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GENERAL ENGLISH · IELTS COURSE · INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2)

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1 Warm up
A lark is a bird that is active early in the morning, while an owl is a night bird. Which one are you?
Complete the quiz below by choosing the answers that are true for you.

Calculate your score:

17 - 20 points - definitely a lark 5 - 8 points - more of an owl than a lark

13 - 16 points - more of a lark than an owl 1 - 4 points - definitely an owl

9 - 12 - you are neither an owl nor a lark

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Answer the following questions.

1. How can this information be useful?

2. What are some jobs that are suitable for a lark? For an owl?

3. Do you think it’s possible to change from a lark to an owl, or an owl to a lark?

4. Could we say that some countries or cultures are more owl or lark?

2 Vocabulary

Work in A/B pairs. Complete each item in your exercise with a missing word from the box. Then
share your answers with your partner.

Student A: phrasal verbs

drop / get / lie / sleep / stay / wake

1. I don’t need an alarm to up because my mother always calls me!

2. I sometimes lie awake until after midnight, but I usually off around 2:00 am.

3. I’d like to in on Sundays, but I have to walk the dog early in the morning.

4. On New Year’s Eve, we always up until after midnight.

5. The fire alarm at 3:30 am disturbed everyone except me - I can through anything!

6. When I up, the first thing I do is have a shower.

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Student B: collocations

fall / fast / light / wide / set / take

1. Be sure to the alarm tonight - we have to be at the airport really early.

2. I wish the baby would get tired - it’s ten o’clock and she’s still awake.

3. If you can’t asleep at night, try reading something really boring.

4. My dad is asleep on the sofa, snoring really loudly, as usual.

5. Please keep the noise down if you come home late. I’m a really sleeper.

6. Sometimes, if things are quiet at work, I a little nap in the afternoons!

Answer the following questions.

1. What’s the difference between getting up and waking up? When do you usually do these things?

2. What do you think is the opposite of a light sleeper? What kind of sleeper are you?

3. Fast asleep does not mean go to sleep quickly. What do you think it means?

4. What does snoring mean? Who snores in your family?

3 Speaking part 1: model answer

In Part 1 of the IELTS speaking exam, you have to answer some questions about everyday topics.
Listen to a student answering five questions and cross out one item in each list which does NOT
relate to their answer.

1. Question 1: six, nine, ten.

2. Question 2: go out with friends, watch a movie on TV, go to the gym.

3. Question 3: doing some yoga, having a hot drink, switching off my messages.

4. Question 4: store new memories, wake up very early, get up in the middle of the night.

5. Question 5: an accident, lose your job, serious health problems.

Can you remember what the five questions were? Listen again and check your ideas.

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4 Language in context

Read the sentences from the recording and put the words in bold in the right order. Then explain
what the phrases in bold mean.

1. In my experience, if work has been stressful, it can sometimes be difficult to drop off, even if dead
/ feet / on / your / you’re /

2. Luckily, once I’m in bed, I’ll a / be / light / like / out, and I will generally sleep through until the
morning.

3. be / being / can / dangerous / deprived / sleep

Tell your partner about one of these things. Try to speak for one minute.

• a time when you were dead on your feet

• whether you are usually out like a light or find it difficult to drop off
• a time when you’ve been sleep deprived for a few days or weeks

5 Speaking: your turn

You are going to practise speaking for Part 1. Read the information in the box.

Tips

• In this part of the exam, you will answer questions about three or four everyday topics.
You can expect to answer questions about your home, your hometown, work, or study.
There may also be some more unusual topics like sleep. This part of the exam lasts 4-5
minutes.
• Answer the questions in full sentences and try to give one or two extra pieces of
information.

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Although there is no time for planning on this part of the exam, it is helpful to prepare some ideas
before you answer the questions in class. Complete the table by making a note of just one or two key
words that you would use to answer each question. Try to use vocabulary from the lesson.

question my answer extra information 1 extra information 2

How much sleep do

you need per night?

What time do you get

up at the weekend?

What going-to-sleep
routine works best for
you?

Why do you think

teenagers sometimes
find it difficult to get
up in the morning?

Why is sleep
important for us?

Work in pairs to ask and answer the questions.

Extra challenge: think of more questions about sleep or daily routines for work and study to ask each
other.

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6 How did you do?

Complete the table and answer the final question.

Part 1 Part 1 speaking yes sometimes no

Content I can give a long

enough answer:
an idea plus one
or two pieces of
extra
information.

Vocabulary and I can use a good

grammar range of
language,
accurately.

Fluency I can speak

without too
much hesitation.

Pronunciation I can speak

clearly enough to
be understood.

Self-presentation I can present

myself in a
friendly and
positive way.

What is the most important thing that you need to do to improve before the exam? How can you do
this?

Tips

Here are some suggestions for activities you can do to improve your speaking.

• Practise the activities from class again at home, in front of the mirror.
• When you practise, repeat speaking activities twice and make them better the second
time by checking pronunciation or changing the vocabulary.
• Make sure your body language is confident - this will actually improve your performance.
Smile!

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7 Optional extension

Listen to the first model answer the student gives and notice how the words in bold are stressed in
each chunk. Listen again and then repeat.

In English, some words carry more information and therefore receive more stress. We
pronounce these words as louder, longer and sometimes higher than the other words in the
sentence. This helps our listeners understand what we’re saying. The general rule is that the
information at or near the end of a chunk or sentence receives the stress.

Let’s see. / I fall asleep at around ten every night / and I set the alarm for six on weekdays, / so I’d
say I get around eight hours of sleep a night. / I think that’s a healthy amount.

Work with these sentences from three other model answers to mark the stress on the main information
words in each chunk.

1. Of course, / I stay up later at the weekend / because I might go out with friends / or watch a
movie on TV at home. / But I’d say I’m usually fast asleep / by one in the morning / at the
weekends.

2. In my experience, / if work has been stressful, / it can sometimes be difficult to drop off, / even
if you’re dead on your feet.

3. Being sleep deprived can be dangerous. / In the short term, / you might fall asleep / while
you’re driving and cause an accident. / In the long term, / it can cause serious health problems.

Practise saying the answers with the right sentence stress.

Extra challenge: give your own answers to the questions from the speaking stage again, focusing on
sentence stress.

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