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      Teacher/examiner: My name is [blank]. Number is [blank]. The candidate name is [blank]. And the candidate card number is one. The date today is April 13th 2023. Hello. How are you?

      Candidate: It's a good day, I think.

      Teacher/examiner: Are you ready to start the test?

      Candidate: Yeah.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      Role play - Card 1

      Teacher/examiner: So we're going to start with a role play. You are yourself and I am your friend. You are planning to go to the cinema this weekend. I'm your friend. Where do you want to meet?

      Candidate: Um, I would, I would want to meet in the playground.

      Teacher/examiner: How do you want to get to the cinema?

      Candidate: I want to get to cinema, by train.

      Teacher/examiner: What types of films do you enjoy watching?

      Candidate: I, I enjoy to watch the com…, comedy.

      Teacher/examiner: Why do you like these films?

      Candidate: Because, I think it's funny and interesting.

      Teacher/examiner: When was the last time you went to the cinema?

      Candidate: Er, in the last week.

      Teacher/examiner: What did you enjoy most about it?

      Candidate: Er, the, er, the funny things can make me, laugh.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      What would you like to do after the cinema?

      Candidate: Um, drink the soft, er, drink some, drink the Cola, or, or eating some, food.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. That is the end of the role play.

      Topic conversation 1: Topic 3 – Food and drink

      Teacher/examiner: So now we will start your topics. And your first topic is Food and drink. Let me just start a timer. OK. Where do you have lunch during the week?

      Candidate: Er, in a restaurant.

      Teacher/examiner: What do you normally eat at lunchtime?

      Candidate: [Pause]

      Teacher/examiner: What do you normally eat at lunchtime?

      Candidate: Lovely.

      Teacher/examiner: At lunchtime.

      Candidate: What in lunch time, I eat what?

      Teacher/examiner: Yes.

      Candidate: Er, I eat the carrot, er, er, some fruit like, watermelon, er, and er, I eat some meat.

      Teacher/examiner: When did you last help to prepare a meal for your family?

      Candidate: Um, I help, help them?

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah.

      Candidate: I help them wash the dishes, er and cut some, food.

      Teacher/examiner: Mmm. Did you find it easy or difficult?

      Candidate: I think it's difficult, er because I always, er, umm, cut, cutting, my finger.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating in restaurants?

      Candidate: Er, advantage is, if you eat in restaurant is quickly. And is convenient. But disad… disadvantage is too expensive and, er, the food is not very delicious.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. Do you think that young people will eat more healthily in the future?

      Candidate: Pardon.

      Teacher/examiner: Sorry. Do you think that young people will eat more healthily in the future?

      Candidate: Umm, no.

      Teacher/examiner: OK, why?

      Candidate: Because I, um, I think I, I, I, I, I cannot, I can't always eating.

      Teacher/examiner: How often do you eat fruit and vegetables?

      Candidate: Umm, all the time.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. That is the end of the first topic.

       Topic conversation 2: Topic 5 – People and places

      Teacher/examiner: The next topic is, let me just double check. Candidate 10, Topic 5, which is People and places. Where do you normally go on holiday?

      Candidate: Umm, I go to the Japan.

      Teacher/examiner: Who do you usually go on holiday with?

      Candidate: Er, I go to the Japan with my friends.

      Teacher/examiner: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?

      Candidate: Er, I go, I think the interesting visit, the Fuji mountain.

      Teacher/examiner: What did you do there?

      Candidate: Er, um, I go to hiking and um, take photos and eating food.

      Teacher/examiner: How many languages would you like to speak in the future?

      Candidate: Er, two.

      Teacher/examiner: How will speaking these languages help you?

      Candidate: Um, I can use these languages to talk with oth…, er some other national, nationalities people.

      Teacher/examiner: Yes, anything else?

      Candidate: Umm. [Pause] Umm. Are you, I can, I can, I can know if, if this is the other languages, um, and, if I go to travel, um, it can be convenient.

      Teacher/examiner: What are the advantages and disadvantages of young people living and studying abroad?

      Candidate: Er, the advantages is, you have a, a good environment to, learn these languages. But disadvantages is, er, um, it's very hard to learn because, um, you, you touch is all for these languages, you. You maybe always cannot know this, mean.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. Is it a good idea for young people to live and study in another country?

      Candidate: I think it's good.

      Teacher/examiner: OK, why?

      Candidate: Er, because I can, make more, other nationalities’ friends and, er, learn some, different, um, know…, knowledge, um.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. That is the end of the test.

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        Role play - Card 1


        Topic conversation 1 - Topic 3


        Topic conversation 2 - Topic 5

    • Common mistakes and guidance

      • Not always responding in complete sentences to the last three questions in the role play.
      • Not offering further information, opinions or explanations.
      • Not using the correct tense expected from the question and not using verbs in a consistent way.
      • Not using articles and pronouns correctly.
      • Not using a sufficiently good range of vocabulary.
      • Overusing fillers, repeating words in succession and some lack of fluency.

      The candidate should be made aware that the last three questions in the role play and the whole of the topic conversations provide opportunities for them to use a range of language structures (past, present and future tenses, and conditional structures) and to present some development of content.

      Preparations could include focusing on:

      • using sentences to develop explanations or reasons for ideas or opinions on a range of everyday topics
      • using a range of grammatical structures and tenses, and to consider how clearly the information is conveyed
      • learning vocabulary of different types (e.g. adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, superlatives, idioms, collocations) for different lexically related sets
      • practising delivering sentences without fillers and stuttering.

      For further details about how candidates performed in this particular examination series please refer to the  Examiner Report on the School Support Hub. 


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