【パート3】質問集

本レッスンでは、IELTSのスピーキングパート3で質問される内容をまとめました。

学習をする時は以下の手順で行います。

1. 質問に対して「主張」「理由」「論拠」の3点セットで回答を考える
2. 回答を録音する
3. 録音した音声を聞いて改善できるポイントを分析する

パート3は抽象度の高い質問が中心なので、当然のことながら「分からない」という回答でも問題ありません。

しかし、「分からない」と答えた後に必ず「なぜ分からないのか」という理由を明確に述べることを忘れないようにしましょう。

また、英語で回答を考えるだけでなく、日本語でも日常的に質問にどう答えるべきかを考えておき、意見を述べることに慣れておきましょう。

スピーキングパート3 質問集

Advertising

1. How do advertisements attract attention?
2. Do young and old people have the same attitudes towards advertisements?
3. Do you think advertisements are a good or bad influence on children?
4. Do you think advertisements actually influence people to buy tilings? And How?

Art

1. What kind of art do you enjoy?
2. What are the tradition art forms in your country?
3. What makes a good painting?
4. Do you think children should study art at school?
5. How can children benefit from learning art?
6. How has art changed in the last few decades in your country?
7. Describe the general purpose of art. And explain why people enjoy it?
8. Do you think that art is as important as academic subjects when it comes to educating children?
9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of art education?
10. Why do you think some people enjoy looking at paintings and sculptures and others do not?
11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being an artist?
12. Do you think that some people are naturally better artists than others?

Book

1. What are the most popular types of children’s books in your country?
2. What are the benefits of parents reading books to their children?
3. Should parents always let children choose the books they read?
4. How popular are electronic books in your country?
5. What are the advantages of parents reading electronic books (compared to printed books)?
6. Will electronic books ever completely replace printed books in the future?

Choice

1. What kind of choices do people have to make in their everyday life?
2. Why do some people choose to do the same things every day? Are there any disadvantages in this?
3. Do you think that people today have more choices to make than in the past?

Choosing Work

1. What kinds of jobs do young people not want to do in your country?
2. Who is best at advising young people about choosing a job: teachers or parents?
3. Is money always the most important thing when choosing a job?

Clothes

1. Can clothing tell you much about a person?
2. Why do some companies ask their staff to wear uniforms?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having uniforms at
4. work?
5. When do people wear traditional clothing in your country?
6. How have clothes fashions change in your country over the last few decades?
7. What is the difference between clothes that young people and old people like to wear?

Communication

1. Which communication skills are most important when taking part in meetings with colleagues?
2. What are the possible effects of poor written communication skills at work?
3. What do you think will be the future impact of technology on communication in the workplace?

Creativity

1. What creative activities did you like to do when you were young?
2. Why do people like to copy others’ ideas these days?
3. What’s the best way to cultivate children’s creativity?
4. Do you think creativity can be learned?

Decision Making

1. Why do some people find it hard to make decisions?
2. How important is it to get advice from other people when making decisions?
3. Why is it sometimes difficult to accept advice?
4. What are some of the most important decisions young people have to make?
5. Do you agree that parents should make important decisions for their children?
6. Is it better to make a decision thinking about what you want or thinking about what other people want?

Discussion

1. Why is it good to discuss problems with other people?
2. Do you think that it’s better to talk to friends and not family about problems? Why?
3. Is it always a good idea to tell lots of people about our problems?

Eating Habit

1. Tell me about the types of food that people eat in your country.
2. How are the eating habits now in your country different from eating habits in the past?
3. How healthy is your country’s food?
4. Why do you think different cultures have different table manners?
5. How may eating habits change in the coming decades?
6. What one aspect of a foreign tradition you like about their eating habits? Why?

Education

1. What makes a good student?
2. What role should the teacher have in the classroom?
3. Do you think computers will one day replace teachers in the classroom?
4. How has teaching changed in your country in the last few decades?
5. What is the difference between the way children learn and the way adults learn?
6. How can a teacher make lessons for children more interesting?

Family

1. Is family important in your country?
2. How has the size of families changed in the last few decades in your country?
3. How do you think families will change in the future?
4. How do you think families will change in the future?
5. Who do you think should be responsible for the care of the elderly, the family or the government?

Famous Person

1. Do you think that famous people are generally happier than ordinary people?
2. What qualities does a person need to have in order to be famous?
3. Is it easier or more difficult to achieve fame today than in your grandparents’ time?
4. Describe the ways that famous people influence the public.
5. Do you think more is expected from famous people than ordinary citizens?
6. What types of people become famous in your country? Do you want to be famous?

