Risk

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.

You've got about two minutes to speak, and then the rest of us will join in.

Let's start with you. Here is your card. There's a question on it for you to answer, along with a few ideas you might like to use, though you're free to bring in your own.

Risk

personality

upbringing

past experiences

What shapes a person's attitude to risk?

What do you think?

Do you agree?

How about you?

Would you describe yourself as someone who takes risks? (Why? / Why not?)

Do people become more cautious as they get older? (Why? / Why not?)

Is it possible to learn to be braver? (Why? / Why not?)

Again, you have about two minutes before we join the conversation.

Now it's your turn. Here's your card, with a different question and some ideas you can draw on if they're helpful.

Risk

safety rules

children's play

career choices

Is modern life too focused on avoiding risk?

What do you think?

Do you agree?

How about you?

Are children today given enough freedom to explore? (Why? / Why not?)

Do you think some safety rules go too far? (Why? / Why not?)

Can being too careful hold people back? (Why? / Why not?)

In this last part, each of you will speak alone for about two minutes on a question I'll give you. While your partner is talking, please listen carefully, because afterwards I'll ask you to respond to what they've said.

Answer this Speaking task out loud and an AI examiner marks it on the official Cambridge Speaking criteria, with what you did well and what to fix next.

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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