An important invention or discovery

Another topic you need to have prepared to speak about in IELTS Speaking Part 2 is an important invention or discovery.

When studying for IELTS, it is a good idea to try and combine your topics. For example, the student who speaks on the video, chose 'x-rays' as her invention. This means she is not only able to provide a Speaking Part 2 answer to the topic card below,

but she can also write an essay on the following IELTS Part 2 writing topic.

The breakthroughs in medical science are by far the most significant advances in world society over the last two centuries. Discuss this statement and give your opinion.

Listen to the student giving a 6-6.5 answer on the IELTS Part 2 Topic card above and complete the exercise below.

Complete the transcript of the student's speaking with the different verb forms she uses.

Yes, the important discovery is the x-rays. X-rays images that [1]______to explain the... to diagnose diseases. X-rays [2]_______ by the German scientists in Germany in 1895. It [3]_______ some materials, such as paper books and wood. So, it can help the doctors [4}_______ the inner diseases, such as the broken bones or the damages of teeth.

X-ray [5]_______ all over the world in 1930s. Nowadays, it can examine all parts of bodies for different types of diseases so it [6]________ the doctors to give right treatment to the patients and [7]________diseases. So it was the important discovery of medical breakthroughs.

When you are ready, enter your answers in the sheet below:

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