Oral exam guidelines

ORAL TEST GUIDELINES

The oral exam is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your knowledge, your presentation/speaking skills, as

well as your ability to communicate.

Professor Angel Watler Archbold

Evaluation based on……

How?

This 1st Oral Exam will be done in couples.

Option 1. The students will be presented with a problem and should be able to present a solution. The problem will be new, i.e., not a problem we have solved during the class.

Option 2: You may be asked to describe the experience and training you have that is related to the functions or activities performed in the class.

Option 3: You may be asked to role-play a situation related to Units 7 & 8 with another person to demonstrate your skill in this activity.

Option 4: You may be asked to watch a video scenario and critique how a situation was handled or answer questions about what you observed, what you heard, or how you would handle the situation.

Option 5: You may be asked to make A phone call to the US and talk to a Native speaker about a specific topic, Request, etc.

• To prepare for this evaluation you should solve all the given exercises/assignments.

• No aids (dictionaries, BB, mobiles, student book, etc) are permitted during this part of your midterm.

• Keep it simple! Try to avoid complicated explanations or grammar if you are not sure about them. If the truthful answer is difficult to explain, you may want to say something easier in the exam.

• The solution will require the same techniques we have used during exercises/ vocab learned in class.

• 1. Listen carefully to each question and make sure you understand exactly what is being asked. Teachers can not interpret questions for you, but if you do not hear all of a question, or are not sure if you understand a question, ask for the question to be repeated.

• 2. Pay particular attention to key words, directional words, and multiple parts of questions.

3. Pause briefly after a question is asked. Take a few seconds to compose your thoughts--quickly review in your mind the parts of the question or the main areas of information that you need to cover, and organize how you will go through this before you begin to answer the question. 4. If you don't know the answer to the question, try not to panic. Just give the best answer that you can for the question. Try not to ramble if you do not know or are unsure of the answer to a question.

Oral Exam Assesment Sheet

POINTS

EXCELLENT………..1 POINT

VERY GOOD………0.9-0.99

GOOD……………….0.8-0.89

FAIR………………….0.6-0.79

POOR……………….0.1-0.5

• Learning to speak a new language is hard if you don’t have a way to practice what you have learned.

• Becoming fluent in your new language does not come from study but from interaction .

• Casual, frequent, relaxed conversation with native speakers allows you a chance to gain comfort and familiarity with the

words and patterns of speech used in the English speaking world in which you live.