Will people still work in city centres in twenty years?
A strong Part 3 answer takes a position in the first clause, supports it with one reason and one concrete case, and then names where it stops being true. Around a minute.
The question, as the examiner gives it
Will people still work in city centres in twenty years?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 127 words at a natural pace — roughly what 60 seconds holds.
Answer it yourself first
Record your own answer first. A model you have read three times comes out with a flattened rhythm, and examiners are trained to hear exactly that. Read it afterwards for the vocabulary and the shape, not to memorise the sentences.Yes, but I suspect for fewer days and for different reasons. The commute existed because the work required a particular building, and for a large class of jobs that stopped being true almost overnight. What has not changed is that certain things are extremely hard to do remotely, anything involving a new team, training somebody, or a genuinely difficult disagreement. So I would expect offices to survive as places you go two or three days a week, specifically for the things that need a room. The larger question is what happens to city centres built around five-day occupancy, because the shops and transport were sized for that. Some of them will convert to housing, which I would argue is a considerable improvement on what was there before.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- commute
the precise noun, stressed on the second syllable
- remotely
the modern sense of working at a distance
- disagreement
four syllables with the stress on the third
- occupancy
four syllables with the stress on the first
- convert
the verb, stressed on the second syllable
- survive
the right verb for institutions persisting
- sized
used precisely about infrastructure capacity
How a strong answer is built
- 1Predict, then qualify immediately.
- 2Explain what changed and what did not.
- 3State what offices will be for.
- 4Raise the larger consequence and give your view.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Will people still work in city centres in twenty years?” be?
About 60 seconds. Long enough for the answer plus a reason or an example, short enough that the examiner can get through the rest of the set.
Should I memorise the model answer?
No. Record your own version first, then read the model for the shape and the vocabulary. A memorised answer changes rhythm and pace noticeably, and examiners are trained to hear it — it usually costs more than the better wording gains.
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