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    The document describes different speaking tasks that are part of a CELPIP test preparation. The tasks involve giving advice, describing personal experiences, describing scenes, making predictions, comparing options, and dealing with difficult situations.

    The different tasks involve giving advice to a friend, talking about a personal experience at the airport, describing a scene, making a prediction about a picture, comparing gift options and persuading a colleague, dealing with extra charges from a moving company, expressing opinions about pollution, and describing an unusual situation of getting lost on the way to a friend's house.

    Task 5 involves comparing two gift basket options for a boss's birthday and persuading a colleague about which option is better by comparing the details provided like price, contents, and origin.

    Task 1: Giving Advice

    Your friend has a classmate who asks too many questions in class. Your friend finds
    this very annoying, but the teacher doesn’t do anything about it. Your friend is upset.
    Advise your friend about what he should do to solve this problem.

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Speaking Time: 90 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 2: Talking about a Personal
    Experience

    Talk about a time when you went to the airport. Maybe you can talk about a time you
    went to pick someone up or a time you had to travel. Why were you at the airport,
    who were you with, and why do you remember that time?

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 3: Describing a Scene

    Describe some things that are happening in the picture below as well as you can. The
    person with whom you are speaking cannot see the picture.

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 4: Making a Prediction

    In the picture below, what do you think will happen next?

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 5: Comparing and Persuading

    It is your boss’s birthday and your co-workers have collected money for a gift. You
    find two suitable options. Using the pictures and information below, choose the
    option that you prefer. In the next section, you will need to persuade a colleague that
    your choice is the better choice.

    If you do not choose an option, the computer will choose one for you.* You do not
    need to speak for this part.

    *Not applicable to this PDF version.

    Preparation Time: 60 seconds.

    Option 1: Option 2:

    Prince Edward Gift Basket The Royal Collection


    - $120 - $140
    - fine selection of chocolate and candy - finest French pastries
    - imported from Europe - Scottish cookies and much more

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Preparation Time: 60 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    One of your co-workers is suggesting another gift. Persuade your co-worker that the gift you
    chose is more suitable by comparing the two.

    Your co-worker’s choice: Your choice:

    Finest Sausage Use the information from the option that you
    - $30 per kilogram chose in the previous section in your response.
    - imported from Germany
    - reduced fat

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 6: Dealing With a Difficult
    Situation

    You hired a moving company to move your apartment. The moving company told
    you that it will cost you $150. After the move finished, the movers told you that it
    would cost $250. You think you shouldn’t pay the extra money.

    Choose ONE:

    EITHER
    Talk to the movers. Tell them why you will not pay the extra amount.
    OR
    Call the company owner. Tell him why you cannot pay the extra amount.

    Preparation Time: 60 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 7: Expressing Opinions

    Answer the following question.

    Question: Do you think that reducing pollution is only the government’s


    responsibility? That is, only the government should be dealing with air pollution and
    water pollution in urban areas? Explain your reasons.

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 90 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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    Task 8: Describing an Unusual
    Situation

    You are visiting a friend who lives out of town. You can’t find her house and your
    GPS does not recognize the address. Call your friend. Explain in detail where you are
    and ask her how to get to her house.

    Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.

    Notes:

    CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking


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