hi there it's asiya you know what's interesting three times more people
search for ielts speaking part one than part three however part three with longer answers
and more difficult topics arguably affects your score more than part one in this video let's talk
about some of the more challenging or unexpected topics you may get in part three i'll show you
my sample answers and give you some ideas and vocabulary for your answers okay let's get started
the first topic is robots
do you think certain jobs done by humans will be replaced by robots in the future
i think many of the jobs we do today will be done by robots and it's only a matter of time before it
happens repetitive manual jobs will be the first to go as technology develops more jobs will follow
in part 3 examiners encourage you to give quite long extended answers and they ask you questions
based on what you say in your answers they aren't reading them from the list like in part one let's
have a look at some vocabulary first of all when you're talking about robots it's common to compare
them to humans to highlight this difference between us and them but you can also use the word
people it's only a matter of time or it's just a matter of time before something happens
this is a common idiom used to say that something will definitely happen but you're not sure when
if a job is repetitive it means that someone repeats the same operation
over and over and menu means done by hand or involving physical strength
the next question is is it a good thing that robots will do certain jobs instead of humans
in this question the examiner asks for your opinion is it a good thing or is it a bad thing
unlike ielts writing where your position must be very clear in speaking it's quite natural to
take a position that is not too extreme there are pros and cons on the one hand robots cannot place
people working in hazardous environments for example with chemicals or explosives
they can also relieve people from physically exhausting and down jobs on the other hand
those who lose their jobs to robots will need to be retrained with new skills in order to be able
to find other jobs when you take a position in the middle you can talk about both sides positives and
negatives which means that it's easier to find ideas and you can refer to them as pros and cons
the whole phrase there are pros and cons is quite common to present both sides you can
use on the one hand and on the other hand we use these linkers in ielts writing but they're great
for ielts speaking too the next question is are there any jobs that cannot be replaced by robots
if you get this question you could talk about two areas creativity and emotions here's my answer
i believe that robots can't do any sort of creative work like making movies
writing ads or filming educational videos they're also not very good at understanding or responding
to human emotions so jobs that require any sort of negotiations such as evantagonizing or pr are safe
however a lot of other jobs are more susceptible to automation to be good at is to do something
very well and in english it's common to say that someone is not very good at doing something
and don't forget to add ing to your verb to be good at playing tennis robots are not very good
at understanding emotions to be susceptible is likely to be influenced or affected by something
he's susceptible to stress it means he can't handle stressful situations well or these jobs are
susceptible to automation which means they will be lost to robots the next topic is self-driving
cars or cars that don't require driver so many companies are working on them today that it was
only a matter of time before this topic appeared in the ielts exams you can refer to these cars
as self-driving driverless meaning without a driver or autonomous the first question is
do you think in the future all cars will be autonomous and will not need a driver
if the examiner thinks that you may not know a certain word or may not understand it straight
away they may explain it to you just like i did in this question however if they don't in part three
you can ask what a certain word means or you can ask to paraphrase the whole question here is my
answer eventually all cars will be driverless but i don't believe it's going to happen anytime soon
today a number of companies are testing safe driving cars and those cars are not yet able
to handle all situations correctly actually some of them have gotten into accidents despite having
test drivers behind the wheel that's why it's more likely that in the near future i will see
more driver assist functions such as emergency braking but not a full self-driving mode yet
let's have a look at the verb tenses in the first sentence all cars will be autonomous this is my
forecast or my prediction so i use the future simple tense and i don't know the exact date
however in the second part i'm talking about the time that is coming soon
and it's not going to happen anytime soon so this is a plan so i have to use to be going to phrase
and not the future simple actually you can use this linker to add something surprising
actually i quite enjoyed the party it means you expected to have terrible time but you
were wrong so don't say that to the host you can also use it to politely disagree with the examiner
do you often read newspapers actually i prefer to get my news online this is why is a linker we
commonly use using speaking instead of the more formal their form next are there any advantages
of having a self-driving car over a regular car well the main advantage is that these cars
should eliminate human errors most accidents today happen because at least one of the drivers is at
fault and robots won't be susceptible to speeding or drink driving another advantage is that anyone
will be able to use autonomous cars including younger and older people who don't drive human
errors are mistakes done by humans for example if someone gets distracted or makes a wrong decision
so robots don't make human errors and when someone is at fault they are responsible for something bad
a driver is at fault do you remember what to be susceptible means it means to be likely
to be affected speeding is driving too fast and drink driving is driving after drinking alcohol
in the uk it's called drink driving and in the u.s it's drunk driving
are there any problems that could be associated with driverless cars
i can see quite a few first of all there is a danger that the computer malfunctions or is hacked
and the car could get into an accident and because many people may be wary of riding
in a car they can't control i'm not sure how quickly driverless cars may become mainstream
another point is the price all the technology required for autonomous driving will likely make
these cars much more expensive than regular cars thus limiting the number of people who can afford
to buy them quite a few actually means a lot more than enough first of all and another point is
are the two linkers are used to introduce their problems ielts examiners check if you link ideas
together so you should definitely use some linking words in your answers but avoid using firstly or
first secondly and so on they sound too formal instead say first of all or another problem is the
next topic is fake news these are false reports of events that are usually spread on the internet
so let's talk about the word news is it singular or plural news is or news are well news is the
noun news is singular and uncountable just like water or snow if you want to refer to a particular
story say a piece of news the question is has the way we get our news changed in the last 20 years
absolutely in the past people used to get their news from printed newspapers radio
tv we still watch tv today but newspapers and radio are much less popular instead a lot of
people read news online either on news websites or on social media when you want to agree with
the question you can say yes it has but it's also very common to say absolutely or definitely
used to get their news used to means that something was true in the past but it's not true
anymore i used to play tennis means i don't play anymore next do you think that everything we read
online is true you may be asked about things you read online or in the newspapers and your examiner
may not necessarily use the words fake news but that's what the question is about my answer is
definitely not you can use definitely to agree and definitely not to disagree it really depends on
the source of news all the major news agencies or tv channels have websites where they publish news
and those are as reliable as we can get however a lot of news spread via unknown websites or social
media is completely fake as reliable as we can get so this means that there are no other news sources
that we can trust more and this is a great expression because you can change it to
to your situation for example how's your health as good as it gets it means that i never feel
myself better these days or this flat is as quiet as you can get in central london
and just to remind you that news is a lot of these news is fake next how can someone determine if
a piece of news is fake or not it's important to check the source of the news and look for articles
published by large newspapers or official sources such as government websites of course we know that
some governments and media channels spread misinformation but generally speaking such
sources are more reliable than posts and pictures shared on social media
if you are talking about news that are not true you can say that someone spreads misinformation
generally speaking means that what you say is generally true or in most cases
it's true generally speaking the more you pay the more you get as i mentioned
part 3 is a discussion and your examiner asks you questions based on your answers
they have topics but not precise questions however in parts 1 and 2 examiners give you
questions from their database and i've made a pdf list of questions reported in ielts speaking
and writing recently and you can download it on our telegram channel i'll leave the link
below and thank you so much for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam bye