Hi everybody is Professor T! This is an IELTS Speaking Test question that's been
on the IELTS in 2017. They do change the subjects and topics from time to time to
keep things fresh so here's one that's been asked recently describe an
interesting neighbor and what makes a neighbor interesting and what kind of
neighbor are you to your neighbors so it's all about how we interact with
people who are our neighbors and here's an example of how you could answer those
three questions I have a neighbor who's from England so we're from a different
country he speaks the same language as me but in a very different way so at
first we weren't really good friends because there's some competition between
America my country and England but we become friends over time and we share
more things we do like to joke around about the difference in our accents the
difference in sports and politics but it's light-hearted and fun as I got to
know this guy I learned that he liked to read so I gave him some books that I
thought would be interesting to him plus he has an interesting story since he was
a professional soldier and traveled all over the world and he did a lot of
humanitarian work as well so I tried to be a good neighbor by not making too
much noise but also in helping find out what someone else needs and helping them
do it I helped this guy with his garden some times and so if I go to town and
buy some special snacks I bring them over for he and his wife just to be
friendly and neighborly those kind of things make a good neighbour so I think
I'm a good neighbor because I try hard to be respectful and I found things that
we have in common and by being conscientious so that kind
of answer covers what is a good neighbor and how you interact with your neighbors
in your hometown your neighbor might be a family you
for a long time or it may be someone new to the neighborhood you can describe
somebody in the neighborhood that's interesting maybe there's an older
person who has had a lot of experience in some type of business
maybe there's a cute little kid in your neighborhood that you like to see grow
up or you have fun with maybe your neighbors are your best friends or your
cousins that you've known for a long time so there's always someone to talk
about who's in neighbor well maybe you don't really know your neighbors some
people live in apartment buildings and they don't really know their neighbors
because they only see them on the hallway so you can describe something
like that and then describe the characteristics of what a good neighbor
is and what a bad neighbor is and we know how to be a good neighbor don't
steal anything don't don't borrow a guy's car without
permission and try to be respectful in terms of noise and so on so that's a
good answer for the IELTS - the questions are changed from time to time
to make it more interesting for the IELTS examiner's and also to prevent
people from preparing too much for the IELTS by memorizing an answer. What you
want to do is while you're listening to the question take down some notes of
advantages and disadvantages what you do and what you don't do and then when
you're giving your reply to the question you'll have a very organized way of
delivering a great answer that explains about your life and that's the most
interesting thing for an IELTS examiner is to learn about someone else's life
and to hear a story that's well organized and well told. So I wish you
good luck, study hard and tell a great story on the IELTS!