FCE Speaking: Pollution – environment

Part 1. Personal Questions. (3 minutes)

1.Where do you live? 2. How long have you been studying English?
3. What are your plans for the future? 4. How do you spend your free time?
5. What do you like / don’t like about your city? 6. Do you live in a house or in a flat? etc.
(THREE MINUTES)

Part 2.
Now I’d like each of you to talk on your own for about a minute.
I’m going to give each of you two different photographs and I’d like you to talk about them.
Candidate A: Here are your two photographs. They show two different places to live. I’d
like you to compare and contrast these pictures and say where you would like to be and
why.

(ONE MINUTE)
Candidate B: Is there a lot of air pollution in the area where you live?

(TWENTY SECONDS)

Candidate B: Here are your two photographs. They each show a boat in the sea.
I’d like you to compare and contrast these pictures and say what these pictures make
you feel

(ONE MINUTE)

Candidate A: Do you like spending time near the sea?

(TWENTY SECONDS)
Part 3
Now, I’d like you to talk about something together for about three minutes. I’m just going
to listen.
Imagine you are doing a school project on how to save our planet.
Here are some ideas about things we can do to save our planet.
First talk together about how useful these actions could be. Then decide which two
pictures would be the best to use in your school project.

(THREE MINUTES)

part 4 ( 4 minutes)

1. What is the most important threat for our planet?

2. Are you interested in environmental issues?
3. Would you become or are you already a member of greenpeace or any other such
organization?
4. Are there things we can do at home to help save energy?
5. What is the most important environmental problem in your country?
6. It seems that the climate is changing. What problems do you think people are going
to have in the future because of that?
7. Are there things we can do save the water supplies?
(FOUR MINUTES)

TOPIC: POLLUTION - ENVIRONMENT

Compare and contrast. Say where you would like to be and why
 TOPIC: POLLUTION - ENVIRONMENT
Compare and contrast. Say what these pictures make you feel
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