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    Cambridge IGCSE™ / IGCSE (9-1) English (as an Additional Language) 0472 / 0772 (for examination from 2023)
    Example Candidate Responses (Speaking)

    • Introduction

    • The main aim of this resource is to exemplify standards of Cambridge IGCSE / IGCSE (9-1) English (as an Additional Language), Speaking test, and show how different levels of candidates' performance (high, middle and low) relate to the subject's curriculum and assessment objectives. 

      Candidate responses have been selected from the June 2023 examination series to exemplify a range of answers. The recordings have been anonymised so that any information about the candidate, examiner and centre have been removed.

      The recording of each speaking test is followed by a transcript. At the end of the test we provide further comments on how the teacher/examiner and candidate performance could improve. In this way, it is possible to understand how to conduct the test successfully and what candidates have to do to gain their marks and what they can do to improve their answers. 

      Common mistakes and guidance are also listed at the end of this resource.  

    • Speaking assessment criteria grids


    • Now that you have read the speaking assessment criteria grids, you may want to practise marking a speaking test. Listen to the candidate responses below, make a note of the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate and give a mark, before you read the moderator comments embedded in the transcript and listed below.

      Please note: Information about the candidate and centre has been removed from the recordings to protect the identity of the candidate.



    • High level response

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      Teacher/examiner: Mr [blank]. Candidate number [blank]. Candidate name [blank]. Candidate card number 7. And the date is the 21st April 2023. Good afternoon x. 

      Candidate: Good afternoon. 

      Teacher/examiner: Are you OK? 

      Candidate: Yeah.

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. 

      Role play -Card 8 

      Teacher/examiner: Right. We're going to start first with the role play. OK, so I will ask you questions and you respond. So you are playing the role of yourself. And I am playing the role of a passenger. 

       Candidate: OK. 

       Teacher/examiner: And you're at the airport waiting for your plane. You're talking to another passenger. I'm the passenger, so I'll start. Hi. Where are you flying today? 

      Candidate: Hi. Er, what's your name? I'm flying to Spain. I'm going from Portugal. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. My name is x. What time is your flight? 

      Candidate: My flight er at what time I arrive my fli… you say? OK. Yeah. My flight arrives more or less I think at 16:15, more or less, yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. And what are you planning to do while you're away? 

      Candidate: When I'm away like, I'm planning, I come here from Portugal to see a lot of art and museums and of that kind of thing that I like a lot. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. And how often do you fly to other countries? 

      Candidate: Er, normally I fly a lot because I'm studying in a school, and every normally every weekend I, I fly, I take a plane or I go by car and, I see, new things and know new people. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. 

      Candidate: That’s what I like. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. And why else do you fly to other countries? 

      Candidate: Er, this year? What? What trips I have been? OK. Yeah. For example, this year I have been in, Portugal, France, er Spain, of course. And, in England there, because my girlfriend is from there. 

      Teacher/examiner: Ohh, fantastic. And how did you travel on your last holiday? 

      Candidate: In my last, how? Teacher/examiner: How? Yeah. Candidate: I think it was by car. Yeah.

      Teacher/examiner: Wow. 

      Candidate: By car. Yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: And what was the journey like? 

      Candidate: The journey very slow, extremely slow. Yeah. From Spain to Portugal was very, very, very slow. I'm bored. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. Fantastic. OK. Nice to meet you. Excellent. 

      Topic conversation 1: Topic 1 – In the home 

      Teacher/examiner: OK, x, we are going to start with Topic number 1 of the conversation and this topic is In the home.

      Candidate: OK, this is still the role play? 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah, no, this is the ques…, the topics now. I’ll, just ask you questions OK. So first of all, where do you live? 

      Candidate: Where I live in, I, I was living in Portugal. Er, it was 2 years ago, I think. Yeah. I was studying in an international School like this one. But yeah, was nice, yeah, the place was nice, a bit like, little bit bored through the year because it's more for summer, because it's like a country only for summer. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. Yeah. 

      Candidate: And, but yeah, it's nice because you have sun all the year. You only have one week of rain and you have a goal that is the sport that I practice. 

      Teacher/examiner: Great. 

      Candidate: And the people is nice because you have a lot of cultures, you learn a lot, and yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. How many rooms are there in your house or apartment? 

      Candidate: What, in my house, in my house of Spain, or from Portugal? 

      Teacher/examiner: Or either. Which? 

      Candidate: OK, in Spain, Yeah.. Yeah. I live in the, in the mountains. And right, right now I'm living with my dad because my parents are divorced. But. In, in the house that I'm here with, my dad have, like, a living room. Uh, a kitchen. Three bathrooms, I think. And three, like bedrooms, yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Amazing. Very nice. And which room do you like best? 

      Candidate: My favourite room is, I have a part of the house where I can paint and draw. I like a lot.

       Teacher/examiner: Excellent. 

      Candidate: Yeah, and I have my guitar, a piano and it's like a place that I feel very relaxed and that is like my favourite place because I feel super chill and disconnect after training and yeah, yeah, yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Fantastic. When did you last visit somebody else's home? 

      Candidate: Somebody else’s home I visit, er yesterday when, er I come from school to my house, I stopped before to the house of a friend, er in the city, because I was very like full of bags and I said to my friend, “please can I leave the bags at your house?” because I can, I can see, of course, past year and I change and after I go to train. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: I was going to ask what happened during your visit, but… 

      Candidate: Yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Where do you think you'll live when you're an adult? 

