雅思口语之聊聊你的家乡

雅思口语第一部分，是考官与考生交流的过程，相当于一个日常生活中的常见对话。考官喜欢了解你的一些生活情况或者兴趣爱好。所以hometown是比较常见的问题主题。我们来看一看考官常见会问哪些问题，如何去回答比较好。环球雅思老师为考生们提供相应的一些范例回答。

Your Hometown

1) Where do you come from?

2) Where do you live at the moment?

3) How long have you been living there/here?

4) Do your parents also live there?

5) Did your family ever move away from the place you were born? (Why?/Why not?)

6) What tourist attractions are there in your hometown?

7) Would a foreign visitor enjoy them?

8) What place(s) in your hometown do you go to in your spare time?

9) Is your hometown famous for anything?

My hometown is famous for Yandang Mountain, which is one of ten famous mountains in our country. Many people from home and abroad visit it because of its screen-like peaks, caves and waterfalls.

10) What is the best part of your hometown?

My hometown is a small-sized coastal city in the north of China, therefore, the best part of it is that people can lead a slow-paced life and enjoy tasty seafood. People there don’t need to suffer from heavy traffic in the rush hour, because most of them can go to work on foot or by bicycle 11) Do you know much about the history of your hometown?

Yes, my hometown used to be a small village several decades ago, however, it’s a modern commercial city famous for shoe factories and button factories.

12) What do you think needs to change in your hometown?

The environment should be changed. Water pollution is a big issue in my hometown.

13) What do you think needs to be done to make your hometown a better place to live in?

14) What form of transport do you prefer to use in your hometown?

I prefer to use a bicycle since my hometown is not as big as Shanghai. The another reason is that we have a few buses and no subways.

15) What do people in your hometown do in their free time?

People in my hometown are quite into playing cards and mahjong in their spare time. I wish they could do more sports.

16) Would you say it's a good place to grow up (in)?

No, I don’t think it’s a suitable place for children to grow up. Generally speaking, the academic atmosphere is not as good as that in some big cities.

17) Do you plan to live there/here for a long time?

Yes, I plan to live there for a long time, because my parents are there. I’m the only one child in my family, so I‘ll be responsible for taking care of them in the future.

18) What (other) place would you like to live in (in the future)?

19) Has your hometown changed much in the past few years? (e.g. 20 years)

Yes, it has. For example, ...

Today there are many more cars on the roads than there were thirty years ago.

The air pollution is much worse/much better than it used to be.