Task Type: Individual monologue
Topic: Relationships – Modern Relationships
Speaking Time: 4–5 minutes

In this C2 speaking task, students deliver a highly developed monologue giving their opinion on the complexities of modern relationships in today’s individualized society.

Learners are expected to:

• analyse the causes behind changes in relationships,

• evaluate the impact of a more individualised and fast-paced society,

• discuss new roles, expectations, ambitions, and preferences,

• and reflect critically on how these factors affect relationship dynamics.

The task requires candidates to go beyond description and demonstrate conceptual depth, abstraction, and mature argumentation, which are key at C2 level.

✅ Why teachers should use this task

✔ Trains sustained, sophisticated oral discourse

✔ Develops critical and reflective thinking

✔ Encourages a balanced, nuanced viewpoint

✔ Activates C2 grammatical control (inversion, advanced clause embedding)

✔ Ideal for EOI / Cambridge C2 speaking exam preparation

✔ Uses a socially relevant topic students can engage with meaningfully