Tag: speaking

C2 · Education, study & language

C2 Listening and speaking: How to escape education’s death valley

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If you happen to be a teacher, a parent or a student, you will have very probably spent a great deal of time thinking and speaking about school and education. You will also have probably wondered what schools are for and if they actually work at all. Astonishing as it may seem, you will also…… Continue reading C2 Listening and speaking: How to escape education’s death valley

C 2 · law & crime

C1/C2 Listening Knife Crime in London

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What types of crimes are rising in your country? What are people currently worried about concerning crime? Look at the picture below. How would you classify this list ranging from 1 to 10 according to its frequency? Serena’s blog In the following listening activity, you will hear about the rise in knife crime in London.…… Continue reading C1/C2 Listening Knife Crime in London

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Interacting in conversation: Reply questions

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Serena’s blog One of the things that examiners assess during speaking tests at the EOI is interaction; as the examinees take this test in pairs. Therefore, during this test it is fundamental to allow conversation to flow, because if this fails it could very possibly mean that whatever was said, had been learnt off by…… Continue reading Interacting in conversation: Reply questions

C 2 · Media, arts, literature & entertainment · Open cloze

Funny or not so funny?

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We all saw it on the news this morning. Just when we had high hopes of receiving an award for Spanish cinema, there goes Will Smith who gives Chris Rock a slap in the face and drops an F-bomb opening the debate on whether certain issues should be overlooked in the name of humour and…… Continue reading Funny or not so funny?

C 2 · law & crime

C2 Listening Working on the Parole Board

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Photo by Isabella Mendes on Pexels.com Paul Worsley, former judge, discusses the dilemma a parole board faces when it comes to deciding whether a person convicted of murder can be released into the community. In this listening activity, you will listen to an interview from Talkradio Europe. Fill in the blanks with the word(s) you…… Continue reading C2 Listening Working on the Parole Board

B1 · Clothes, fashion & consumerism

B2 Speaking Shopping, fashion and consumerism

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Here you will find a presentation that deals with most of the related topics of conversation for the B2 levels within shopping, fashion and consumerism.

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Confusing words: Sport and other activities: play, do or go?

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When should we use these three collocations: do, go or play? This is a confusing one! The basic rules are: use go with nearly all names of activities that end in -ing (there are some exceptions like 'boxing'), and when you would usually go somewhere to do this. Use 'play' with team games and boardgames.… Continue reading Confusing words: Sport and other activities: play, do or go?

Natural world & environment

Food waste and what we can do about it.

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In 2016 Huffpost launched a campaign calling for action against the astronomical amount of food that was being dumped into the bins by supermarkets in the USA. Although the article is already over three years old, I’ve adapted it as a reading activity that you can do after listening to the video that briefly explains…… Continue reading Food waste and what we can do about it.

C 2 · Natural world & environment

C1/C2 Listening TED Talks Are we running out of clean water?

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Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the world’s population endures extreme water scarcity for at least one month a year. Current estimates predict that by 2040, up to 20 more countries could be experiencing water shortages. These statistics raise a startling question: is the Earth running out of clean water?…… Continue reading C1/C2 Listening TED Talks Are we running out of clean water?

Countries, towns, cities & public places · House, home & daily life

B2/C1 Speaking practice. Topic: Homes and Houses

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Hello! Here is a new speaking activity I’ve prepared for upper intermediate just to get you chatting away. This one covers many of the subjects we could talk about within the topic of Homes and Houses. Rember that in this level you should be able to cope with the questions giving more or less complex…… Continue reading B2/C1 Speaking practice. Topic: Homes and Houses