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Speaking Part 1Reported 25 August 2026
IELTS Speaking Part 1: Mobile phones
The question
When did you get your first phone?
How much do you use it now?
How to answer it
The first question is past simple with an age or a year, plus one detail about the phone itself. The second is present, and it invites a screen-time number — give it, then say what most of it goes on and whether you would change that.
What moves the band
- Past-to-present contrast: back then it was just for calls, whereas now I'd struggle to get through a day without it.
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Practise these next
Know the number. Now move it.
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