The question
What are your hobbies now?
What hobbies did you have as a child?
Does your family share any hobbies?
How to answer it
The three questions are present, past and shared, so the examiner is listening for tense control as much as content. Set up the contrast deliberately: what you have dropped since childhood and what has stuck. Name one hobby you actually do this month rather than one you would like to have.
What moves the band
- Past habits: I used to spend every weekend, I was really into, I gave it up when.
- If your family shares nothing, say that with a reason — it is a normal answer and still needs three sentences.
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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