible to use the
same content for more than one topic card.
In this way you don't need to prepare a separate response for every topic card, you
can reuse the same language for many different topics. The individual topic cards are
given later in this section.
