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CONTENTS
Sample answers
Sample questions and
answers from speaking part
1, 2 and 3
Key vocabulary
Words and terms frequently
used when talking about
environment
Word formation
Learn how to use wide
variety of parts of speech,
such as nouns, verbs,
adjectives
Collocations
Find out groups of words that
usually used together by
native speakers
Useful resources
References to teaching and
authentic materials related to
this topic: IELTS blogs,
podcasts, videos and articles
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Environment: Sample
questions and answers for
IELTS speaking exam
Part 1
1. Which country are you from?
– The Philippines is located in Southeast Asia situated in the Western
Pacific Ocean.
-I do not like the extreme heat of summer, but do you know what I
disliked more? A humid weather; at least in the summer you could
sweat off the heat, but in a humid environment, the effectiveness of
sweating in cooling the body is reduced by reducing the rate of
evaporation of moisture from the skin.
7. What is the best/worst weather for traveling in?
Part 2
Describe an environmental problem that has occurred in your country.
You should say:
The pollution of the rivers was the effect of prolonged abuse and
neglect. The rivers were considered biologically dead, which means no
fish left to catch and less food to eat. Boats could not travel because of
the density of the debris of floating plastic wastes; the rivers emit a foul
stench and the waters are toxic which house a number of bacteria that
could cause different diseases.
Part 3
1. Do you think it is the responsibility of governments alone to protect
the environment?
There are a lot of ways on how individuals can do to protect the
environment some of them are:
These are just small things we can do to change our lifestyles, imagine
millions of other people doing the same thing. It can gradually make a
difference.
to endanger
put (someone It is a criminal offence
or something) to endanger the lives
at risk or in of the public by
danger allowing the
introduction of a
contaminate into the
mains supply.
water pollution
the presence of Water pollution causes
harmful marine life to die.
materials in
water, such as
dissolved
metals, waste
from farms
environmentalist
a person whose Environmentalists
lifestyle, often encourage us to
political etc buy our foods from
choices are local sources. They say
designed to it is good for the
minimise environment
human impact
on the natural
environment
Word Formation
emission noun Drastic carbon
emission reductions
would undoubtedly be
better for the
atmosphere and
climate
degradable adjective
Even the degradable
plastics may break into
fragments that litter
the soil.
threat noun
This could save the
world from one of its
biggest environmental
threats.
Collocations
COLLOCATION EXAMPLE
ozone layer The combined effects of
overpopulation, resource
depletion, and
environmental
degradation will cause
great economic losses.
solar power The combined effects of
overpopulation, resource
depletion, and
environmental
degradation will cause
great economic losses.
to get serious about The combined effects of
behaviour overpopulation, resource
depletion, and
environmental
degradation will cause
great economic losses.
sources overpopulation, resource
depletion, and
environmental
degradation will cause
great economic losses.
potentially
marine
water
industrial
nuclear
nitrate
noise
vehicle
soil
prevent
combat
control
generate
make
realize
reap
cut
limit
minimize
reduce
monitor
prevention
reduction
standards
safeguard
save
damage
harm
pollute
policy environment+nounenvironment
protection
issues
protection of the
environment
damage to the
environment
harmful to the
environment
have an impact on
environment
hazardous
poisonous
toxic
industrial
domestic
household
nuclear
dump
get rid of
bury
process
handle
manage
cut down on
reduce
recycling
reprocessing
treatment
management
minimization
reduction
Useful resources
Podcasts
Articles
Videos
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change [TED
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