Snack - IELTS Speaking Sample Answer

The IELTS Speaking test consists of three parts. IELTS speaking sample answers help candidates provide responses to different types of questions. IELTS speaking sample questions are similar to the actual IELTS Speaking test. Home, family, employment, studies, and interests are among the subjects covered in this section. In this article, we will discuss some questions that can be asked in the speaking test from the topic ‘Snack’. More such topics are available for candidates in the IELTS speaking practice paper.

Topic: Snack

Question 1. Do you like to eat snacks?

Answer: Well, I eat not riffraff, but something that is natural and healthy. I love to eat snacks. They are the best way to have a good time-pass and quench small hunger. They are like refresh, recharge, restart. I always eat snacks in the evening to get recharged.

Vocabulary:

Riffraff: disreputable or undesirable people.
Time-pass: the action or fact of passing the time
Recharged: to charge again especially

Question 2. What kinds of snacks are available in your country?

Answer: People in my country love to eat light snacks like samosa, pakodi, chapattis, bread bajji, chakli, biscuits, etc. Educated and rich people like to eat junk food from bakeries.

Vocabulary:

Light snacks: food eaten between regular meals
Junk food: food that is not very good for you

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Question 3. Do you think that snacks are healthy?

Answer: It depends on what you are eating and their quality. It is fine if one is eating fruits in between meals. Snacks are not required for the people who eat small meals more often. I think eating snacks is not a good habit. Some people, when they get bored, they go out to eat something, which is both rubbish and harmful for health.

Vocabulary:

Bored: feeling tired and perhaps slightly annoyed
Rubbish: things that you do not want anymore
Harmful: causing harm

Question 4. How frequently do you have snacks?

Answer: Well, I like to eat snacks after doing work. I prefer to have snacks and tea between 4 PM and 5 PM. After 5PM I don’t eat snacks, because it may disturb the dinner timing. I love eating snacks every hour. I fill my room not with junk food, but with a lot of fruits and juices.

Vocabulary:

Prefer: to choose something rather than something else

Question 5. What type of snacks do you eat?

Answer: I usually choose fruits like mango, sapota, lychee, custard apple, cherimoya, apple ber, Papaya, etc. Mostly I eat them raw, sometimes as a fruit chat or juice. I am not very particular about the snack. Whenever I go to a restaurant, I usually order a snack at a cheap cost, because I am afraid of high prices.

Vocabulary:

Cherimoya: a kind of custard apple with scaly green skin and a flavor resembling that of pineapple.
Randomly: lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern.
Cheap cost: costing very little; relatively low in price

Question 6. Have you been eating snacks from a young age?

Answer: Yes, I still remember the time back when my mom used to prepare tasty snacks at home. They are very healthy when compared to outside snacks. I used to have snacks three or four times a day.

Vocabulary:

Remember: to have somebody/something in your mind or to bring somebody/something back into your mind
Used to: that has had another owner before

Question 7. If you have fathered a child, would you allow him or her to have snacks?

Answer: Yes, but I advise him or her to eat the only healthy stuff. Snacks help us to retain a small amount of energy lost when doing small works. I don’t force them to eat snacks, because it would be their choice. I don’t like to force them to eat. They can decide whether to eat or not. They have such freedom.

Vocabulary:

Healthy: not often ill; strong and well
Retain: to keep or continue to have something; not to lose

Question 8. Have the snack-loving people changed over the last few decades?

Answer: Maybe yes. Globalization in this modern world has influenced lifestyles and food habits. In the olden day's people used to avoid snacks, but with the changing times, people started having homemade stuff, and still many people in urban areas are going to the bakeries for junk foods like pizzas, burgers et cetera.

Vocabulary:

Influenced: to have an effect on or power over somebody/something
Urban Areas: the region surrounding a city

Question 9. Are all snacks junk food?

Answer: Surely not. All snacks cannot be considered junk food. In restaurants, junk foods like pizzas, burgers, pies, cakes are prepared with ingredients like preservatives, food colors, and food additives. Junk food is a slow poison, it is a cause of cancer. It is not a way to stay healthy. Either good or bad, too much is nonsense. Eating foods like fruits too often may cause ill health, and it's not the right way of eating. Cultivating the habit of eating too much can result in gluttony, a psychological disorder. Some people eat as if they had eaten long back.

Vocabulary:

Preservatives: a substance that is used for keeping food,
Food additives: substances added to food to maintain or improve its safety
Ill health: a condition of inferior health in which some disease or impairment of function
Cultivating: to prepare and use the land for growing plants for food or to sell

Question 10. Do you think that sweets can be eaten as snacks?

Answer: Yes it is true. Some exclusive traditional sweets like Pootarekulu can be eaten as snacks. They are prepared by folding sheets (made of rice liquid) along with ghee, jaggery powder, dry fruit pieces, cardamom, and watermelon seeds. Once I happened to taste Chakodi, a kind of ring-shaped snack made with rice flour.

Vocabulary:

Exclusive: only to be used by or given to one person, group, etc.; not to be shared
Folding: to bend one part of something over another part in order to make it smaller, tidier, etc.
Jaggery: unrefined coarse brown sugar made from sugar cane juice
Cardamom: the dried seeds of a plant belonging to South and South-East Asia

Question 11. What is the difference between Indian snacks and western snacks?

Answer: Indian snacks are mostly prepared in natural ways, avoiding the addition of artificial food colors, chemicals, fats, etc. In foreign countries, the most popular snacks are pizzas, hamburgers, and bread.

Artificial: not genuine or natural but made by people

Vocabulary:

Humbuggers: meat that has been cut up small and pressed into a flat round shape.

Question 12. Do the people of India love eating snacks?

Answer: Yes, of course, the people of India love eating snacks very much. Nowadays it's common for the employees in the companies to eat snacks brought from their homes or given in the company as refreshment.

Vocabulary:

Employees: a person who works for somebody
Refreshment: light food and drinks that are available at a cinema, theatre or other public places

Question 13. Are there any popular shops for snacks in India?

Answer: Yes I know, Madina cafe, based in Hyderabad is the only place where good quality snacks are available in India. Osmania biscuits dipped in hot tea are very popular. I don’t think that there is a special shop popular for snacks in India. Every place has its own specialty. Madina café is just one of the famous shops for snacks in India.

Vocabulary:

Dipped: to put something into liquid and immediately take it out again
Popular: liked by many people or by most people in a group

Question 14. What is the best time to have snacks?

Answer: The best time to have snacks is from 4 PM to 6 PM. After 6 PM, it is dinner time. I don’t think that there is any time for snacks. Whenever you feel like it, you can eat it.

Vocabulary:

Best-time: you are making a critical comment to emphasize that it is true even when the circumstances are as favorable as possible.

Question 15. Can all ages of people eat snacks?

Answer: I think so, all ages of people can eat snacks whatever they wish to eat. Snacks give instant energy and quench the hunger to some extent. Also, I think infants and elders should take care while eating snacks. It is better for the infants and elders to avoid sweets, as they may cause cold and cough in them.

Vocabulary:

Quench: to satisfy your feeling of thirst by drinking a liquid
Extent: the length, area, size, or importance of something
Infants: a baby or very young child

Question 16. How many types of snacks are available in the market?

Answer: Today many types of snacks are available in the market, as modern mothers are not active in preparing snacks for their children. Almost all types of snacks, including sweets and hot, are available.

Vocabulary:

Preparing: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use