B2 speaking L7

Speaking exam: citylife and technology

FCE speaking - lesson 7

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TODAY You will :

• practice all 4 parts of the FCe speaking exam with some vocabulary hints
• work extensively on the language and ideas related to two topics: citylifestyle, and technology
• watch analyse and interprate short videos
• learn how to change someone's opinion
• learn new vocabulary and expressions

Let's get started!

Index

Citylifestyle

Technology

Citylifestyle vocabulary

Technology vocabulary 1

Citylifestyle adjectifs

Technology vocabulary 2

Technology vocabulary 3

Life on our planet: Video

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Citylifestyle part 1: practice

Technology vocabulary 4

Citylifestyle part 2: practice

Technology part 1

Citylifestyle part 3: practice

Technology part 2

Citylifestyle part 4: practice

Technology part 3

Technology part 4

Trnshumanims Video

City life part 1 vocabulary

What’s your idea of the perfect place to live? Which of the following does it include?

• Skyscrapers
• Farms
• Residential neighbourhoods
• Bus stops
• Theatres
• Concert halls
• Art galleries
• Universities
• Offices
• Tennis courts
• Basketball courts
• Playgorunds
• City squares
• Train stations
• Power station

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City life part 1 adjectifs

What are these places like?

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City life part 1 adjectifs

What are these places like?

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Video analysis

Watch this small triler of the film "Life on our planet" and answer the questions:

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1. What kind of film is this?
2. What is it about?
3. What kind of specific topics it may tackle?

Citylife part 1 practice

"Hello my name is ... and this is my collegue ... Could you hand us the marksheet?" Where are you from? First I'd like to know something about you.

1. What do you like/ you don't like about living in your city?
2. What are the best attractions your city can offer?
3. How do you spend time when you go out downtown?
4. What is the best street food for you?
5. Do you find it easy to get around your city?

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Citylife part 2 practice

What are advantages and disadvantages of living in these places?

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Citylife part 2: follow-up question

Life in the city: Talk qbout your city

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1. Can you tell me something about your town? 2. What is the most interesting part of your town? 3. Can you describe some of the shops of your town? 4. Are transports in your town good? 5. Can you tell me about the nightlife of your town? 6. What is the difference between life in cities and life in the countryside in your country?

• exciting
• quiet
• beautiful
• crowded
• stressful

SIZE

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• big
• small

VIEWS

BUILDINGS PARKS

NIGHT LIFE

PEOPLE

ENVIRONMENT

• fantastic spectacular
• amazing
• beautiful
• impressive

• friendly
• kind
• welcoming
• busy
• unkind
• distant

• exciting
• boring
• lively

• clean
• polluted
• noisy

• modern
• historical
• spectacular
• pictoresque
• outstanding

Citylife part 3

"Now, I'd like you to talk about something for about 2 minutes. Here are places where people decide to raise their children. First have some time to look at the task. [15 seconds] Now talk to each other about which place would be the best for raising children?

countryside

Which place would be the best to rise children?

city

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seaside

village

smalltown

Citylife part 4: Discussion

Examiner: • Do you think it is more difficult living in the countryside or in a big city? Why? • Would it be easier for a foreign visitor to fit in a city or in a village? •Are there different social problems in cities and in the countriside? •Where do you think most people will live in the future?

GIVING YOUR OPINION - What I think is that ...

GIVING REASONS ... that means ...

ADDING REASONS - Another thing is that ...

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• ...so it's obvious that...

• Just as importantly, ...

• I'm no expert but...

• ... it's becauce ...

• As well as that, ...

• It's clear to me that...

• Apart from that, ...

• I might be wrong but ...

• There's also the fact that...

• One thing I'm sure of is...

• And don't forget...

City life Part 4: changing opinion

Now try to change the opinion of your partner

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TRYING TO CHANGE OPINION - But don't you think that ...

• But don't you think that..

• Yes, but isn't it true that..

• Okay, but on the other hand...

• Maybe there's another way to think about it.

• You're partly right, but...

Technology vocabulary

Look at the pictures and say what do they have in common?

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Technology vocabulary part 2

What is the most commonly applied solution?

water disalination

nuclear power plants

geothermic energy

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solar panels /solar energy

windmills /windenergy

petroleum extraction /petrol

Technology vocabulary part 3

What is an indispensible and obsolete technological advancement, why?

Obsolete

Indispensible

high speed internet

nanobots

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smartphones

teslacars

VR helmet

high tech cameras

nuclear reactor

Technology ideas

What hinders the technological developpement and how?

resources

accessibility

money

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no internet access

time

wars

inequalities

Technology speaking part 1

"Hello my name is ... and this is my collegue ... Could you hand us the marksheet?" Where are you from? First I'd like to know something about you.

1. How often do you use your mobile phone?
2. What do you use your mobile phone for?
3. Do you work on a computer? If yes, do you like this type of work?
4. Do you feel dependent on socialmedia?
5. What kind of social media are you using and how?

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Technology speaking part 2

How do your think the children are benefiting from the technology?

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Technology speaking part 3

"Now, I'd like you to talk about something for about 2 minutes. Here are some sectors where which rely on technological advances. First have some time to look at the task. [15 seconds] Now talk to each other about how these fields benefit from advances in technology

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Technology part 4: Discussion

Examiner: • What do you think about internet access being restricted in some countries of the world? • Are blogs, instant messaging and social networking sites theathening traditional face-to face communication? •Technology creates more problems than it solves. Do you agree or disagree? •Can you think of an example of technology that should never been created?

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Transhumanism Video analysis

Watch this short explaination film about the transhumanism.What is this ideology about?

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Transhumanism Video analysis

Listen again and write down the missing words

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1. Humans are in dire need of ....................................
2. ... Must surely benefit from an intelligence upgrade. Our .................................. are short.
3. Aging could be stopped and even reversed. ..................... could dramatically raise our IQ.
4. Improoving humanity through science and technology could radically change us. Such beginning would be in effect be the end of the humanity as we know it. Many transhumanist see this not only ............... but ...................
5. The future belongs to ..............................