IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Leadership and Politics

The document contains responses to 6 questions asked during an IELTS Speaking Part 3 exam about leadership and politics. The responses discuss that leadership skills can be learned, reasons why politicians are often unpopular including lying and corruption, the challenges with remaining popular as a leader, the pros and cons of unelected heads of state, and important qualities for political leaders such as patience, fairness, and connecting with supporters.

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IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Leadership and Politics

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IELTS Speaking Part 3 topic: Leadership and politics.

1. Do you think people are born to be leaders? Why/ Why not?

2. Can leadership skills be taught? Why/ Why not?

3. Why are elected politicians often so unpopular?

4. What should a leader do to remain popular?

5. Do you think unelected heads of state are a good idea? Why/ Why not?

6. In your opinion what qualities a political leader should have?

Q. 1. Do you think people are born to be leaders? Why/ Why not?

Answer: No, I don’t really like to think that people are born to be leaders.
Rather, leaders are made by the circumstances one lives in as well as the
people one likes to identify with. Of course, it takes some special skills and
“abilities”, which may or may not be inherited, to become leaders, but one
has to work really hard to master those ‘skills and abilities’. However, just
mastering those skills and abilities are not enough either as one would also
need to put those skills and abilities to proper use in order to overcome the
right challenges at the right times to be considered as “leaders”.

Q. 2. Can leadership skills be taught?Why/ Why not?

Answer: Yes, I do think that “leadership” skills, just like any other skills,
can be taught and learned because “leaders” are not a different bred of
people, nor they are “born” as leaders. However, the difference between
the “prospective” leaders and the others is that the prospective leaders
make a huge stride and are motivated to climb the ladder of success in
order to help others and lead in an organization where everybody else fails.
Of course, some people have some natural leadership skills and qualities,
but it doesn’t necessarily mean that others can’t achieve them with hard
work and dedication.

Q. 3. Why are elected politicians often so unpopular?

Answer: Well, I can provide at least “trillions” of reasons for which many
elected politicians are often so unpopular. But, I will mention here only a
few of them to save the so-called politicians some “embarrassments”
except, of course, they just have no “shame”. Oops! It looks like I've just
mentioned one of the reasons! Anyway, to continue, politicians are often
so unpopular because they have some “unparallel” abilities to “lie” to their
teeth as long as they are “awake”. Finally, they are often so despised
because they are “financially corrupted”, and they can go to any length in
order to oppress the poor and silence their “critiques”. They often fail to
fulfil the promises they themselves make to ordinary citizens and amass
wealth in unfair ways. Once elected, these politicians forget their
responsibilities and exercise power for their own benefits while ignoring
the wellbeing of the mass people.

Q. 4. What should a leader do to remain popular?

Answer: Remaining popular for a leader is a very tricky business because

the very reasons, for which they are popular at a certain point of time, can
make them unpopular at other times also. But, generally speaking, a leader
has to understand the ‘pulse’ of his or her supporters most of the time. He
also has to be honest about how he chooses to fight for the causes of his
support base. Besides, a leader has to make sure that he doesn’t earn his
livings by corruption or by “flexing” his muscle in order to remain popular.
Finally, a politician has to work really hard to deliver on his promises in
order to remain popular.

Q. 5. Do you think unelected heads of state are a good idea? Why/ Why
not?

Answer: Honestly speaking, I really think that it is a great idea to put

unelected officials as the heads of the states as long as there is solid
transparency in accountability. The election in these days can be rigged
easily, and, as a result, it is very possible that the real “winners” or elected
officials are not exactly getting the chances to hold the office. However, it
wouldn’t really be so bad itself if not so much money and time were
invested in holding these elections. Besides, in some “developing”
countries, we also witness a lot of violence during the election times which
can actually divide an entire nation.

Q. 6. In your opinion what qualities a political leader should have?

Answer: In order to be a good political leader, a person has to have some

common qualities which may include patience, fairness, commitment, and
good educational qualification to understand the different situation
dynamics, and the ability to arouse the public passion in a positive way.
Besides, a political leader should also have the quality to connect with his
supporters on a grass root level so that he is able to know about what
makes his supporters happy and what makes them unhappy. Finally, he
also has to be honest and dedicated to the causes of bringing solutions to
the problems, not only for his supporters but also for those people who
don’t support him.