Aptis reading Test: General Tips and Strategies

Explaining/ Clarifying
, with ‘’ in that’’ “which is”, “a kind of”, “like”, “similar to”, “the (direct/ word-for-
word’’/’’ literally’’/ ‘’usually’’) translation is…”, “that means”, 
For example. and that means I don’t take it too seriously. 
You will be asked questions around following topics: 
Some of the topics you could be asked about are: 
• Family 
• The weather where you live 
• Films 
• Likes and dislikes 
• Hobbies or interests 
• The place where you live (either your city or country) 
• The weather where you live 
• Friends 
• School or work 
• Routines, such as ‘What do you do at the weekend?’ 
• Leisure, Holidays and Travel 
• Books 
• Food 
• Health and Fitness, 
• Media 
• accommodation/ house or flat 
• ambitions 
• character/ personality 
• childhood 
• favourite arts and media (actors, books, movies, music, television, etc) 
• favourite food 
• favourite place 
• foreign languages/ language learning 
• free time/ hobbies (weekends, vacations, etc) 
• friends 
• hometown 
• local area/ neighbourhood 
• perfect job 
• possessions 
• skills/ strengths and weaknesses 
• technology 
• work and studies 
If we take the sentences in the earlier section, we can build a model answer like the one below. 
Topic: INTERESTS AND LEISURE TIME 
Please tell me about your hobbies and interest? (30 seconds) 
I am
extremely keen on swimming. If I get the chance, I’ll go every day. 
I love going to
the beach 
because I 
really enjoy
swimming, for this reason I’m there nearly every morning in summer. 
For instance,
last week I went 
swimming every day and twice on Saturday and not only is swimming good fun, but it’s healthy too. 
What I mean