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Classroom activities for City & Guilds International Spoken ESOL exams

If you are a teacher, you will most certainly find the downloadable classroom activities - developed by our experts - to be of immense practical use.

The activities will ensure that both students and teachers spend classroom-time enjoyably and usefully. We recommend them to English teacher colleagues preparing their candidates for City & Guilds exams as well as to colleageus preparing their students for other exams but would like to introduce something different to their daily routines.

We assigned a level to each task, however by minor changes you will be able to adjust them to any level that will match your students' needs without losing in the excitement the tasks will bring to your classroom.

Activity - 1

Level: A2
Aim: To practice the language of describing pictures of objects and people, to practice asking questions about pictures
Timing: 20 minutes

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Activity - 2

Level: A2
Aim: To practise talking fluently for one minute
Timing: 30 minutes

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Activity - 3

Level: A2
Aim: to practise situations
Timing: 15 minutes 

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Activity - 4

Level: A2- B1
Aim: A typical problem of part 4 is that the students make very few notes in the allowed preparation time (30 sec). The aim of this activity is then to practice writing down just 5 key words (associations) and then giving a speech on them.
Timing: 10-20 minutes 

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Activity - 5

Level: B1-B2
Aim: To practice answering basic questions on familiar topics
Timing: 15 minutes 

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Activity - 6

Level: B1-B2
Aim: To introduce situations and practice language functions typical of part 2
Timing: 20 minutes

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Voice recorder activities for ISESOL exams
Prepared by Vincent Smidowicz