IELTS Speaking Part 2 Sample Answer - A Program You Like to Watch

This is a high-scoring sample answer for the following IELTS Speaking Part 2 question: Describe a program you like to watch. Read them to understand what you need to talk about and the kind of answers you need to score well in your IELTS speaking test. For advice, strategies and tips on the best ways to answer (because 2 minutes is very long), this article will help.

IELTS Speaking Part 2 Sample Answer

Describe a program you like to watch

You should say:

What it is

What it is about

Who you watch it with

And explain why you like to watch it

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I like many, many programmes. I’m a bit of a TV addict in some ways. I grew up with the TV, and I believe watching TV as a family is much better than each person looking at their own device. You know, people can laugh together, cry together, and it gives you something to talk about at work the next day often. But the programme I’d like to tell you about is called Westworld, which is in season four now, I think. Westworld is set in the near future and is usually set in a kind of huge theme park in the American West, and it’s basically a real life setup. So you get taken by train into this theme park, given clothes, cowboy clothes. This is a cowboy theme park, a Western kind of theme park, and then you get off the train and there’s all these people. But the thing is, these people are more often than not, robots. And so you have your fellow players if you want, but all the main players are robots. And so it doesn’t matter if it’s things to do with sex or murder, you can shoot somebody, and so on, and it gives these visitors a chance to do the things they always dreamt of doing, but they can’t. And so what happens, sorry spoiler alert. But what happens is some of these robots become too conscious, too sentient, and so they start to revolt against the place.

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Speaking Analysis

This is my opinion of the above answer. The answer was given as in a test, with minimal preparation time.

Good introduction, setting the context, but maybe a little long in this question.

Good introduction to the program with the title and its setting.

Coherence could have been better in the next part about arriving at the theme park and what happens there.

A brief description which may spoil the program for someone who hasn’t seen it.

Less Common and Idiomatic Vocabulary

TV addict – I can’t stop watching TV
I grew up with the TV – As TV was becoming more advanced, I was growing up
season 4 – the fourth series of this program
set in – the period of time the program relates to
near future – within the next 20 years
kind of – more or less
theme park – a park designed and organised around a main theme, such as sealife, amusement or adventure
basically – simply
a real life set up – it looks real
cowboy – a person, usually on horseback, who manages cows
Western – a movie, book or film about when the west of America was taken over by white people
murder – the deliberate killing of one human by another
shoot – to kill or injure someone by a bullet (from a gun) or an arrow
things they always dreamt of doing – people’s dreams, such as becoming successful, being a star, having a beautiful wife or husband, becoming rich
spoiler alert – don’t listen if you want to watch the program yourself
conscious – aware of what is happening around you
sentient – able to perceive or feel things
revolt – rebel / violent action against an established government or ruler