Task 1: Talk about an after school activity you enjoy doing the most. Give specific reasons and details to support your response.
Sample
The after school activity I enjoy participating in the most is taking photos for the following reasons. First off, photography teaches me how to appreciate life. I started paying more attention to my surrounding since I began taking photos. I’ve learned you can find beauty in the most unlikely places if you slow down and take a closer look. For example, an ordinary street sign can become a cute funny face if you shoot it from a certain angle. Also, photography brings me closer to nature. I used to be a bit of a shut-in. But ever since I got interested in photography, I spend most of my weekends in parks taking photos. I’ve even lost a few pounds thanks to the long walks I took finding pretty things to shoot!
Task 2: Some people prefer to spend spare time by themselves, others prefer to spend it with family members. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
Sample
I would love to choose to spend time with my families on weekends. First, I usually spend most of my time in the library working on my class assignments and research. I don’t have much time to talk to my parents during week days. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just I’m too busy to. Also, all of our families love cooking. Weekends provide us with a great opportunity to cook together and catch up with one another. We’d talk about the funny things we ran into at school or work.
Task 3
Reading:
Announcement: The university requires students to finish a 16-hour community service before graduation.
Listening:
The woman agrees
Reason 1: This can help students determine their major and interests, her cousin was in this program a few years ago and it went well, she changed her major to education and now works as a teacher in an elementary school
Reason 2: It will benefit the community, students can help start new projects with their knowledge and skills, the students from her cousin’s university started a gardening project and since then, the community has been using it
Task 4
Definition: Search image is a mental image or picture kept in an animal’s mind to help it locate preys.
Example: Insects like caterpillars are green and they blend in pretty well with green leaves, so it’s difficult for birds to locate them on a green leaf, after a while, the birds started noticing that there are some quite special features on the caterpillars like they have antennas and different bodies, so birds now can find the insects and eat them.
Task 5
Problem: The man is a graduate and he teaches a bunch of university students, sometimes they don’t understand the assignments and reading materials and they don’t give feedbacks either.
Solution 1: Arrange a one on one meeting and get direct feedbacks
Pro: /
Con: It will make students uncomfortable
Solution 2: He can do a survey to find out
Pro: /
Con: Students usually don’t take surveys seriously
Task 6
Two types of students when making career choices
Example 1: Maximizers who evaluate all possible choices and then choose the best, like a student who studies journalism might think about reporting news, working for magazines and newspapers and choose the best one among them.
Example 2: Satisfiers who only seek to satisfy their basic needs like a student who studies law will take the first job that offers him a good salary