Date
FCE - FIRST CLASS
Level: B2 (exam preparation) Time: 50-60 minutes
Lesson Focus and Goals
This is a lesson plan designed for FCE Cambridge exam preparation that can be used
in the first class. This lesson incorporates introduction, speaking exam explanation,
speaking mock exam and students' levels assessment. The class follows each part of
the exam, explaining them and giving students a chance to present their language
knowledge. The class ends with the teacher giving feedback and students allocating
errors depending on their category (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) and
eliciting corrections. If there is enough time left, students finish by watching the
original Cambridge speaking exam video and writing all the strengths and
weaknesses.
Materials Needed Learning Objectives
- the Cambridge Sample Paper for - To get to know each other
B2 First - To understand each part of the B2 speaking
- Speaking Part 1 questions cut- exam
outs - To understand the speaking assessment scale
Structure
Lead-in: Talk about yourself (name, age, studies, experience, qualifications,
references, etc.). Optionally, you can put students into small groups to think of three
more original questions for the teacher. (4'-6')
Student introduction: Give each student some time to speak for 1'-2' about
themselves. (2'-4')
Speaking Part 1: Give one or two different questions to each student. Students
have some time to write their answers (two sentences). Students read their answers
to the rest of the group, the others must predict the questions. (4'-6')
Vocabulary analysis: Show two pictures from Speaking Part 2. Students have some
time to think of as many words that they can use to describe the pictures. Write any
useful words down. (3'-5')
Speaking Part 2: Explain the premise of speaking Part 2 (compare two pictures and
answer the question in 1 minute + answer an additional question in 30 seconds).
Students take turns to compare the pictures. (5'-7')
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Discussion: Write on the board What attracts tourists to (your town)? Give some time
to think about the answers. Collect the answers and write them around the question
in the form of a mind map. (4'-6')
Oral practice: Explain the Speaking Part 3 and show what the task looks like.
Remember to mention that in the exam, students will see the prompts for only 15
seconds before they talk. Then focus on one of the prompts, for example, Building a
large nightclub. Divide your students into two groups - one group discusses the
advantages and the other disadvantages of this prompt. After some time, mix the
students so they can present their points to each other. (6'-8')
Speaking Part 3: Students work in pairs and discuss the question and the prompts
for 2'. Then they should reach a decision in the next 1'. (4'-6')
Speaking Part 4: Explain the premise of speaking part 4. Students get one or two
questions each to discuss their opinions on the topic that is related to speaking part
3. (4'-6')
Error correction: Write all the errors on the board and discuss them. Elicit
corrections and say whether this error is related to language (grammar, vocabulary),
pronunciation, discourse management or interactive communication. (4'-6')
Homework
If you don't have enough time in class, ask your students to watch the original
Cambridge speaking video to fully understand how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeZp0n0JHw
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