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Delta Module One, Paper 1, Task 3 : what learners need to know (2)

1.3

You will be given a section of published ELT materials and directed to some of the language features learners would need to be able to command successfully to complete the task.
Your task is to provide three more things they need to know with examples of what you mean.
This question carries 12% of the possible marks so spend no more than 10 minutes on it.

What follows is much longer than the type of item you will get in the examination proper.  Take as long as you like and consider each one of the five activities based on the texts and pictures separately.

This task for the learners at B1 level and is a listening and matching task, followed by a speculation and speaking task.  It comes in five parts:

  1. The learners are given four pictures of museums and required to listen to people describing their visit to each of them.  They have to match the picture to what they hear.
  2. They then compare their answers in pairs, saying what they heard that helped them find the answers, to make sure they agree and listen again to check.
  3. They have to discuss with their partners whether the speakers, Mary and Fred enjoyed their visits or not and why.
  4. They have to say where they think the buildings are and explain why they think so to their partner.
  5. They have to agree with their partners on a list of 5 things that they would expect to find inside a history museum.

The four pictures and the tapescripts are as follows (the learners get only the numbered pictures):

louvre capitol
We went there last spring while we were on holiday to get a break from the hustle of the city.  Inside it's fabulous with lots of beautiful ceilings and some great exhibits, mostly paintings but lots of other stuff, too.
It's a huge palace built in a baroque style with a controversial modern bit in front of it.  The modern bit looks a bit like a crystal but I think it's attractive although I have to admit it doesn't really fit in.
We spent hours there and could have spent longer.
We went while we were touring around because Mary had always wanted to see it.  She'd learned about it at school you see.  She loved it to bits.  It's a good place just to hang out if the weather's fine.
You have to climb up a lot of steps to get to it but the views from the front are pretty impressive.
I was a bit disappointed by it frankly because there isn't much to see inside but I liked the colonnaded front and the fact that it's all built in nearly white marble.
moscow bm
It was freezing the day I took the picture and my hands were so cold I nearly dropped the camera.
It's pretty impressive really, I suppose, standing as it does at the end of the square and with all the towers and turrets on it but I don't like the dark peach colour much and it cost a lot to get in.
We took a cab to get there and it was able to drop us right outside the front door because the road runs almost up to it.
There's a lot to see inside if you like that kind of thing so I guess it's worth the money but I wouldn't go again.
This is definitely one not to miss if you are ever in town and have a few hours to spare.
Even from the outside, it's pretty impressive with all the columns and so on but it's the inside that really got me intrigued.
It's built around three sides of a huge courtyard and you have to go in through the entrance on the right.  Over the top of the central bit there's a carved frieze but, to be honest, I don't remember what that's about.
I enjoyed it but Fred just went to get in out of the rain!

The learners will, of course, need to be able to:

  1. Understand most of the content and not be overwhelmed by too much unknown lexis.
  2. Be able to use some language of speculation such as I think it is in ...
  3. Be able to give reasons using at least ... because ....

Can you come up with three more things with examples that the learners will need to be able to do to complete the task?  In the examination, you only need three but think of more if you can.
Click here for a list of 10 possibilities when you have.

You may have thought of others.  You only have to find three but you must exemplify all of them (as above).


Paper 1 revision test index