IELTS Speaking Part 1 topics and questions
Part 1 lasts four to five minutes. The examiner starts with work or study, your hometown or your home, then moves to two everyday topics. These are the 114 topics and 800 questions in our test bank, each with Band 8 sample answers.
Asked first in almost every test
All topics A to Z
- Age · 7
- Animals · 4
- Appointment · 4
- Apps · 5
- Art · 12
- Bags · 5
- Baking · 7
- Being alone · 8
- Bicycles · 4
- Birthday · 5
- Boats · 8
- Books · 12
- Boredom · 4
- Bread · 4
- Celebrity · 6
- Childhood · 5
- Chocolate · 8
- Cities · 8
- Clothes · 12
- Coffee · 5
- Colours · 4
- Computers · 7
- Concentration · 4
- Cooking · 9
- Crowded places · 11
- Daily routine · 5
- Days off · 4
- Drawing · 4
- Dreams · 12
- Drinks · 4
- Education · 11
- Emails · 12
- Entertainment · 4
- Family · 11
- Fast food · 4
- Festivals · 7
- Fishing · 4
- Flowers · 5
- Food · 10
- Friends · 6
- Fruit · 9
- Future · 4
- Games · 10
- Gifts · 11
- Going out · 4
- Handwriting · 4
- Happiness · 9
- Hats · 4
- Health · 12
- History · 11
- Hobbies · 4
- Home · 12
- Hometown · 12
- Keeping in touch · 4
- Keys · 4
- Languages · 4
- Laughing · 9
- Lifestyle · 9
- Luxury items · 4
- Makeup · 4
- Maps · 8
- Memory · 8
- Money · 8
- Museums · 4
- Music · 12
- Musical instruments · 4
- Names · 4
- Neighbourhood · 4
- Neighbours · 8
- Newspapers and magazines · 11
- Noise · 7
- Patience · 5
- Photographs · 12
- Planets · 4
- Plants · 4
- Plastic and rubbish · 8
- Politeness · 8
- Public holidays · 12
- Punctuality · 8
- Puzzle · 4
- Rain · 4
- Robots · 9
- School · 4
- Seasons · 4
- Shoes · 7
- Shopping · 9
- Singing · 4
- Sleep · 6
- Snacks · 6
- Social media · 4
- Sounds · 5
- Sports · 12
- Study · 11
- Summer · 4
- Sunglasses · 4
- Swimming · 4
- T-shirts · 5
- Teachers · 9
- Technology · 9
- Telephoning · 5
- Television · 8
- The sea · 4
- Traffic · 4
- Transport · 12
- Travel · 12
- Trees · 12
- Trust and online privacy · 6
- Volunteering · 7
- Walking · 12
- Weather · 12
- Weekends · 4
- Work · 12
- Writing · 5
- Your country · 7
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