IELTS Speaking Part 2: essential preparation

It's impossible to prepare for every question that you might get in the speaking test, but what are the essential things to prepare for?

Here's my list of essentials:

1. Favourites: Don't go into the test without knowing what your favourites are. Prepare to talk about your favourite book, film, music, and website.
2. People: Be ready to talk about a famous person and a member of your family.
3. Activities: Have you prepared some ideas about a hobby? Can you describe a typical day in your life?
4. Events: Try to remember some special moments in your life, such as birthdays, festivals and weddings.
5. Places: You need to be able to talk about where you live. Also, think about the places you have visited, what you did there, and why you liked or didn't like them.
6. Things: Can you talk about the things you use every day, something you would like to buy, or a present that you received?

Remember that in part 2 you are always asked to "describe". Make sure you prepare some good adjectives for each topic, make sure you can talk about your opinions and feelings, and think about some examples or stories to make your descriptions more interesting.

Comments

[Oninon T]

Trust me. It will take more time to prepare six different templates. With some practice, you will be able to use just one template to deal with many ielts speaking part 2 questions. Simon's approach is less efficient and less flexible, which is very likely to restrict your thoughts. Don't make yourself become less creative and less productive.

[Simon]

These are common topic areas, not templates. Trust me, it’s a good idea to be ready for them.

[Elias]

Mr.Simon Greetings,
I would like to ask you about IELTS Speaking test part 2 in the Cambridge IELTS_8

the question is:
Describe a time when you were asked to give your opinion in a questionnaire/Survey

So here I should answer under "Describing an activity" that I have done?

Please some advice to help me prepare well.
Thank you,
Elias.

[Akter]

Dear Elias, You may describe about your university presentation in terms of projects, publication or thesis. Because during any presentation we might have some specific queries from our teachers who generally act as judge.

[JC]

Hi Simon,

You are absolutely correct. In my opinion, the preparation of these topics can give us confidence, and during the exam, it helps to make a story from our preparation.

[Simon]

Elias,

Here's an old lesson in which I gave advice about that topic:

https://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2011/05/ielts-speaking-questionnaires-topic.html

[delinglish]

is it possible to get an 8 band score of speaking by having prepared and memorized answers?

[interlan]

I want to improve my general language skills to get IELTS score 7 at least and apply a job I need
thank you