IELTS Speaking Questions: Weather and Seasons
Weather questions in Part 1 stay close to home: your country’s climate, your favourite season, and small habits like checking the forecast. These are personal and present-focused, so a direct answer plus one specific detail is enough.
Part 3 pushes the same theme into wider territory: how climate shapes daily life, whether patterns are shifting, and what governments or individuals should do about it. Prepare two or three real observations about the weather where you live, plus one considered opinion on how it might be changing, rather than a rehearsed answer.
Part 1 questions
Short, personal, present-tense. Answer the question directly first, then add the one detail the tip suggests — the extension is what separates a one-line answer from a Band 7 one.
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What is the weather like in your country?
How to extend itName the pattern, then how it varies through the year.
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What is your favourite season?
How to extend itName one, then give a specific reason you like it.
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Do you prefer hot or cold weather?
How to extend itPick one, then say what you do in that weather.
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Does the weather affect your mood?
How to extend itSay yes or no, then give one small example.
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What do you usually do on a rainy day?
How to extend itName an activity, then say how often it happens.
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Did the weather ever stop you doing something recently?
How to extend itGive a specific recent occasion, briefly.
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What season did you enjoy most as a child?
How to extend itName it, then one memory that explains why.
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Do you check the weather forecast often?
How to extend itSay how often, then why you bother checking.
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What clothes do you wear in cold weather?
How to extend itName one or two items, then why they suit you.
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Is the weather in your country changing?
How to extend itGive your impression, then one small piece of evidence.
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Do you like watching storms?
How to extend itSay yes or no, then describe how it makes you feel.
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What is the coldest place you have ever been?
How to extend itName it, then one sensory detail about the cold.
Part 3 questions
The same topic, pitched at the abstract level the examiner moves to after your cue card. These want reasoning — a position, a cause, an example, a concession — not a description of your own life.
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How does climate affect the way people in a country live?
How to structure itGive one clear effect, then a supporting example.
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Do you think weather patterns are becoming less predictable?
How to structure itState a view, then one reason people notice it.
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Should governments do more to prepare cities for extreme weather?
How to structure itTake a position, then concede one practical limit.
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How does bad weather affect a country's economy?
How to structure itName a sector, then explain the link briefly.
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Do people in hot and cold countries have different attitudes to life?
How to structure itCompare the two, then give one plausible reason.
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How might weather forecasting change in the future?
How to structure itPredict a development, then say what enables it.
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Is it fair to say weather affects productivity at work?
How to structure itGive a stance, then one supporting example.
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Should individuals change their habits because of climate change, or is it mainly for governments to act?
How to structure itWeigh both sides, then state which matters more.
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How has the way people dress for weather changed over time?
How to structure itCompare past and present, then give one cause.
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Do you think future generations will experience very different weather to today?
How to structure itGive a prediction, then one reason to support it.
Say the answers out loud, then sit the whole test
Reading a question and answering it are different skills. Work through the list above aloud, then put the topic inside a full timed test where you cannot stop to think.
- Describe a natural place you have visited Part 2 cue card, with the one-minute prep timer
Part 1, a cue card, then Part 3 — timed, in your browser, about 13 minutes.
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