IELTS: Speaking and Listening Practice for Beginners

Practice asking these daily life questions again and again (and again) for speaking practice and fluency. 
You can also ask others these questions. Answering in a complete sentence would be helpful and even writing down some of the questions and answers would be good practice.

Present verb tense
1. How do you spell your name?
2. How do you spell 'Luxemburg'?
3. Where are you from? How do you spell it?
4. What is your address?
5. What is your phone number?
6. What time is it?
7. Where do you work?
8. When do you usually work?
9. What do you do there?
10. What do you do every day? (What is your normal schedule?)
11. What do you do on the weekends? (In your free time?)
12. Do you like your work? Why?
13. Do you like Charlottesville? Why?
14. What is your favorite food? What's in it?
15. Do you have a driver's license? When does it expire?
16. What time do you usually go to bed?
17. What time do you usually wake up?
18. What is your wife/husband's name?
19. How many children do you have? What are their names and birthdays?
20. Where do they go to school?

Present Progressive (Present Continuous)
1. What are you doing now?
2. What are we doing now?
3. What am I doing now? (tutor asks repeatedly while doing different things)
4. What are you wearing?
5. What am I wearing?
6. What are you thinking about?
7. What is your (husband/wife/mother/son/daughter…)maybe doing right now?
8. What are they doing? (Use various kinds of pictures for this.)

Past Tense
1. When were you born?
2. Where were you born?
3. When did you come here today?
4. When did you come to the United States/Charlottesville?
5. What work did you do in your country?
6. What time did you go to bed last night?
7. What time did you wake up this morning?
8. What did you eat this morning?
9. What did you eat last night?
10. What was the name of the last movie or TV show you watched?
11. What did you do yesterday? Last night? Last weekend? This morning?

Sentence Stems
Adapted from 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom by John Seidlitz and Bill Perryman

Purpose - Stem
Accessing Prior Knowledge
 I already know…
 ___________ reminds me of…
 My experience with…
 I would like to know more about…
 I would compare __________ to __________ because…
 Discussing __________ made me consider…

Sharing
 I feel…
 In my opinion…
 I predict that…
 I agree/disagree that…
 My view on the matter is ____________ because…
 My initial reaction is ____________ because…

Elaborating
 _______________ is important because…
 I chose ____________ because…
 The answer might also be __________ because…
 I would agree or disagree with __________ because…
 Another reason could be…
 I would add _______________ because…

Justifying
 I think ___________ because…
 I agree/disagree with ___________ because…..
 ______________ proves that …
 Another idea might be ___________ because…
 I was thinking that ___________ should be…
 ____________ supports the idea that…

Summarizing
 I learned…
 Today I realized…
 I still wonder…
 The most significant thing I learned today was…
 I would summarize my learning by saying…
 My initial thought was _________ and now I am thinking _________ because…

English Speaking and Listening Test
Directions: You should be able to answer the questions at the level you last tested into, all those before it and the next level up that you will hopefully test into. Get enough practice so that you answer with good grammar and pronunciation. You can even write down some of the answers for writing practice.

Level 0-1, Emergent Speaking and Listening Review
1. Where are you from?
2. What city do you live in now?
3. When is your birthday?
4. How old are you?
5. Are you married or single?
6. How many children to you have?
7. How do you spell your last name?
8. What is the date today?
9. What do you like about Charlottesville?
10. What is your favorite food?

Level 2, Low Beginning Speaking and Listening Review
1. What is your address?
2. What time do you usually go to bed at night?
3. What is the date today?
4. What do you do every day?
5. Where do you work?
6. How much time does it take you to get to work?
7. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
8. Tell me about one person in your family.
9. How do you spell 'Charlottesville'?
10. What do you like about Charlottesville?

Level 3, High Beginning Speaking and Listening Review
1. What do you do every day?
2. What is your favorite holiday?
3. What are we doing now?
4. What do you like to do in your free time?
5. Tell me about the house/apartment that you live in now.
6. Tell me about someone in your family.
7. When were you born?
8. When did you come to the United States?
9. Why did you come to the United States?
10. What do you like about living in Charlottesville?

Level 4, Low Intermediate Speaking and Listening Review
1. When is your birthday?
2. Tell me about some things you do every day?
3. How long have you been in the United States?
4. Why did you come to the United States?
5. What do you like about living in Charlottesville?
6. What is your favorite holiday?
7. What is your favorite food? Tell me about it.
8. Tell me about someone in your family?
9. Where do you like to go shopping? Why?
10. What kind of clothes do you like to wear?

Level 5, High Intermediate Speaking and Listening Review
1. How long have you been in the United States?
2. Do you like it here? Explain.
3. Tell me about your last job. Why did you leave?
4. Compare housing in your country to where you've lived in Charlottesville?
5. What was school like for you in your country?
6. What is your opinion on the government in your country?
7. What do you think about the TV shows in this country?
8. What do you think about the health care system in this country?
9. Tell me about your last vacation.
10. What are you planning to do this weekend?

Level 6, Low Advanced Speaking and Listening Review
1. How long have you been in the United States?
2. Will you go back to your country? If yes, when?
3. Tell me about a few different jobs you've had.
4. What do you think about the TV shows in this country?
5. Do you think the public transportation in Cville is good? Why or why not?
6. What is your opinion of the government in your country?
7. What do you think about the health care system in this country? Is it similar or different to where you are from?
8. Do you think Charlottesville is a safe place to live? Explain.
9. Tell me about some things you like to do in this community.
10. What would you like to be doing 5 years from now?