Speaking activities — Grades 10–12

Resources

These activities complement communicative teaching practices. They don’t cover all exam requirements — remember to use the GESE Exam information booklet to ensure that you cover all the exam content.

There is no pre-designed Topic form to download at this level (GESE Grades 4, 5 and 6 only).

Exam preparation

GESE Grade 10 — CEFR level C1.1

• Activity 1 — preparing for formal topic presentation 
• Activity 2 — preparing for topic discussion 
• Activity 3 — preparing for interactive phase 
• Activity 4 — preparing for listening phase
• Activity 5 — preparing for conversation phase

GESE Grade 11 — CEFR level C1.2

• Activity 1 — preparing for formal topic presentation
• Activity 2 — preparing for topic discussion
• Activity 3 — preparing for interactive phase
• Activity 4 — preparing for listening phase
• Activity 5 — Preparing for conversation phase

GESE Grade 12 - CEFR level C2

• Activity 1 — preparing for formal topic presentation
• Activity 2 — preparing for topic discussion
• Activity 3 — preparing for interactive  
• Activity 4 — preparing for the listening phase
• Activity 5 — preparing for the conversation phase

Sample prompts

• Prompts for the Interactive Task 
• Prompts for the Listening Task

Additional speaking activities

The following additional speaking activities at CEFR level C1 are informed by insights gained from the Trinity Lancaster Spoken Learner Corpus research project. Learning from prior assessment results, these activities focus on practising aspects of speaking that will help students improve their communication skills in all situations.

• C1 Activity Worksheet 1 — expressing disagreement
• C1 Activity Worksheet 2 — expressing certainty and uncertainty
• C1 Activity Worksheet 3 — take and make