1.Your Work/Your Studies

　　Do you work or are you a student?

　　1a) Your Work

　　General Description of Job

　　What job do you do?

　　How long have you been working?

　　What does your company do?

　　What do you do in a typical day at work?

　　 What are your responsibilities at work?

　　Feelings about the Job Do you like your job ?

　　Do you prefer your life now, as a working person, to the life you had as a student?

　　Do you think your university education prepared you well for the work you are doing now?

　　Would you say its an easy job?

　　Whats the most difficult part of your job?

　　Would you recommend this job to other people?

　　Working with Others Do you need to work with other people at work?

　　Do you like working with them?

　　Work Tools, Equipment What tools or equipment do you use in your work?

　　Future What are your work plans for the future?

　　Are you planning to change your job?

　　In the future, what changes do you think will take place in your industry?

　　Why are you taking the IELTS test?

　　1b) Your Studies

　　Notes: For high school students or recent high school graduates who have not yet started university, the word school or high school will be used instead of university. If you are no longer a student now and have not yet started to work, the questions will be about the last time you were a student, either high school or university and asked in the past tense.

　　General Description of Studies

　　What subject are you studying?

　　Do you think thats a difficult subject to study?

　　Why did you choose to study that?

　　Do you like your subject?

　　 Whats your favourite subject at school?

　　Study Place Where do you study ?

　　Why did you choose that school/university?

　　What do you think of your school/university?

　　What do you think of the place where you are studying?

　　What is the best thing about your university/school?

　　Length of Time as a Student When did you start this course and when will you finish it?

　　 How long have you been doing this course?

　　 How many years have you spent in school?

　　 What year are you in at school/university?

　　Life as a Student Tell me about your student life.

　　Do you like university life?

　　 How do you like university life?

　　 What part of university life do you like best?

　　In addition to gaining knowledge, what other ways have you benefited from your school/university experience?

　　Study Tools, Equipment, Facilities What study tools do you use?

　　Do you think these tools are useful?

　　What facilities are there at your school/university to help you in your studies?

　　Future Do you think the things you are studying now in school/university will prepare you well for your future work?

　　What are your future work plans?

　　When you start working, do you think you will prefer that to being a student?

　　Why are you taking the IELTS test?

　　What are your future study plans?

　　1.Your Work/Your Studies

　　Do you work or are you a student?

　　1a) Your Work

　　General Description of Job

　　What job do you do?

　　How long have you been working?

　　What does your company do?

　　What do you do in a typical day at work?

　　 What are your responsibilities at work?

　　Feelings about the Job Do you like your job ?

　　Do you prefer your life now, as a working person, to the life you had as a student?

　　Do you think your university education prepared you well for the work you are doing now?

　　Would you say its an easy job?

　　Whats the most difficult part of your job?

　　Would you recommend this job to other people?

　　Working with Others Do you need to work with other people at work?

　　Do you like working with them?

　　Work Tools, Equipment What tools or equipment do you use in your work?

　　Future What are your work plans for the future?

　　Are you planning to change your job?

　　In the future, what changes do you think will take place in your industry?

　　Why are you taking the IELTS test?

　　1b) Your Studies

　　Notes: For high school students or recent high school graduates who have not yet started university, the word school or high school will be used instead of university. If you are no longer a student now and have not yet started to work, the questions will be about the last time you were a student, either high school or university and asked in the past tense.

　　General Description of Studies

　　What subject are you studying?

　　Do you think thats a difficult subject to study?

　　Why did you choose to study that?

　　Do you like your subject?

　　 Whats your favourite subject at school?

　　Study Place Where do you study ?

　　Why did you choose that school/university?

　　What do you think of your school/university?

　　What do you think of the place where you are studying?

　　What is the best thing about your university/school?

　　Length of Time as a Student When did you start this course and when will you finish it?

　　 How long have you been doing this course?

　　 How many years have you spent in school?

　　 What year are you in at school/university?

　　Life as a Student Tell me about your student life.

　　Do you like university life?

　　 How do you like university life?

　　 What part of university life do you like best?

　　In addition to gaining knowledge, what other ways have you benefited from your school/university experience?

　　Study Tools, Equipment, Facilities What study tools do you use?

　　Do you think these tools are useful?

　　What facilities are there at your school/university to help you in your studies?

　　Future Do you think the things you are studying now in school/university will prepare you well for your future work?

　　What are your future work plans?

　　When you start working, do you think you will prefer that to being a student?

　　Why are you taking the IELTS test?

　　What are your future study plans?