REVIEW 1–8: Speaking

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1 Work in pairs to roleplay a dialogue.

Student A, you are a customer in a clothes shop

and want to buy some clothes.

Student B, you are a shop assistant in the clothes

shop.

Look at these prompt cards and use them to ask

and answer questions.

Hand out role-play cards for students to read.

You have one minute to read the prompt cards

and think about what you want to say. Please ask
me if you have any questions.

Allow 1 minute for students to read roleplay cards.

Answer questions as required.

You can begin the role-play now. Student B,

please start.

Allow 2 minutes for students to roleplay the situation.

If both students are weak and struggle to start the
role-play, use questions to prompt them e.g. How
can you ask what they want? What kinds of clothes
might you want to buy? etc.

2 Now you are each going to describe a photo

and answer some questions.
Student A, look at this photo and describe the
people you can see in the photo and what they
are doing. You have one minute to think about
this. Please ask me if you have any questions.

Allow 1 minute for Student A to look at the photo and

prepare. Answer questions as required.

Student A, please describe your photo now.

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(Allow 1 minute for Student A to describe the photo.)

Thank you!

Student B, look at this photo and describe the

people you can see in the photo and what they
are doing. You have one minute to think about
this. Please ask me if you have any questions.

Allow 1 minute for Student B to look at the photo and

prepare. Answer questions as required.

Student B, please describe your photo now.

Allow 1 minute for Student B to describe the photo.

Thank you!

Discussion questions for Students A and B (ask

these questions to both candidates and encourage
them to discuss their answers together):

1 Would you like to do a job like the ones in the

pictures? (Why?/Why not?)

2 What would be easy/difficult about doing this

kind of job? (Why?)

3 If you could choose to do any job, which job

would you choose? Why?

4 What jobs do your parents do? (Would you

like to do these kind of jobs? Why?/Why not?)

5 Do you prefer working indoors or outside?

(Why?)

6 Is it better to earn a lot of money or to have a

job you really enjoy? (Why?)

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