IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three Dice Game

IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three Dice Game,
with links to IELTS Reading and other skills
Roll the dice that you are given twice, once to decide what kind of question on that topic
that you will have to answer and once to decide the topic. Check if you don’t understand
the question, then answer it at whatever length seems natural. If your first answer is
short, your partner might ask you a follow up question, then switch roles and do the same
again. If you get the same numbers again, you must ask different questions with the
same prompts (not just roll again).

Kinds of questions

1

questions about you (like IELTS Speaking Part One)

2

questions about people you know (family, friends, etc – like

IELTS Speaking Part One

)

3

“Speak for one or two minutes about a/ an…” (like IELTS Speaking Part Two)

4

questions about people your age (generally)

5

questions about people in your country (generally)

6

questions about your opinions (like IELTS Speaking Part Three)

Topics A
1

art and media

2

festivals and celebrations

3

free time/ leisure/ hobbies

4

hometown/ local area

5

sport/ exercise

6

work and studies

Do the same with the topics below the fold that your teacher tells you to use.
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Topics B
1

food and drink

2

accommodation/ home

3

health and fitness

4

language learning and IELTS

5

technology and the Internet

6

transport and travel

Topics C
1

foreign travel

2

foreign languages

3

speaking in foreign languages

4

listening to (including watching) things in foreign languages

5

writing (in your own language and foreign languages)

6

reading (in your own language and foreign languages)

Ask each other any questions you like about the topics in Topics C above.

Move onto just talking about reading.

Use the topics on the next page to continue your discussion.

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2014

Possible topics:
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Books/ courses for improving reading skills

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Dealing with things you don’t understand (unknown vocabulary etc)

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Detailed comprehension/ Understanding precisely what the writer wants to say

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Different kinds of reading tasks (multiple choice, True/ False, True/ False/ Not Given,
multiple matching, gap filling, etc)

-

Different kinds of reading text (novels, children’s books, etc)

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Language learning via reading (learning vocabulary in texts etc)

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Reading authentic texts (= texts written for native speakers such as newspapers)

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Reading fluency/ Reading speed/ Reading quickly

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Reading for pleasure in foreign languages

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Reading graded texts/ Reading texts written for language learning

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Reading tactics (skimming, scanning, speed reading tactics, predicting what you will
read, guessing unknown vocabulary from context, underlining, chunking, etc)

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Reading with technology/ Reading online

-

Teaching of reading skills

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Timed reading/ Reading for language exams (IELTS Reading etc)

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Using a dictionary while reading

Ask your teacher about any questions you weren’t sure of the answer to.

How can you answer questions that you aren’t sure about the answer of in the IELTS
Speaking exam?

What phrases can you use?

Which are best?

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2014