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This part of the exam tests your ability to speak at length coherently, use language to describe, compare and contrast and comment upon a topic. Example questions:

It lasts about 4 minutes. The examiner gives you two photographs and your partner a different pair of photographs. You have to speak about your two photographs without interruption for 1 minute and also answer a question about your partner's photographs when she has finished her long turn.

Question: In this part of the test I am going to give each of you two photographs. I would like you to talk about your photographs on your own for about 1 minute and also answer a short question about your partner´s photographs.

Question (Candidate A): Here are your photographs. They show you people participating in sporting activities. I would like you to compare the two photographs and say why sport is important to people.

Question (Candidate B): Which sport would you most like to try?

Tips and useful phrases:

Notice there are TWO instructions here (Candidate A): first you have to compare the two photographs (not describe them) and second you have to answer the question, in this case, you have to say why sport is important to people.

Listen to the instructions carefully and make sure you know what you have to talk about. If you don´t understand the instructions you should ask the examiner to repeat them: "Excuse me, could you say that again?" "I´m sorry, but would you remind repeating that?"

The question will help you with the structure of your talk:

1. Start with a general summary of the topic: "These two photographs show people involved in a sport"

2. Then move on to a comparison of the two pictures using key words to help explain the comparison:

" photographs were taken outside and of the people are concentrating hard on what they are doing. a woman rock climbing while the bottom photo shows ..."

Finally give your opinion: "In my opinion, sport is important for people in lots of ways. For example, it is a way to keep fit and..."

What strikes me about the first picture is the fact that...

This picture reminds me of...

Judging from the photograph, the children...

The man appears to be...

From what we can see here, he must...

There are many similarities...

The first picture ... whereas the other picture ...

Another important difference is...

Picture ... doesn't show ... as clearly as ...

Picture ... attempts to ... but I think picture ... does this more effectively...

All pictures are interesting, but ... gives a stronger idea of...

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This part of the exam tests your ability to speak at length coherently, use language to describe, compare and contrast and comment upon a topic. Example questions: It lasts about 4 minutes. The examiner gives you two photographs and your partner a different pair of photographs.

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Prepositions

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Get English Prepositions List PDF

There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words. In fact, the prepositions of, to and in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Here is a short list of 70 of the more common one-word prepositions. Many of these prepositions have more than one meaning. Please refer to a dictionary for precise meaning and usage. You can also see the long preposition list with example sentences here.

aboard

about

above

across

after

against

along

amid

among

anti

around

as

at

before

behind

below

beneath

beside

besides

between

beyond

but

by

of

off

on

onto

opposite

outside

over

than

through

to

toward

towards

under

underneath

unlike

until

up

upon

See also: long list of prepositions
For a full list of prepositions plus examples and quizzes, get the PDF ebook English Prepositions List by EnglishClub founder Josef Essberger. IIlustrated with example sentences, quizzes and answers.
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English Prepositions List

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Get English Prepositions List PDF There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words.

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