1. 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
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. • Keep it simple!
Try to avoid complicated
explanations or grammar if
you are not sure about
them. If the truthful answer
• To prepare for this is difficult to explain, you
evaluation you should solve may want to say something
all the given easier in the exam.
exercises/assignments. • The solution will require the
• No aids (dictionaries, BB, same techniques we have
mobiles, student book, etc) used during exercises/
are permitted during this vocab learned in class.
part of your midterm.
7. • 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, 3. Pause briefly after a question is
or are not sure if you understand asked. Take a few seconds to
a question, ask for the question compose your thoughts--quickly
to be repeated. review in your mind the parts of the
question or the main areas of
• 2. Pay particular attention to key information that you need to cover,
words, directional words, and and organize how you will go
multiple parts of questions. 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.
10. • 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.
