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Review Lab 4 — Reading Scenarios Lab

Review Lessons 13–16

Lab scenario

Learners receive a 'topic dossier' (4 short texts + a gapped long-read + a photo pair), read in groups, then run a discussion that includes a Speaking P2 long turn and a P3-style decision.

Skills you'll practise

Cross-text readingCohesionLong turnDiscussion

Stations

Practice rotation

Five stations · ~12 min each. 1:1 online: teacher works through each station with the learner.

60 min total

Station 1 · 12 min

Reading Part 6 · Cross-text Multiple Matching

Track who agrees with whom across four short texts, not just who says what.

Writer A: 'Remote work is, in the long run, incompatible with serious mentoring of junior staff.' Writer B: 'Mentoring junior colleagues remotely is harder, certainly, but the claim that it cannot be done seriously is overstated.' Writer B's view on mentoring is best described as ____ Writer A's.

Writer C: 'The four-day week is not a productivity tool — it is, fundamentally, a wellbeing measure.' Writer D: 'For all the talk of wellbeing, the only reason employers will adopt the four-day week at scale is if it boosts output.' Writers C and D ____.

Writer A: 'AI will replace many junior knowledge-work tasks within the decade.' Writer D: 'Predictions of mass automation in white-collar work have been made — and quietly retracted — every decade since the 1960s.' Writer D's response to Writer A is best described as ____.

Writer B: 'Hybrid work is, on balance, the most adult arrangement we have yet devised.' Writer C: 'Hybrid is a fudge: it pleases no one and quietly entrenches old hierarchies.' Of the following, the statement BOTH writers would most likely accept is that hybrid ____.

All four writers would most likely AGREE that ____.

Station 2 · 12 min

Reading Part 7 · Gapped Text (MCQ form)

Use reference chains and discourse links to fit the missing sentence.

Text: 'Most large employers say they have a hybrid policy. ____ In practice, however, attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays often resembles the old five-day office.' Which sentence fits the gap?

Text: 'The four-day week trial produced encouraging results for staff retention. ____ For productivity, however, the picture was less clear-cut.' Which sentence fits?

Text: 'Junior staff in particular reported feeling adrift. ____ Senior colleagues, by contrast, often described the same arrangement as a relief.' Which sentence fits?

Text: 'AI tools have already taken over much of the first-draft work. ____ The skill of editing — of knowing what to keep — has, if anything, become more valuable.' Which sentence fits?

Station 3 · 12 min

Listening Part 3 · Multi-choice Long (extract)

Read attitude across a longer turn; don't latch onto the first matching word.

Extract 1

Extract 1 — A management researcher being interviewed about hybrid work.

Extract 1

Tap play to listen. Scrub the bar or use ± 5 s to jump.

The researcher's main point about hybrid work is that ____.

Extract 2

Extract 2 — An economist on the four-day week.

Extract 2

Tap play to listen. Scrub the bar or use ± 5 s to jump.

The economist's stance on the four-day week is best described as ____.

Extract 3

Extract 3 — A junior architect describing remote work.

Extract 3

Tap play to listen. Scrub the bar or use ± 5 s to jump.

The architect's main concern about remote work is that ____.

Station 4 · 12 min

Speaking Part 2 · Long Turn with Speculation

Speculate at length using modal + adverb stacks, not the same hedge three times.

  • 1. Imagine two photographs: (A) a worker alone at a kitchen table with a laptop and a coffee, late evening; (B) an open-plan office on a Tuesday morning, only one or two people at the desks. Compare the two situations and speculate about how the people in each picture might be feeling about their week ahead.

    “It's quite possible that the person in A is…”“What strikes me about B is that…”“I'd hazard a guess that…, though equally they might…”“Whereas A suggests…, B feels more like…”

  • 2. Same brief, swapped: take the speaker through a SECOND long turn comparing (B) the empty office and (C) a busy co-working space at lunchtime. Focus on what each environment makes possible — or impossible.

    “What B affords is…, whereas C, by contrast, makes…”“On the face of it, C looks more productive, but…”“It's hard to say for certain, but the people in C strike me as…”

Station 5 · 12 min

Long-Form Reflection

Name one cross-text move, one speculation stem and one stance shift you now own.

Discuss

  • 1. In Reading P6, where did 'who agrees with whom' surprise you? What linguistic signal made the difference?
  • 2. In Reading P7, did you rely more on reference words (this, that, they) or on discourse markers (however, also)? Which is your weaker hook?
  • 3. In Listening P3, where did you almost answer based on the first matching word and then catch yourself?
  • 4. Which speculation stem from Station 4 do you want to make a habit?

Self-audit · tick what was true

  • Cross-text reading — I separated 'what was said' from 'how it relates to another text'.
  • Gapped text — I used reference + discourse links, not topic guessing.
  • Listening attitude — I tracked stance across a longer turn.
  • Speaking — I speculated at length with varied modality, not 'maybe… maybe…'.

Ready for a full paper?

Sit a complete CPE simulation — Mock 1, Mock 2 or the Official Exit Test — in real timing.

Mock Exams & Exit Test

Review Lab complete

Talk through your work with your teacher or study partner, then move on.

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