Festival

1. Why do you think festivals are important events in the working year?
2. Would you agree that the original significance of festivals is often lost today? Is it good or bad, do you think?
3. Do you think that new festivals will be introduced in the future? What kind?
4. What role does the media play in festivals, do you think?
5. Do you think it’s good or bad to watch festivals on TV? [Why?]
6. How may globalization affect different festivals around the world?

Food

1. Do you think diet is important? What is a balanced diet?
2. What is the typical diet of people in your country?
3. Do many people eat in restaurants in your country?
4. Why do some people enjoy eating out?
5. What’s the difference between restaurant food and home-cooked food?

Generation Gap

1. Why do some young people dislike living with old people?
2. What are the advantages of living with old people?
3. What are the causes of the generation gap?
4. What’s the difference between teenagers and children?

Gender Role

1. Is it possible for women to join the army in your country?
2. In your country are the responsibilities of a mother the same as the responsibilities of a father to their families?
3. What are the responsibilities of a father/mother in a family?

Health

1. What do most people do to keep fit in your country?
2. How important is it for people to do some regular physical exercise?
3. Why so many people these days suffer from stress-related issues?
4. Why do some people think that modern lifestyles are not healthy?
5. Why do some people choose to lead unhealthy lives?
6. Should individuals or governments be responsible for making people’s lifestyles healthy?
7. What could be done to encourage people to live in a healthy way?

Help

1. Do you think people are less willing to help others these days compared to the past?
2. Do people today trust others as much as they used to in the past?
3. Let’s move on to the topic of educating children to help people. In your view, should children be taught to help others?
4. How do people in your community help each other?

Helping Others

1. What are some of the ways people can help others in the community?
2. Why do you think some people like to help other people?
3. Some people say that people help others in the community now more
4. than they did in the past. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
5. What types of services, such as libraries or health centers, are available to the people who live in your area? Do you think there are enough of them?
6. Which groups of people generally need the most support in a community? Why?
7. Who do you think should pay for the services that are available to the people in a community? Should it be the government or individual people?

Holiday

1. Why do you think people go on holiday?
2. How important is it for families to go on holiday together?
3. Why do some people go on holiday alone?
4. What kind of holidays will be popular in the future?
5. Is it better to take a holiday in your own country or in a foreign country? Why?
6. What problems can people have on holiday in a foreign country?

Home

1. Why do some people buy lots of things for their homes?
2. Do you think it is very expensive to make a home look nice?
3. Why don’t some people care about how their home looks?
4. In what ways is living in a flat/apartment better than living in a house?
5. Do you think homes will look different in the future?
6. Do you agree that the kinds of homes people prefer change as they get older?

Important Choice

1. What are the typical choices people make at different stages of their lives?
2. Should important choices be made by parents rather than by young adults?
3. Why do some people like to discuss choices with other people?

Internet

1. Why do some people find the internet addictive?
2. What would the world be like without the internet?
3. Do you think that the way people use the internet may change in the future?
4. What are the ways that social media can be used for positive purposes?
5. Why do some individuals post highly negative comments about other people on social media?
6. Do you think that companies’ main form of advertising will be via social media in the future?
7. What are some of the different reasons why people use the Internet?
8. Some people say that different age groups have different tastes in Internet content. What do you think?
9. What influences can (or, does) the Internet has on children/teenagers?
10. Do you think parents should control what Internet sites their children visit on the Internet?

Leadership

1. Can leadership skills be taught?
2. Do some people are born to be leaders?
3. What should a leader do to remain popular?
4. Why are elected politicians often so unpopular?

Life Experience

1. What can people learn from mistakes?
2. Can mistakes help people to be more successful?
3. How can people avoid making mistakes?
4. What’s the best way to gain experience in life?
5. Do you agree that we learn best from our mistakes?

Money

1. Is money important to you?
2. What is the relationship between money and power?
3. Let’s move on to teaching children about money. How do you think parents can teach the value of money to their children?
4. Do you think it is important to teach children money skills?

Parenting

1. For parents, what is important when bringing up their children?
2. Do you think mothers and fathers have different roles to play in bringing up a child?
3. Let’s move on to the education of children. Do you think hitting children is sometimes necessary for discipline?
4. Do you think sweets are a good thing to reward children with?

Plan

1. Which do you prefer? Having plans or having no plans?
2. In general, do you think planning is important?
3. Why do people make plans?

