Topic Task

Before the test, you need to prepare a topic to talk to the examiner about.

•  Choose a topic you are interested in — anything you can talk about. This could be your work, a hobby, an

issue or an experience, eg ‘Tourism in my area’.

•  Prepare your topic. Write a mind map and think of different areas to talk about related to your topic

(eg What I think about tourism, how tourism effects my area, advantages and disadvantages of tourism)

•  The examiner wants to see you use a variety of language of the level (B2) — see the language functions

on page 7. Be ready to talk about advantages and disadvantages, express your ideas and opinions,

speculate about the future, and so on.

•  Choose four or five points about your topic that interest you the most. Think about how you can use the

language functions and talk about these four or five things.

•  You can bring your notes or mind map into the exam with you.

•  Think about how to talk about each point on your mind map.

•  This is a conversation about a subject you are interested in, so don’t write a script or try to memorise

a long text.

•  The topic discussion will last up to 4 minutes.

Example of a topic — The effects of tourism on my area — and areas to talk about:

•  How I feel about tourism in my area and why (expressing and expanding ideas and opinions)

•  The good and bad effects of tourism (highlighting advantages and disadvantages)

•  What would happen if there was no tourism in my area? (speculating)

•  What local people should do (giving advice)