Part 2: Comparing Photos

B2 · Upper-intermediate59 minCambridge ExamsLesson 3 of 5 · Outline

Aims

Filling one minute with comparison and careful speculation, landing the printed question before time runs out, and answering your partner's thirty-second question well

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Today's Goal: Fill a Minute Without Running Out

    4 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Longest Minute in the Exam

    Read a 439-word text about The Longest Minute in the Exam

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Comparing and Speculating

    10 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The One-Minute Turn

    Frame – Contrast – Speculate – Land, 4 steps

  4. Listening8 min

    Listening: A Model Long Turn

    2 listening passages, 6 comprehension questions

  5. Other5 min

    Activity: Your Turn: Two Photographs

    2 pictures to describe, 6 prompts

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Careful Guessing

    Gap-fill exercise, 8 items

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Let's Discuss

    5 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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to speculatewhereasto have in commonthe settingin the foregroundin the backgroundto strike somebodyan expressionpresumablyat a glance

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