Written May 28, 2020
IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions
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1026.
A Foreign Country or Culture
1027.
When You Wore Your Best
Clothes
1028.
An Educational Trip
1029.
A Talk or Speech
1030.
A Polluted Place
FQ = frequent question = a question that has frequently been reported = a question that is probably in the examiner's question book
* = my guess at a question
See also the Part 3 of
Topics 29, 381, 495, 546, 573 and 661
on the page,
Other Countries and Cultures
What do you think is the best way to learn about a foreign (country or) culture?
What do you think are some of the main problems people face when they work in a foreign country?
Some people say that reading a book
about another country or culture is the best way to learn about it. Do you
agree?
"Clothes" is plural. Describe more than one item of (or, piece of) clothing and refer to them, as a group, as "them" and "they". Of course, one suit, one shirt, one dress etc. is singular and = "it". But one pair of pants (trousers) is treated as plural and referred to as "they" and "them"
See also the Part 3 of
Topics 165, 419, 515 & 889 on the page,
Describe an educational trip you went on in your school days.
You should say
where you went
who you went with
what you saw (or did) there *
and explain what you learned on that trip.
Notes
This is called a "school excursion". A group of school students, usually a whole class travels somewhere, usually on a special bus or on a train and it is usually a one-day trip, under the supervision of one or more teachers. These excursions are typically to such places as a museum or an historical site.
Since it is a past tense topic, you need to say when it happened, for example, "in my second year at/of high school".
Notes
So far, the wording is unclear but it
is probably similar to, or the same as in
It is possible that
the first line is, "
A 'talk" is more informal than a speech and is often interactive and quite friendly. Here, a 'talk" does not mean a one-to-one talk that someone spoke to you but something like a presentation that someone spoke (or "gave") to a (large) group. Some speeches are very formal. Speeches are often given ("give a speech") on formal occasions such as graduation ceremonies or special days of commemoration.
See also the Part 3 of
Topics 185, 473 & 778 on the page,
Notes
It could be something as simple as a laneway or street that was polluted by rubbish (garbage). But better examples are polluted rivers, lakes, beaches, old factory sites (soil pollution) or a city or place with heavy air pollution etc.
See also the Part 3 of Topics 111, 180 & 687
on the page,
Anything "traditional" in a culture is hundreds of years old, and sometimes even thousands of years old. Some people in some cultures might wear traditional clothing on special occasions when traditional or historical days are being celebrated. Only a few people in the world today wear "traditional" clothing all the time, or most of the time. In some cultures, people wear traditional clothes when they get married (on their wedding day).
On the other hand, if you are talking about the clothes that some old people wear, "old fashioned" might be suitable to describe their clothes. That style of clothing might have been fashionable 40, 50 or 60 years ago.