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Define something abstract
Define an abstract idea — fairness, luck, home, success — and explore it for two minutes, non-stop.
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Level C1
You can speak flexibly and precisely for social, academic and professional purposes with few noticeable slips.
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Define an abstract idea — fairness, luck, home, success — and explore it for two minutes, non-stop.
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Give a two-minute lecture on something you know well, with an intro, two points and a close — non-stop.
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Answer 'what makes a good life?' for two full minutes without pausing to search for words.
Start on any topic and let each idea lead to the next, staying connected, for two minutes without stopping.
Tell the story of advice you were given, chose to ignore, and how that turned out.
Tell the story of how a series of tiny, unremarkable choices led somewhere you never expected.
Start from a single small detail you can see right now and build a whole short story outward from it.
Choose an ordinary object near you and tell its invented life story — where it was made, whose hands it passed through, how it ended up here.
Tell the story of a place from your past that has since closed or changed beyond recognition.
Tell a real story from your life, then retell the ending as it might have gone instead.