¿Qué Es El IELTS General Training?
¿Interesado en saber qué es el IELTS General Training? Aquí te contamos como es su estructura y ejemplos de preguntas para que te familiarices con este examen.
El IELTS General es una de las dos versiones del examen IELTS (International English Language Testing System), un sistema reconocido a nivel mundial para evaluar la competencia en el idioma inglés de quienes no son hablantes nativos del mismo. Esta prueba es esencial para personas que buscan emigrar, trabajar o recibir formación vocacional en países de habla inglesa, como el Reino Unido, Australia, Nueva Zelanda y Canadá.
A diferencia del IELTS Academic, que se enfoca en el entorno académico y es necesario para aquellos que quieren estudiar en universidades y otras instituciones educativas, el IELTS General Training evalúa el inglés en un contexto más cotidiano y práctico, reflejando las situaciones de la vida diaria en comunidades de habla inglesa.
La puntuación en el IELTS se otorga en una escala del 0 al 9, siendo 9 un nivel «experto» y 0 cuando el examen no se ha intentado.
El examen se divide en cuatro secciones principales:
Estructura del IELTS General Training
Listening
Duración: Aproximadamente 30 minutos.
Descripción: Los candidatos escucharán cuatro grabaciones. Estas incluyen una conversación entre dos personas (por ejemplo, sobre reservas en un hotel), una charla no académica (como información sobre un museo), una conversación grupal en un contexto educativo y un monólogo sobre un tema general.
Objetivo: Evaluar la capacidad del candidato para comprender ideas principales, detalles específicos, opiniones, actitudes y propósitos del hablante.
Reading
Duración: 60 minutos.
Descripción: Consiste en tres secciones con textos tomados de anuncios, folletos, guías, periódicos, libros y revistas. Los textos están relacionados con situaciones de la vida cotidiana en países angloparlantes.
Objetivo: Comprobar la habilidad del candidato para identificar información clave, seguir un argumento, reconocer opiniones y propósitos del autor.
Writing
Duración: 60 minutos.
Descripción: Se compone de dos tareas. La primera suele ser escribir una carta (formal, informal o semi-formal) basada en una situación dada. La segunda es un ensayo en respuesta a un punto de vista o argumento presentado.
Objetivo: Evaluar la capacidad del candidato para comunicar información, argumentar sobre un punto de vista y escribir de manera coherente y cohesionada.
Speaking
Duración: 11-14 minutos.
Descripción: Esta sección se realiza en forma de entrevista con un examinador. Se divide en tres partes: una introducción y entrevista, un discurso largo por parte del candidato y una discusión sobre temas relacionados al discurso.
Objetivo: Examinar la habilidad del candidato para comunicarse fluidamente y eficazmente en inglés.
Prueba Nuestro Test Gratuito De Inglés
Te invitamos a realizar nuestro test de nivel de inglés gratuito. No es una simulación del IELTS General Training, pero nos ayudará a entender tu nivel actual de inglés y si estás preparado para empezar con tu formación.
Tras el test, un asesor académico discutirá los resultados contigo y te orientará sobre los siguientes pasos. Ofrecemos un curso online autodidacta y clases particulares para prepararte para el IELTS General Training.
Haz el test de nivel gratuito y descubre cómo podemos ayudarte a preparar el IELTS General Training.
Ejemplos De Preguntas Del IELTS General
Aquí encontrarás una gama de ejemplos de preguntas para cada una de las cuatro secciones del examen: Listening, Reading, Writing y Speaking. Aunque no proporcionamos explicaciones ni consejos específicos en esta sección, cada ejemplo te dará una idea clara del tipo de preguntas que puedes esperar en tu examen IELTS General Training.
Recuerda que en nuestra academia ofrecemos dos opciones de preparación para el IELTS General Training. Contamos con un curso online de autoaprendizaje para aquellos que prefieren estudiar a su propio ritmo y también ofrecemos clases particulares para un enfoque más personalizado y adaptado a tus necesidades específicas.
Listening
Sample task – Matching
Questions 1 – 4
Which hotel matches each description?
Choose your answers from the box and write the correct letter A-E next to questions 1-4.
- The Bridge Hotel
- Carlton House
- The Imperial
- The Majestic
- The Royal Oak
- is in a rural area ……………….
- only opened recently ……………….
- offers facilities for business functions ……………….
- has an indoor swimming pool ………………
Reading
At first, von Frisch thought the bees were responding only to the scent of the food. But what did the third dance mean? And if bees were responding only to the scent, how could they also ‘sniff down’ food hundreds of metres away from the hive*, food which was sometimes downwind? On a hunch, he started gradually moving the feeding dish further and further away and noticed as he did so that the dances of the returning scout bees also started changing. If he placed the feeding dish over nine metres away, the second type of dance, the sickle version, came into play. But once he moved it past 36 metres, the scouts would then start dancing the third, quite different, waggle dance. The measurement of the actual distance too, he concluded, was precise. For example, a feeding dish 300 metres away was indicated by 15 complete runs through the pattern in 30 seconds. When the dish was moved to 60 metres away, the number dropped to eleven. Von Frisch noted something further. When the scout bees came home to tell their sisters about the food source, sometimes they would dance outside on the horizontal entrance platform of the hive, and sometimes on the vertical wall inside. And, depending on where they danced, the straight portion of the waggle dance would point in different directions. The outside dance was fairly easy to decode: the straight portion of the dance pointed directly to the food source, so the bees would merely have to decode the distance message and fly off in that direction to find their food. But by studying the dance on the inner wall of the hive, von Frisch discovered a remarkable method which the dancer used to tell her sisters the direction of the food in relation to the sun. When inside the hive, the dancer cannot use the sun, so she uses gravity instead. The direction of the sun is represented by the top of the hive wall. If she runs straight up, this means that the feeding place is in the same direction as the sun. However, if, for example, the feeding place is 40º to the left of the sun, then the dancer would run 40º to the left of the vertical line. This was to be the first of von Frisch’s remarkable discoveries. Soon he would also discover a number of other remarkable facts about how bees communicate and, in doing so, revolutionise the study of animal behaviour generally.
Questions 1 – 3
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
- Von Frisch discovered the difference between dance types by changing the position of the ……………… .
- The dance outside the hive points in the direction of the …………… .
- The angle of the dance from the vertical shows the angle of the food from the …………… .
Writing
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
In Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this care. Who do you think should pay for this care, the government or the family?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Speaking
Examples that you might be asked in the speaking section:
Part 1.- Introduction and interview
Let’s talk about your home town or village.
- What kind of place is it?
- What’s the most interesting part of your town/village?
- What kind of jobs do the people in your town/village do?
- Would you say it’s a good place to live? (Why?)
Let’s move on to talk about accommodation.
- Tell me about the kind of accommodation you live in?
- How long have you lived there?
- What do you like about living there?
- What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?
Part 2.- Individual long turn
Candidate Task Card
| Describe something you own which is very important to you.
You should say: where you got it from and explain why it is important to you. |
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You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes.
You have one minute to think about what you’re going to say.
You can make some notes to help you if you wish.
Rounding off questions
- Is it valuable in terms of money?
- Would it be easy to replace?
Part 3.- Two-way discussion
Let’s consider first of all how people’s values have changed.
- What kind of things give status to people in your country?
- Have things changed since your parents’ time?
Finally, let’s talk about the role of advertising.
- Do you think advertising influences what people buy?


