Unit 12 Words for describing change Track 20 1
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Examiner:
How are schools today different from schools in your parents’ generation?
Candidate:
There is much less discipline and pupils are difficult to control. Standards of behaviour have really declined.
Examiner:
In what ways has the countryside in your country changed during your lifetime?
Candidate:
There are far fewer young people living in the countryside. Many of them have had to abandon rural life and move to the cities to look for work.
Examiner:
What do you think is the most significant change in the way people communicate?
Candidate:
Social networking sites - definitely. Just look at the way they’ve evolved over the last few years. You could almost spark a revolution with a click of a mouse.
Examiner:
What do you think will be the most significant change in people’s life style in the next ten or twenty years?
Candidate:
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Examiner:
In what ways has the experience of living abroad affected you?
Candidate:
I’ve had to learn to adjust to different ways of doing things - shopping, cooking, socializing - all sorts of things.
Examiner:
How, in your view, are patterns of employment in your country likely to change in the next few years?
Candidate:
Many more people are going to work in financial services. That whole sector is developing very rapidly in my country. There are lots of opportunities now.
think as energy becomes more expensive, we will have to modify how we live consume less, conserve more.
Track 21 1
I grew up in a village that looks much as it did five centuries ago. Almost nothing has altered.
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Job security has diminished over the last few years. It’s almost impossible to find long-term work let alone a job for life.
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I think over the next decade, surgical techniques will become increasingly refined. Surgeons will be able to perform operations that we can only dream of now.
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Within a generation, attitudes towards authority have shifted. Nowadays, people are more likely to challenge authority figures.
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Unless we transform the way we live, w e’re unlikely to survive into the next millennium.
Vocabulary for IELTS