IELTS Speaking Part 1: Email and letters
The question
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.
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Know the number. Now move it.
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