INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SPEAKING TEST

TASK 

(See Student's Book, p. 47, exercise 7a)

You are going to tell your teacher one anecdote. Choose one of the topics below or propose a different one; plan previously what you are going to say and the vocabulary you are going to need.

• a time you cheated (in a sport / game or in an exam)
• a really exciting sports event you saw
• a time you had an accident or got a sports injury
• a time you saw or met a celebrity
• a time you got lost

Dos and don'ts

- Give as much detail as you can. It's important to answer questions such as WHEN, WHERE, WHO, WHAT, WHY, HOW, etc. while telling your story. The teacher might interrupt you from time to time to know more about each event of your story or to clarify something, answer her question(s) and go on. .

- Make sure you remember the order of events in your story clearly.

- You can start your anecdote by saying:

• I'm going to tell you about a time when...
• This happened a few years ago...
• When I was younger...

- Watch the use of the narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous and past perfect), they're so important when telling a story.

- As pronunciation is one of the assessment aspects, don't forget to produce the right pronunciation of a regular past verb (the '-ed' ending). You may use lots of past forms. Check the rules again if necessary.

- DON'T READ your anecdote. That would be considered cheating and could result in a failing grade!

- DON'T MEMORISE it. If you do so, you risk forgetting a word and then forgetting everything. Just let it be naturally, as it is in Spanish.