FCE PRACTICE TEST

Speaking Notes
for the Teacher

Likes and dislikes Part 1

• Do you like shopping for clothes? Why? 2 minutes
• What style of clothing do you never wear?
• What do you like most about your culture?
• What’s your favourite type of junk food? When do you eat it?

Free time
• Who do you spend most of your free time with?
• What are your plans for the coming weekend?
• If you had more free time, what would you do with it?
• How have your free-time activities changed over the last five years?

Holidays and travel

• What things do you always take with you when you travel?
• What’s the most interesting city you’ve visited?
• Where did you spend your last summer holidays?
• Would you prefer to travel abroad or travel around your own country? Why?

1 The workplace
Part 2
2 Lifestyles
4 minutes
(see pictures on page 1)

Candidate A Your pictures show people in the workplace. Compare the photographs and say which place you think is a
better place to work. (1 minute)
Candidate B Would you enjoy working in a coffee shop or restaurant? (30 seconds)
Candidate B Your photographs show different types of housing. Compare the photographs and describe the different
lifestyles of the people living in each place. (1 minute)
Candidate A In which of the two places would you prefer to live? (30 seconds)

Editing a magazine Part 3

(see page 2) 4 minutes

Part 4
4 minutes

Part 3
Imagine you are going to edit a new magazine for teenagers. Here are some proposed sections for the magazine.
A. Discuss how suitable each one would be for the magazine. (Talk for two minutes.)
B. Decide which section you would NOT include. (Talk for one minute.)

Part 4
• How popular are teenage magazines in your country?
• Do you think reading is as popular with young people now as it was in the past? Why?
• What do you like reading?
• Do you think books and magazines will eventually disappear? If so, what will replace them?

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