CAE Speaking

What sort of things do you enjoy learning?

What is your favourite free-time activity at the moment?

What sort of work would you most like to do in the future?

If you had the opportunity, would you take a year out and travel?

What’s the longest journey you’ve ever been?

If you could visit any country in the world, where would you go?

Do you like to give yourself aims and targets?

Talk to each other about how useful these actions are in helping the environment (2 minutes). Then decide which of these actions you think is the most important to do (1 minute).

Talk to each other about how these different things can affect our mood (2 minutes). Then decide which of these things you think the most affects people’s moods (1 minute).

1. The countryside is by far the best place to live. What do you think? 2. The damage to the environment is irreversible. Do you agree? 3. Most forest fires are caused by humans and could be prevented. What’s your opinion?

Are you planning to do any courses in the near future?

Compare two of the pictures and say how difficult it might be for the people to do these different activities, and what benefits people might get from doing these activities in groups.

Do you think that all skills can be taught or are some people born with them? Who do you think should pay for workers to acquire the skills they need – the employer or the worker?

Compare two of the pictures and say why people might enjoy going to these events, and how difficult the events might be to organise.

Compare two of the pictures and say why these people might be making these decisions, and how difficult it might be to make the decisions.

Compare two of the pictures and say why the people might have chosen to do these things together, and how the people might be feeling.

Do you think it’s better to show your feelings or to hide them? Would you say that you are generally in a good mood or a bad mood? Some people say that laughter is a good form of therapy. What do you think?

Talk to each other about how important these skills are for people’s working lives today and why (2 minutes). Then decide which of these skills you think will be the most important to have in the future (1 minute).