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Analysis of IELTS Oral Part One: Hometown's questions about home can be said to be almost every IELTS oral examiner's exam [...]

Spoken IELTS Part One idea analysis: Hometown's question about hometown

It can be said that the questions about hometown are almost the topics that the IELTS speaking examiners must ask in every exam. The corresponding problems are:

What’s (the name of) your hometown? Of course, where are you from? (Where do you come from?) Then asked

The name of my hometown is called YC, which was originated from a famous person in Three Kingdoms Time.

Is that a big city or a small place？

Is your hometown a big city or a small place?

Well, my hometown is YC, which is a relatively small city compared to Beijing, Shanghai and those metropolitan cities. It’s only an hour’s ride to get to one corner from the farthest place within YC.

Please describe your hometown a little

Can you describe your hometown?

My hometown is a third tier city in China The city is not so big, sometimes one-hour-trip time in Beijing from Haidian to Chaoyang will highly possibly take you to another county in YC city. So, I am pretty comfortable with the less time-consuming living pace. This article is from laokaoya website. Apart from that, my hometown is known as the biggest water damn in the world. Some have criticized this project for ages, but I think it’s been producing a lot of electricity for the whole nation, which is at least not bad right now.

How long have you lived there?

How long have you lived in your hometown?

I’ve been living there for nearly two decades. I left this city after graduation from my senior high school. I could still remember the old streets and buildings, but now things changed totally.

Do you like it?

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Yes, I love my hometown just like I love my parents. It’s a place that saw my growth and gave me countless happy memories.

Do you like living there?

Do you like living here? (In fact, there are many similarities between this question and the one above where you liked your hometown. If the examiner asks the same question at the same time, it is better not to answer the same question, but try to think from another perspective.)

I love living there, the most important reason is that the people there are extremely friendly. You know, they give you help whenever possible, which is really not common in today’s metropolitan cities.

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