A friend offered her manager’s job — 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.
7 Your friend Nadia has been offered her manager’s job. She would be supervising the same people she has worked beside for six years, and she is worried it will change those friendships. Tell her what you think she should do, and why.
Speaking to: Nadia, your friend
What the question is asking for
The job is already on offer, so the money is not the question. What she wants weighed is what supervising six years of friends would cost her.
What to settle in the 30 seconds
Answer take it or leave it, and choose the one relationship problem you will speak to.
Where this one goes wrong
Answering the career question and ignoring the worry she actually raised. She named the friendships; an answer that never mentions them misses the task.
Before this one: A friend who has made no friends here · After this one: An uncle stopping his medication · 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.
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