Help & Encouragement and Collecting - Test 7

C1 Advanced · Speaking Long Turn · Cambridge English Advanced 2, Cambridge University Press

Compare two of your three pictures and speak on your own for about a minute. Then answer a short question about your partner's pictures.

I'd like you to compare two of the pictures, and say what sort of help and encouragement the people are giving in these situations, and how useful this might be.

It's your turn first. Here are your pictures. They show people giving help and encouragement in different situations.

Help and encouragement

A teacher helping young schoolchildren at rows of computers in a classroom

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candid documentary photograph, teacher leaning in to help young schoolchildren in red school uniforms working at rows of white computers in a school computer room, bright monitors along white desks, other pupils working in the background, natural indoor light, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

Warmly dressed people helping each other up a snowy slope by an icy sea

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candid documentary photograph, group of warmly dressed adults and children helping and pulling each other up a steep snowy bank beside a cold grey sea with drifting ice, one adult reaching down to help a child climb, overcast arctic light, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

A man encouraging a young baseball player from behind the field fence

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candid documentary photograph, man in a light shirt cheering and encouraging a young boy in a baseball cap beside the tall chain-link fence of a small-town baseball field, players visible on the sunlit diamond beyond the fence, green trees around, warm afternoon light, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

Who do you think will benefit most from the help and encouragement? …… (Why?)

What sort of help and encouragement might the people be giving?

How useful might this be?

I'd like you to compare two of the pictures, and say why you think the people are collecting these things, and what satisfaction they might get from doing this.

Now, here are your pictures. They show people collecting different things.

Collecting things

A man in a red cap collecting stones at the edge of a fast-flowing river

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candid documentary photograph, weathered man in a red cap and yellow waterproof jacket crouching at the edge of a fast rocky stream, picking stones out of the rushing white water with his hands, dark forest behind, cool natural light, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

A young couple collecting litter into a large sack on a beach

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candid documentary photograph, young man in a green t-shirt and a woman crouching together on a wide sandy beach collecting plastic bottles and litter into a large white sack, calm sea and blue sky behind, bright daylight, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

A woman collecting ripe strawberries into a basket in a greenhouse

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candid documentary photograph, young woman kneeling among long rows of strawberry plants inside a large bright greenhouse, collecting ripe red strawberries into a metal basket, glass roof structure above, soft diffused light, shot on 35mm film, no text, no watermark

Who do you think needs to be the most careful when collecting? …… (Why?)

Why do you think the people are collecting these things?

What satisfaction might they get from doing this?

In this part of the test, I'm going to give each of you three pictures. I'd like you to talk about two of them on your own for about a minute, and also to answer a question briefly about your partner's pictures.

Practise this Speaking task free online: solo with exam timers and a self-recorder, as a live mock Speaking test with a partner over a video call, or as a full three-person mock exam — a real examiner reads the official examiner script to Candidates A and B. Rooms are invite-by-link; partners can join without an account.

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