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IELTS Vocabulary: Topic List

The document provides a list of 24 topics for IELTS vocabulary, including the environment, cities, crime, education, family, gender, genetic engineering, global issues, government and society, guns and weapons, health, housing and architecture, international language, money, personal development, sport and leisure, tourism, traditions and modern life, transport, television and mobile phones, water, work. It then lists the main vocabulary topics as the environment, nature, water, global issues, tourism, animals, housing, architecture, cities, crime, guns and weapons, transport, policing, government & society, family, gender, genetic engineering, personality, sport, leisure, health, happiness, work, TV, phones and the

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IELTS Vocabulary: Topic List

The document provides a list of 24 topics for IELTS vocabulary, including the environment, cities, crime, education, family, gender, genetic engineering, global issues, government and society, guns and weapons, health, housing and architecture, international language, money, personal development, sport and leisure, tourism, traditions and modern life, transport, television and mobile phones, water, work. It then lists the main vocabulary topics as the environment, nature, water, global issues, tourism, animals, housing, architecture, cities, crime, guns and weapons, transport, policing, government & society, family, gender, genetic engineering, personality, sport, leisure, health, happiness, work, TV, phones and the

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IELTS Vocabulary: topic list

1. Advertising

2. Animal Rights: testing on animals, vegetarianism, zoos

3. Cities: urbanisation, problems of city life

4. Crime: police, punishments/prisons, rehabilitation, capital punishment

5. Education: studying abroad, technology in education, education in developing countries, higher


education, home-schooling, bad behaviour, corporal punishment, single sex education,
streaming (grouping children according to ability)

6. Environment: global warming, impact of humans on the environment, solutions to environment


problems, waste/rubbish, litter, recycling, nuclear power

7. Family: family size, working parents, negative effects on children, divorce, care for old people

8. Gender: gender and education, gender and work, women’s and men’s role in the family

9. Genetic Engineering: positives, negatives, genetically modified foods

10. Global Issues: problems in developing countries, how to help developing countries,
immigration, multi-cultural societies, globalisation

11. Government and Society: what governments can do, public services, censorship, video
cameras in public places

12. Guns and Weapons: gun ownership and possession, police and guns, nuclear weapons, armed
forces

13. Health: diet, exercise, state health systems, private healthcare, alternative medicine, stress

14. Housing and Architecture: state housing, old buildings, modern/green buildings

15. International Language: English as an international language

16. Money: money and society, consumerism

17. Personal Development: happiness, success, nature or nurture

18. Sport and Leisure: professional/competitive sport, sport salaries, sport and politics

19. Tourism: positives, negative effects on environment, future of tourism

20. Traditions and Modern Life: losing traditional skills, traditional customs

21. Transport: traffic problems and solutions, public transport, road safety
22. Television, Internet and Mobile Phones: positives and negatives, Internet compared to
newspapers and books

23. Water: importance of clean water, water supply, water should be free, bottled water

24. Work: same job for life, self-employment, unemployment, work/life balance, technology and
work, child labour

The Main Vocabulary Topics


(see my 28-Day Planner for a daily vocabulary list)

1. The Environment
2. Nature
3. Water
4. Global Issues
5. Tourism
6. Animals
7. Housing
8. Architecture
9. Cities
10. Crime
11. Guns and weapons
12. Transport
13. Policing
14. Government & Society
15. Family
16. Gender
17. Genetic Engineering
18. Personality
19. Sport
20. Leisure
21. Health
22. Happiness
23. Work
24. TV, Phones and the Internet
25. Education
26. Languages
27. Technology
28. Advertising

Find a nice simple list of formal/informal synonyms from the Plain English Campaign here.

Find the most common academic words in the ‘AWL’ (Academic Word List) here and here.

A simple, printable 2-page version of the AWL can be found here.

Find more details about individual words from the AWL here.

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