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Speaking
Parts 1 and 2
© Work in pairs. Tell your partner about the city,
town or village that you come from.
1 Where is it?
2 What does it look like?
3 What do people do there?
@ @ Listen to Ulia describing her city and answer
these questions.
1 What words does Ulia use to describe her city?
2. What phrases does she use to help her keep
going?
© Read these Part 1 questions and think how you
could answer each of them using the prompts
below to help you. Then work in pairs and take
turns to ask and answer the questions.
Can you describe your town or village?
2. How important is tourism in your town/
village? Why? / Why not?
3. What places would you recommend people to
visit in your town/village?
4 What festivals take place in your local area?
1 live in a town/village that
It’s very important because
but
Twould recommend X, which is
lace to visit, hecause
We celebrate X, which takes place ... / The X festival is
held on
/ Hive in X, which
/ It's not very important,
/ think X is a good
© Work in pairs. Match the adjectives below (1-12)
with their opposites in the box. Then discuss
which adjectives describe opinions (0) and which
describe facts (F). Some may be both (F/0).
aneient awful dirty dull noisy
“outdated poor quiet stressful
unimpressive unpopular urban
1 modern ancient, F/O 7 relaxing
2. peaceful 8 impressive
3 clean 9 wealthy
4 busy 10 colourful
5S rural 1 fashionable
6 popular 12. wonderful
© page 128 Fact and opinion adjectives
unite
© Work in pairs. Use two adjectives from Exercise 4
to describe each of these scenes. Add an article
where appropriate.
89. PNP SIV,
hotel
nsdern,
landscape experience
© @ Read this task, then listen to Ulia giving her
tall
Describe a holiday you particularly enjoyed.
You should say:
where you went
why you went there
what you did
and explain why you enjoyed the holiday so
much. \ ‘As you listen, note down any adjectives she uses @ Work in pairs. Take turns to read Ulia’s answer in
to describe th Exercise 3 aloud, putting the pauses in the same
1 Red Sea places.
2 sea life she saw
3. pyramids and national museum © @ Work in pairs.
4 whole holiday. 1 Read the extract below from Ulia’s Part 2 answer
and mark where you think she should pause.
2 Listen and check your answer.
3. Take turns to read the answer aloud.
Pronunciation: Chunking 2
Work in pairs. Take turns to do the Speaking task
in Exercise 6. Before you speak, take a minute to It was funny, because usually I’m a person who's.
prepare your talk. quite scared of things, and | didn’t think I would
put a mask on my face or go under the water ~ but [
yhange partners and take turns to do this
ina oh ° wanted to see the coral so much.
Speaking task.
Describe your idea of a perfect holiday.
‘You should say: Writing
where it would be Task 2
how you would get there @ Work in pairs. Read this Writing task and
where you would stay underline the key ideas.
and explain why this would be your perfect
holiday. Write about the following topic.
‘According to an international travel magazine,
many tourists today fly straight (0 their hottday
resort and almost never leave it. Unlike tourists
in the 19603 and ‘70s, they return home with no
experience of the local culture.
Wiy do you think this happens? How was tourism.
different in the past?
Give reasons for your answer and include any
relevant examples from your own experience.
Grouping words together in chunks improves
your overall fluency.
Listen to this sentence from Ulia’s answer to
‘the first Part 1 question (Speaking, Exercise 2). Is
“it easier to understand with or without a pause? @ How does this photo illustrate the key ideas in the
“I come from Balakovo in Russia. Writing task?
|, Listen to these two versions of Ulia’s next
sentence. Which is easier to understand?
a It's a/ very modern industrial / city / which is /
situated / on the / river Volga
b it’s very modern / industrial city / which is
situated / on the river Volga. Som oE EE SES SES
{®) Listen to this extract from Ulia’s Part 2 talk
and mark with / where the speaker pauses.
Yd like to talk about a holiday which I took in 2005.
Its a holiday that I remember very well because we
had such a fantastic time. I went with three other
girls, who are all friends of mine, and we still talk
about this holiday today.
Tourist attractions (
