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    Speaking Part 2Reported 20 August 2026

    Describe a new law you would introduce in your country

    The cue card

    Describe a new law you would introduce in your country.

    • You should say: what the law would be
    • You should say: why it is needed
    • You should say: how it would be enforced
    • You should say: and explain why you chose it

    How to answer it

    Choose small and enforceable over grand and vague. 'A law against pollution' gives you nothing for the third bullet; 'no delivery scooters on pavements, enforced by camera, with the fine going to the platform rather than the rider' hands you enforcement, fairness and a counter-argument for free. Name the problem it fixes with one concrete scene from your own street.

    What moves the band

    • This card rewards modal and conditional range: it would have to be, they'd be fined, unless enforcement were consistent.
    • Enforcement is the bullet most candidates skip. Say who checks, what the penalty is, and why people would comply.

    Two answers, two bands

    Both answers below respond to this exact question. Read them in order: the difference between them is what a band is actually made of. They are written by us for this page — they are not candidate transcripts.

    Band 6.5

    What a 6.5 sounds like

    The law I would like to introduce in my country is a law to protect the environment, because pollution is a very serious problem nowadays.

    This law would stop factories and cars from polluting the air and the water. Companies would not be allowed to throw their waste into the rivers, and people would be encouraged to use public transport instead of their private cars.

    This law is needed because the air quality in our big cities is very bad, especially in winter, and many people have breathing problems, particularly children and old people. Also the rivers are dirty and the fish are dying.

    It would be enforced by the government and by the police. There would be big fines for companies that break the rules, and I think this would make them change their behaviour.

    I chose this law because I believe the environment is the most important issue for our generation and we must do something before it is too late.

    Why it scores what it scores: Fluent, four bullets covered, no grammar to complain about. It sits at 6.5 because the law is the one the plan warns against — a law to protect the environment is a policy area, not a law, so the enforcement bullet has nothing to bite on and produces the government and the police. Broad topics feel safe and give you nothing concrete to say for two minutes.

    Band 8

    What an 8 sounds like

    Mine is deliberately small: I'd ban delivery scooters from riding on pavements, and I'd put the camera enforcement on the scooters themselves rather than on the streets.

    It's needed because the pavement has quietly stopped being a safe place. In my neighbourhood you now walk with one ear listening behind you, and the people this affects most are the ones who can't move quickly — my grandmother has stopped going to the shop on the corner, which is four hundred metres away, because twice something came past her shoulder at speed.

    Enforcement is the part people usually wave at, so let me be specific. The riders all work through three or four apps, and the apps know exactly where every scooter is, to the metre, every second. So I wouldn't chase individual riders at all — I'd fine the platform for each logged minute on a pavement, and let them solve it. They'd solve it in a week.

    I chose it because it's the kind of law that's actually winnable. Everyone agrees it's a problem, it costs the state almost nothing, and the technology to enforce it already exists and is already switched on. Most laws I'd like to see fail on one of those three.

    Why it scores what it scores: The plan asks for small and enforceable over grand and vague, and this is what that buys: because the law is specific, the third bullet becomes the best paragraph in the answer instead of the weakest. The enforcement idea is genuinely thought through, and the final bullet answers why THIS one with three criteria rather than an expression of concern. Note the grandmother detail doing the work an abstract claim about vulnerable pedestrians could not.

    Phrases worth stealing

    • “you now walk with one ear listening behind you”
    • “twice something came past her shoulder at speed”
    • “Enforcement is the part people usually wave at”
    • “I'd fine the platform for each logged minute on a pavement, and let them solve it”
    • “it's the kind of law that's actually winnable”

    Part 3 questions reported with it

    Part 3 follows the topic of the cue card, so these are the discussion questions the same candidates were asked next.

    • Do laws change people's behaviour, or do attitudes change first?
    • Should minor law-breaking lead to prison?
    • Why do some countries have too many laws?

    These are candidate recalls. These are questions reported by test-takers after their exams, not official or leaked IELTS material. Wording varies by test version, location and memory. Use them for timed practice — never as a prediction of what you will be asked.

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