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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION
NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY
EDUCATION 2006
(Level 1)
LANGUAGE ARTS PAPER 1
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF ORAL EXAMINATIONS
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ADMINISTRATION OF THE ORAL EXAMINATIONS
1. English teachers will administer the oral examination.
2. Where possible, English teachers should not interview their
own students.
3. The oral examination should take place within the two-week
period scheduled for the practical examinations.
4. The Division of Educational Research and Evaluation has
provided topics and questions for conversations, along with scoring
guides.
5. Materials relevant to the examination must at all times be
treated with the strictest confidentiality.
6. Administrators should ensure that all candidates are made
aware of the form that the examination will take and the date and
time they will be examined. Each student will be examined for 5 10
minutes.
7. Schools should ensure that the arrangements for the conduct
of the examinations are satisfactory. The examination room should
be as quiet as possible and should contain adequate accommodation
for teacher (a table and chair) and student (chair).
8. All copies of the final mark sheets should be submitted to
the Division of Educational Research and Evaluation through the
Examination Section, Ministry of Education immediately on
completion of the examination of all students.
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NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (NCSE) LEVEL 1
EXAMINATION 2006
LANGUAGE ARTS PAPER 1 ORAL
INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXAMINERS
Examiners should:
Provide candidates with the topics 10 - 15 minutes before the
examination, in the presence of an examiner. Collect these
following the interview.
Ensure that students are comfortable.
Use the questions provided on the selected topics as these are
meant to guide the interview.
Ask additional follow up questions for clarification.
Remember to speak audibly, in a slow and deliberate manner to
ensure that students hear and understand the questions.
Use the scoring guide and mark sheets provided to record
students scores.
TOPICS
1. Youth and Crime
2. Values: Respect
3. Entertainment: Movies
4. Healthy Lifestyles
5. Future Careers
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NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
TOPIC ONE: YOUTH AND CRIME
Introduction
1. Good Morning / Afternoon How are you?
2. Tell me something about yourself. (Elicit here, the students
name, age, address, number of members in family etc.)
Questions on Youth and Crime
3. How do you feel about youths committing crime?
4. What are some of the crimes committed by youths?
5. What are some reasons youths become involved in crime?
6. Tell me how a youths life can change if he or she becomes
involved in crime.
7. How can schools help youths turn away from becoming involved
in criminal activity?
8. How is crime affecting our country?
9. What do you think are some solutions to the crime
problem?
10. What can you do to reduce crime in our country?
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TOPIC TWO: VALUES - RESPECT
Introduction
1. Good Morning/Afternoon How are you?
2. Tell me something about yourself. (Elicit here the students
name, age, address, number of members in family etc.)
Questions on Values: Respect
3. What do you understand by the word respect?
4. Can you describe some ways in which you practise respect to
others? (Please elicit here how respect is shown to parents,
elders, authority figures etc.)
5. Is it important to respect yourself? (If yes, say why and
how. If no, say why).
6. Have you ever disrespected anyone or has anyone ever
disrespected you? Tell me about this, how you felt or how you think
that person felt.
7. If the same situation arose again, what would you do?
8. Is respect for the environment important? (If yes, state why
and how. If no, state why and why not).
9. Tell me ways you can show more respect for your country.
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TOPIC THREE: ENTERTAINMENT - MOVIES
Introduction
1. Good Morning/Afternoon How are you?
2. Tell me something about yourself Elicit here, students name,
age, address, number of members in family etc.)
Questions on Entertainment: Movies
The movie industry is a huge part of todays entertainment
business.
3. What kind of movies do young people like? Why?
4. What kind of movies do you like?
5. Tell me why you like these? (Elicit here responses like
music, stunts, action, special effects etc.).
6. Do you prefer to see movies at home or at the cinema?
Why?
7. Who is your favourite movie star?
8. What do you like best about the star? (Elicit here a
quality/characteristic that young people can aspire to.)
9. Tell me about something in a movie that greatly affected you?
How? Why?
10. Do you think young people should be allowed to see any movie
they choose? Why do you think so?
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FOUR: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
Introduction
1. Good Morning/ Afternoon How are you?
2. Tell me something about yourself. (Elicit here students name,
age, address, number of family members etc.)
Questions on Healthy Lifestyles
3. What do you think is a healthy lifestyle?
4. Tell me some reasons that a healthy lifestyle is
important.
5. Tell me what you do to keep fit?
6. A healthy lifestyle includes recreation. What do you do for
recreation?
7. What are some healthy foods that we should eat regularly?
Why?
8. Is breakfast an important meal for a student? Why?/Why
not?
9. What advice would you give to a friend who has a daily lunch
of a burger, fries and a soft drink?
10. What do you suggest that schools do to promote healthy
lifestyles among students?
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TOPIC FIVE: FUTURE CAREERS
Introduction
1. Good Morning/Afternoon How are you?
2. Tell me something about yourself. (Elicit here, students
name, age, address, number of members in family etc.)
Questions on Future Careers
3. What are three ideal jobs? Why?
4. What would you like to be when you leave school? Why?
5. How are you preparing yourself for your future?
6. What are two important qualities any good worker should
possess?
7. Do you think all jobs are of equal importance? Explain your
thoughts on this.
8. Why are there so many unemployed young people in our society
today?
9. What advice would you give to a young person who is not
interested in preparing himself/herself for a career/job?
10. If you were given the opportunity to be a politician, social
worker or a garbage collector, what would you choose to be?
Why?
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NCSE LANGUAGE ARTS ORALS SCORING GUIDE
END OF PAPER
SCORING CRITERIA
UNDERSTANDING OF TOPIC
SPEECH PACE AND
VOLUME
USE OF STANDARD ENGLISH
ARTICULATION, ENUNCIATION,
EXPRESSION
LEXICON USE OF
VOCABULARY
13-15 Excellent
Understands and interprets all questions. Answers
appropriately
Speech is natural and continuous
Uses Standard English
effectively
Expressions are appropriate.
Excellent articulation and
enunciation.
A wide range of vocabulary is
used
10-12 Very Good
Understands and interprets most
questions. Answers most
questions appropriately
Some hesitation in speech,
but generally completes responses
Uses Standard English
appropriately
Expressions are coherent. Very
good articulation and enunciation.
Adequate use of essential
vocabulary
7-9 Satisfactory
Understands some questions, requires
some repetition. Answers some
questions appropriately.
Frequent hesitation in speech and a few responses may be
incomplete
Uses Standard English
satisfactorily
Expressions are fairly coherent.
Satisfactory articulation and
enunciation.
Fairly adequate use of vocabulary
4-6 In progress
Understands a few questions, requires
considerable repetition. Answers
few questions appropriately.
Answers few
questions, speech is unnatural with great hesitation
Standard English has structural
inaccuracies
Expressions are fragmented or incomplete but
comprehensible. Weak articulation and enunciation.
Limited use of vocabulary
0-3 Minimal
Understands very little, little or no
attempt to answer questions
Speech is halting and fragmented
Little or no use of
Standard English
Conversation is virtually impossible and expressions are
almost incomprehensible. Poor articulation and enunciation.
Little or no use of vocabulary
