PRETASK ORAL EXAM

As you already know, next class we are having the speaking exam. Thus, today we are
going to make the most of our time organizing, practicing, and making some corrections so
that next Tuesday during the exam we have no inconveniences. In this sense, you and your
classmates in your corresponding channel are going to do next:
1. Look at the following chart:
STUDENT 1 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I
am here to give you some information about climate change because
(MANDATORY) time goes by, and people seem to not care about our planet. Climate
change is not a hoax, there is lots of evidence to prove that this is
real. For example, the first record of climate change due to human
activity throughout history takes place in the 1800s. Therefore,
human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels have increased
the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by more than a third since the
industrial revolution.

STUDENT 2 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I

am here to give you some information about climate change because
MANDATORY time goes by, and people seem to not care about our planet. A
second fact is that climate change since the 80’s has affected us very
much due to natural disasters such as storms, floods, landslides,
droughts, heat waves, besides forest fires have increased a lot.

STUDENT 3 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I

am here to give you some information about climate change because
MANDATORY time goes by, and people seem to not care about our planet. A third
fact is that climate change has affected animals. For example, from a
study done in 2016 in which 976 species of animals were surveyed,
47 percent had vanished from areas they had previously occupied.

STUDENT 4 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I

am here to give you some information about climate change because
OPTIONAL time goes by, and people seem to not care about our planet. A fourth
fact is that climate change has affected ice sheets as well. For
example, the Artic has warmed more than the rest of the planet, and
its ice cover has thinned and shrunk.

STUDENT 5 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I

am here to give you some information about climate change because
MANDATORY time goes by, and people seem to not care about our planet. As could
been heard before climate change is no hoax, that is why we have to
start doing something to combat it. For example, one way of
reducing the impact of climate change is to switch from fossil fuels
 to a carbon-free energy supply soon. Come on people! Time is
running out we have to act.

STUDENT 6 Hello. My name is _______ and I am an environmental activist. I

am here to tell you that climate change has affected humans,
MANDATORY animals, plants, ice sheets, among others. Hey! There is much
information right there to see our world is slowly dying. Although
the good news is that the solution depends on us, the bad news is
that we don’t want to be part of the solution. IT IS TIME TO
START DOING SOMETHING! IT DEPENDS ON ME, IT
DEPNDS ON YOU, IT DEPENDS ON EVERYBODY! DON’T BE
AFRAID OF BEING PART OF A CHANGE THAT IS GOING TO
HELP NOT JUST OUR WORLD, BUT THE FUTURE
GENERATIONS TO COME.

2. Talk to each other in your channel and choose one of the six options you have
above.
3. Take some time to practice and be prepared to read your text when the teacher visits
your channel.
4. Take note of some teacher’s recommendations in terms of pronunciation and study a
lot for the speaking exam.

REMEMBER!!! This is a speaking exam, thus you are not going to read, you are
going to speak!!!