IELTS Academic 26/04/2014-Dublin, Ireland

[Charley]

LISTENING
Section1:Student looking for a part-time job.
Section2:Visiting Toronto
Section3:Diagram of "Pot Condenser" (I wish I can draw it here).(Fill in the blank, what parts is being describe).
Section4:A teacher talking about "Salt History".

READING
Passage1:Development of bus and train in London and other countries(Selecting title to each paragraph and TRUE or
False.
Passage2:Three different research about "yawning".(last 5, not word to word answer, you have to understand and think
its synonym).
Passage3:Science communication difficulties.

WRITING
Task 1: The table shows the percentage of male and female employee from 4 different jobs over three year period
(1986, 1996 and 2006).(i wish i can draw the graph here).
Task 2: Nowadays celebrities are famous because of their glamour and wealth. Some think this might have bad
effects to young people.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?

SPEAKING
Interviewer: Introduce yourself? Do you like your place? How long have you been living there?
Card question: Discuss any time of your life that you are busy? What, where is it?
What did you do to manage yourself?
Follow-up question: What are the advantages of strict behaviour?
What are the disadvantages of strict behaviour?
How do a person become disciplined? Is is a learned or natural?
Do you love music? What kind of music? How do you compare old and new music nowadays?

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[MohamedElbanna]

I think task 2 was tricky not direct question and last reading article was quite difficult . What do you think?
in listening test do you remember any of the answers?

[Ryan]

A very thorough recount, Charley. Thanks very much for posting.

Your Task 2 reminds me so much of one from late 2013. I think it was worded something like this:

"Do celebrities make good role models for young people?"

[Ryan]

I wrote a model essay response to another one from early 2012 that is similar in nature:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nReKL5Gpcok

For a text copy of the model essay: http://ieltsielts.com/2012/02/

[MohamedElbanna]

Thank Ryan for sharing this video its very useful I was searching for model answer for this question.