Questionaries for FCE speaking

If any of you are teaching FCE (First Certificate), you will need to give your learners lots of exam training practice. Questionary of the exam (the interview) is a good place to start because the learners have to talk about everyday topics, such as their home town, what they do in their free time and work and study. Here is a list of about questions (most of which have been used in FCE exams in the last 10 years). Feel free to share them with your learners.

FCE SPEAKING

PART 1

Questionaries’ FCE Speaking  

- Do you plan to use your English in the future? How?

- Tell us about the last meal you really enjoy?

- What do you like most about your family?

- What is the best country in the world?

- What’s the most exciting video game you know?

- What’s the funniest book you have ever read and the funniest movie  you have ever seen?

- Have you ever been to an English-speaking country?

- What is your ideal way of spending an evening out?

- What do you like about the area where you live, and is there anything you  dislike?

FCE SPEAKING

PART 2

Compare and contrast these photographs, and say how important

you think it is for

families to spend

time together

Candidate A

The first photo shows a big family It looks as if they are having a good time On the left of the photo there is a refrigerator They seem to be cooking in the kitchen of a house They could be in a hot country because they are

wearing T-shirts and there is a girl wearing shorts In the second photo the family is smaller than in the first photo They seem to be walking through a park It looks as if they are having a good time because they are together It might

be autumn because they are wearing overcoats and there are brown leaves on the ground

For families, it is very important to spent time together If the family doesn’t spent time together, the

parents will separate and the sons will hate their parents

To spent time together cost much effort but finally the

reward is bigger because the family will be happy

Compare and contrast the photos and say how the

people are feeling

Candidate B

Compare and contrast the photos and say how the people are

feeling

In the foreground of the photo we can see a young couple

They might be looking at the camera They look as if they have already get married and they are in the banquet They look

very happy In the background we can see lots of people,

perhaps they are the guests of the weeding, having fun and

shouting.

In the other photo we can see two women, in what it seems to

be the room of a hospital The old woman who is in bed,

although she might be ill However, she seems to be very

happy and grateful because of the good attention she’s

receiving from the doctor The doctor also seems to be happy

of doing properly her job.

The two photos shows us happy people although they are in very different situations.

Compare and contrast the photographs and say why you think the people have chosen this type

of job.

Candidate B

Compare and

contrast the photos and say how the people are

feeling about

the animals

Candidate A

Candidate B

I'd like you to compare and

contrast these photographs,

and say which person you

think has worked harder.

(Candidate A), have you

ever done something

special?

Candidate A

I’d like you to

compare the

photographs, and say how

important it is

to have a

teacher in

each situation

compare and contrast these photographs, and say why people like these activities?

Candidate A

I’d like you to

compare the

photographs, and say

what you think it would be like to live and work in these places like these.

compare and contrast these photographs, and say why people like these activities?

Photograph one shows a musician playing the

guitar in a huge concert with thousands of people

He is playing the guitar and probably he is singing

a song at the same time to the audience This

concert might take place in a south American city

or in an Indian city because people seems like the ones that are in this countries The photo was

taken at night because of the dark sky and with a lot of young people.

Photo number two shows just the opposite of

photograph one There is only a poor young man looking sadly a book in his hands He sits on a dock and it seems like if he was in the middle of the s ea The photo was taken probably in the

afternoon It might be in a city of an oriental

country, probably the India or China or Japan the big difference between the two photos is that

in photo one there are thousands of people while

in photo number two there is only one poor boy

Compare and

contrast the photos and say what

possible problems and benefits the people collecting these things may have

Compare and

contrast the

photographs and say

why you think the people have

chosen this type

of holiday

Compare and contrast the photographs and say

what type of person you need to be to do these jobs

Compare and contrast the photographs and say why you think the people are reading

newspapers.

Compare and contrast the photographs and say how you think the people are feeling about each other

PART 3

Now I´d like you to talk about these pictures for about three minutes I´m just going to listen.

I´d like you to imagine that your friend wants

to go on holiday with his wife and two children and they have asked you for advice Here are the means of travel they are considering.

First, talk to each other about the advantages and disadvantages of these was of travelling Then say which one would be the best to

recommend to your friend.

You have only about three minutes for this, so, don´t worry if I stop you Please speak so we

can hear you.