most of the activities on this site focus on oral fluency. Likewise, the exam ideas here require students to speak spontaneously, rather than reciting a prepared speech. Most of the exams i have given have been three minute interviews with each individual student. This will not work if you ask the same questions to every student 151 even if you do not publish the questions before the exam, the first student can simply tell his/her classmates after leaving the interview room.

My solution is to publish a large list of questions, so that it is infeasible to memorise responses to each one. The other advantage of this method is that students have the opportunity to think about all the questions and consider the ideas that they will use in their answer, and thus will not be stumped by a difficult question. As can be seen from these examples, i like to give the students some degree of choice too: if they cannot choose a topic which interests them, they can at least avoid the topics which bore them senseless! another idea is to test the students in pairs, requiring them to complete a speaking task.

Following a suggestion i read somewhere, i prefer to break the mark into two components: 50% for fluency speaking smoothly without too many pauses or repeats and 50% for accuracy pronunciation grammar, vocabulary, intonation. A lot of good ideas and discussion about oral exams can be found in the teaching section at teflchina teahouse. Including the important question of whether grades for the course should be based solely on an exam or on other factors such as attendance and participation. Don't waste the opportunity to learn more about your students and their culture! include some questions which you as the examiner are interested in hearing the answer to. Exam_topics_1.doc html preview : i asked the students to each choose one of the general topics entertainment, love and marriage, or society , then i asked one or more of the questions from their chosen field. Exam_roleplays.doc html preview : i examined students in pairs, and asked them to perform one of five roleplays.

A list of all the possible roleplays were given to the students shortly before the exam these roleplays were based on activities we had done during that semester. Note that five roleplays might not be enough to prevent very determined pairs from preparing scripts, but given the particular situation, the temperament of the students, and the fact that the roleplays were only announced shortly before the exams began, i was confident there would be no trouble. Examtestprep provides one of the largest collection of igcse english second language countin oral 0511 past papers to prepare for cie 2016. Examtestprep provides one of the largest collection of 2014 english second language countin oral 0511 igcse past papers to prepare for cie 2016.

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The exam lasts about 14 minutes and has four parts: each of you will be asked basic questions about your home town, family, work or study, leisure and future plans. 2 individual tasks 4 minutes each of you will be asked to compare two colour photographs and explain your personal feelings about them you will be asked to speak for 1 minute, without any interruption. You will also be asked to give your opinion about the other student's photographs you will be expected to speak for about 20 seconds. You will be asked to discuss these with the other student and to make a decision. Sometimes you will be asked to agree on the conclusion, and sometimes you will be told that you may make different decisions. 4 three way discussion 4 minutes you will be asked to discuss together with the other student and the examiner some ideas that are connected with the joint task.