Collins English for Exams Speaking for ielts

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Speaking for IELTS

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CD2: Track 57
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Candidate:
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OK. And what about how things in the workplace have changed? Do you th in k people in your 
country take the same pride in th e ir w ork as they used to?
Hmm, that's a tough question. I'm inclined to say 'no'.
Why do you say that?
Because many people in my country now w ork for huge companies. They may never even 
have seen th e ir managing director and certainly don't know him very w ell. They don't have 
any reason to take pride in doing the job to a high standard because feedback is lim ited.
In the past, companies were not only sm a lle r but tended to be fam ily run, so everyone had 
som ething invested, I mean personally speaking, in the business. They cared about the 
success of the business.
Thank you. It's been nice talking to you.
Thank you very much.
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Answer key
1 
People and relationships
Vocabulary: Character and personality
Exercise 1
ambitious: 
Someone who is ambitious has a
strong desire to be successful, rich, or 
powerful.
blunt: 
If you are blunt, you say exactly what
you think without trying to be polite, 
clever: 
Someone who is clever is intelligent
and able to understand things easily or 
plan things well, 
creative: 
A creative person has the ability to 
invent and develop original ideas, 
especially in the arts, 
good fun: 
If you say that someone is good
fun, you mean that you enjoy being 
with them because they say and do 
interesting or amusing things,