Speaking Exams Tips - Great Questions for Anyone, Interview your Classmates

If you know what to say, you will feel more relaxed and confident at the start of the exam. Speaking exams tips;

Do: 

• Think about the types of topics and questions you may be asked before the exam. School, family, free time, daily routines and future plans are common topics. 
• Practise answering simple questions about yourself. Work with a friend to practise or record yourself and listen to the recording. 
• Listen carefully to the questions. If you don’t understand the question, ask your teacher to repeat it. 
• Give complete answers in full sentences. 
• Look at the examiner. His/her face may tell you when you’ve said enough and he/she is rady for the next question. 

Don’t: 

• Memorise your answers. It’s good to have ideas ready, but it’s better not to memorise long replies to typical questions.
• Just reply with ‘yes’ or ‘no’. 
• Panic if you are asked an unexpected question. 

Take a few seconds to think before you answer it. Here are some examples of things you can say about yourself: 

My name’s ... I’m from ... / I live in ... I was born in ... I’m ... years old. I go to ... school. I like ... because ... I don’t like ... because ... In my free time / After school, I ... My best friends are ... because ... My favourite (school subject, actor, pop group, sport) is ... because ... I have ... brothers and sisters. In the future, I’d like to ... because ...

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/talk-about-yourself

Oral activity, interview your classmates;Great Questions for Anyone

• Who has been the most important person in your life? Can you tell me about him or her?

• What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?

• Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?

• Who has been the kindest to you in your life?

• What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?

• What advice would you give to your teenage self?

• What is your earliest memory?

• What is your favorite memory of me?

• Are there any funny stories your family tells about you that come to mind?

• Are there any funny stories or memories or characters from your life that you want to tell me about?

• What are you proudest of?

• When in life have you felt most alone?

• If you could hold on to one memory from your life forever, what would that be?

• How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?

• How would you like to be remembered?

• Do you have any regrets?

• What does your future hold?

• What are your hopes for what the future holds for me? For my children?

• If this was to be our very last conversation, is there anything you’d want to say to me

• For your great great grandchildren listening to this years from now: is there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?

• Is there anything that you’ve never told me but want to tell me now?

• Is there something about me that you’ve always wanted to know but have never asked?