Directions: For this task, you will listen to a dialogue. You will hear a question about it. You will then have 20 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.
Narrator: Listen to a conversation between two students.
Student 1(female): Hey, Barry. How’s your study group going?
Student 2(male): Not so good. I don’t know if you can really call it a study group. We never study.
Student 1: What do you mean?
Student 2: Well, when we meet after class to study, all my group-mates do is talk about who likes who, what movies they want to go see, what parties they went to over the weekend. We never even mention our Physics class.
Student 1: Oh yeah, aren’t all the other members of your study group roommates? They all know each other and hang-out outside of class too.
Student 2: Yeah. I didn’t do very well on the last exam because we didn’t study so much.
Student 1: Why don’t you talk to your group-mates and see if you can get
them to actually study? Maybe they didn’t do so well on the last exam too.
Student 2: That’s an idea. But I don’t want to sound like a parent, “You all
need to stop talking so much and study!”
Student 1: How about you talk to your professor and see if he will let you change your group?
Student 2: Hmmm, I don’t know. I think I heard that last semester somebody wanted to switch study groups in the middle of the semester, and he told them it was too late.
Student 1: Well, if you don’t want to fail another exam, you’d better think of something.
Narrator: Now get ready to answer the question.
Narrator: The students discuss two possible solutions to the man’s problem.
Describe the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
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