speaking test demonstration component 5

cambridge igcse english as a second

language speaking test is aimed at

second language candidates and its main

aim is to assess language used with the

purpose of meaningful communication

the speaking test is not testing how

much candidates know about a certain

subject and there are no right or wrong

answers in this test the test is

designed to help candidates communicate

clearly by responding to your questions

during the speaking test candidates must

be examined on their own and the

speaking test must be conducted in

english all the way through

the whole speaking test should last

about 10 to 15 minutes

candidates must not

bring any notes into the examination

room

write any notes

or consult any dictionaries

it is important that you begin recording

as soon as the candidate enters the

examination room and that once the

recording of the test has begun it must

not be paused

even though part d is the only assessed

part of the test you must record the

whole test parts a b c and d

the speaking test has four parts

part a welcome and introduction

part b warm up which lasts two to three

minutes

part c preparation period which also

lasts two to three minutes

and part d the assessed conversation

which lasts between six and nine minutes

with a total time of between 10 and 15

minutes

all parts of the speaking test must be

recorded but only part d is assessed

part a welcome an introduction

start the recording as soon as the

candidate has sat down

give the candidate's name and number and

welcome the candidate and explain

briefly what's going to happen in each

part of the speaking test the examiner

script for this part is provided in the

teachers notes and remember part a is

not assessed

morning hoojin my name is mrs king i'm

your examiner today

i'll start the recording and then

explain the tests to you

center number ab123

center name international college

examination igcse0510

english as a second language

examiner name mrs s king

date 16th of april 2018.

candidate number one two three four

candidate name hujin park

remember that you need to start

recording as soon as the candidate

enters the room

okay hoo jin

first we'll have a two to three minute

general discussion about your interests

and life outside school

this part isn't assessed

then i'll give you an assessment card

which has the topic we will discuss in

the last part of the test

you'll have two to three minutes to read

the five prompts on the card to prepare

for this part

you can't make any written notes but you

can ask me to explain anything you don't

understand

finally we'll have a discussion based on

the five prompts on the card and any

ideas of your own on the topic

this part lasts six to nine minutes and

is the only part that is assessed

you may keep the assessment card until

the end of the test

take this time to ensure the candidate

is clear about the structure of the test

and what will happen at each stage

part b warm-up

put the candidate at ease by conducting

a short conversation maybe two to three

minutes on general topics and the

candidate's hobbies and interests

give the candidate time to get used to

the exam situation

decide on a suitable speaking assessment

card for the candidate and remember part

b is not assessed but still needs to be

recorded

so do you have any questions no i'm okay

okay we'll start the test then so

um tell me what who jim what do you like

doing in your free time

um

i usually light in my bed to use my

phone

okay

i live

now i live

in my host family with my host family

all right yeah i usually talk with my

host family and homemade

yeah yeah one of them came from thailand

one of them came from swaziland do you

spend time with them at the weekends do

you do anything with them

nothing special

but we have to have a dinner

and breakfast

right

with them

yeah so you talk to them yes

and maybe for one hours two hours yeah

yeah yeah do you have any other

interests or things you like doing in

your free time other than lying in your

bed and

i watch

film or video to

use my netflix right yeah

netflix yeah and

nowadays i try to watch movies without

subtitles

yeah maybe it is very good for my

english skill

yeah that's a good idea yeah and do you

like travelling at all

yeah

yeah

yeah i like

where have you been tell me some of the

places you've been

last weekend i went to york

did you like york

actually saw so

yes also yeah but quite a good and very

energetic city

yeah

i felt yeah and have you been to any

foreign countries

uh i went to

holland holland yeah and spain and spain

yeah did you like spain

yeah weather was so nice

better than uk

oh i'm sure it was yeah yeah for the uk

and

but food is so so

yeah it was very salty was it

yeah yeah

and that was in barcelona did you say

you went to barcelona and madrid madrid

yeah yeah and was there a difference in

the food between the two places no i

think similar seemed about yeah yeah it

was similar yeah but it was very salty

this section should help you see which

card you're going to choose for the

candidate

part c preparation period

select one of the speaking assessment

cards for the candidate this must take

place after the warm-up give the

candidate two to three minutes to

prepare and in this time the candidate

may ask questions any necessary

explanations should be given at this

point

candidates must not make notes during

this period

candidates must keep their speaking

assessment card for the rest of the test

and remember the preparation period must

be recorded

the speaking assessment card needs to

remain with the candidate for the whole

time each speaking assessment card has a

topic for discussion between the

examiner and the candidate together with

five prompts to help the conversation

students are not allowed to use

dictionaries or write anything down

i'm going to give you assessment card

which is

journeys

so you have two to three minutes to look

at this

you can ask me any questions if there's

anything there you don't understand but

you can't make any written notes

okay okay
i'm ready to start

try to encourage the candidate to use

their full two to three minutes to

prepare for the speaking test you can

answer any questions that the candidate

might have but do not give the

candidates any ideas about what they

could say

oh

no please take a little bit more time

you have two to three minutes okay so

just read through it again and then i'll

tell you what we're going to start okay

can i ask something yes please do what

does make regularly mean

regularly if you make a journey

regularly it's something you do either

every day or every week

or perhaps two or three times a year

yeah it's not something you just do once

oh okay i see yeah

okay you're generally ready to start

yeah i'm ready

the candidate can ask you questions

about the meanings of words and for

further clarification but they must not

write anything down let the candidate

keep the card for the rest of the test

you should not make any notes while the

candidate is speaking

this is the speaking assessment criteria

grid

part d is assessed on structure out of

10 vocabulary out of 10 and development

and fluency also out of 10.

