B1: Preliminary

Speaking Test

Part 1 (2–3 minutes approx.)

Phase 1

Interlocutor Good morning/afternoon/evening.

Can I have your mark sheet, please?

Hand over the mark sheets to the Assessor.

I’m ………… and this is ………… .

He/She is just going to listen to us.

What’s your name? Where do you live/come from?

Thank you.

(Interlocutor asks the following questions)

Back-up prompts

Where do you work or are you a Do you have a job?

student? I am student Espe Do you study?
University
What do you do/study? I study What job do you do?
technology in logistics and What subject do you study?
transportation
Thank you.
Phase 2
Interlocutor
Select one or more questions from the list – see examples below – to ask the candidate.
Candidate’s name is used throughout.
How do you get to work/school/university every day?
Well before I got to college by car, my boyfriend knew
how to drop me off at the university
What did you do yesterday evening/last weekend?
I traveled to Latacunga yesterday night to visit my
uncles.
Do you think that English will be useful for you in the
future? (Why?/Why not?)
If English is useful from now on and it will be more
useful in the future because it will become a
necessary language for communication between
people
Tell us about the people you live with.
I live alone with my mother, my brother and my sister.
my brother spends all day studying, my mother works
far away and my sister plays all day, she is small you
are three years old
Thank you.
In the next part, we are going to talk to each other.
Back-up prompts
Do you usually travel by car? (Why?/Why not?)
If I usually travel by car because there is more
security regarding our health care.
Did you do anything yesterday evening/last
weekend? What?
Yes, I traveled to Latacunga last weekend
to visit my uncles
Will you use English in the future? (Why?/Why
not?)
Yes, I will use English in the future because I
will talk to other people and it will be
necessary to understand what they say.
Do you live with friends/your family?
i live only with mother, my brother and my
little sister
Speaking Test 1 (Work and Relaxation)

Parts 3 and 4 (6 minutes)

Interlocutor I’m going to describe a situation to you. A young man works very hard and has only one
free day a week. He wants to find an activity to help him relax.

Here are some activities to help him relax.

Place Part 3 booklet, open at Task 1, in front of the candidate. Allow candidate adequate time to
read the task.

Now, we’re going to talk together about the different activities he could do, and
then I’d like you to decide which would be most interesting.

All right? Now, we’re going to talk together. Can you start?

Candidate/ Different activities are shown to relax, I can observe,

Interlocutor the man reading a book, also going for a walk with
approx. 2 his dog, also it is seen that cooking is a way of
minutes relaxing and swimming that allows him to exercise
and not stress, go to party I think It is not a way to
relax, in my opinion the best way to relax is to play
sports, swimming relaxes me and after exercising,
resting to regain energy is the best
Interlocutor Thank you. (Can I have the booklet please?) Retrieve Part 3 booklet.

Part 4
Interlocutor Use the following questions, as appropriate:
 What do you do when you want to relax? (Why?)
In order for me to relax, I listened to music or I am going to do sports because I
relax by distracting myself in some activity and I stop thinking about the things
that stress me.
 Do you prefer to relax with friends or alone? (Why?)
They preferred to relax me just because many times when we are with friends
we get more stressed since having them by our side and having them tell us
about their problems makes us more stressed.
 Is it important to do exercise in your free
time? (Why?/Why not?) Select any of the following
it is very important to exercise in my prompts, as appropriate:
free time because it helps to have good
health and to relax  How/what about you?
 Do you agree?
 Is it useful to learn new skills in your free
 What do you think?
time? (Why?/Why not?)
if it is useful because by learning new
skills we can excel in more things
 Do you think people spend too much time
working/studying these days? (Why?/Why
not?)
I think not because if we talk about
studying, we kids get distracted
frequently and don't study, we also have
time to relax and study time decreases.

Thank you. That is the end of the test.

Activities to help the man relax
 Single candidate format
Written prompts
For candidates using:

• Enlarged written prompts

• Braille prompts*

*Braille prompts will have the same wording as the enlarged written prompts.