Hi everyone!!! Are you supremely confident with the basic
words of topic Food & Cooking in IELTS that I’ve given to you in the previous video?
Today, we’ll move to the IELTS Speaking mock test with Food & Cooking topic to understand
how to use these words and samples. Now, let’s begin!!!
Examiner: Good morning, what’s your full name, please?
Candidate: My full name is Kaisy Nguyen. E: Could you please give me your ID card?
C: Here it is. E: Nice to meet you, my name is…, and I
come from… I’ll begin by asking you some questions
about yourself. Candidate: Yeap.
E: What kinds of food do you like best? C: Pears are my favorite fruit as they remind
me of my childhood. E: Do you like snacks?
C: I don’t think that eating snack is good for my health, and that’s why I’m not
a fan of it. E: How well do you cook?
C: Actually, I make dinner for my family every day so I’m quite confident with my cooking
skill. E: What is your idea of a perfect meal?
C: I prefer a meal providing a range of health benefits. I suppose that it’s good to eat
rice with some boiled or fried vegetables and some tasty meat.
E: Thank you very much. Let’s move on cue card topic. Here’s the question:
I’d like you
to speak on this topic in 2 minutes. Before that, you have 1 minute to prepare. And here’s
some paper and pen for you to make some notes if you wish.
Well, could you please begin.
When I’m talking about food and cooking, especially about someone who is good at this,
I immediately think about my elder brother, a well-known chef with a great number of delicious
fish recipes. Moreover, I have to say that he is a gifted cook, even when we were little.
He always knows how to make different and tasty foods from normal ingredients.
When we were young, my brother usually stayed in the kitchen and learned the cooking from
my mother. Day after day, he was in charge of cooking for my family every day and he
loved to do it. When he grew up, instead of going to the university, he decided to work
in the kitchen of the hotels and restaurants to get more experience and improve his cooking
skill, which made my parents very sad. However, by now, he is a restaurant owner and a chef
as well. Fortunately, his restaurant is one of the most famous restaurants in my city
and we’re so proud of him. Looking at his cooking makes me a feeling
that we can make everything comes food. For examples, I don’t like Indian and Thai food
because they are pretty hot and spicy, but my brother always finds out the way to make
them delicious by adding my favorite fruits such as avocado, mushroom and avoid using
peppers. In addition, he’s good at making us fat by making many incredible big creamy
cakes. Besides, he can also make Chinese, Japanese foods even he has never traveled
to those countries nor has taken any training on making those foods. It will always be a
puzzle to me. Maybe, every success comes from passion and effort.
E: Thank you very much. Let’s move on to discussion topic related
to the food. E: Is food in an expensive restaurant always
better than food in a cheap restaurant? C: Well, in my opinion, I just partly agree
with this statement because there are many cheap restaurants that are extremely popular,
especially restaurants of traditional foods. Moreover, I suppose that food is good or bad,
it depends more on the chef, service or the taste of the customer. However, I highly appreciate
the quality of ingredients and decoration in the expensive restaurants.
E: Which do you think are more popular in your country, traditional restaurants or fast
food restaurants? Why do you think that is? C: In my country, most of the people prefer
traditional foods to fast foods, as a result, there is more and more great and famous traditional
restaurant appears. In contrast, it’s difficult for people to find out the well-known branches
of fast food such as KFC or Burger King in my country. These restaurants just locate
in shopping centers and they are never as crowded as traditional restaurants.
E: What effects has modern technology had on the way food is produced?
C: This is an interesting question! From my point of view, technology is making an amazing
change in human lives in general and in the way of cooking in particular. In detail, thanks
to technology, we have more and more equipment for easier and faster cooking, such as food
mixer, egg beater. Besides, we definitely can find out the best recipe for cooking just
by a click. Notably, technology plays an important role in discovering the benefits of many types
of food, which leading to the decision of choosing good ingredients and foods. Therefore,
people know how to eat well and live well. E: How important is it for a country to grow
all the food it needs, without importing any from other countries?
C: Well, in my opinion, if a country can grow enough food for its own consumption, it’s
absolutely great because it can save a large amount of money from importing some types
of foods with a priceless price. Moreover, it’s easier to run and control the way of
making or the quality of foods. Additionally, it also can solve the problems of human resources
and job-lost. E: Thank you very much. It’s the end of
our test.