TEST SPECIFICATION

GENERAL INFORMATION
Type of test Final
Language skills to be Speaking
assessed
Grade 3
Subject General English – Fun for Movers
Textbook Global English 2 + Fun for Movers
Term/ school year 2/2022-2023
Knowledge/ skills to be Global English: Units 8 and 9 (9.1 and 9.2)
assessed
Vocabulary: Parts of a building; rooms and furnishings; animal homes;
Weather/climate; construction materials; city things and places, describing
words; sea animals
Use of English: Future simple form: will; Use “For” to indicate recipient; Use
contractions in present, future, and past: don’t, doesn’t, won’t, didn’t; Use
“Can” to make requests and ask permission; Questions: What, Where, Which;
Adverb: too; Like +V_ing; descriptive adjectives; Demonstrative adjectives:
that; those

Speaking: Use the target vocabulary and structures to answer open-ended

questions.
Fun for Movers (Units 37 – 46)
Vocabulary: work, the home, time, animals, body and face, family and friends,
food and names, school, sports and leisure, transport, weather, the
world around us, food and drink
Use of English: Past simple; Present simple, Present continuous
Speaking: Use the target vocabulary to tell a story.
INDIVIDUAL TASKS
TASK 1

Construct Ability to answer questions about parts of a building; rooms and furnishings; animal
homes; Weather/climate; construction materials; city things and places, describing
words; sea animals.

Description of the task The examiner asks students five open-ended questions about parts of a building; rooms
and furnishings; animal homes; Weather/climate; construction materials; city things
and places, describing words; sea animals.

Scoring method Analytic scoring

Sample task Answering questions

Examiner Student

1. Which animal home has a Termites’ home; special mushrooms grow in the
garden inside? garden.

2. Which things will you do at Well, I will help my mom to set the table.
home?

3. Where do rabbits live? What Rabbits live underground. Their homes have a
do you know about their lot of tunnels.
homes?

4. What is your favourite I like going to the zoo best because I can see a
place/kinds of homes in the lot of animals. / I like having adobe houses
city? Why? because the thick mud walls of the house keep
me cool in summer.

5. Let’s talk about your favourite My favourite sea animal is the sea turtle. It’s
sea animal. usually green and grey. It can swim in the
ocean. It doesn’t have any tail. It is amazing.
TASK 2

Construct Ability to tell a story by using the target language

Description The examiners show the student a sequence of four pictures, which tell a story. The examiner tells
the student the title of the story and describes what’s happening in the first picture. The student
then describes what is happening in the remaining three pictures using sequencers (first, then,
next).
Focus: work, the home, time, animals, body and face, family and friends, food and names, school,
sports and leisure, transport, weather, the world around us, food and drink.

Scoring method Analytic scoring.

Sample task
RATING SCALE
Vocabulary and Grammar
5 • Uses the vocabulary
required to deal with all test
tasks.
• Uses some simple
structures correctly but
makes some mistakes,
although meaning is generally
clear.
• Responds at word, phrase
or longer utterance level.
• Can join ideas with some
simple linkers (e.g. and, but,
then, when).
4 Some features of 3.0 and some features of 5.0 in approximately equal measure.
3 • Uses the vocabulary
required to deal with most
test tasks.
• Produces some simple
structures but makes some
basic mistakes which may
obscure meaning.
• Generally responds at word
or phrase level but may also
produce some longer
utterances.
• Can join ideas with a few
simple linkers (e.g. and).
2 Some features of 3.0 and some features of 1.0 in approximately equal measure.
1 • Uses the vocabulary
required to attempt some
test tasks.
• Attempts a few simple
utterances but makes some
basic mistakes which may
obscure meaning.
• Generally responds at word
level but may also produce
phrases.
• Can join words with simple
linkers (e.g. and).
0 Performance does not satisfy the Band 1 descriptor.
Pronunciation
• Is mostly intelligible.
• Has limited control of word
stress and intonation.
• Is mostly intelligible,
although some sounds may be instructions, questions and
unclear.
• Has limited control of word
stress.
• Sometimes may be difficult
to understand.
Interaction
• Responds appropriately to
instructions, questions and
visual prompts, and very little
support is required.
• Is able to ask for support if
required.
• Almost always responds
promptly, although there may
be hesitation and some
pausing mid-utterance.
• Responds appropriately to
visual prompts, although
some support is required.
• Is able to ask for support if
required.
• Often responds promptly,
although there may be
hesitation and pausing mid-
utterance.
• Responds appropriately to
some instructions, questions
and visual prompts, although
frequent support may be
required.
• May attempt to ask for
support if required.
• There is hesitation and
pausing mid-utterance;
responses may be delayed or
halting.