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    This document provides worksheets and activities to practice conversation skills at CEFR level B1. It includes an activity where students take turns speaking about familiar topics while using provided words to fill gaps. Another activity identifies functions of sample conversational sentences like giving thinking time or checking understanding. It also notes good speakers say things in different ways, fill silences, and ensure understanding rather than speaking to hear themselves. The resource aims to help with conversational exams and was developed using insights from analyzing spoken language data.

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    This document provides worksheets and activities to practice conversation skills at CEFR level B1. It includes an activity where students take turns speaking about familiar topics while using provided words to fill gaps. Another activity identifies functions of sample conversational sentences like giving thinking time or checking understanding. It also notes good speakers say things in different ways, fill silences, and ensure understanding rather than speaking to hear themselves. The resource aims to help with conversational exams and was developed using insights from analyzing spoken language data.

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    B1 - Speaking Activities - Worksheet 4

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    This document provides worksheets and activities to practice conversation skills at CEFR level B1. It includes an activity where students take turns speaking about familiar topics while using provided words to fill gaps. Another activity identifies functions of sample conversational sentences like giving thinking time or checking understanding. It also notes good speakers say things in different ways, fill silences, and ensure understanding rather than speaking to hear themselves. The resource aims to help with conversational exams and was developed using insights from analyzing spoken language data.

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    Speaking activity — Worksheet 4

    CEFR level B1

    Filling the gaps


    This worksheet will help you with:
    ◗ conversation in all situations
    ◗ GESE Grade 7, topic, interactive and conversation phases
    ◗ ISE I, topic and conversation tasks

    Activity 1
    Filling the gaps
    In pairs, take turns to talk for a minute or two about a familiar subject, eg:
    ◗ Education
    ◗ Shopping
    ◗ Social media
    ◗ Village and city life
    ◗ Music
    While you’re speaking, use the words and sentences on the board to give yourself ‘thinking time’. Try to avoid silences
    and of course don’t use words from your own language.

    Activity 2
    Keeping the conversation going
    Look at these sentences (1–8). What’s the function of the phrase or sentence in bold? Choose from the functions A–C.
    Functions (what the speaker is doing)
    A giving yourself time to think before answering a question
    B checking the listener understands
    C saying something in a different way

    Number Response Function (choose from A–C)

    1 Are you with me?

    Living in a village is cheaper than living in a city, or rather,


    2
    you spend your money on different things.

    That phone is very expensive. What I mean is, it isn’t good


    3
    value for money.

    4 I’m glad you asked me that.

    I’m not sure I can go to the cinema tomorrow. That is, I might
    5
    be able to but I won’t be sure till tomorrow afternoon.

    6 Do you see what I mean?

    Does he meet all the requirements for doing well at school?


    7
    In other words, is he a good student?

    8 Well, I suppose on the whole I think ...


    Star test-taker activity
    Here are four sentences about speaking in conversation. Draw a star by the
    three things you should do, and draw a line through the one thing you shouldn’t do.

    Good speakers:

    …. says something in different ways to make themselves clear.


    …. fill in the silence while they’re thinking about what to say.
    …. speak because they enjoy listening to themselves.
    …. make sure the listener understands them.

    This resource was developed using insights gained from analysis of findings from the Trinity
    Lancaster Spoken Learner Corpus, a research collaboration project between Trinity College
    London and the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University.

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