IELTS Online: Course

The interview: General questions about yourself

During this part of the Speaking test you will be asked some general questions about yourself. These questions relate to your personal background and should be familiar to you.

Here are a few topic areas that you might be asked questions about.

home country family, friends and relationships job studies interests or hobbies daily routine

music the Internet advertising media reading food cooking

Note that this is not a full list of topic areas for this part of the Speaking test.

Let's listen to recordings of a sample interview of three different topic areas. After you have listened answer the questions below.

Example 1

What is the topic? How many questions are asked?

Example 2

What is the topic? How many questions are asked?

Example 3

What is the topic? How many questions are asked?