2. Exam information
1. You must speak alone for between one and two minutes
on a topic the examiner gives you.
2. You have one minute to write some notes before you
speak.
3. The examiner tells you when to stop speaking.
3. Exercise 1
Work in pairs. Read this Speaking task and discuss what
you could say.
Describe somewhere you like to shop for
food.
You should say:
where this place is
what this place is like
what you buy there
and explain why you like buying food at
this place.
4. Exercise 2
Listen to Eva doing the task in Exercise 1.
Which of the places in the photos does she talk
about?
5. Exercise 3
Eva uses the points
in the task to guide
her talk. Complete
this chart showing
her key points.
6. Exercise 4
Listen again to Eva's talk. Complete this chart
showing the phrases she uses to start her talk,
introduce her points and end her talk.
7. Exercise 5
Look at this Part 2
task and make
some notes in the
table below about
what you want to
say for each point.
8. Exercise 6
Work in pairs. Listen to each other doing the task
in Exercise 5.
9. Exam advice: Speaking Part 2
1. Note down some key ideas for each bullet to prompt you.
2. Use your notes and the points on the card to guide your talk.
3. Use phrases to introduce your points and to help you keep going.
4. Use intonation to highlight key information and help your
examiner follow your talk.
10. Pronunciation
Intonation 1
When we speak, the tone of our voice rises and
falls. A rise helps your listener understand that you
haven't finished what you are saying or that the
information is new or exciting; a fall indicates the
end of a sentence or utterance.
11. Exercise 1
Work in pairs. Look at this extract from Eva's
talk and listen to how her voice changes on the words
with arrows. Take turns to repeat what she says.
12. Exercise 2
Work in pairs. Look
at some of Eva's
sentences.
Discuss where her
voice might rise or
fall.
