Academic English for International Exams

Course Book

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  • C

Read the prompt below.

What type of work would you like to choose as a career? Why would you make this choice? Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Outline your answer.

The job that I would like to choose as a career is .

Reason 1: .

Reason 2:

 

Using the above outline, give a spoken response to the prompt of the task.

You have 45 seconds.

Prompt: What type of work would you like to choose as a career? Why would you make this choice? Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Now listen to the sample response:

  • photographer – someone who takes photographs
  • enable – to give someone the opportunity to do something
  • remote – far away from cities or towns
  • diverse – different from each other
  • habitat – the place where a certain animal normally lives

Make notes to remember the sample response and write down any useful expressions.

For my career, I would choose to be .

I would prefer this job because .

would allow me to .

Such a career .

I would get to .

The experiences .

Try to reproduce the sample response.

You have 45 seconds.

Prompt: What type of work would you like to choose as a career? Why would you make this choice? Include specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Now make your own response using the outlines and expressions from A and B to help you.

You have 45 seconds.