FCE (First Certificate in English) Speaking Part Three- Key Words Game

FCE Speaking Part Three Key Words Game
Do the stages below in the order that your teacher tells you.
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Do an FCE Speaking Three task, using as many of the words below as you can,
crossing them off, taking cards or discarding cards (depending on the rules that your
teacher tells you). You can only use one card per thing you say, and what you say can’t
be exactly the same as what someone has said before.

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Brainstorm at least two sentences that you could use in Speaking Part Three for each
of the words below, concentrating mainly on controlling the conversation. The phrases
could be for starting the task, quickly agreeing or disagreeing/ moving the discussion
on, moving onto the deciding stage, starting the deciding stage, managing the deciding
stage, ending/ summarizing the deciding stage, or reporting back to the examiner.
Some phrases have more than one word below so can go in more than one place.

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Test each other on the sentences, first reading them out with the key word missing,
then helping your partner come up with suitable sentences with one of the words

about

agree

another

because

choose

decide

feel

first

let’s

need

next

only

second

seem

shall

should

time

yet

about

agree

another

because

choose

decide

feel

first

let’s

need

next

only

second

seem

shall

should

time

yet

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013

FCE Speaking Part Three Key Words Game

Brainstorm at least two phrases for each of the key words below.

about

agree

another

because

choose

decide

feel

first

let’s

need

next

only

second

seem

shall

should

time

yet

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013

FCE Speaking Part Three Key Words Game
Suggested answers

1. about “How about…?”, “What about…?”, “We also need to talk about…”

、”We haven’t

talked about this one yet”, “I still don’t really agree, so perhaps we can talk about
another one”

2. agree “I think that means we agree on…”, “I totally agree, so let’s move onto…”, “I

don’t think we’ll agree on that one, so how about”, “I still don’t really agree, so perhaps
we can talk about another one”, “We couldn’t agree. I thought… but…”

3. another “Maybe we should move onto another one”, “Shall we move onto another

one?”, “I still don’t really agree, so perhaps we can consider another one”, “Let’s skip
this one and talk about another”, “We still need another one”

4. because “We chose… because…”, “I think we can ignore… because…”, “I’d choose…

because…”, “I think this is (not very) suitable because…”, “I’m afraid I don’t really
agree because…”, “I’d be more likely to choose this one, because…”, “I wouldn’t
choose that one because…”

5. choose “From what you said, I guess you’d choose…”, “We also need to choose…”, “I

guess we’re ready to choose…”, “I’d choose… because…”, “I’d be more likely to
choose this one, because…”, “I wouldn’t choose that one because…”, “We should
probably move onto choosing (one/ two)”, “I think we’re ready to choose”

6. decide “So, we’ve decided on…”, “We decided that the most suitable ones were…

because…”, “We haven’t (really) decided…, but…”, “We also have to decide…”

7. feel “If not that one, how do you feel about…?”, “I feel (basically) the same way, so…”
8. first “Which one should we talk about first?”, “What was the first one we decided on

again?”, “We’re supposed to discuss each one first”, “I think we’ve finished the first
task, so…”

9. let’s “Let’s skip that one then.”, “We seem to have discussed them all, so let’s move

onto choosing (one/ two)”, “Let’s skip this one and talk about another”

10. need “We still need to discuss…”, “We don’t need to agree on each one, so…”, “We

still need one more.”, “We need to discuss each one before deciding”, “We still need
another one”

11. next “Which one should we discuss next?”, “What do you think about the next one?”
12. only “We have only decided on one, which is…”, “We only have about a minute left,

so…”

13. second “What about the second one?”, “What was the second question we had to

discuss?”, “I think the second best is probably…”

14. seem “It doesn’t seem like we can agree on that one, so…”, “This one seems best to

me because…”

15. shall “Shall we move onto…?”, “Shall we start with this one?”, “Shall we rush through

the last few?”

16. should “We should probably speed up a bit”, “We should probably move onto deciding

which one(s) to choose”

17. time “I don’t think we have time to discuss (all) the rest, so…”, “We seem to be running

out of time, so…”

18. yet “We haven’t agreed yet, but…”, “I don’t think we’ve discussed this one yet”, “We

haven’t discussed our second choice yet, but the first one would be…”

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013