Simon’s Advice on Speaking Part 1

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Friday, October 03, 2014 
 
IELTS Speaking Part 1: house or apartment? 
Here are some very common questions from part 1 of the speaking test. How would you answer 
them? 
1. Do you live in a house or an apartment? 
2. Which is your favourite room in your home? Why? 
3. Would you change anything about your home? Why / why not? 
4. Would you like to move to a different home in the future? 
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Friday, October 10, 2014 
IELTS Speaking: correct the mistakes 
Here are some sentences that students wrote below last week's 
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. Can you correct the 
mistake(s) in each one? 
1. I would want the walls to be painted in bright colors, arrange the furniture with some good interior 
designers. 
2. If I am well off, I would like to move into much more bigger house. 
3. If I had enough money, I will buy some more household appliances. 
4. My favourite room is my living room because most of the time I spent in that room. 
5. It goes without saying that I am quite passionate about my bedroom. 
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ANSWERS FROM SIMON
First, these are the problems: 
1. The use of 'arrange' doesn't follow the grammar of the first part of the sentence, so we'll need to 
make it match e.g. "walls to be painted.... furniture to be arranged" 
2. The first half of the conditional (if I am) is wrong, and we don't say "much more bigger". 
3. The second half of the conditional (I will buy) is wrong. 
4. We shouldn't use the past "I spent". 
5. No grammar mistakes, but "it goes without saying" seems strange and inappropriate here - why 
does it go without saying? 

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