- What is your full name?
My name is (name)_(surname).
- Can I see your ID?
Yes sure!
- Where are you from?
I'm from Ahmedabad. It is the biggest
city of the state of Gujarat.
- Do you work or study?
I’m working as a software engineer in a private firm
called Paragon Softwares.
- Describe your job, please.
I’m in charge of handling all the
queries related to the malfunction of our company’s accounting software that
has been installed in systems of various offices across India. I do not speak
to the clients directly; our customer service executive does that, and those
leads are forwarded to me where I give a backend solution and inform the
customer representative about the status of the complaint or query.
- Where were you born?
I was born in Mumbai, in Maharashtra.
That is where my mother’s family resides.
- Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Ahmedabad. My mother married and came here, where my father had settled. So two months after I was born, I came to Ahmedabad and have been living here since.
I grew up in Ahmedabad. My mother married and came here, where my father had settled. So two months after I was born, I came to Ahmedabad and have been living here since.
- Do you think it was a good place to grow up? Why?
Yes definitely! Ahmedabad is ranked as
one of the safest cities of our country, and the harmony among the people is
admirable. It is a small city, compared to other metros in our country, but since
the last decade it is growing to be a mega city.
- Do people of your country use social media?
Yes most of the people in India use
social applications like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and the like. People in
India are very techno savvy I feel, and they love to try out any new innovation
in the market, in terms of technology I mean.
- How do you use social media?
I am a regular user of Facebook,
Whatsapp and Instagram. The first one is a site where I can connect with old
friends and new, share the happenings of my life and see theirs, and come
across other such related news feeds regarding people I know. Whatsapp and
Instagram are mobile applications, the former one being a free messaging and
calling app, that I use the most out of all the three, to communicate with my
friends on a daily basis. The latter one is an app where people post only
photographs, maybe of themselves or something they find worth sharing. That is
a fun app too.
- Will you change your involvement with social media in the future?
Yes I think so. Right now I use social
media whenever I’m free, but I think as I’ll grow career-wise, my free time
will reduce, and even in the little that I would have, I would probably want to
do something productive. So yeah I feel my involvement with social media wold change
in the future.
- What do you prefer - hand-writing or
typing on a computer? Why?
I love to write! So obviously I prefer
writing by hand. I think typing becomes more of a droning activity whereas in
writing by hand you can get excited when using new stationery or when you write
in creative handwriting. Atleast, that’s what I feel so yeah…I prefer writing
by hand.
- Do you think good handwriting is important? Why?
Yes it is! I feel it is a mark of a
good, trained personality. When I see someone having bad handwriting I
immediately judge them to be lazy and don’t-carish, as I feel someone who has a
good handwriting will have had the perseverance to have done the same, and the
one with bad handwriting would have not.
Cue Card
Talk about a street that you like the most. Please say
- What is this street and where is it located?
- Why do you like it?
- How did it influence your life?
- Why do you like it?
- How did it influence your life?
I would like to talk about a street
called Law Garden road in my city, Ahmedabad. This street is located around a
very famous garden in my city, which is named Law Garden….hence, the street’s
name. There are two adjoining streets actually, one is totally laden with
roadside shops of clothes, footwear, accessories and stuff, and the other one
is a roadside eating hub, where around 50 alfresco settlements are established,
selling numerous cuisines. The shopping area of this street is very vibrant and
colourful and a lot of hustle-bustle can be seen on that street. Young girls,
women, mothers with children, and with family, all come to shop here. There are
a few people selling clay idols for home décor, which are very aesthetic and
reasonable to buy. The shopkeepers here are also settled here since 20-30 years
so this is a reliable source for shopping for people. Generally the shoppers
visit the street in the evening at around 5 pm, shop for some hours, and then
hit the eating street with their families, and spend a gala time there.
Overall, a day spent here can prove to be an enjoyable one.
Discussion
- How often do you walk on this street?
Not walk, but I drive through this street everyday. It is my daily route for my office. I go here to shop once in 4 months, but for eating, once a week.
Not walk, but I drive through this street everyday. It is my daily route for my office. I go here to shop once in 4 months, but for eating, once a week.
- Do you think that roads and streets of your city are attractive?
Why?
Yes they are! They are wide and clean,
and there are bushes planted on either side of almost all the roads. There are
some streets where the walls have been graffitied and painted by art students in
a very creative manner. These streets look very unique.
- What do you think about the safety on
roads in your city?
Some five years ago I could’ve said that road safety was an issue that the people of my city didn’t worry about. But now there are a lot of cases of road rage where the drivers are very impatient and drive rashly without any considerations. I can say that at present, road safety is a big issue that people need to take seriously.
Some five years ago I could’ve said that road safety was an issue that the people of my city didn’t worry about. But now there are a lot of cases of road rage where the drivers are very impatient and drive rashly without any considerations. I can say that at present, road safety is a big issue that people need to take seriously.
- Do you think location of shops and businesses is important in
the city? Why?
Yes, shops and business need to be located in areas that are conducive to their trade, otherwise they won’t flourish and earn money. For example, if a fast food joint opens up in an area where the majority population is of the elderly, it won’t do well. On the other hand if it opens up a shop in a commercial business area, all the working people from nearby would be coming there.
Yes, shops and business need to be located in areas that are conducive to their trade, otherwise they won’t flourish and earn money. For example, if a fast food joint opens up in an area where the majority population is of the elderly, it won’t do well. On the other hand if it opens up a shop in a commercial business area, all the working people from nearby would be coming there.
- Do you think that there will be fewer shops in your city in the
future? Why?
I don’t know. I don’t think so that
the shops will become lesser, seeing the amount of competition and the varied
ever-increasing needs of the people.
- Do you think the number of large businesses will increase in the
city in the near future?
Yes they would. Nowadays a lot of start-ups
are developing and in a span of a few years they would obviously strive to grow
larger.
- Why do you think so?
Any business runs and operates to earn
profits, and maximize them continuously. So definitely a small company at the start
would work to become bigger, and looking at the growing number of entrepreneurs
and their businesses, I feel large businesses will definitely increase in a few
years.
#11 - IELTS Speaking test in Bangladesh – March 2016
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