Hi everybody it's Professor T these are questions from the IELTS Speaking test
that had been asked in 2017. A very important question that gets asked is
about tourism and visiting a certain place and what are the benefits or
disadvantages for using public transportation and then what are the
benefits or disadvantages to the local people who live in the tourist area. I'm
going to give you an example of an answer that covers all of this this
would be for Parts 2 & 3 on the IELTS Speaking Test. So you asked about
visiting a tourist area. For me I like to go to the seaside because I love to go
swimming. I like to go fishing. I love to eat seafood and it's very relaxing to be
by the seashore with my friends and family. When I go to a tourist area like
that I do use a public transportation I know how much I'm going to pay and I
know when the bus or the metro or other transportation is going to leave and I
know I'll get to the place at a certain time it helps me organize my day so it's
a most efficient and I don't have to worry about driving. The benefits for
people going to a tourist area is more employment for the people who rent out
the hotel rooms or houses that people make and serve the food the people who
help with tours. For every tourist place during the busiest seasons you can have
more pollution from visitors. You can have more traffic and also a lot more
noise in that location but there are benefits and disadvantages for going to
all these places but we love doing it because we do get some relaxation or we
learn something from the place that we go so overall I think it's a good thing
to do as long as you can do it in a way that's environmentally conscious.
So in that answer I used benefits and disadvantages and addressing them you
can do this for many types of questions in the IELTS Speaking Test Parts 2 and
3 where on the one hand and there are advantages and on the other hand
there are disadvantages. That shows you can weigh or think of an argument in
your head or think of the reason and how to analyze something and that will give
you a higher score on the IELTS Remember that many people who go into the IELTS
are very nervous- they are sweating - it's hot and it's very unnatural to sit in
front of a stranger and be asked a lot of very technical questions under a
severe time limit so if you can prepare for the IELTS Speaking Test Parts 2 & 3
especially by thinking on the one hand or on the other in my opinion I
understand that I have heard in my experience you can have all these
phrases and ways of answering the question you'll get a better score it
will sound more fluent and sound more mature and sound more organized and also
it will be more interesting for the IELTS examiner because he or she has to
sit there all day and hear superstars in English and then people who don't know
as much give answers. If you go in and give a great answer like that that's
organized you'll make that person so happy they'll have to give you a higher
band score and then you can go and be successful at school or at work or
living outside of your home country so good luck and study hard and remember
always tell a great story