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Prepare for Cambridge Exams Unit 7

SPEAKING 2 Now practise describing the photo for one minute.
Take turns with your partner.
Describing a photo 3 Now look at photo B. Use the questions in 1 to help you
think about the photo.
ABOUT THE EXAM
In this part of the test, the examiner shows you a photo and Say as much as you can about the photo. The
asks you to describe it. You talk by yourself for about one TIP examiner wants to know how much vocabulary you
minute. When you finish, the examiner asks your partner to know. Describe everything you can see, even if you
describe a different photo. think it is obvious.

1 Listen to a student describing photo A. Which of the
questions below does the student answer? NOW YOUR TURN
Where are the people? How are the people feeling?
What are they doing? What food and other objects 4 Take turns to describe photo B to your partner.
What are they wearing? can you see?
B
A

Taking turns and showing interest
TASK
ABOUT THE EXAM Your photographs showed people and food. Now
In the final part of the speaking test, the examiner asks you I’d like you to talk together about the food you
to have a conversation with your partner and tells you the eat at home and the food you eat in restaurants.
topic. It is connected with the photos you described.

5 Listen to two students doing the Task. What
question does the boy ask at the beginning? What other
questions do you hear?

6 We can use these words and phrases to show
interest and keep the conversation going. Listen to the
conversation again and identify the ones you hear.

Do you? I don’t. Me too. Really?
So do I. That’s interesting! What about you?

This is a conversation, so you need to take turns to 7 Do the Task with your partner. Begin the
TIP speak. Ask your partner questions and respond to conversation with one of the questions from exercise 5
what your partner says.
and use the words and phrases from exercise 6.

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