REVIEW: Speaking 1–8

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Can give or seek personal views and opinions in discussing topics of interest

Can compare and contrast alternatives about what to do, where to go, etc

Can ask for clarification about key words not understood, using fixed expressions

Can talk about different forms of communication

Can use language related to appearance

Can use language related to features of clothes

Sample Responses
1 Work with Student B/A to discuss some exhibitions and decide which to go to together.

Student A/B:

Expected Exchange:
Student A: Hi. Let’s go to the graphic novel exhibition at the library.
Student B: Really? I’m not sure I want to go.
Student A: I think you’ll like this one. We can learn how to design characters. You like drawing, don’t you?
Student B: Yes I do and I’ve never tried doing pictures for books.
Student A: And there’s a discussion with some authors. I’d love to meet them.
Student B: How much does it cost? Do we have to pay?
Student A: Only if you want to go to the discussions. It’s £5 for students. I don’t think that’s bad.
Student B: What do you mean, not bad?
Student A: I meant that £5 isn’t a lot of money, is it?
Student B: Yes, but I spent all my money on a new bike last month. I’d like to go to this art exhibition and it’s much
cheaper.
Student A: What art exhibition is that?
Student B: It’s contemporary watercolour paintings at the museum gallery. We do some painting ourselves too.
Student A: Personally I’m not very interested in watercolours.
Student B: But you also get to meet the artists. That would be interesting, wouldn’t it?
Student A: And how much does this all cost?
Student B: It’s cheaper than yours. It’s only £2.00 to go. That’s all.
Student A: Well, it sounds quite good. What do you think we should do, then?
Student B: Go to the art one, of course!
Student A: Look, if I pay for you, would you go the graphic novel one with me?
Student B: That’s very kind of you. I can pay you back next month, if that’s okay.
Student A: No worries. It’s a present from me and I don’t want to go alone.

Expected Answers to Questions:

1 I’d like to visit the graphic novel exhibition because I love books and think it would be very interesting.
2 Because they are interested in what is on show at the exhibition and it’s a way of learning more about the subject and
perhaps meeting other people with the same interests.
3 I went to see an exhibition of Paul Nash paintings at Tate Britain in London. It was very interesting.
4 I enjoy reading nineteenth-century novelists like Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy as I find it
fascinating to read about how life was back then.

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2 Look at the photo and describe it to Student B/A.

Student A:

Expected Response:
I can see some people who seem to be waiting for a bus. They’re all standing and the first man is looking at his phone.
He’s got his hand in his pocket and is wearing a grey business suit, so he’s probably a businessman or works in an office.
The lady behind him is wearing a pink jumper and she’s got long blonde hair. She looks quite relaxed and is looking at
the bus. The man in the middle is wearing a T-shirt and I think he’s a student. I think he’s got headphones around his
neck. He’s looking up at something and is probably bored waiting for the bus. The lady behind him is looking down at
something and her posture tells me that she might be tired and bored waiting for the bus. None of them have got any
strong facial expressions so I think that they know that they have to be patient and wait.

Student B:

Expected Response:
My picture shows some people visiting an art gallery or museum. In the background there are five people: a woman with
a child to the left, two men in the middle and a man on the right. I can’t see their faces but they are all looking at
paintings but their body postures show that they are very focused. Everyone in the room seems to be very interested in
the paintings. We can see that the pictures show the sea or a lake and some trees. The pictures are black and white. I
think that this is gallery of modern art.

Student A/B:

Expected Answers to Questions:

1 It can be very important if someone is very angry or upset, for example. If you can understand from their body
language that they are upset then you can change your behaviour to improve the situation or help the person.
2 I give my best friends a hug when we meet as we feel like a family of friends, but I don’t usually hug other friends
because we’re not so close.
3 I have to wait for lots of things, for example the bus, lunch in the canteen, my parents to make dinner. I don’t mind
waiting in queues if it’s not too long and if I have my phone with me so I don’t get bored.

Marking Grid
Marks out of 20 should be awarded for the two tasks combined (each task is worth a maximum of 10 marks).
Award up to 2 marks for each section of the mark scheme for each task, according to the descriptions below.
Marks Task Spoken Spoken Range Accuracy
achievement production and interaction

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fluency

0-1 Gives only short Can make Can interact with Has sufficient Can use some simple
answers to the themselves reasonable ease vocabulary to structures correctly, but
questions. understood in in structured conduct routine still makes basic
everyday mistakes. Limited
Doesn’t develop short exchanges situations and
transactions but will control of short simple
ideas and even though short routine
generally have to sentence structures,
doesn’t express pauses, false exchanges compromise the but message can be
opinions. starts and provided the other message and understood.
reformulation are person helps if search for words.
very evident. necessary.
Conversational
partners will need
to ask for
repetition from
time to time.

1.5 Gives clear Can keep going Can initiate, Has enough Good control of
answers to the comprehensibly maintain and language to get by, elementary language,
questions, and even though close simple face- with sufficient but errors still occur
vocabulary to when expressing more
develops some pausing for to-face
express themselves complex thoughts.
ideas with grammatical and conversation on
with some Uses reasonably
examples. Gives lexical planning is familiar topics. hesitation on accurately a repertoire
opinions. very evident in Can repeat back everyday topics. of frequently used
longer stretches part of what Lexical limitations ‘routines’ and patterns
of free production. someone has said may cause associated with more
Can reasonably to confirm mutual repetition and even predictable situations.
fluently sustain understanding difficulty with
straightforward and start again formulation at times.
description of using a different
familiar topics. strategy when
communication
breaks down.

2 Gives very full Can express Can communicate Can express Can communicate with
answers to the themselves with with some themselves with reasonable accuracy in
questions, relative ease and confidence on some confidence on familiar contexts.
everyday topics Generally good control,
developing keep going familiar routine
although they may but with a few mistakes
ideas, effectively despite and non-routine
have to search for in more complex
expanding some pauses to matters. Can or talk around language structures.
through formulate ideas. exchange, check unknown words. However, these do not
examples and and confirm May occasionally impede the message.
expressing a information and use more complex
range of express thoughts phrases and
opinions. on abstract topics. expressions but
Can exploit a often with limited
control.
repertoire of
language and
strategies to help

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keep a
conversation
going.

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