Speaking topics for B1 students

Speaking Part 1

Speaking Part 2

Speaking Part 3

1. Do you have a big or small family?
2. Do you spend a lot of time with your family?
3. Who is your favourite family member?
4. What activities do you like to do with your family?

1. Where are you from?
2. What do you like about your hometown?
3. How often do you visit your hometown?

1. What do you study?
2. What would you like to do when you finish with your studies?
3. Do you have a favourite subject/class?
4. What is the most difficult thing about being a student?

1. What do you do for a living?
2. Do you enjoy your job?
3. What would you like to work as in the future?

1. What do you like to do in your free time?
2. Who is your favourite person to spend your free time with?
3. Do you have any special hobbies?

1. Do you prefer to cook your meals or eat out?
2. What is a typical meal in your country?
3. Tell me about your favourite meal.
4. How often do you cook your own food?

1. What are some of your goals for the future?

1. What is your favourite place that you have visited?
2. Where would you like to travel?
3. Is there a place you would not like to visit?
4. Who do you like to travel with?

1. Do you use technology a lot every day?
2. How much time do you spend on the internet?

1. Where did you go on your last holiday?
2. Do you prefer summer holidays or winter holidays?
3. What activities do you do on holiday?

1. What is your favourite season?
2. What do you do on a rainy day?

1. Do you use public transportation?
2. Is the public transportation in your city good?
3. What is your favourite form of transportation?

1. How often do you play sports?
2. Do you prefer to watch or participate in sport?
3. Do you think it is important to play sports?

1. Do you have any pets?
2. When did you last go to a zoo?
3. What is your favourite animal?

1. Do you think you are a fashionable person?
2. How often do you go shopping?

1. What is your favourite genre of book to read?
2. How often do you read?
3. Do you prefer to read books or watch films?

1. What is your favourite type of music to listen to?
2. When do you listen to music?
3. Have you been to many live concerts?
4. Do you play any instruments?

Talk about:

1. How you met
2. When you see them
3. What you like to do together

Talk about:

1. Your relationship with this person
2. Their personality
3. Your favourite memory with this person

Talk about:

1. What the gift was
2. Who received it
3. Why you chose that gift for that person

Talk about:

1. Who gave it to you
2. Why you liked it so much
3. How often you use it

Talk about:

1. Where you went
2. Why you went there
3. What made it so special

Talk about:

1. What happened in the memory
2. How old you were
3. Why you like this memory

Talk about:

1. What the activity involves
2. How often you participate
3. What you like about it

Talk about:

1. Why you think it is interesting
2. How often you watch it
3. If you would like to try it

Talk about:

1. The type of music you heard
2. Who you went with
3. Why you decided to go

Talk about:

1. The type of show it is
2. How many times you have seen it
3. If it is popular in your country

Talk about:

1. Where this place is
2. If you liked it or not
3. What you did there

Talk about:

1. Who you were with
2. Why it was a bad experience
3. If you would return to the destination

Talk about:

1. Why you choose this way
2. How often you learn about current events
3. What type of current events you like to learn about

Talk about:

1. What the news was about
2. Where you accessed the news
3. What you think about it

Talk about:

1. When you start your routine each day
2. Your favourite part of your routine
3. Why you have a daily routine

1. What are some ways the school system in your country could be improved?
2. What is your opinion on the importance of higher education?
3. Do you think that education should be a priority in everyones lives?
4. What do you think about the way your country teaches languages at school?

1. What do you think about the food habits people in your country have?
2. Why do you think that people in different countries have different diets?
3. Do you think that your own diet is healthy or unhealthy?
4. Tell me about some of the most traditional foods in your country.

1. What do you think are some of the biggest problems that technology brings?
2. Do you think that young people spend too much time with technology?
3. How has technology changed in the past 5 or 10 years?
4. Should the government have more control over the use of technology?

1. Tell me about some of the popular leisure activities in your country.
2. Do you think it is important for people to have time to do leisure activities?
3. Do you think that children need to have more leisure time than adults?
4. How have popular leisure activities changed in the past 5 or 10 years?

1. What are the most popular sports where you live?
2. Why do you think it is important to exercise and play sport?
3. What do you think are some of the greatest benefits of participating in a sports team?
4. Should children be required to participate in sport in school?

1. Do you think that it is important to keep up-to-date with the latest fashion?
2. Do you think it is better to shop online or in-person?
3. Do you think young people pay too much attention to the clothes they wear?
4. How has fashion changed since you were a child?

1. What are some of the biggest environmental problems today?
2. Tell me about some ways we can help the environment?
3. Should children be given more education on the environment in school?
4. How do you think the government can promote being environmentally friendly in your country?

• Practise the Speaking section by speaking! The only way to feel comfortable speaking to the examiner is by being comfortable speaking in English, so you must practise speaking out loud, to a friend or to a mirror!

• Speak from experience! It is always easier to talk about things when you are talking about a personal experience connected to the topic, so try and use examples from your own life.

• Keep it simple! Remember that you are not being tested on your knowledge of an area or your personal ideas you are being tested on whether or not you can clearly explain yourself. So dont make it difficult! Keep what you want to say simple so that you can make it clear.

• Be confident! Sit up straight, look the examiner in the eye and speak with confidence.

• Be yourself! You do have to prepare certain topics, remember vocabulary and phrases, but the best way to be comfortable and confident is by being yourself and having fun discussing the questions in the speaking section.