RfB2First - Speaking Part 1 - WS
RfB2First - Speaking Part 1 - WS
RfB2First - Speaking Part 1 - WS
1 Choose five of the following categories that you might expect to be in Part 1 of the
Speaking paper.
Why would the other four categories not be asked in this part of the test?
2 Write a question for each of the five categories selected.
Work with a partner. Interview each other using the questions you have written.
3 Watch two students, Christina and Paolo, doing Part 1 of the Speaking paper and
complete the following sentences:
a Christina: I’m from Corinth, in Greece. I have lived there all my life.
b Interlocutor: How often do you play football?
Paolo: week. Yeah, every Saturday.
c Christina: Well, not really hobbies, but in my I like to go to the cinema.
d Paolo: Everything is … well … most things in English nowadays.
e Christina: Maybe, in the future I can use my English in another country. That
good.
f Paolo: … perhaps, in the future I could my own business.
4 Answer the following questions:
a What kind of questions did the interviewer ask?
b Who do you think performs better in this part of the test? Why?
c What is wrong with Christina’s first answer?
5 Work with a different partner. Interview them using the same questions you wrote during
Exercise 2. Try to improve your answers.
Don’t forget!
Give reasons and examples to support your answers, but make sure they are relevant to the
question.