Written by David S. Wills · November 28, 2020
I have written many times about the different IELTS topics and why you should use these to study for your exam. These topics tend to be things that everyone in the world could discuss. For examples, they include health, education, culture, and sports. You don’t need to be an expert, but these affect all of our lives so we can all say a little about them.
In today’s lesson, I am going to guide you through the IELTS speaking topic of clothes. I think this is a pretty useful thing to be able to be able to discuss at length.
IELTS Vocabulary: Clothes
First of all, let’s take a moment to look at some useful vocabulary about clothes. Without knowing the basics, you will struggle to talk about this topic at all.
Remember that you do not need to be an expert. You don’t need to know all the different specific parts of clothes and if you are a man then you will not really be expected to talk about different kinds of women’s clothes, for example. However, the more you know, the more you can talk about this subject.
Here is a list of basic clothing vocabulary:
The above words probably seem easy to most of you… but you don’t really need much more than that! If you wear different types of clothing and care about them, you might want to learn their names but otherwise it is not essential.
I have also made this guide to the different parts of clothes. I doubt you would need to know any of this, but it might come in useful if you really care about fashion:
IELTS Speaking Questions About Clothes
Let’s now explore some sample questions about answers about clothes.
Part 1
Q: Do you often buy clothes?
A: No, I don’t. I probably buy clothes about once a year at most, unless I really need something.