Cambridge First Speaking Part Two disappearing text memory game

B2 First Speaking Part Two disappearing text game

FCE Speaking Part Two/ FCE Use of English Part Two

Instructions for teachers

Cut up the slips of paper to cover the squares with but don’t cut up the model answer. Make sure that the words can’t be seen when they are covered, by using pale script, by using thick paper, by using coloured paper, or by using scrap paper that has plenty of text on it. It may be better to blow the text and slips of paper up to A3 size. Alternatively, it can be done on a computer by students “covering” the boxes by changing the text to white.

Instructions for students

Read out the whole text below, then cover one of the words with a slip of paper. Your partner must read the same text out including the missing word. Repeat until you’ve covered the whole text, until the teacher stops you, or until you all give up.

Without looking at the text again, try to remember words and phrases with these functions:

Speculating

Comparing

Similarities

Differences

Check with the text, brainstorm more words and phrases with the same functions into the spaces above, then compare as a class.Do two Speaking Part Two tasks, first with the phrases above to help, then with no help.

FCE Speaking Part Two disappearing text game

Text to cover up

Well,	first	of	all	I
guess	the	places	are	quite
similar.	They	both	show	places
that	you	could	call	rural.
You	certainly	couldn’t	describe	either
of	them	as	cities.	Both
places	seem	fairly	green,	and
I	would	imagine	that	they’re
pretty	peaceful	and	have	clear
air.	They	both	have	water
as	well,	although	the	top
one	appears	to	be	the
sea	and	the	other	a
small	river.	I	suppose	the
most	obvious	difference	is	climate.
The	first	looks	much	colder!

Slips of paper to cover the words with

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Related pages

B2 First Speaking Part Two page

B2 First Use of English Part Two page

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