IELTS Speaking Part 1 Topic & Questions: Visitors with Band 9 Model Answers

1. Do you often invite friends to visit your home

I do but only when we have known each other well for quite a long time. As most of my friends also enjoy staying inside like me, normally I just invite one friend then we buy some snacks home and exchange some chitchat for hours. I sometimes invite 3 to 4 friends so we can have a girl-night-in with movies or a small pyjama party.

Vocabulary

Chitchat (noun) gossip, casual conversation

pyjama party (n) a social occasion when a group of friends, usually children or young people, stay for the night at one person’s house

girl-night-in (n) an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women

2. Do you like visitors coming to your home?

Only if I’m informed about the visit. I typically don’t like sudden visits that they pay when I have to open the door in my pyjamas. That kind of visitors to me is so impolite. Oh, and I also don’t like a big crowd visiting my place. They’re too noisy and most of the time I’m afraid of my property secretly being stolen.

3. When do visitors come to your home?

Most of my parents’ guests or our relatives would pay a visit during daytime, whereas my friends’ visits usually end at night like 9 or 10 pm since we may have classes during the day. However I know them well enough so my parents have never complained about it.

4. Do you prefer to have friends visit you, or relatives?

Both friends’ and relatives’ visits are meaningful to me. Since our relatives live miles away, we really appreciate their efforts and time to visit us. My friends actually only come when they’re invited, so we don’t have much problem with time.

5. When someone visits you, how do you usually show hospitality (or, entertain them)?

Well first I would offer them some drinks like cool water or coke. If it’s my parents’ guest, I may politely answer some questions if they ask, otherwise I’ll just head back to my room as my presence actually would make them feel more inconvenient to start the talk.

Vocabulary

To head back Swh (v) to return to the place from which you recently came