Review Lab 6 — Paired Speaking Lab

Lab scenario

Full simulated Speaking sittings in trios (two candidates + observer/examiner) with rotation, peer feedback against CPE Speaking criteria, and a short R&UoE warm-up to keep the spiral live.

Skills you'll practise

All Speaking partsNegotiationPeer assessmentDiplomatic disagreement

Stations

Practice rotation

Five stations · ~12 min each · one shared scenario across all five. In 1:1, teacher rotates through with the learner.

60 min total

Station 1 · 12 min

Speaking P3 · Deciding the meeting model

Joint reasoning under the 2+1 timing, using all four negotiation moves.

1. Scenario: a 40-person distributed team must pick ONE primary meeting model — (a) quarterly in-person summit, (b) monthly virtual workshop, (c) weekly async written briefing, (d) hybrid (mix of all three), (e) no meetings, project channels only. Discuss for 2 minutes; decide ONE for 1 minute.
“I'm drawn to ______ — what's your sense?”“I'd push back gently on ______ , because ______.”“Building on what you said about ______ , I'd add ______.”“Where we seem to be converging is ______ — shall we land there?”
2. 60 seconds: pitch your final choice aloud as if to the team's CEO. Lead with the choice, then justify with one strong reason and one acknowledged trade-off.
“After discussion, we'd recommend ______.”“The single strongest argument is ______.”“The trade-off we accept is ______.”“We'd review the decision after ______.”
3. Now flip: argue for the option you DIDN'T pick. 60 seconds. The point is to show you understand the strongest version of the counter-case.
“The strongest case for ______ is ______.”“What I'd most respect about that option is ______.”“If we'd had different data, I'd have leaned ______.”“Granted, the cost would be ______.”

Station 2 · 12 min

R&UoE P3 · Word formation — meeting & negotiation lexis

Spiraled word-formation on the lexical field of meetings, persuasion, agreement and disagreement.

The team made a ______ (DECIDE) to consolidate around two meeting formats.

The proposal was met with widespread ______ (AGREE) across all three offices.

The chair's ______ (DIPLOMATIC) handling of the disagreement kept the meeting on track.

Several team members expressed ______ (RESIST) to the new weekly format.

The negotiators reached a workable ______ (COMPROMISE) by the end of the session.

The Chair's ______ (PERSUADE) tone helped bring sceptical colleagues along.

Station 3 · 12 min

Listening P4 · Five voices on the same meeting question

Multi-speaker listening — stance and main point across five short monologues on the shared scenario.

Extract 1

Extract 1 — Anna (Polish, f, engineering lead), on a colleague's voice memo.

Extract 1

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

Anna's stance is best paraphrased as:

Extract 2

Extract 2 — Yusuf (English, m, project manager).

Extract 2

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

Yusuf's intention is to:

Extract 3

Extract 3 — Mei (Singaporean, f, finance lead).

Extract 3

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

Mei is best described as:

Station 4 · 12 min

Writing · Diplomatic disagreement email

Diplomatic directness in writing — applying L24's soft-front, relational anchor and scoped push-back to a short email.

Scenario

Your team lead has just emailed the team announcing the move to a WEEKLY ASYNC WRITTEN BRIEFING model — option (c). You disagree. Write a 120-word reply that disagrees clearly without breaking the working relationship.

Task · ~120 words (±20)

Reply to your team lead in ~120 words. Include: (1) a soft-front opener, (2) a relational anchor naming what you agree with, (3) ONE scoped push-back with reason, (4) a diplomatic-persuasion invitation.

Self-check

Soft front (e.g. 'I have to be honest…' / 'Can I be straight with you?').
Relational anchor naming a shared point.
Scoped push-back — one specific concern, not blanket rejection.
Invitation, not pressure ('Could I make a case for…?').
No 'just', no excessive 'sorry'.

Station 5 · 12 min

Module 6 reflection — ready for Module 7?

Convert the module's speaking gains into one concrete carry-over goal for the R&UoE-heavy Module 7.

Discuss

1. Which of the four P3 moves (push back · build on · up to a point · invitation) is most NATURAL for you now? Which is still the hardest?
2. In P4, did your answers grow past 30 seconds today — or did they still plateau?
3. Did you visibly REPAIR at least once today? What was the repair sentence?
4. What's the ONE speaking habit from Module 6 you most want to keep alive while Module 7 pushes you back into R&UoE territory?

Self-audit · tick what was true

P3 — All four negotiation moves visibly available; convergence + decide minute landed cleanly.
P4 — Anchor → exemplify → concede → reframe deployable on a new topic in under 90 seconds.
Diplomatic directness — soft-front + hard-core + relational tail integrated into both speaking and writing.
Repair — at least one misfire repaired within one turn, with named sentence and falling tone.

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.

Last lesson of module Start Module 7