Topic 4

Speaking Assessment Card E

Part 1: Interview

Teacher/examiner: Can you tell me about your favourite food

Candidate: Ok. I have talking about it before t-that’s hotpot, um, it’s a traditional Chinese food  that we put some ingredients like beef, pork, vegetables into a large, er a large boiled like soup, a large pot er of boiled soup. Um It is really spicy and um and it is er, it tastes really delicious so I like its taste, but er when I also like when people eat it we gather around a large table and share the same pot. I think this can make us more familiar and strengthen our relationship um so I really like this food and it can give me some warmth from when it is really cold in winter.

Teacher/examiner: Do you prefer eating at home or in a restaurant?

Candidate: Um It depends on different situations. Um so sometimes when I feel really depressed and I want to eat something really delicious to cheer me up, I will go to some restaurants to find some new food that I haven’t tried before um but sometimes if I want to treat some friends in my home or eat with my family um I will try to er cook by myself and…yeah.

Teacher/examiner: Do you think young people should learn about healthy eating habits. Why or why not?

Candidate: Um I, I think they should learn about the life, the healthy eating habits because that’s about  um that’s, that’s really important for their health um I know a lot of people don’t want to eat a lot of things healthy because they think that the taste really is awful um but er I think it is a balance we should er… it’s something that er is both  tasty and healthy to let us have a healthy body.

Part 2 Short talk

Candidate : So, nowadays I think pollution is really um important problem around er all the countries in the world and people are now all try to er figuring out some ways to increase this problem, to decrease this problem and um so um I think er we can do something to try to reduce pollution by our, by ourselves and the first,  I think using, er not using plastic um I think it’s a little bit difficult for most of people and, of course for me, because plastic is really important in our daily lives.  We have plastic bags to …to…when, when we want to buy something and we have plastic boxes for the food when we ask for a delivery, so er not using plastic is really difficult, but I know nowadays er … some plastic er which is not so… will not damage the environment that are currently used, like the straws in the maybe, in the novelty shops they try to use the plastic that are not so harmful.

And the second way to reduce pollution is walking or cycling to school.  I think that’s, that’s easy for me er and I think er for most of the students that er live near the school because um we don’t have to walk or cycle for a long time, er but for me because I live just near my school so I can walk, actually I really walk to school every day  um so I think that’s what we can do and it’s simple and it’s really good for my health. We can have some little exer…, exercise by, by doing, by walking to school  so I prefer to… prefer to walk to school .

Part 3 Discussion

Teacher/examiner: Do you think young people care more about the environment than the older generation. Do you agree?

Candidate: Yes, um  because I think that the older generations they do a lot of things that they do not know that will harm the environment and because our country was not so developed before, so our country is really developing so fast so we can, er we just want to develop so er we don’t know that what we do will harm the environment where we can care so much so er  the older generation will maybe build a lot of house, build a lot of buildings er so our environment will be damaged and the younger generations um  because the development or technology um  we found,  find a lot of new methods to improve the environment um and we care more about it er by doing maybe just little things in our life like not using the plastic bags or walk to school.

Teacher/examiner: Some people think that we should buy fewer things to reduce pollution. Do you agree? What do you think?

Candidate:  Um I don’t agree with him because um I think er that’s not the solution to er stop the, the, to stop it, to stop the erm pollution in the right way because we can’t buy, we buy fewer things but er our civilisation, our society is developing and er buying fewer things will just make it er develop slower um so I think that’s not the solution to deal with this problem from the, the past, so um so I don’t agree with him.

Teacher/examiner: Thank you. This is the end of the test. End of recording.

Speaking Assessment Card E

Part 1: Interview

Teacher/examiner: Can you tell me about your favourite food?

Candidate: My favourite food it’s strawberry cause I really loves eating different kind of fruit and after I taste most of them I found out that strawberry is er taste really good I think it’s sweet, er, and especially in this season.  Yes.

Teacher/examiner:  Do you prefer eating in a home or in a restaurant?

Candidate:  Er, in a home, I think, cause in my family my dad it’s really good at selecting fruits so er he always bring the most sweetest and the freshest to me and I can have it in home.

Teacher/examiner: Do you think young people should learn about healthy eating habits? Why or why not?

Candidate: I think we should because er nowadays really er lots of people er including student loves to eat junk food which is really unhealthy for them er especially in Europe er lots of people it’s getting overweight it’s a really unhealthy er phenomenon so I think young people should learn more about how to keep health and eat health food.

