Growing up

C2 Proficiency · Speaking Long Turn · Cambridge Ready original exercise

Speak on your own for about two minutes in answer to the question on your card, using the ideas if they help. Then answer a short question about what your partner said.

Speak for about two minutes, and after that your partner and I will come in.

I'll start with you. Here's your card. Answer the question on it, and use the ideas below it only if they help.

Growing up

reaching a certain age

independence

responsibility

At what point does a person truly become an adult?

What do you think?

Do you agree?

How about you?

Do you feel that you've become an adult yet? (Why? / Why not?)

Is becoming independent harder now than it was for your parents? (Why? / Why not?)

Do some people never really grow up? (Why? / Why not?)

You have about two minutes again, and then the three of us will discuss it.

Thank you. Here's your card now. It has a new question for you, and a few ideas you're welcome to pick up on.

Growing up

values

education

friends and peers

How much influence do parents have on the people their children become?

What do you think?

Do you agree?

How about you?

Do friends shape young people more than their families do? (Why? / Why not?)

Should parents try to guide their children's choice of career? (Why? / Why not?)

Is it possible to turn out very differently from your parents? (Why? / Why not?)

Now each of you is going to give a short talk of about two minutes, based on a question I'll hand you. Pay attention to your partner's talk, since I'll want your reaction to it when they've finished.

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