Speaking & Listening activities (B2)

Practise speaking and listening activities

Use these resources to help prepare for ISE II (B2) Speaking & Listening exam tasks:

Topic task

• Activity 1 - Choosing your topic task
• Activity 2 - Talking about various topics

Collaborative task

• Activity 1 - School and university
• Activity 2 - Office

Conversation task

• Activity 1 - Environment 
• Activity 2 - World of work

Independent listening task

• Activity 1 - Nightmare weekend
• Activity 2 - Big city*
• Activity 3 - Working from home

_{*May be less suitable for adult SELT candidates}

Practice collaborative tasks

Download and practise using sample prompts: 

• Collaborative prompts

Additional speaking activities

The following additional classroom activities for speaking are informed by the Trinity Lancaster Corpus research project. Learning from prior Trinity speaking assessment results, these activities focus on practising aspects of speaking that will help students improve their communication skills in all situations.

• B2 Worksheet 1
• B2 Teacher Notes 1 
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 2
• B2 Teacher Notes 2
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 3
• B2 Teacher Notes 3
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 4
• B2 Teacher Notes 4
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 5
• B2 Teacher Notes 5
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 6
• B2 Teacher Notes 6
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 7
• B2 Teacher Notes 7
  

• B2 Worksheet 8
• B2 Teacher Notes 8
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 9
• B2 Teacher Notes 9
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 10
• B2 Teacher Notes 10
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 11
• B2 Teacher Notes 11
  
  
• B2 Worksheet 12
• B2 Teacher Notes 12