Pollution

1. Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government? Explain.
2. Do you know about any anti-pollution programs in your community?
3. What types of energy are popular in your native country?
4. What are some ways energy is wasted?

Products

1. What kinds of products are mostly imported into your country?
2. In your opinion, why do some people like to buy imported products?
3. Let’s move on to local products. What are some famous local products in your country?
4. Do you think a country should make everything it needs or import some things?

Retirement

1. When should people start saving for retirement?
2. At what age should people retire from work?
3. What problems can people face after retirement?
4. How important are retirees to your country’s economy?

Rule

1. Why do we have rules in society?
2. Do you think it’s necessary to set up rules about overworking people?
3. What are some examples of rules that exist in many families?
4. What are some rules that exist in schools or workplaces in your country?

Shopping Online

1. What kinds of things do people in your country often buy from online shops?
2. Why has online shopping become so popular in many countries?
3. What are some possible disadvantages of buying things from online shops?
4. Do you agree that the prices of all goods should be lower on internet shopping sites than in shops?
5. Will large shopping malls continue to be popular, despite the growth of internet shopping?
6. Do you think that some businesses (e.g. banks and travel agents) will only operate online in the future?

Social Network

1. What social network do people in your country usually use?
2. What are some good points about social networking?
3. What are some bad points about social networking?
4. What type of information should you put on social networking sites?

Social Problem

1. What social problems are there in your country?
2. What about poverty? What can be done to alleviate poverty?
3. Are there any charities in your country?
4. Let’s move on to talk about the overpopulation problem. Why do so many people move to live in cities?

Technology

1. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of modern technology.
2. In what ways has technology changed your society?
3. How has technology changed the way we communicate?
4. How has technology changed the nature of long-distance relationships?
5. What are the limitations of technology when it comes to interpersonal relationships?
6. How could technology be considered a hindrance for us? Can we overcome it?

Technology

1. What is the most common technology used by people in your country, and the second-most?
2. Are there any other places that need technology?
3. Does it possible to live without technology?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology?

Technology & Education

1. What is the best age for children to start computer lessons?
2. Do you think that schools should use more technology to help children learn?
3. Do you agree or disagree that computers will replace teachers one day?
4. How much has technology improved how we communicate with each other?
5. Do you agree that there are still many more major technological innovations to be made?
6. Could you suggest some reasons why some people are deciding to reduce their use of technology?

Things

1. What kinds of possessions are considered high-status to people in your country?
2. Were different possessions thought of as valuable in the past?
3. Why do you think people need to show their status in society?
4. Do you think advertising influences what people buy?

Tourism

1. What kinds of places are more popular among tourists in your country?
2. Why do people travel to different tourist spots?
3. Is the number of tourists worldwide increasing? Why/Why not?
4. How has the tourism sector in your country attracted more international tourists?
5. Will your country and people benefit from more international tourists? How?
6. Is there any negative influence that international tourists have on local people? Why is that so?

Transportation

1. How do most people travel long distances in your country?
2. Have the types of transport people use changed much over the last few decades?
3. What kind of improvement have there been in transport in your country in recent years?
4. Do you think transport is likely to continue to improve in the future?
5. Do you think most people should use public transports? Why/ why not?
6. Why some countries impose higher taxes on car ownership? How is the scenario in your country?

TV

1. What are the most popular kinds of TV programs in your country? Why is this?
2. Do you think there are too many game shows on TV nowadays? Why?
3. Do you think TV is the main way for people to get the news in your country? What other ways are there?
4. What types of products are advertised most often on TV?
5. Do you think that people pay attention to adverts on TV? Why do you think that is?
6. How important are regulations on TV advertising?

Weather

1. What types of weather do people in your country dislike most? Why is that?
2. What jobs can be affected by different weather conditions? Why?
   Are there any important festivals in your country that celebrate a season or type of weather?
3. How important do you think it is for everyone to check what the next day’s weather will be? Why?
4. What is the best way to get accurate information about the weather?
   How easy or difficult is it to predict the weather in your country? Why is that?

Work

1. Do you think job satisfaction is more important than salary when choosing a job?
2. What skills do you think are needed to get a good job these days?
3. Do you think women should be able to do all the same jobs that men do?
4. How has technology changed the way we work?
5. What is the difference between white-collar and blue-collar jobs?
6. What jobs do you think are most valuable to society?

Work-Life Balance

1. Do you agree that many people nowadays are under pressure to work longer hours and take fewer holidays?
2. What is the impact on society of people having a poor work-life balance?
3. Could you recommend some effective strategies for governments and employers to ensure people have a good work-life balance?