A co-worker who says yes to everything — CELPIP Speaking Task 1
One of the 24 questions in the Task 1 pool — 30 seconds to prepare, 90 seconds to speak, no second take. What the section is: the CELPIP test format.
10 A co-worker, Grace, says yes to every extra task she is offered and now stays late almost every evening. She has started missing her own deadlines. Tell her how you think she should handle it, and why.
Speaking to: Grace, a co-worker
What the question is asking for
Her problem is the yes, not the workload. The advice is about what she does the next time she is asked.
What to settle in the 30 seconds
Pick the moment she changes — the next request, or the deadlines already slipping — and say what she does in it.
Where this one goes wrong
Criticising her instead of advising her. She is a colleague you work beside; the task rewards help, not a telling-off.
Before this one: A friend selling his car for the bus · After this one: A niece leaving college for a store job · All 24 Task 1 questions
Written for this simulator to the published CELPIP format, not taken from a real test form. Reading a prompt is not practising it.
The app sets this task with the real clock on it and returns a scored report in about five seconds.