SPEAKING TEST QUESTIONS
i-LEARN SMART WORLD 10
UNIT 1: FAMILY LIFE
Target language:
•Talk about household chores and the roles of family members
•Talk about family and personality traits
•Adverbial phrases of frequency
•Linking words (because, so)
1. What chores do you do at home?
2. Who does the most housework in your family?
3. How often do you vacuum the sofa/put away the clothes/clean the bathroom…?
4. Who do you think should do more chores in your family? Who should do fewer? Why?
5. What is your father/mother/sister… like?
6. Would you like to have a famous parent? Why (not)?
7. What do you use your phone for?
8. How often do you send text messages? Who do you send them to?
9. What do you often text about?
10. Talk about your family:
How many people there are
Who they are
What they do
What they are like
UNIT 2: ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
Target language:
•Talk about leisure activities you like and don't like
•Make and decline invitations to leisure activities
•Gerunds
•to-infinitives
1. What do you do on the weekends?
2. Do you have a lot of free time?
3. What do you do in your free time?
4. Do you enjoy doing karate/playing role-playing games/going for a bike ride…?
5. What is your most/least favorite free-time activity?
6. What have you arranged to do this week?
7. Are you free on Monday morning/Tuesday afternoon/Wednesday night…?
8. Did you promise to go to the movies/work on a project/meet at a party… with your friends?
9. What are the benefits of having a hobby?
10. Talk about your hobby:
What's your hobby?
Why do you like it?
How much money do you spend on it?
How much time do you spend on it?
What's the best thing about your hobby?
What kind of people would enjoy it?
UNIT 3: SHOPPING
Target language:
• Talk about your shopping habits
• Make a complaint in a store
• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• when-clauses
1. Do you enjoy going shopping?
2. What do you like to buy when you go shopping?
3. Do you prefer to buy quality clothes or cheap clothes on sale? Why?
4. What's your favorite store or place to go shopping? Why?
5. What do you spend most of your money on?
6. What's the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
7. Do you prefer to shop at a local market or a shopping mall?
8. What would you do if you bought an expensive phone or laptop and it broke the next
day? How would you feel?
9. Talk about a problem you’ve had with your devices:
What it is
When it happened
How you solved it
How you felt about the situation
10. Talk about a place where you love to shop often.
Where it is
What type of place it is
What type of products you often buy from there
Why you love to shop from this place often
UNIT 4: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & CHARITIES
Target language:
•Talk about the work of charities
•Talk about how charities have helped
•The Present Simple and the Present Continuous
•The Present Perfect for completed and unfinished events
1. Have you ever given something to someone to help them? Why?
2. Have you ever donated old clothes and toys to help poor children/volunteered at the
local hospital/raising money to help people in need…?
3. If you volunteer for a charity, what kind of charity will you work for? Why?
4. If you set up a charity, who or what will you help, and why?
5. How can we stop people and companies from cutting down trees in our rainforests?
6. Have you ever raised money for charity? What did you do?
7. What can you do to raise money for charity? Who will you help with the money you
raise?
8. What would you like to do to raise money in the future?
9. Have you ever joined a fundraising event? What was it?
10. Talk about a charity in your country:
Who they are
What they do
Who they help
How they help people
UNIT 5: GENDER EQUALITY
Target language:
•Talk about the history of gender equality
•Talk about someone's achievements and their feelings about them
•Infinitives (to-infinitive and bare infinitive)
•Adjectives of attitude
1. In your country, what jobs are usually done by men/women?
2. What things are you allowed or not allowed to do at school?
3. Are there different rules for boys and girls?
4. In what ways do you think life was different for men and women one hundred years
ago? Why?
5. What do you think were the most important moments in the history of gender equality?
6. Would you like to drive a racing car? Why (not)?
7. What are the responsibilities of a father/mother in a family?
8. Are men and women equal in ability and intelligence?
9. To what extent has the traditional female role changed in the last 20 years?
10. Talk about a successful woman that you know:
Who she is
What she does
What influence she creates
Why you like her
UNIT 6: COMMUNITY LIFE
Target language:
•Talk about changes in the community
•Talk about rules
•The Past Simple passive
•Modals with passive voice
1. What do you think needs to change in your neighborhood?
2. How has your town changed in the last five years? Why do you think it's changed?
3. Did the changes make things better? Why (not)?
4. Is your town polluted?
5. Is your town better for young or old people?
6. Are you a member of any clubs? What club would you like to join?
7. What rules must you follow at school/home?
8. Do you think that all the rules are important?
9. Are there any other rules that the school should have?
10. Talk about a thing you can do to help the community:
What it is
How it can help the community
Who you need help from
Why you would like to do that
UNIT 7: INVENTIONS
Target language:
•Talk about inventors and their work
•Talk about weird inventions
•Non-defining relative clauses
•Defining relative clauses with who, which, that, and where
1. What inventions have made your life easier? How?
2. What do you think is the most important? Why?
3. Do you know any weird inventions? What are they?
4. Can you think of three useful inventions in your house? Why are they useful?
5. What do people do differently because of the internet?
6. What is becoming more common because of the internet?
7. What would happen if we didn't have the internet?
8. Has the internet made people's lives better or worse? Why?
9. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the internet?
10. Talk about an invention:
What it is
When it was invented
Who invented it
How it helps people
Why you like it
UNIT 8: ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Target language:
•Talk about positive changes and how to achieve them
•Talk about improving the environment in your town
•The First Conditional
•The Second Conditional
1. Why do you think it is important to look after the environment?
2. What can you do to help protect the environment?
3. How do people in your community help to look after the environment? What else should they
do?
4. What is the best way to help protect the environment?
5. What will happen if we plant trees/use the bus more/don't ban plastic cups…?
6. Could you go one week without meat? Could you go one week without vegetables? Why (not)?
7. What would happen if we all stopped eating meat/we all switched to renewable energy…?
8. What would you invent if you were a scientist who wants to save the environment?
9. What environmental problems do you have in your city?
10. Talk about an environmental problem:
What is the problem?
What are its effects?
What is the solution?
How can it solve the problem?
UNIT 9: TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Target language:
•Discuss things to do on vacation
•Talk about a vacation
•Articles
•The Past Simple and the Past Continuous with while and when
1. Do you like traveling? Why?
2. Where do you want to visit most? Why
3. What was your best or worst vacation? What happened?
4. Have you ever had any bad experiences while traveling? What did you do?
5-6-7. Where do tourists go in your country? What activities do they do? What kind of
places do they stay in?
8. Why do more people choose to go on eco vacations?
9. Talk about an eco resort:
What the resort is called
Where the resort is located
What the rooms are like
What the restaurants are like
What kind of activities guests can do
Why people should stay at the resort
What makes it special
10. Imagine you have a foreign friend who is thinking about visiting Vietnam. Talk about:
What they can do there
Where they can go
What they can eat
Who they can meet
Why they should visit Vietnam
UNIT 10: NEW WAYS TO LEARN
Target language:
•Make predictions about the future of education
•Talk about future learning plans and actions
•Future with be going to and will
1. What's your favorite way to learn English?
2. How does technology help you learn English?
3. What ways of learning do you want to try?
4. What do you think schools will be like in the future?
5. What do you think about learning with a robot teacher/learning in a virtual classroom…?
6. What skills do you think are the most important for different jobs?
7. What do think future jobs will be?
8. What skills do we need for jobs in the future?
9. Do you have any plans this weekend?
10. Talk about a new way to learn:
What it is
What we learn
How we learn
What advantages and disadvantages it has
Why you like it
