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    Speaking Part 1Reported 27 July 2026

    IELTS Speaking Part 1: Your home

    The question

    Do you live in a house or a flat?

    What is your favourite room?

    What would you like to improve about it?

    How long have you lived there?

    What do you like most about it?

    What can you see from your windows?

    Will you stay there in the future?

    How to answer it

    This question has come back: candidates reported it on 3 July 2026, 27 July 2026. Questions that repeat across sittings are the ones worth rehearsing properly.

    Seven questions in roughly four minutes, so answers must stay short. The window question is the gift: it invites concrete description, and one specific detail — a courtyard, a car park, a neighbour's washing — does more for Lexical Resource than any memorised adjective list. Keep the improvement question small and practical.

    What moves the band

    • Watch the tense switches across the set: present, present perfect for how long, and will or might for the last question.
    • Home lexis: spacious, poky, it gets the morning light, we're on the top floor, a bit cramped.

    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

    Do you live in a house or a flat? — I live in a flat with my family. It is on the fourth floor and it has three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen.

    What is your favourite room? — My favourite room is my bedroom because it is quiet and I can study there without anyone disturbing me. I also keep my books and my computer there.

    What can you see from your windows? — From my window I can see the street and some other buildings. There are also some trees near the road, so the view is quite nice, especially in spring.

    Will you stay there in the future? — I think I will stay there for a few more years, but after I finish my studies I would like to move to a bigger place of my own.

    Why it scores what it scores: The tense switches the tips warn about are all handled correctly, and the answers stay short enough for a seven-question set, which is why this passes comfortably. The limit is the window question, which the plan calls the gift of the set: street, buildings, some trees is a description that would fit almost any flat in any city, so the one place the candidate was invited to be concrete produces nothing an examiner can hold on to.

    Band 8

    What an 8 sounds like

    Do you live in a house or a flat? — A flat, top floor, which I'd recommend to anyone who values not hearing footsteps above them.

    What is your favourite room? — The kitchen, and not because I cook much. It gets the morning light and it's the only room where people actually sit down together, so everything ends up happening in there — arguments, homework, the lot.

    What can you see from your windows? — A courtyard with a very determined fig tree in it, and about forty balconies facing me. One of my neighbours dries her washing in a strict colour order, which I've come to find weirdly comforting.

    Will you stay there in the future? — Probably not, if I'm honest. It's a bit cramped for three adults and the rent keeps climbing. I'd stay for the light, though — I'd genuinely miss that.

    Why it scores what it scores: Every answer is short, which is correct for a seven-question set, and yet each one carries something only this candidate could say: the fig tree, the washing in colour order, staying for the light. That is what separates this from the 6.5, which answered the same questions accurately with nothing in them. Note that the home lexis from the tips — top floor, morning light, a bit cramped — is embedded rather than deployed.

    Phrases worth stealing

    • “top floor, which I'd recommend to anyone who values not hearing footsteps above them”
    • “It gets the morning light”
    • “a very determined fig tree”
    • “It's a bit cramped for three adults”
    • “I'd stay for the light, though”

    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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