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.
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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