Beauty: IELTS Speaking Part 3 Sample Answers

The IELTS Speaking Module is designed to assess your English Language Speaking Skills. To ensure a good score in the IELTS Speaking Module, you must study and practice the common Speaking Question types. Below is a sample Speaking Module with responses. By studying the sample answers, you can have a reference to begin drafting your own Speaking section answers.

Speaking Part 3

1 What is beauty for you?

For me, beauty means both physical and inner beauty. You have to look good and be a good person in order to be considered beautiful. Some people think inner beauty is enough but I disagree. I don’t think you can be truly beautiful inside if you’re not much to look at. These people are often quite lonely. As human beings, we need affection and attention, otherwise we’ll suffer psychologically.

2 Do you think the media influences our idea of beauty?

Yes, in a big way actually. For example, when I was a child, a man is considered handsome if he looks fit and has a nice face. Now because of Western influence, some people think men need to look strong and muscular. As most people who appear on the media are very good-looking, the audience also feel pressured to have the same looks. As a result, plastic surgery has become a lucrative business.

3 Do you think advertisements’ portrayal of beauty is correct?

I think they are not incorrect, just exaggerated. There are people who are really that good-looking, but not many. I think portraying the ideal appearance is good in that it encourages people to live more healthily, but more often than not it puts pressure on average people.

4 Do people in your country like to buy luxury clothes?

Yes, a lot of people see luxury clothes as a sign of social status. And of course these outfits are often better in terms of design and material. But I think there are clothes that are equally good but a lot cheaper just because they are not the same brand.

5 What are some drawbacks of being beautiful?

First, you have too many people go after you. It is flattering and disturbing at the same time. It is not a good feeling when you have to reject a person, not to mention the person being rejected may resent you or even want to take revenge on you. Second, people often treat you very nicely and everything is easier for you, so you may lack the ability to understand others’ problems.

6 Is goodness better than beauty?

For me they are equally important. People without good looks often suffer from alienation, which affects their goodness. How can one be good to others if they’re constantly isolated, rejected or even ridiculed?

Vocabulary

• Inner beauty: personality of a person
  Eg: The ugly old man has an inner beauty that radiates in his face.
• Psychologically: in the way that affects the mind or relates to the emotional state of a person.
  Eg : She is psychologically affected.
• Plastic surgery: the process of reconstructing
  Eg: He underwent plastic surgery after the accident  
• Lucrative: producing a great deal of profit
  Eg: The business provides lucrative deals to the clients. 
• Portraying: depict in a work of art
  Eg: He is portraying the reality in his paintings.
• Flattering: full of praise and compliments
  Eg: He is flattering his teacher
• Alienation: a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment
  Eg:  Tom suffered from alienation because he was too intelligent.
• Ridiculed: subject to contemptuous and dismissive language 
  Eg: The street boys ridiculed the student on the footpath.

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