Describe a city you would like to live in in the future.
This test has appeared in 8 seasons · 6 reported by test takers
- Sep–Dec/2024
- May–Aug/2024
- Jan–Apr/2024
- Sep–Dec/2023
- May–Aug/2023
- Sep–Dec/2022
- May–Aug/2022
- Jan–Apr/2022
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Part 1
The examiner asks about you and two familiar topics. About 4–5 minutes.
Your home
- Do you live in a house or an apartment? (Why?)
- Which room do you spend the most time in? (Why?)
- What would you like to change about your home? (Why?)
- Do you think you will live there for a long time? (Why not?)
Feeling bored
- When do you usually feel bored? (Tell me more about that.)
- What do you do when you feel bored? (Tell me more about that.)
- Did you often feel bored when you were a child? (Why is that?)
- Do you think it is bad to feel bored sometimes? (Why is that?)
Losing and finding things
- Do you often lose things? (Why is that?)
- What kind of things do you lose most often? (Tell me more about that.)
- Can you remember a time when you lost something important? (Why is that?)
- Do you think most people would return something valuable they found? (Why is that?)
Part 2
One minute to prepare, then speak for one to two minutes.
Describe a city you would like to live in in the future.
You should say:
- which city it is
- how you know about it
- what life there is like
and explain why you would like to live there.
Follow-up question after your talk: Do you think you will really move there one day? / What attracts you most about that city?
Part 3
A broader, more abstract discussion of the Part 2 topic. About 4–5 minutes.
why people move to big cities
- Can you explain why so many young people move from the countryside to big cities?
- In general, what makes a city a good place to live?
- How would you compare life in a large city with life in the countryside?
the problems of growing cities
- Can you describe the problems that fast-growing cities face?
- What could be done about the cost of housing in big cities?
- Can you speculate on what cities will be like fifty years from now?
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