CELPIP Speaking video lessons: all 8 tasks
One short video for each CELPIP Speaking task, free to watch. Each one follows a single real practice question from start to finish: what the task asks, what to write in your preparation time, a weaker and a stronger answer side by side, and a simple formula you can use on test day. Then practise the same task in the free practice course, or answer a new question and get an AI score.
- Task 1: Giving Advice · Opening → Advice → Reason → Example → Closing
- Task 2: Talking about a Personal Experience · Scene → Problem → Detail → Then → Ending
- Task 3: Describing a Scene · Big picture → Centre → Around → Sides → Back
- Task 4: Making Predictions · First → Meanwhile → Small detail → After that → In the end
- Task 5: Comparing and Persuading · Their choice → Biggest point → Second point → The cost → Close
- Task 6: Dealing with a Difficult Situation · Kind start → Reason 1 → Reason 2 → Offer → Close
- Task 7: Expressing Opinions · Position → Reason 1 → Reason 2 → Other side → Restate
- Task 8: Describing an Unusual Situation · Hello → Overall → Details → Around it → Question
Task 1: Giving Advice
How to give clear, well-organised advice: the three kinds of Task 1 question, 30 seconds of notes, a weaker and a stronger answer side by side, and a formula, built around one question (a co-worker who wants a raise).
- Task 1 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 1 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 1 sample answers
Task 2: Talking about a Personal Experience
How to tell one story in order in 60 seconds: the three kinds of Task 2 story, four lines of notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, and a story formula, built around one question (a time you were very late).
- Task 2 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 2 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 2 sample answers
Task 3: Describing a Scene
How to describe a busy picture so the listener could draw it: three paths through any picture, notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, and the path step by step on one real practice picture (a boy who fell off his bike in a park).
- Task 3 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 3 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 3 sample answers
Task 4: Making Predictions
How to predict what happens next with a clue for every prediction and a mix of will, probably and might: the three kinds of Task 4 picture, notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, on the same park picture as Task 3.
- Task 4 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 4 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 4 sample answers
Task 5: Comparing and Persuading
How the two parts of Task 5 work and how to persuade by comparing at every point, without being rude about the other choice: notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, built around one question (a family car: a minivan or Omar's SUV).
- Task 5 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 5 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 5 sample answers
Task 6: Dealing with a Difficult Situation
How to choose who to talk to and give hard news kindly, with reasons from the situation and a way forward: the three kinds of Task 6 situation, notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, built around one question (a neighbour's son's secret party).
- Task 6 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 6 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 6 sample answers
Task 7: Expressing Opinions
How to take a clear position and support it for 90 seconds: three ways to take a side, notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, and a formula, built around one question (should parents be fined when children skip school).
- Task 7 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 7 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 7 sample answers
Task 8: Describing an Unusual Situation
How to describe something strange on a phone call, big picture first, and never forget the question: the three kinds of Task 8 picture, notes, a weaker and a stronger answer, on one real practice picture (a banana-shaped house).
- Task 8 format, template and sample answers
- Free Task 8 practice course: practise the same answer shape step by step, then answer with the real timer
- More Task 8 sample answers
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