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Practice Task 19 — Work and age

Task 7 · Expressing Opinions — state and support an opinion on a community or workplace issue

Speaking Task 7Expressing OpinionsSPK-T7-19Advanced
30s prepare · 90s speak

You have 30 seconds to prepare and 90 seconds to speak. State your opinion clearly and support it with reasons and examples.

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

Should older adults be encouraged to keep working after retirement age?

Work and age.

Points to cover

  • • experience is valuable to teams
  • • health and choice must come first
  • • flexible part-time roles are ideal

You get 30 seconds to prepare, then 90 seconds to speak. Everything here works offline — no AI needed.

  1. 1. State your opinion
  2. 2. Reason 1
  3. 3. Example
  4. 4. Reason 2
  5. 5. Example
  6. 6. Conclusion

Sentence template

In my opinion, ___. The main reason is that ___. For example, ___. Another important point is ___, because ___. Of course, some people would say ___, but I still believe ___ overall.