Describe a vehicle you would like to own.
A strong long turn names the subject in the first sentence, spends most of the two minutes on the last bullet — the why — and arrives at a prepared final line rather than trailing off.
The question, as the examiner gives it
Describe a vehicle you would like to own.
You should say
- what the vehicle is
- what it looks like
- what you would use it for
- and explain why you want that one
60 seconds to prepare, up to 2 minutes to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 201 words at a natural pace — roughly what 120 seconds holds.
Answer it yourself first
Record your own answer first. A model you have read three times comes out with a flattened rhythm, and examiners are trained to hear exactly that. Read it afterwards for the vocabulary and the shape, not to memorise the sentences.I would like to own a small camper van, the kind that is really a delivery van with a bed and a stove put into the back, rather than anything designed for the purpose. What it looks like in my head is fairly specific. White or pale grey, high enough to stand up in, about fifteen years old, with a sliding door on one side and a window cut into the other. Nothing luxurious at all. What I would use it for is the four-day trip, which is the gap in how I travel at the moment. Anything shorter than a week is not worth booking flights and hotels for, so I simply do not go. With a van you leave on a Thursday evening and you are somewhere by dark. The reason I want that one rather than a car is that it removes the accommodation problem entirely, and the accommodation problem is what stops most short trips before they start. I have looked at perhaps forty of them online over two years without contacting a single seller, which tells you how serious I currently am. It will happen the week somebody I know sells one cheaply, and not before.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- camper
the precise noun for the vehicle type
- stove
concrete component noun with a long vowel
- sliding
the right participle for that kind of door
- luxurious
four syllables with the stress on the second
- accommodation
five syllables with the stress on the fourth
- removes
clean verb ending, and it carries the argument
- specific
three syllables with the stress on the second
How a strong answer is built
- 1Name the vehicle and define the kind precisely.
- 2Describe it physically in three or four details.
- 3Say what it would actually be used for.
- 4Explain the reason as a problem it solves.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Describe a vehicle you would like to own.” be?
You get 60 seconds to make notes and then speak for up to two minutes without interruption. Aim to still be talking at ninety seconds: finishing at forty is the commonest way to lose marks on this part.
Should I memorise the model answer?
No. Record your own version first, then read the model for the shape and the vocabulary. A memorised answer changes rhythm and pace noticeably, and examiners are trained to hear it — it usually costs more than the better wording gains.
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