MY EXAM.4th year

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXAM:

• BRING YOUR IDENTIFICATION CARD

• PUNCTUALITY: ONCE STARTED NO ONE WILL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER: IMPORTANT!!!!

• SWITCH OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE. IF ON, THE EXAM WILL BE REMOVED.

• THE EXAM SHOULD BE DONE IN BLACK OR BLUE PEN. OTHERWISE, NOT CORRECTED.

The exam has four parts:

• 1. reading

• 2. writing

• 3. listening

• 4. speaking

In May we have on the same day:

• Reading

• Writing

• Listening

The oral exam:

• From the 19th of May to the 19th of June.

• Who can do the oral exam?

Those people with a minimum of 4 (out of 10) in each of the other skills .

MARKS

• You need 5 out of 10 in each skill to pass the exam. (4 allows you to do the oral exam, but 5 is the minimum to pass it).

• Those skills passed in June will not need to be done in September.

• Promotion to the next course needs passing all the four skills.

READING

• The exam will consist of 2 or 3 reading text. Possible tasks:

• Matching headlines to paragraphs.• Ordering paragraphs.• Multiple choice questions.• True /false questions• Inserting sentencen into a text• Relate vocabulary to the text• Answering questions…

WRITING

• The exam will consist of 2 writing tasks:

One guided, and the other free.

LISTENING• The exam will consist of 2 or 3 extracts to

listen.

Possible tasks:

Completing sentences with some words.

Multiple choice questions.

True false questions.

Matching pictures to titles.

Matching extracts to titles…..

SPEAKING• The exam will be done in pairs (or threes if

not enough people).There will be an individual part and an interactive part.

The tasks:

Pictures description

Roleplays

Discussing on a topic

Answering questions

Debating …..

CRITERIA FOR WRITTEN EXAM

• ADEQUACY

• COHESION

• ACCURACY

• RICHNESS

CRITERIA FOR SPEAKING EXAM

• ADEQUACY AND COHESION

• FLUENCY

• ACCURACY

• RICHNESS

TYPICAL MISTAKES IN THE ORAL EXAM:

• Lack of: confidence

imagination

language knowledge

(relevant) ideas

strategies (paraphrasing, fillers,turn-taking..)

vocabulary

AVOID REPETITION OF BASIC WORDS

• ____ delighted-thrilled-on top of the world-elated-overjoyed

• ___tearful-miserable-weepy-close to tears-in low spirits

• ___ dull-tedious-uneventful-monotonous-repetitive

• ____ fascinating-absorbing-compelling-intriguing-of special interest

COMPARE:• I was in a terrible hotel. The staff was

bad, and the food too. The building was old, and I didn’t have a good time.

• This was by far the worst hotel I’ve ever been to. The rooms were dark and dingy, and I wouldn’t feed the food to my dog. I really found it a little hard to find time to enjoy myself. I wish I hadn’t been there.