Ielts speaking part 1 topics (questions and answers)

Q. What are the most common types of transportation run on the streets in 
your 
country? 
Answer: The most common types of transportations in my country are public 
bus and Taxi. We also do have a railway system and the government is planning 
to 
expand 
our 
water 
transportation 
system. 
Q. Which types of transportation do people in your country often use to 
move? 
Answer: People mostly use public buses and four-wheel-drive pickups to move 

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around. A large number of them use their own bicycles and motorbikes while 
affluent people use private cars. 
Topic: Festivals 
Q. Tell me about the most important festival in your country. 
Q. What special food and activities are connected with this festival? 
Q. 
What 
do 
you 
most 
enjoy 
about 
it? 
Q. Do you think festivals are important for a country? [Why?] 
Q. Tell me about the most important festival in your country. 
Answer: Malaysia is a multicultural country where people of all religions and 
faiths live in peace and harmony, and one of the most important religious 
festivals in my country is called “Vesak day” (or Wesak) to commemorate the 
Lord Buddha’s Birthday which is usually observed during the first full moon in 
the month of May. To all Buddhist people in Malaysia, this is a very, very 
important festival because they believe that the Lord Buddha’s birth, 
enlightenment and death had occurred on the same calendar day. 
Q. What special food and activities are connected with this festival? 
Answer: A typical Wesak Day usually begins at dawn at Buddhist temples 
throughout Malaysia by getting devotees to gather in order to meditate on the 
Eight Precepts as well as having Monks in saffron-coloured robes to chant the 
sutras in unison. A candle procession is also the highlight of the celebration, and 
at the same time, offerings of prayers and burning of joss sticks/incense also run 
in full swing. 
As far as the question of special foods, connected to this particular festival, is 
concerned, well-wishers and devotees do come together, at the end of their 
prayers, to dine on simple offerings of vegetarian food and drinks while 
providing the same to the poor and needy. Donations are also made available to 
the deserving ones.