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The Splendid Speaking Course
Volume 1 Unit 3 ‘Providing Examples’
Splendid Expressions
’Health and Illness’
Unit 21: Sport and Fitness
Task: Presentation (2-3 minutes)
Topic vocabulary
To get the most out of (your
time at university)
State of the art facilities
Indoor and outdoor facilities
A wide range of activities
To have equipment for hire
To book facilities/sessions
To run taster sessions
Highly-qualified staff
To devise personal exercise
programmes
To carry out fitness
assessments
Membership fees
To take care of yourself
To have a healthy lifestyle
To burn off calories
To lose weight
1. Introduction: You are a member of staff at a University Sports Centre.
You’ve received the following memo from the Student Union:
Memo
With September approaching we need someone to come
over and tell the new students about the facilities at the
Leisure Centre.
I know your membership was down a little last year –
probably competition from the bars and new cinema! If
you’d like to put together a short presentation on what you
guys offer in the centre and why the students should
become members, we’ll give you a few minutes to speak
during the welcome presentations.
2. Planning: Spend 1 minute making notes. Consider the following issues:
Expressions to offer
examples
For example
For instance
To give you an example
By way of example
A case in point is
To illustrate this
To show you what I mean
Take … for example
Facilities
Health benefits
Social opportunities
3. Task focus: When organising your talk include examples to help you
justify the points you are making. Use some of the expressions on the left
to do this.
4. Language: Tick any of the vocabulary on the left you want to use in your
talk.
Task: Discussion (15 minutes)
As a member of the sports centre, you’ve been asked to plan a ‘Fun Day’
aimed at encouraging youngsters to get into shape.
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talking on the subject of
h e a l t h a n d we l l b e i n g .
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Go through the following four steps to reach a class decision:
1) Work alone and list three or four things you’d like to see organised for the day.
2) Work in pairs, share your ideas and agree on three or four things.
3) Join another pair and share your ideas. Agree as a group on three or four
activities.
4) Finally, share you ideas with the class. Make a final decision on the
programme for the day.