Lesson 9: Speaking Questions for IELTS

You can get various types of speaking questions for IELTS so it is important to understand how to reply to them properly.

This lesson is particularly important if you are at a lower level of English, as those with weaker speaking skills often show that they have misunderstood the question when they give their answer.
Giving the wrong answer could also come from not concentrating properly.
This could be due to nerves, so you miss exactly what the examiner has asked. So you have to listen carefully.
Take a look at this example question:

IELTS Examiner: How important do you think it is to learn English language?
Candidate: Oh, I really like learning English. I think it will really help with my career.

This candidate has shown that they did not listen properly, or simply misunderstood the question.
These are the kinds of answers that would be expected.

• It's very important because...
• It's extremely important...
• It's fairly important because..
• It's quite important because...
• I don't think it's very important because...

So in this case it is an adverb of degree that would be expected as they commonly follow how questions that ask for an opinion about something.
That is not to say that there are not other possibilities, but this directly answers the question, unlike the other reponse which was incorrect.

Now try this speaking questions for IELTS exercise to see if you know the meaning of other common question phrases.