The Speaking Test is a Videogame
I often tell my students to think of the IELTS speaking test like a videogame. The early levels are easy; it gets harder later in the test.
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Here’s an example of some easy part 1 speaking questions (you can find some more samples on our YouTube page):
-What do you like doing at the weekend?
-When you were a child what did you like to eat the most?
-Do you enjoy sunny days much?
Compare that with speaking part 3 questions about a much harder topic:
-Why do you think many people prefer working alone?
-What can the government do create more public spaces?
-How has the internet changed how people consume the news?
The speaking test starts out easy and gets really hard by part 3.
The difference in a videogame is that you are trying to get to beat the last level to win. In the speaking test you are graded at every level.
That means that a question in part 1 has equal value to a question in part 3, even though part 3 is much, much harder.

Think of IELTS speaking all the time, please!
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