Ielts speaking strategies

USEFUL ADJECTIVES FOR DESCRIBING OBJECTS

Opinion: good, wonderful, splendid, pretty, fantastic, awful, ugly, dirty, comfortable, uncomfortable, wasteful, valuable, worthless, worthy, useful, useless, important, scarce, rare, lovely, disgusting, amazing, loathsome, surprising, usual, unusual, etc.
Touch: hard, silky, soft, smooth, polished, grainy, rough, glossy, glassy, etc.
Size, weight: heavy, small, tiny, little, light, big, tall, fat, short, slender, thin, underweight, wide, enormous, vast, giant, huge, great, slim, etc.
Smell: perfumed, smelly, noxious, aromatic, fragrant, scented, etc.
Temperature: hot, cold, icy, freezing, frigid, etc.
Age: old, young, baby, teenage, adolescent, antique, ancient, youthful, old- fashioned, elderly, mature, modern, recent, etc.
Shape: round, circular, triangular, square, oval, spherical, sleek, straight, wavy, etc.
Brightness: light, bright, dark, shining, dull, pale, glowing, gleaming, luminous, etc.
Color: blue, black, purple, white, red, pink, orange, dark green, yellowish, gray, silver, brown, transparent, colorless, etc.
Material: cloth, fabric, concrete, ceramic, metal, china, cotton, glass, plastic, wooden, steel, leather, silicon,...

OBJECT DESCRIPTION MODEL ANSWER

Describe a product you bought that you were (or, are) happy with. You should say:

What you bought How you bought it Why you bought it
And explain why you were (or are) happy with it.

MODEL ANSWER 1:

I would like to talk about a household appliance which plays an integral part of my daily life, and makes me very satisfied with ; that is a washing machine.
Thanks to the simple instructions , and this machine is very easy to use , my family members and I use it every day to wash our laundries such as clothing or sheets.
Personally, I think this machine is quite beneficial to me due to its convenience . To be specific , instead of spending nearly an hour on cleaning clothing by hand, it takes me only 5 minutes to put all the clothing in a washing machine.
Moreover , my clothes washer has a large capacity up to 15kg so I can run a load of clothing through it at one time in order to save both water and time. As a result , I can save a huge amount of time in order to do other household chores or even learn new things that I’m interested in ; for example , I can learn foreign languages or cooking.
In addition , a washing machine can dry clothing automatically; therefore , I don’t have to worry about my clothing will be wet in the rainy season or winter.
As a final point, I would say that the washing machine is one of the greatest inventions of the industrial revolution that brings various benefits for me and other people using it .

MODEL ANSWER 2:

I would like to talk about a Samsung smart phone which I bought last summer
and I was really satisfied with it . This cell phone was the latest product from Samsung , so there were various useful applications such as video calling, camera, Zalo chat, emails, games, music players, and so on. I would use this smart phone to listen to music, make phone calls, send messages and check emails. I must say that this portable device helps me a lot no matter where I am .
There were various reasons why I loved this product. Firstly , I would use it for entertainment purposes. What I mean is I could refresh myself after a long hard day at work by listening to my favorite music or enjoying action movies online. Moreover , thanks to this smart phone, I was able to keep in touch with my old friends whom I didn’t often have a chance to meet in person. In addition , this mobile phone helped me to handle my workload effectively . For example , I could check and send emails or write my essays when waiting for the bus, which saved a huge amount of my time.
At present , I still use this smart phone every day for my work, study, and entertainment purposes. I think that this is an indispensable product in my daily life routines.