PET (B1)
FCE (B2)
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
12 speaking prompts for cafe conversation classes
1. You're at the bakery. You need a birthday cake for your kid with your favourite cartoon character. The baker has never seen or heard of this character. Describe the character as well as you can so the baker can create your cake.
2. You are in the police station. You saw someone committing a terrible crime. The police officer wants you to describe the criminal. Describe one of your classmates, but be careful not to look at them for too long or they will know it was you who gave them away to the cops.
3. In pairs see how many of the shops we passed to get to the cafe you can recall.
4. Judgy people-watching. Carefully look at the other people in the cafe. Can you guess what their jobs are? Do you think they have kids? What do you think they study/ied? Do you think they are from Auckland? Do you think they like parties? Do you think they are religious? Do you think they are left or right in their politics?
5. Three-word sentences. Have a dialogue with each other, but you are only allowed three words at a time.
6. 20 Y/N questions. Think of a job. You partner has to guess the job in 20 questions. You can only say "yes" or "no". Think of a wild animal, etc
7. You are yourself aged 7. You partner has to ask you five questions to find out what you're like. E.g. Where do you like to go? Who's you're best friend? What's your favourite food? etc...
8. Do you have any party tricks? Show your partners and teach them your trick.
9. 2 truths and a lie. Tell your partner two true things and one lie about you on these topics:
animals
clothes
school
food
You partner has to guess which is the lie.
10. Interruption - what, when, who, why, where, how, which? In this game you must try to ask your partner as many questions as possible. But you must always ask a new question before they have completely finished telling you the answer.
Start with this question: What's a good memory for you?
11. Exactly ten words. Tell you partner about each of these things in exactly 10 words:
Your hopes and dreams
Something that makes you angry
Something you'll never forget
Something you can't do very well
Something you miss
Your favourite item of clothing
Your worst fear
What you want to do do tonight
How you have changed in the last year
12. You have $100 for each of the students at the cafe. Decide what gift you'll buy each person. Why?
Monday, September 9, 2024
9 speaking prompts
1. You need a wedding cake for your wedding. You have $10,000
just for the cake – design it.
2. Three-word sentences. Write a dialogue with each other,
but you are only allowed three words at a time. Make the dialogue about
Sport
Food
Parties
Travel
3. 20 Y/N questions.
Think of a job. You partner has to guess the job in 20 questions. You can only
say "yes" or "no". Think of a wild animal, etc
4. You are yourself aged 9. You partner has to ask you five
questions to find out what you're like. E.g. Where do you like to go? Who's
you're best friend? What's your favourite food? etc...
5. Do you have any party tricks? Show your partners and
teach them your trick.
6. 2 truths and a lie. Tell your partner two true things and
one lie about you on these topics:
Your country
Your family
Your likes and dislikes
Your partner has to guess which is the lie.
7. Interruption - what, when, who, why, where, how, which?
In this game you must try to ask your partner as many questions as possible.
But you must always ask a new question before they have completely finished
telling you the answer.
Start with this question: What's a good memory for
you?
8. Exactly ten words. Tell you partner about each of these
things in exactly 10 words:
Your hopes and dreams
Something that makes you angry
Something you'll never forget
Something you can't do very well
Something you miss
Your favourite item of clothing
Your worst fear
What you want to do do tonight
How you have changed in the last year
9. You have $500 for one of the students in class. Decide
what gift you'll buy that person. Then say what the present is but don’t say
which student it its for – the rest of the class has to guess who.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Expressing the purpose of a thing
Expressing the purpose of a thing:
1. What do you do with it?
2. What's it for?
3. Who uses it?
4. How do you use it?
5. Why is it necessary?
6. What's it made of?
7. Where do you use it?
8. Can you use it as something else?
9. Can you use it with something else?
10. Do you think it's useful or not?
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
WINDOW GREEN WATER BLACK
WINDOW
Wind comes through different parts of the window.
The window in my room is difficult to open and close.
The fresh air coming in when I open it early in the morning.
A peaceful place in the house where you can look at the sunset.
Looking out of the window.
Wind comes in through my bedroom window.
We are going to buy a house very close to the city where I grew up. The house needs new windows. It's going to be expensive. I'm a bit worried about this.
A window at my house got broken because my sibling put a knee through it.
From a window back home I can see the Swiss Alps and the lake of Zurich.
I see this window, but I don't know why.
I always set my desk next to a window so I can get a enough light and air to work or study.
GREEN
Green apples, pears, grass, frogs
One of my favourite colours. My favourite football team wears green uniforms.
A peaceful landscape viewed from the top of a mountain.
The cherry tree where I used to take a rest with Simone.
I like to walk through the rainforest - you have so many shades of green there.
Sitting on the green grass under a tree in the park.
My favourite colour. My hometown football team wears green and white shorts.
There's a green car in my neighbourhood, which I see quite a lot.
Green grass and leaves.
Think about a green pen.
I love green tea. It makes me feel refreshed every morning.
WATER
Waterfalls. Rivers. Fountains. Sea. Flood.
I forgot to bring water to school with me today.
Refreshing, pure and clear river flowing.
Just the sea.
I drink all day long.
I put my hand in to feel how cold it is.
My favourite element. My kids love it as well. They never want to come out of the pool.
2015 was a cruel summer for us. It came down to water. A drought.
The ocean
The tap water at home!
Water is one of the most important things for the body. My mother always asks me to drink two litres a day.
BLACK
Dark space. Monster. Fear, Halloween.
I prefer wearing black clothes, though I'd say blue, red or green, if asked which colours I like.
Absence of light.
The dark in your room before falling asleep.
Looking up to the sky during the night in the desert. First you see mainly black, then stars begin to appear.
My comfort colour. The colour I go for when I have to pick one.
I have a picture of the All Blacks in my mind. I love the shirts of this rugby team. Black!
Black is one of the generous colours for males and females. So that's why it's one of my favourite colours.
Inside a cave with no lights.
Think about a black pen.
Black coffee is the best drink in the world.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Robert Frank - The Americans
1)What kind of person makes a good photographer?
(2)Do you like taking photographs? Are you a good photographer?
(3)Do you prefer digital photography or film photography?
(4)What’s the best photo you’ve ever taken?
(5)What’s the best photo you’ve ever seen?
(6)What makes a photo a work of art?
(7)What kind of photography do you like looking at?
(8)Do you ever go to photography exhibitions?
(9)What do you think of black and white photography?
(10)How has digital technology changed the way we use
photographs?
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly - what is essential is invisible to the eye,”
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