A friend selling his car for the bus — 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.
9 Your friend Samir wants to sell his car and use the bus and his bicycle all year to save money. His job is a forty-minute drive away and the winters here are long. Tell him what you think he should do, and why.
Speaking to: Samir, your friend
What the question is asking for
Money saved against a forty-minute drive and a winter that does not end early. The question wants that trade-off settled, not restated.
What to settle in the 30 seconds
Decide whether the car goes, and choose which of the two given facts — the distance or the season — carries your reason.
Where this one goes wrong
Advice that would fit any city. The prompt handed you the commute and the winter; an answer that uses neither has nothing specific to say.
Before this one: An uncle stopping his medication · After this one: A co-worker who says yes to everything · 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.