IELTS Speaking Part 1 Topic and Questions: Age
Are you happy to be the age you are now? / Do you like your current age?
Yes, I’m content (= satisfied, happy) with my current age, although I also want to go back to when I was younger. It would be nice to relive (=think back) some of my memories from my childhood.
When you were a child, did you think a lot about your future?
Not really. As far as I recall ( if my memory serves me well / correctly), I just thought about the near future like exams and other things in the year ahead – but I wasn’t worried at all about adulthood.
Do you think you have changed as you have got older?
Yes, compared with when I was younger, I’m a totally different person in some ways. I think my personality (= character) has changed quite a lot, and I’m more relaxed and sociable.
What will be different about your life in the future?
Who knows? But I think my life will not change a lot over the next decade, but after that I can’t really predict or imagine.
What do you think is the best age to learn driving?
Biologically speaking, the ultimate (happening at the end of a process or activity) time to learn is at around 25 years of age as the brain is fully developed at this stage and the body is young and supple (able to move and bend your body very easily and in a graceful way) enough to be able to respond with still-sharp reflexes (a movement that your muscles make without being able to control it ). Also, the levels of desire to learn is also high at this age so they will really make the effort to learn driving.
How do you feel about getting older?
I hate it seriously. There are things that I should have done in my adolescence (the period of your life when you change from being a child to being a young adult) but I didn’t. And I have missed my opportunity. I detest(hate) getting older, it’s horrible. But I guess there is nothing I can do about.
Should we treat people of different ages in the same way?
No we shouldn’t in my opinion, I believe that for seniors, we have to treat them with respect. For children, maybe we need to be strict when they show some poor behaviors such as covetousness (jealousy), rebellion (action against the rules, or against normal and accepted ways of behaving) or defiance (refusal to obey a person or rule).