IELTS Speaking Part 1: What's your favourite...?

Learn some useful tips for improving and developing your answer to one of the common questions in IELTS speaking part 1.



In this lesson you will find out what mistake many students make when they answer this question as well as how to create a higher band score answer by adding more information to your answer.

What's your favourite...?

• Dish  
• Sport
• TV Program
• Leisure activity
• Book
• Weather
• Time of day
• Animal 
• Flower 
• Drink
• Song
• Teacher

Example:

What's your favourite drink?

My most favourite drink is ...................

Can you identify the problem in this sentence?

My favourite is already mentioning just one, so it is wrong to use 'most' with favourite.

We cannot have most favourite 😃😃😃

So, you must say - my favourite drink is ...................

Let us take an example of favourite drink as green here.
Let us learn how to add more information using complex type sentence to score high bands in your IELTS speaking test.

Example: 

My favourite drink is green tea which I find is very refreshing in all kinds of weather.

Here I have given a reason of my favourite drink that is 'very refreshing', then I have explained that I like it in all kinds of weather if it is hot or cold or chilly. 

This sentence is connected with a relative clause that is connected with 'which'

You could also say;

My favourite drink is green tea because it is very refreshing in all kinds of weather.

These two styles are still in complex sentence which show your range of grammar level and help you scoring higher bands in IELTS speaking test. 

Always remember to add more information to your answer to make the examiner understand your answer in a logical manner. 

You may click here to find some useful speaking part 2 topics & questions.