A friend leaving a stable job for a bakery — 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.
1 Your friend Maria wants to quit her stable job to open a small bakery. What advice would you give her, and why?
Speaking to: Maria, your friend
What the question is asking for
Maria has already made up her mind, so the question is whether you back the plan, slow it down, or argue against it. Advice with no position in it is the weakest answer here.
What to settle in the 30 seconds
Pick your position, then pick the one risk you will name — her savings, the hours, or where the customers come from. One risk explained beats three listed.
Where this one goes wrong
Talking about bakeries instead of talking to Maria. The business is the setting; the advice is what gets marked, and it has to be addressed to her.
After this one: A neighbour offered a job in another city · 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.