IELTS Speaking Sample – Describe a TV program

Describe a TV program

You should say:

1. What the TV program is

2. How you know it

3. What it is like

4. Why you like it

Band 7 Sample

I’m going to talk about “Who wants to be a millionaire”, one of my favorite TV shows ever.

As far as I can remember, it was originally a UK TV Game Show, and it made its first debut in Vietnam around 10 years ago.

This was kind of a quiz show in which contestants have to go through a set of 15 questions with increasing difficulty. The first 5 questions are pretty silly really, and they always give me and my family a good laugh. Contestants are given 4 lifelines to aid them with difficult questions, and most of them are usually used up when the contestant reaches around question 7 or 8. The entire show is a sea of knowledge. Many questions from different fields are asked, ranging from trivial things like ingredients needed to make cookies to academic stuff like quantum physics and archeology.

You know, I’m quite a curious man, so back when I was a high school kid, I hardly missed an episode. When the Internet became available in Vietnam, I started to watch the UK and US version as well, and knowledge acquired from those shows were really helpful to me in many of my high school knowledge quizzes.

Từ vựng IELTS theo chủ đề

1. Debut: The first public appearance of something

2. Give somebody a good laugh: Make someone laugh in excitement

3. A sea of knowledge: a lot of knowledge

By ZIM Academic English School