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Br2e Speaking Placement Test
Br2e Speaking Placement Test
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2009 Business Result Second edition
Business Result
Business Result | Speaking test
Level What a student can do at this level Questions / role-play tasks for this level
Upper- A student at this level can • How important are teams where
intermediate • interact quite fluently and you work? What are some ways to
spontaneously on a variety of motivate a team?
topics, e.g. ethics in business, • How much do you deal with
motivation, outsourcing, etc. people from other countries (give
• participate in meetings and examples)? Do different cultures do
discussions where he / she will business in different ways?
give views, is able to state both • Think of a problem you had to deal
advantages and disadvantages, and with recently. What happened?
make recommendations How did you solve it? Do you
• present complex information and think you could have approached it
handle difficult questions differently?
• summarize key points based on
Role-play task
texts or documentation.
Imagine I’m a new customer.
Convince me to use your products
or services instead of your main
competitor’s.
Advanced A student at this level can Note to examiner:
• easily interact with both native and If a student has successfully answered
non-native speakers on all topics the questions and completed the tasks
of conversation including quite at all previous levels with no difficulty,
abstract topics then they can be placed at this level
• initiate repair strategies where for speaking.
misunderstanding occurs
• express him / herself fluently
without much searching for
expressions
• formally negotiate aspects of
business, such as contracts
• implement managerial initiatives
and leadership in English through
presentations or in meetings.
©© Oxford
Oxford University
University Press
Press 2017
2009 Business Result Second edition
Business Result