B2 First Julia and Isabela

Good afternoon. My name is Ana Lapu and this is my colleague Samuel Guma. And your name? Zara. My name is Julia.

Isabella, can I have your mark sheets, please? Of course, yes.

Thank you. First, we'd like to know something about you. Where do you live, Julia? I live in Brazil.

The city. So Paulo, and also the estate. And you, Isabella? Me too.

Isabella, how do you like to spend your evenings? Oh,

I love doing my nails and listening to a lot of music and watching series mostly. And cooking, love cooking.

Tell us about a film you really like.

Oh, that's hard. I really love comedy movies, you know, so mostly Adam Sandler,

but I also really like

Terror. So I don't have a favorite one, but I'm gonna say grown ups.

Julia, do you normally celebrate special occasions with friends or family? That depends. I mean like on Christmas or something, like I usually celebrate with my family, but on New Year's or, I don't know, the start of the year, I usually would celebrate in my birthday with my friends.

And what did you do on your last birthday?

It was kind of a last time thing. So we just went everyone to my building and then there was a space there which is a garage.

Benji. And then we just stayed there. Thank you. Now in this part of the test, I'm going to give each of you two photographs.

I'd like you to talk about your photographs on your own for about a minute. And also to answer a question about your partner's photographs.

Julia, it's your turn first. Okay,

Here are your photographs. They show friends doing things together in their free time. I'd like you to compare the photographs and say what you think the friends are enjoying about doing these things together in their free time.

Alright.

On the first picture I would probably say they are camping or going on some school project because I don't know if somebody would usually go out like this.

But they are probably enjoying the nature and being together. And on the second picture I would tell about, well, I can see there is music here.

So I would tell they are kind of of an orchestra and they are singing together and I don't know, they want to be singers maybe.

And I don't know they're enjoying their time together. Again.

Thank you. Now Isabella, which of these things would you prefer to do in your free time? Oh, probably the first picture where they're going.

I don't know if they're really on a school trip or something maybe. But I particularly, particularly I love nature and so I would love to go like to a park or something like that.

With my friends. So probably the first one. I also love singing, but I'm not too good at it. So the first one.

Thank you.

Now, Isabella, here are your photographs.

They show children doing different things on a school trip. Okay. I'd like you to compare the photographs and say what you think the children are enjoying about doing these things on their school trip.

Oh, okay. So the first picture, they're eating and probably experimenting, like new foods or something they might have made on their own.

I don't know. They're probably enjoying that a lot because everybody loves eating, especially good food.

And they're probably also enjoying eating together because they seem good friends, so it's better. And the second picture, they're definitely on a school trip.

They seem to be like, I don't know, maybe

people. I don't know. At schools, people usually go to museums or stuff like that to learn something.

So probably something like that. And

they're probably enjoying the view and this history about all the things they're seeing. But I don't know.

I don't remember if you asked me, but I would rather do the first one.

Thank you. Julia, do you enjoy going on school trips with friends?

Yeah, definitely. I like spending time with them, and usually we go to museums, which is a thing that I love to do, so I really do enjoy them.

Thank you.

Now I'd like you to talk about something together for about two minutes. I'd like you to imagine that a large shop wants to encourage more young people to go there.

Here are some ways the shop could do this and a question for you to discuss.

First. You have some time to look at the task.

Okay, now talk to each other about the advantages and disadvantages of these different ideas for the shop.

Do you want to go first? We can go. Okay. So I really think it's like. I think it's really good, a cafe and free WI fi, you know, because people really love both of those,

and

I don't see really any disadvantages like having a cafe or free wi fi. So I don't know. I think that's really.

Those are really good ideas.

Celebrity visits seems too expensive and a little hard to get, so I don't know about that.

Yeah, I would probably say the same. Celebrity visits would be a great idea because, you know, I don't know, Anita would be on a cafe.

I would definitely try to go there, but I don't know, I feel like maybe that could bring a few problems.

The place would be so crowded and security. Yeah, everything would be. I don't know, maybe A little bit

problematized. Yeah. But as a student, discounts for students are very good. Yeah, I really like this one.

