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Speaking Parts 2 and 3 €) Work in pairs. Take turns to give your talk. You
should try to speak for two minutes.
0 Look at this task for Speaking Part 2 and make
notes about the place you would like to describe. 0 Work in pairs. Discuss how you could answer
this Speaking Part 3 question.
Describe a beautiful place you have visited in
your country.
What things attract tourists to a place?
You should say:
when you visited it
0lm Read and listen to Jamila's response.
who you went with
what you did there I How many ideas does she express in her
and explain why you think the place is so answer?
beautiful. 2 Which ideas do you agree with?

Well, I think in general people like to go to
f) ~ Listen to Jamila doing the task in Exercise 1.
places which are well-known tourist destinations
While you listen, complete the notes she made
because you know, generally people like to feel
beforehand by writing one of the adjectives from
safe when they're on holiday, especially when they
the box in each of the gaps.
travel to a foreign country. I think usually people
fantastic fresh lovely spectacular steep choose places where there are plenty of hotels, so
unspoilt warm wonderful they can get good accommodation and plenty of
things to do, so they don't get bored. Also people
tend to choose places where they think the
weather will be good, especially if they want to do
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(£) Jamila gives a general answer to the question.
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I Which tense does she use?
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2 Find four words or phrases in her answer
• Cl few JeClr'S ~o which she uses to say that she is making a
fClmoiJ generalisation.
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• 4 0 Work in pairs. Look at the Part 3 questions below
and think of ideas you could use to give general
• 5
answers to each question.
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• v.soted ~e Needles - 6 .................... r'oc..ks Beautiful places
• 7 .......... Clr'eCl
• What things attract tourists to visit a place?
• Jood eXer'c..;se
• How do places change when too many
0
8 .. . ... .. ... CloY tourists visit them?
• What can individual people do to protect
beautiful places?
Exam advice Speaking Part 2
The environment
• You may be asked to talk about something you
• Apart from tourism , what other
enjoy or like. Sound enthusiastic and think of
environmental problems are common in the
positive adjectives to describe the topic.
world today?
• Where possible, use your own words instead of
• Whose responsibility is it to deal with these
the wa.;ds given in the task, as this shows your
problems?
ability to create lk nguage.
• What can ordinary people do to protect the
0 page 54 Pronunciation: Sentence stress 2 environment?
The world in our hands @