IELTS Speaking Part 1: Email and letters
The questions
Asked in this order, in one sitting.
- Do you send emails often?
- Is sending emails widespread in your country?
- Do you think emails will be more or less prevalent in the future?
- How often do you write emails or cards?
- Do you like texting or emails?
- Do you prefer to have an email or a card for your birthday? Why?
- Do you think email will replace letters in the future?
How to answer it
Seven questions circling one idea, so the risk is repeating yourself into a lower fluency band. Split them deliberately: the first four are about YOUR habits and want frequency language; the last three are preference and prediction and want opinion language. The birthday question is the best of the set because it has a clear right answer for you personally — a card, because someone had to go out and buy it — and a reason like that is worth more than a balanced paragraph.
What moves the band
- Separate work email from personal email early. It stops every answer being the same answer.
- Prediction language for the future questions: I can't see them disappearing, if anything, they'll probably end up.
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.
Practise these next
Know the number. Now move it.
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