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1 GetSpeaking!Improving your communication skills and confidence in speaking CourseVolume2 Unit5 Language Focus: Describing Photographs Topic vocabularyFormal/Less formal settingRelaxed atmosphereTo take part in seminarsTo attend lectures/classSelf-access facilitiesIndependent learningTo listen attentivelyTo take notesTo make contributionsTo do pairwork/groupworkTo sit an examTo share views/opinionsTo carry out role-playsTo do self-directed studyUseful language forspeculatingIt will/must/might/can t daresayI supposeI imagineI wonderNo doubtIt s (un)likely thatIn all likelihoodI betThere s no wayUnit 20: Reflections on EducationTask:Presentation (1-2 minutes)Compare, contrast and speculate on photographicscenes of different educational :Choose the photographs to use for your two or three that differ in some way, for example a formalcompared to a less formal setting, an indoor and an outdoor scene, orlearners involved in different activities.

2 Alternatively, choose two or threephotos you feel have something in his will help you develop atheme and logic to your focus: Try organising your talk around three main ) Start byidentifying yourchoice of photographs anddescribe the ) Then describe, compare and contrast the ) Speculate on the atmosphere of each what the people mightbe doing or :Tick any of the vocabulary on the leftyouwant to use. Trysome of the language to speculate on the atmosphere and benefits of thescenes you re describing. Write down some of your :Role Play (15 minutes)As part of a student committee you ve been asked by your university todiscuss the following proposal as a way of making education more flexible:All lectures at university should be cancelled and made available as podcastsfor students to listen to in their own time.

3 The number of seminarsto bereduced and extra sessions madeavailable through online the pros and cons of this proposal and suggest two to threesolutions of your own to help make access to education more ensure the discussion stays focussed, try using any of the followingex pressions if you find your group straying from the subject:Anyway, where were we?Getting back to the question of ..What were you saying about ..?Let s return to the issue of ..You/Someone mentioned earlier that ..L i s t e n t oA n d r z e j f r o mP o l a n dt a l k in g o nas i m i l a rs u b j e c t .S e et h eM a r c ha r c h i v e s( I n t e r v i e w2 0)a t :s p l e n d i d- s p e a k i n g.

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