But it might be a disadvantage because, you know, you're paying less, so they're receiving less. But it would also bring new customers, like, you know, like younger.

Yeah. So I don't know. I think it's worth

the computer games area. I would like. I don't know, maybe it would be a place where not everyone would go.

So maybe this would be bad because they wouldn't have so many people there and they could take a place that they could do other things there.

So I don't know. But it's also good for the students because they're young.

Definitely.

Thank you. Now you have about a minute to decide which two ideas would be most popular with young people.

Okay.

I think that's cons and free WI fi. Probably the discounts for students and free WI fi. Yeah, yeah. Because young people love, like Internet media stuff, so that's really good.

But like, talking about myself, I really love WI Fi and I really need it, you know, so it's really good.

Especially like if they're not, like they're at the shop waiting for someone, they have the free WI fi or something like that, or post pictures and everything, which is better for the shop because more views.

I would tell the purify because I'm someone who likes to post every single thing I do on my day. So that would be really great and that counts because I don't know, I feel like that would bring a lot of more customers for the cafe, if it was a cafe.

Because I mean, that could be bad. The shop. Yeah, I love being less so.

Thank you. Can I have the booklet? Yes. Thank you.

Julia, would you go to a shop like this?

What? We just shopped. Yeah, definitely. Why? Probably because if it was a cafe, I love coffee. So I would definitely like to be on a place where it sells, like Starbucks or places like that.

I love being there. And the free WI fi would be so great because I love posting things, so I would definitely film everything I was doing.

And maybe I wouldn't use it so much, the computer area. But the discounts were really great too.

Yeah, I would probably go there too, like. Yeah. Because I mean, the WI fi is a really important part.

And also, like, if I'm seeing Julia's story on Instagram. Oh, I'm definitely going there. They have discounts, so.

Yeah. Isabella, do you think parents should allow children to choose their own clothes and shops? Yeah, I think so.

I mean, they could have, like, if a girl is too young and they want to wear something like it's not appropriate or something like that, they should definitely try to tell her that politely and nicely.

But I think they should be free to make their choices about that. What do you think? I think kind of the same as her because I don't know, I feel like even though children are children, they should be able to choose what they want to wear.

Of course, of course. If it's something inappropriate, like their body is showing weight more than they usually should,

then they should talk to the children. But I think probably, yeah. Do you think it's important for people to wear fashionable clothes?

Yeah. Yes, definitely. Why? Oh, I don't know. Like, I really love fashion and things about that and I also pretend to study like that on that area, like fashion and design.

So I particularly love that. And I like. And a partner maybe or friends. I think it's really good for them to have great style, a good sense of style.

It's much better.

Mine is also kind of the thing because design is really into one of my ideas of going to college.

So that would definitely help a lot. But I really enjoy being in my pajamas or wearing clothes that have like, no sense.

But yeah. Should young people have their own money to buy whatever they want?

That's a hard one. I mean, as a young person, I would love to have a lot of money to buy like material stuff and mostly clothes and everything.

But I don't know if they should be allowed, like to buy anything. You know, there should always be like some limits.

I don't know. It depends really on their behavior and like how they treat money and stuff like that. So it's really hard.

Do you agree?

Yeah. But I also think that maybe if a children had so much money and they wish they could buy everything they wish for, maybe that could spoil them a little.

So that wouldn't be so great because in this

country we live today, that wouldn't be the best scenario.

But yeah, I would agree with. Is it a good idea for people to buy things online?

If it's a trustable site, then definitely. But I don't know. I always search like the website and everything before buying because I don't want to be like spending my money on something that's not really coming to me.

So I think it's good. It's like a very important market and everything. But you also have to be careful about what you buy.

Me and my family, we really like buying online stuff, especially because they have really good discounts so that helps a lot.

But I think it's kind of the same because you gotta have trust on the side you're going to buy. Because I have some experience on things that never came.

And that is such a horrible feeling.

Okay, thank you. That is the end of the. Thank you. Thank you.