IELTS Speaking Test PART 2 Sample Question and Answer
by Jane Lawson at DailyStep.com
Question: Describe a toy you got in your childhood. You should say:
- What it was
- When you got it
- How you got it
- And how you felt about it.
Answer: I think the toy that I remember best from my childhood was a toy farm. It consisted of small plastic farm animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs, and a few plastic people – the farmer, his wife and children. It also had fences that you could attach to each other to create fields.
It was given to me as a birthday present by my parents on my third birthday, as they had seen me looking longingly at the plastic farm animals in a toy shop. I can still recall how excited I was when I opened the present. It is one of my earliest memories.
As soon as I had opened it, I immediately started to set up the farm on the floor. It quickly became my favourite toy. I suppose it was a toy that allowed me to develop my imagination, because as far as I was concerned, these animals and people were real and they came to life in my head.
As to how I felt about it – well, I really loved it. It was my own little world. I used to spend hours setting up all the little fences and deciding which parts of the floor would become the fields. Then I would put the cows in one field, the pigs in another and so on. I invented stories of what was going on, and I imagined that I was one of the farmer’s daughters, feeding the chickens.
Usually it was a peaceful game, but sometimes I would lose my temper if the animals, particularly the cows, kept falling over. At one point, to calm me down, my mother cut the legs off some of the most unstable cows and said they were now “lying down cows”. Occasionally my younger brother would drive a toy truck straight through the farm, which would make me cry.
I still have the toy farm and my little niece recently set it up again, so it made me feel nostalgic and happy to see the farm back in action. 
This sample answer took around 2 minutes, which is the maximum time you need to speak without stopping in Part 2 of the IELTS speaking exam. Now, try it yourself. What was your favourite toy?
