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IELTS SPEAKING TEST

EXMAINER: Now, first, tell me something about yourself. Tell me about where you live in your country. Is the place where you live large or small?

CANDIDATE: I live in Hamilton, which is what I suppose you would call a small city. It’s about 140,000 people, and it’s a quiet little place which services the local farming community. We don’t have any heavy industry in Hamilton, but there is a university.

EXAMINER: Is it a beautiful place?

CANDIDATE: To me it is. There are some people who would say it’s not beautiful, but I like it. There aren’t any big mountains or anything, but it has lots of green trees and grass, and there’s a beautiful big river running right through the centre of it … flowers everywhere, and lots of gardens. I think it’s lovely.

EXAMINER: Is there anything you don’t like about this city?

CANDIDATE: Well, the fact that it’s small, of course, means that you don’t get a lot of the amenities that you’d find in a bigger city. If you’re interested in art galleries, or the symphony, or opera, which I am, Hamilton is not exactly a good place to be. You have to jump in a car and drive for an hour or so to the big city for those kinds of things.

EXAMINER: Next we’ll talk about numbers. Are any numbers considered to be luck or unlucky in your culture?

CANDIDATE: I would say there are an awful lot of individual people who consider that some numbers are lucky, or unlucky, but if you mean society-wide, sure, there are a few. The number 13, for example, is widely regarded as being unlucky particularly if it refers to a date when something will happen, and especially if it’s Friday the 13^th.

EXAMINER: Do you think that some numbers are luckier or unluckier than others?

CANDIDATE: No, I don’t think any numbers are luck or unlucky.

EXAMINER: Why not?

CANDIDATE: Well, it’s difficult to imagine any number any influence at all on the physical world. But, I guess it could affect someone’s emotional state if they thought a number was lucky or unlucky.

EXAMINER: Let’s talk about motor bikes now. Have you ever owned a motorbike?

CANDIDATE: Well, I haven’t actually owned a motorcycle, but I did have possession of one at one time. When I was a younger man, I swapped my 2-seater sports car for my friend’s motorbike. He had a girlfriend at the time and he really wanted to take her on a date, so I lent him my car and I had his bike for a while. That was a lot of fun.

EXAMINER: What are some of the advantages of motorbikes in the city?

CANDIDATE: I think there are a lot of obvious advantages: fuel efficiency, easy parking, being able to get around in traffic easily and quickly, but they come with a number of drawbacks too, of course. You are vulnerable not only to the weather but to injury.

EXAMINER: Do you think motorbikes are a safe form of transport?

CANDIDATE: Absolutely not! Not in the society we live in, where people love their cars, and have no respect for others on the roads.