Part 2: Short talk

Candidate: So er I think these two option is really useful to produce the pollution cause er in the Shanghai it’s a really er modern city which er caused  a really er heavy pollution and I think these two are really easy for me to do because not using plastic, taking this as an example, er  in my family we usually take our own bag for shopping er which can reduce next time and also er lots of shops including  multi store or convenience store they are using the plastic which is can be er released so which will not cause the pollution of the environment

And walking or cycling to school it’s, it’s hard for us er because sometimes er if we live far away it’s really hard to walking or cycling like we must take the bus or er come by car, but there is another way, for example, take metro or subway comes to school it will reduce pollution er rather than come by car. So in my opinion I prefer the not using plastic point because as I mentioned before it’s more easier for me to do and that’s it.

Part 3: Discussion

Teacher/examiner: Do you think young people care more about the environment than the older generation. Do you agree?

Candidate: Yes, um because nowadays many people almost every people have a phone er especially the young generations and er many adults er from the governments trying to tell us the information about the pollution of our city er so the most people who know this information is the younger generation cause the elder don’t pay attention to their phone or internet and er maybe they don’t have the er opinion to keep er the reduce the pollution.

Teacher/examiner: Some people think that all air travel should stop to protect the environment. What do you think?

Candidate: Er, er I disagree about this opinion cause take Shanghai to Beijing as an example I, I have just discussed this topic to my roommate last night er when I was young I went to Beijing by airplane and it’s only takes 2 to 3 hours, I think  but she er went there by train which takes 7 to 8 hours, er, and I think it’s a really, er, it’s a way to waste our time and maybe we can like reduce the quantity of air travelling but do not spend it for all of them and  sometimes it’s really useful for us to travel.

Teacher/examiner: Thank you. This is the end of the test. End of recording.

Speaking Assessment Card E

Part 1: Interview

Teacher/examiner:  Can you tell me about your favourite food?

Candidate: Er, my favourite food is the noodles er as er it is, er it has many types of the noodles such as the, such as, types and er it can also be eaten by with many sauces, such as the potato or just er eat er like it with soup.

Teacher/examiner: Do you prefer eating at home or in a restaurant?

Candidate: I prefer to eat at home because er my parents er... both of my parents can cook well and er I think, I think the restaurant outside er …er, I don’t like to eat outside although, er yeah although some restaurants are very delicious and I prefer to eat my parents er cook.

Teacher/examiner:  Do you think young people should learn about healthy eating habits. Why or why not?

Candidate: Er … I think er…er  young people should to learn about this because er for er young people it is important to be health, er er, if young people healthier they can ch-…they can learn more knowledge or can do something they like er more freely, and if they are unhealthy they are many, er such as, such as if they are so fat, they can’t do, do, some sports free such as basketball or the, or the football and the healthy eating habits also can helps us to grow our lives.

Part 2: Short talk

Candidate: As we all know the pollution in er, … er, around the world is very serious and er so it is very important for us er to stop using more and more plastic er products such as the plastic bags or the plastic er, the plastic plant. In my opinion the option to stop using plastic is to, er to make a post or to talk about others that factors that use more plastic and make them know the, know purposes that don’t use plastic can bring er and the other, the other one is the air pollution, er as we all know the carbon dioxide is very serious and it cause the global warming so er we should, er, try our best to er to go to school by walk or go by cycle by bike …by bike.  It is an effective way to st …, to reduce the pollution er to the air and can help er can help protect our planet and more … and can help er protect our planet better.

Part 3 Discussion

Teacher/examiner: Do you think young people care more about the environment than the older generation. Do you agree?

Candidate: Er, …I agree because er the young people um er sometimes the young people prefer, er prefer to prefer to er care about their own feeling more than the others or the planet’s the feeling and this will er cause that they will … cause that the um pollution and the er the older generation um er in their opinions they think that er the planet er is very er precious and they have er, and they have the thought to to protect them and the young people don’t.

Teacher/examiner: Do you think it is the school’s responsibility to teach young people about the environment and other global issues?

Candidate: Yes, er I have seen that er there are some posters er to say that we should er protect the environment and to stop use, stop using er some one time, one time products like the chopsticks

Teacher/examiner: Do you think, like you said chopsticks there, some people think that we should buy fewer things to reduce pollution. Do you agree?

Candidate: Yes, I agree er because to buy less things like er wood and plastic er, er we can reduce the, we can reduce the cost of the wood and er the wood is also er one way to er reduce the air pollution and it can also and the trees have also other advantages such as to er to stop the sand from the North and to protect the source(?) and give the rare animal a home.            Teacher/examiner: Thank you. This is the end of the test. End of recording.