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What really matters is…
Give a strong opinion using emphasis structures: 'What I like is…', 'It's the … that…', 'The reason (why)… is…'.
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Speak with a grammar focus
Short speaking tasks that push one structure — past tense, comparisons, conditionals.
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Give a strong opinion using emphasis structures: 'What I like is…', 'It's the … that…', 'The reason (why)… is…'.
Tell a story where the meaning depends on the pattern: 'remember to' vs 'remember doing', 'stop to' vs 'stop doing', 'try to' vs 'try doing'.
Explain how a past event still affects you now. Mixed conditional: If I had…, I would be… now.
Talk about a situation that didn't go well. Use past modals: should have, shouldn't have, could have, might have.
Tell a detailed story using past simple, past continuous and past perfect together: I had just… when… while…
Describe your home town, adding non-defining relative clauses set off by pauses: my home town, which is on the coast, …
Talk about a past decision and imagine a different outcome. Third conditional: If I had…, I would have…