IELTS SPEAKING QUESTIONS FOR PART 2
1. Describe a time when you organized a happy event successfully
- You should say:
- What the event was
- How you prepared for it
- Who helped you to organize it
- And explain why you think it was a successful event
• I love to organise events.
• On July 16th last year, it was my mother’s 50 birthday and I wanted to do something special for her.
• However, due to the pandemic, most celebrations were forbidden.
• We were all cooped up inside our houses.
• I decided to give her a surprise online party.
• I asked my sister for advice on how we can make it special.
• We have a large family and we asked every one in the family, all our cousins, uncles, and aunt to record something for my mother.
• It could be anything, there were no restrictions.
• One of my cousins recorded a dance performance, an uncle wrote a beautiful poem, my
grandpa sang a beautiful song in Gujrati.
• After receiving all the videos, we combined them into one big video.
• It was not easy though, we had to send reminders and message some of my aunts and uncles
again and again.
• Some even sent it one day before the birthday, but they all finally did it.
• Moreover, It was all hard to remind them to keep it a secret.
• We were sure one of our aunts or uncles would spill the beans.
• Thankfully no one did.
• Then, we organised a special get together on zoom for the family.
• This was also hard because some of our relatives live in a different time zone.
• We wanted to choose a time everyone could be available.
• Here we failed to some extent, but some of our relatives couldn’t be online at that time.
• The birthday fell on a weekday, so it was just not possible.
• On her birthday, I ordered her favourite- truffle cake.
• And then when everyone joined the zoom meeting, I handed my mom the phone and told her someone wants to wish her a happy birthday.
• She was shocked to see all the family on the meeting.
• Then, she cut the cake, while I held the phone and everyone wished her happy birthday.
• Finally, for the big reveal, we played the video on the TV and recorded her reactions while watching the video and we telecast it on the meeting on a split-screen.
• One screen showing her reactions and the other showing the video.
• My mother had happy tears in her eyes by the end of it all and I think that alone made it a successful event.
• However, others told me it was such wonderfully organised and it was so nice meeting everyone online. Even after the video was over, everyone stayed on the meeting and we kept on talking and discussing everyday life. Part 3 - Follow-up Questions
1. How can parents help children to be organized?
I think parents should have a daily schedule for their children. They should also allot every task a fixed amount of time. For example, they can ask them to write each task on the calendar and write how much time they expect to give to it alongside it. Then, there should be rewards and punishments for finishing or not finishing the tasks.
2. On what occasions do people need to be organized?
I don’t think people need an occasion to be organised. We should try to be organised all the time. When we are organised we tend to save time and do things faster. Also, being organised creates a good impression on others.
3. Does everything need to be well prepared?
I think all the important things should be well prepared, but the minor details can be left out. It's like a speech, we prepare the main ideas but we leave some liberty to make some changes with the minor details. Preparing everything in advance would be very exhausting if not impossible.
4. Do people need others' help when organizing things?
Well, it depends upon the task. If we are organising a big event, we definitely need help. For example, wedding planners have a whole team of 10-15 members because a single person cannot manage everything. But, if there are small things like a small family get together, I think a person can organise it on their own.
2. Describe a skill that you learned from older people
You should say:
- What the skill is
- Who you learned it from
- How you learned it
- And how you feel about it
• It is true that the younger generation can learn valuable skills and life lessons from older
people.
• One skill I learnt is to recycle, reuse and repurpose everything.
• I learned this skill from my incredibly talented grandmother.
• I grew up in a nuclear family with both parents working busy jobs.
• Every year during summer I used to spend two months with my grandparents.
• My grandmother would find imaginative ways to reuse and recycle everything in her home.
• She would never dispose old clothes and would instead sew little pieces together to make curtains, quilts, pillowcases, tablecloths, etc.
• She would recycle glass jars and use them to hold spices, tea, grains, lentils, etc.
• She used newspaper to clean windows and reused aluminum foil to clean pots and pans.
• She made old broken furniture drawers into garden containers. She used fruit and vegetable scraps from her kitchen for compost.
• She would keep me busy with craft activities like making old card boxes into fun toys, cars, and robots.
• I mostly learned everything by observing her and helping her with some of the repurposing projects she did.
• I started to implement her ideas at my house too and as I grew older it became a habit.
• I feel indebted to my grandmother that she taught me these valuable skills.
• Reduce, reuse, and recycling waste is so important in present times.
• Our landfills are filling fast, and recycling is one way to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills.
• Global warming and plastic pollution have taken a toll on the planet and people need to take action to stop this damage
• I am so glad that I am doing my part in saving our planet. Part 3 - Follow-up Questions
1. What can children learn from their parents?
Children learn by observing their parents, they are their role models especially during early years. Parents can teach children important life lessons just by modeling good behavior. Respecting others, working hard, positive attitude, eating healthy, saving money, helping the needy are some life lessons children can learn from their parents.
2. What knowledge can children learn from their grandparents?
Grandparents have years of wisdom that they love to share with their grandkids. Children can learn about the history and growing up in times totally different from now. It is much more interesting to learn about history from personal grandparent stories than books. Children can also learn practical skills like sewing, knitting, gardening, baking which parents nowadays either don’t know or are too busy to teach.
3. What kind of help do you think older people need?
1) Help with chores like laundry, grocery shopping, house cleaning, etc.
2) Having caring family around so they don’t feel lonely is also helpful
3) Help with learning new technologies like smartphones
4) Older people need good nutrition and healthy meals to stay fit
5) Regular doctor visits and tests to make sure everything is ok with their health
6) Help with transportation if they can’t drive themselves
4. What skills can young people learn from older people?
Older people have years of experience and have seen both success and failures. Young people can learn important life lessons from them. For instance, they can learn to appreciate the good times and have the courage to face the bad times. They can learn that family matters the most and making time for loved ones is very important. Elders can teach them the importance of saving money for emergencies and for their retirement.
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