you will need to give each candidate a

mark out of 10 for each of the criteria

and then add these together to give a

mark out of 30.

you will find the speaking assessment

criteria grid in the syllabus and

teachers examiner notes

part d

assessed conversation

use each of the five prompts on the

speaking assessment card in the order

that they appear on the card

ask additional questions of your own

based on the candidate's responses

aim to spend an equal amount of time on

each prompt

don't let the candidate deliver a

monologue this should be a discussion

and remember this is the only part of

the test to be assessed

right so many people make regular

journeys either short or long

can you tell me about a journey or

journeys that you or people you know

make regularly

the examiner can use the opening

sentence to help start the conversation

[Music]

i know one person who make regularly

for journey

[Music]

the person is my mother

yeah

my family lilly's reason is buddhism and

my mother

always

always go to

temple

top

on the top of the mountain

yeah and

we have one holiday for

our buddhism

and my mother

had to go to

temple

and maybe once a year

when's that what time of the year

is that what time of the year maybe

may hey yeah maybe yeah maybe

yeah yeah yeah i'm not sure actually

yeah

continue to work your way through the

five prompts until the time limit ends

all five prompts must be used however

you can introduce open questions of your

own related to the topic

do not allow the candidate to deliver a

monologue and make sure you ask a range

of questions

try not to pose the prompts as questions

they should be used to develop a

conversation

yeah and

i've been there maybe three times

because of to pray for my buddhism

and now i'm high school student

now i'm wanting to go university

okay and i prayed for buddhism i wanted

to

this university like that yeah

did you enjoy going to the temple do you

like going to the temple

i like but it was very hard to journey

because i have to climbing

top of the mountain

top of the mountain yeah just on foot

yeah and how long did that take

hours okay long journey yeah yeah from

my home

to there

it takes one hour to take a car

and i have to climb in

the top of the mountain for one hour

is two hours yeah

yeah

okay um what about um

the things that people do during long

journeys

and why can you think of a long journey

oh yeah

when i came to here in cambridge i had

to

flight use flight

it took about 12 hours from my country

to

uk it's a long flight yeah it was very

long journey yeah

and

what did you do on the journey

in flight uh

usually

i sleep

yeah

and i watched the video

film movie and drama how many did you

watch

how many maybe two two two or three yeah

but i've never talked

next to my seat

person yeah just concentrate my movie

and my
food and the food yeah yeah yeah yeah do

you enjoy the food on the plane

nowadays

it is very nice i think i think it has

improved a lot yeah yeah yeah yeah

i used

british airway i was going to ask was it

british airways yeah yeah it was very

nice i think yeah yeah so it was british

food

you have british food yeah your first

taste of british food was on the plane

yeah yeah yeah

it was

my first

experience yeah yeah yeah

and um

when you're traveling

um you say you don't speak to the person

on the plane

next to you yeah

but if you're traveling with other

people

perhaps friends or family what are the

advantages and disadvantages of

traveling with other people um

advantage is

i can't be

lonely

it is more fun
than

without

without other people it's more fun yeah

i think it is

more fun and it is more safe

yeah

why is it safer

this question allows the candidate to

develop their answer

you should ask a range of questions

throughout part d that build on what the

candidate has said and encourage a

conversation

in night time

maybe

if i go outside with other people

and

i can protect to myself

more safer

yeah with other people it is safer i

think um but sometimes there are

disadvantages of traveling with other

people yeah yeah what do you think the

disadvantages are it is depend on

my

partner's personality and character

yeah

like i like this food but my partner

doesn't like this food it is very big

problem

to our journey so you think the

difficulty can be in different opinions

yeah to eat different opinions perhaps

where to go yeah but we have to

cooperate

each other

yeah

but it's important to call it yeah yeah

yeah

yeah and the there's the suggestion that

travel was more adventurous in the past

do you agree with that yeah i agree yeah

i think it could be yeah and yeah yeah

yeah yeah many yeah yeah yeah

remember that for part d you have six to

nine minutes

you should stay within this time limit

but allow the candidate time to develop

their answers

you should use the full time to ask all

of the questions on the speaking

assessment card and to develop the

conversation further with some

additional questions of your own

thank you hujin that's the end of the

test

end of recording

if i could just remind you that the

assessment card is confidential so

please don't tell anybody about the card

okay thank you thank you

here are some key points to remember

there are no right or wrong answers to

the questions

you should always appear interested in

what the candidate is saying

you should ask open questions to develop

conversation

you should give the candidates the full

time allowed for each part

you must not allow candidates to deliver

speeches or monologues

you must not indicate how well you think

the candidate has done either during or

after the test

at the end of the candidate's test

remind the candidate about

confidentiality

candidates must not discuss the speaking

assessment or the contents of their card

with anyone else

keep the speaking assessment card the

candidate must not take this out of the

room

complete the speaking examination

summary form with the candidate name