Task 1: Giving Advice
Your friend has a classmate who asks too many questions in class. Your friend finds
this very annoying, but the teacher doesn’t do anything about it. Your friend is upset.
Advise your friend about what he should do to solve this problem.
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Speaking Time: 90 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 2: Talking about a Personal
Experience
Talk about a time when you went to the airport. Maybe you can talk about a time you
went to pick someone up or a time you had to travel. Why were you at the airport,
who were you with, and why do you remember that time?
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 3: Describing a Scene
Describe some things that are happening in the picture below as well as you can. The
person with whom you are speaking cannot see the picture.
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 4: Making a Prediction
In the picture below, what do you think will happen next?
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 5: Comparing and Persuading
It is your boss’s birthday and your co-workers have collected money for a gift. You
find two suitable options. Using the pictures and information below, choose the
option that you prefer. In the next section, you will need to persuade a colleague that
your choice is the better choice.
If you do not choose an option, the computer will choose one for you.* You do not
need to speak for this part.
*Not applicable to this PDF version.
Preparation Time: 60 seconds.
Option 1: Option 2:
Prince Edward Gift Basket The Royal Collection
- $120 - $140
- fine selection of chocolate and candy - finest French pastries
- imported from Europe - Scottish cookies and much more
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Preparation Time: 60 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
One of your co-workers is suggesting another gift. Persuade your co-worker that the gift you
chose is more suitable by comparing the two.
Your co-worker’s choice: Your choice:
Finest Sausage Use the information from the option that you
- $30 per kilogram chose in the previous section in your response.
- imported from Germany
- reduced fat
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 6: Dealing With a Difficult
Situation
You hired a moving company to move your apartment. The moving company told
you that it will cost you $150. After the move finished, the movers told you that it
would cost $250. You think you shouldn’t pay the extra money.
Choose ONE:
EITHER
Talk to the movers. Tell them why you will not pay the extra amount.
OR
Call the company owner. Tell him why you cannot pay the extra amount.
Preparation Time: 60 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 7: Expressing Opinions
Answer the following question.
Question: Do you think that reducing pollution is only the government’s
responsibility? That is, only the government should be dealing with air pollution and
water pollution in urban areas? Explain your reasons.
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 90 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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Task 8: Describing an Unusual
Situation
You are visiting a friend who lives out of town. You can’t find her house and your
GPS does not recognize the address. Call your friend. Explain in detail where you are
and ask her how to get to her house.
Preparation Time: 30 seconds. Recording Time: 60 seconds.
Notes:
CELPIP Focus – Listening and Speaking
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