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Practice Task 25 — An office that still prints everything

Task 4 · Making Predictions — predict what will happen next in a described scene

Speaking Task 4Making PredictionsSPK-T4-25Advanced
30s prepare · 60s speak

You have 30 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak. Say what you think will happen next in this situation and explain your reasons.

Listen to the task prompt. Two fixed voices: a female examiner and a male situation narrator.

Your workplace is moving to a paperless system next quarter. Predict what will happen.

An office that still prints everything.

An office going paperless: staff at monitors and tablets, a recycling bin full of paper and a senior employee being shown new software

Points to cover

  • • older staff will need training
  • • mistakes will increase at first
  • • the team will work faster after a few months

You get 30 seconds to prepare, then 60 seconds to speak. Everything here works offline — no AI needed.

  1. 1. Describe the current situation
  2. 2. Predict what will happen
  3. 3. Give a reason
  4. 4. Give another prediction
  5. 5. Explain why
  6. 6. Conclude

Sentence template

Right now, ___. I think what will happen next is ___, because ___. After that, ___ will probably ___. That's likely because ___. Overall, I expect ___.