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CAE FCE Speaking Functions

Brainstorming of functions for CAE and FCE speaking exams. Add exponents to make token cards for students to use when practising the speaking component of the exam

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CAE FCE Speaking Functions

Brainstorming of functions for CAE and FCE speaking exams. Add exponents to make token cards for students to use when practising the speaking component of the exam

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NEW EXAM TOKEN CARDS 2014:

FUNCTIONAL AREA
Launch the discussion

Do you mind if I start ?

Shall we start by
looking at this one ?

Developing your partners last


comment or idea

Avoiding saying just In my opinion,


I think

Well, the way I see


it is..

Disagreeing politely/constructively

Inviting someone else to give an


opinion

Dealing with a difficult question

Playing for time

(see a case fluency


tips)

The first thing that


strikes me is that

Whats noticeable is
that

First impressions/ ideas

Refocussing after a digression

Agreeing strongly

Clarifying for others

Changing your mind

Postives and Negatives 1)

Postives and Negatives 2)

Checking youve understood your


partner/ paraphrasing your partner

or perhaps I can
put it better like
this..

What I suppose Im
saying is

although having said


that I suppose..

I suppose the main


pitfall might be that..

adding an afterthought

Actually, its just


occurred to me that

Self-repair/ re-starting

Ranking

Summarising agreement so far

Comparing and contrasting

Interrupting politely

Resuming after and interruption

Rounding things off

whereas here..

..unlike in this picture


where

Summarising/concluding

So, all in all

Stating the balance of positives and


negatives

Hedging

PS- going back to a previous train of


thought

which brings me back


to what I was saying
before about

Speculating

Limits of your knowledge

as far as I know

Also, think about raising/ focussing/ emphasising


Concession- putative opponent /objection/ devils advocate
Referring to other peoples views
Introducing an example /illustration (see also DELTA IELTS Adv Sp Amplification / Illustration)
Vague tails ??? (or something like that) (or that kind of thing)
Sequencing .
Introducing particular perspectivesFiller words for rhythm ? Right, well ,actually, so,

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