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FCE Speaking Part One functional language card games Instructions Deal out the cards and discard the cards when you successfully do those things with phrases which no one has used so far today. OR Spread the cards over the table and take them when you successfully do those things with new language. OR One person will hold all the cards and give them to people as they successfully do those things with original phrases. Take or discard cards as you are speaking (you don’t have to wait until you have finished speaking). You should be able to do more than one per answer, perhaps even two with the same function if you use different language for each. Make questions about the topics below to prompt the speaking during which they will try to do those things.

art/ media

books/ reading

brothers / sisters

cinema/ films/ TV

concerts/ music

cooking/ food and drink

eating out

exercise/ fitness/ health

foreign languages

free time/ leisure

friends

get on with

holidays

home/ at home

hometown

interested in/ hobbies

learn new things/ study

parents

party

shopping

technology/ Internet

the area where you live

transport/ travel

weekends

work/ job Brainstorm at least three useful high-level phrases for each of the functions on the cards.

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FCE Speaking Part One functional language card games Photocopiable cards Photocopy and cut up one pack per group of three or four students.

Different phrases for checking

Different phrases for filling silence

Vagueness/ Uncertainty

Changing your mind/ Correcting yourself

Explaining unfamiliar things

Different phrases for giving reasons

Different time expressions

Different tenses and similar verb forms

Mentioning the other candidate(s)

Different phrases for checking

Different phrases for filling silence

Vagueness/ Uncertainty

Changing your mind/ Correcting yourself

Explaining unfamiliar things

Different phrases for giving reasons

Different time expressions

Different tenses and similar verb forms

Mentioning the other candidate(s)

Different phrases for checking

Different phrases for filling silence

Vagueness/ Uncertainty

Changing your mind/ Correcting yourself

Explaining unfamiliar things

Different phrases for giving reasons

Different time expressions

Different tenses and similar verb forms

Mentioning the other candidate(s)

Different phrases for checking

Different phrases for filling silence

Vagueness/ Uncertainty

Changing your mind/ Correcting yourself

Explaining unfamiliar things

Different phrases for giving reasons

Different time expressions

Different tenses and similar verb forms

Mentioning the other candidate(s)