C1 – Speaking Exam – Part 3 (Collaborative task)
This part of the exam test your ability to give your opinion and react to your partner’s. Your skills at interactive communication
How long do you have to speaking for ?
2 minutes then 1 minute to try and reach an agreement.
How is speaking part 3 marked?
Things to practice:
Useful phrases
Agreeing
We see eye to eye.
Yeah, I’d go along with that.
Absolutely!
Spot on.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I couldn’t agree more.
You have a point there.
I’m with you 100% on this one.
Disagreeing
If you were right, I would be inclined to agree with, but you not because of X, Y and Z
We don’t see eye to eye.
I take your point but…
I tend to disagree with you there.
That’s not always the case
I beg to differ
Isn’t it more a case of…
Soliciting your partner’s opinion.
What’s your take on….?
Where do you stand on….?
In my opinion…., would you go along with that?
What are your thoughts on this?
Negotiating phrases
More phrases
Another point I’d like to add about … is…
It’s also worth bearing in mind that…
Coming back to what you was saying about …. I’d also like to point out that…
I think it’s important not to forget that…
The vast majority of people tend to think that…
At the end of the day…
When all’s said and done…
Moving towards an agreement
- Get rid of the worst ideas
- Let’s rule out…
- Take it down to a couple of options
- Let’s narrow it down to _______________ and ____________
- Start to move towards one
- I’m leaning towards…
- Make a choice
- So we are agreed, let’s settle on…
Common mistakes made by Spaniards
Try not to dominate the conversation as you will lose marks for discourse management.
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