FIRST SPEAKING PART 3/4 1

Health and fitness

Make suggestions for getting healthier and fitter, using the phrases in the box. Use each
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phrase once only.

How about ... I suggest ... I think we should ... Let’s ...
Shall we ... We could ... What about ... Why don’t we ...

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Match 1–8 with a–h. Then discuss the questions in pairs. Encourage your partner to give
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their opinions.

1. Do you think you need to join a gym or exercise class
2. Some people say that it can be difficult to find time
3. Do you agree that you have to spend
4. Apart from exercising and eating well,
5. How important do you think it is to choose
6. What could you say to encourage someone
7. Do you think eating meals at regular times
8. How important do you think it is to spend some
a what else can you do to stay healthy?
b who doesn’t enjoy exercise or healthy food?
c time outdoors every day?
d to exercise or cook. What do you think?
e a lot of money in order to be fit and healthy?
f helps you stay healthy?
g a form of exercise that you enjoy?
h in order to get fit?

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Track 19 Here are some things that schools and workplaces do to encourage their
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students and employees to be healthier.

Why might these provide drinking-water

offer healthy snacks
be good ways of machines
encouraging students
or employees to be
healthier?
offer free exercise set up a website for
classes sharing healthy recipes

encourage people
to take a walk at
lunchtime

Talk to each other about why these might be good ways of encouraging students or
employees to be healthier. Then decide which way of encouraging students or employees to
be healthier would make the most difference to them.

Track 20 Listen to the examiner's questions and take turns answering them.
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Exam facts
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In Part 3, you and the other candidate are given a question and five ideas.
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Together, you have to talk about the different ideas, make suggestions, agree or disagree and
try to decide on an answer to the question.
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In Part 4, the examiner asks you some questions related to the topic you discussed in Part 3.
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