      Candidate: When I am an adult, I would like to live in, I would like to do travel a lot. To know a lot of new cultures, but I think that in, in Spain, in a very nice mountain, I think in, in a mountain because I love mountain. I will be living there, in the inside of Spain, I think, yeah. 

       Teacher/examiner: Great. And what are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big house? 

      Candidate: In a big, in a like a really big, big house, I think that is, OK, you have your independence, you, if you want to be alone you can go to your room, be relaxed there, like do your things, exercise. But the other thing is that it’s a little bit cold, I think, sometimes because your dad is there and you are there, and sometimes you like to see a movie with your dad or …

      Teacher/examiner: True. 

      Candidate: … or play, I don't know, sport, go outside to run. Yeah, that is only a part. 

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent, OK. 

      Topic conversation 2: Topic 6 – Celebrations

      Teacher/examiner: And now we will move on to the topic conversation number 6, Celebrations. So x, when is your birthday? 

      Candidate: Er, my birthday is 15 of October. Yeah, I born in 2005. 

      Teacher/examiner: Wow, you're very young. And who do you normally celebrate your birthday with? 

      Candidate: With? With? Normally I don't like a lot big celebrations for my birthday, but I love to do like, special things that I don't use to do normally, like I don't know, go with my friends and do like, I love adrenaline sports. Golf is not example, but I, I like to go, I don't know, cliff jumping or climbing or another hobby. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. Excellent. It's good to be active. When did you last celebrate something with your whole family? 

      Candidate: With my whole family? I think that, we celebrated the last thing er with my, with my brother, I think, with my grandpa and with my mom, er, when my mom was, like in a sickness. 

      Teacher/examiner: OK. 

      Candidate: And she got, like, out and we celebrate a lot with her and it was a special celebration. And we have a very nice time, all the family, there. Yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: What happened on that day? 

      Candidate: On that day? Yeah. We, we go to, first, we go to a place in the mountain that my, my mom love.

      Candidate: She feel a lot of peace there and we go there.

      Teacher/examiner: Good. 

      Candidate: We stay. We speak. We go to walk.

      Teacher/examiner: Excellent. 

      Candidate: Yeah. 

      Teacher/examiner: Very nice. What is the most important celebration in your country? 

      Candidate: In my country, I think the biggest celebration we have in Spain, I think that is famous because, the celebrations. But we have a lot, a lot of different, like we have in Pamplona, like San Fermin, that they put bulls in the street and you're running. 

      Teacher/examiner: I’ve been there. 

      Candidate: You have been there? 

      Teacher/examiner: During Covid. So. But I'd heard about it. 

      Candidate: Ohhh. Yeah. OK. It's nice but not nice because, like, the people go very drunk and really, really drunk. And a lot of things happen there. I think that I have been only one, one time because I love bull fighting. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah, yeah. 

      Candidate: I love so much. It's one of my dr…, I'm training now to be a bullfighter, yeah.. 

      Teacher/examiner: Wow. 

      Candidate: But first I need to finish school. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah, yeah. 

      Candidate: And this other celebrations you have in my city, in my [unclear place name], umm, near Valencia, um, we celebrate Magdalena. Umm, that is also with booze. You have bulls, but a lot of party. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: And yeah, that's I think that and what like the day of Spain is a very main… 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: … a big celebration with a lot of Spanish people celebrate, I think. I think that, that's all I think, yeah.

      Teacher/examiner: So if we for example focused on Magdalena. How do people prepare for this celebration? 

      Candidate: Prepare? Buying a lot of alcohol, I think. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: But yeah, it's a week only, I think. Seven days, yeah? 

      Teacher/examiner: Correct. 

      Candidate: Yeah. From Monday to Sun…, or from Monday to Monday, I think. And it's like they do different, they celebrate when the mar…, when the mar..., marquis go out from the city.

      Teacher/examiner: Right.

      Candidate: And the, and the king, like the conquistador that was … 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: … come here and it’s like put it out. 

      Teacher/examiner: It's been a very long tradition, hasn’t it? 

      Candidate: Yeah, yeah. And we celebrate that every day, it’s a different day. One day we celebrate when they leave. Another day we celebrate the, the people that work in the, in the, in, I don't know exactly the, the, I don't know the word to say it. Yeah. And like a lot of, yeah, a lot of celeb… . But this more in the night. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: The celebration is more in the night. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah. 

      Candidate: Yeah, I think that this is excuse to have party. 

      Teacher/examiner: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And enjoy.

       Candidate: Yeah. 

       Teacher/examiner: Excellent. Thank you very much, x. Have a nice day. 

      Candidate: OK, bye.                      
    • Moderator comments - high

        Role play - Card 8


        Topic conversation 1 - Topic 1


        Topic conversation 2 - Topic 6

    • Common mistakes and guidance
      • Occasional lack of clear understanding of the requirements of the question in the role play.
      • Starting responses with a lack of confidence.
      • Lack of developed justifications.
      • Some lack of control of sentence structure, particularly tense and singular/plural agreement errors.
      • Some lack of connection between ideas.
      • Overuse of some more common vocabulary rather than providing synonyms.
      • Some overuse of fillers and rephrasing.

      Preparations could include focusing on:

      • responding to a range of open questions using different question formulations on a range of topics
      • using sentences to give developed justifications or explanations for ideas  
      • using a range of grammatical structures and tenses, to evaluate the accuracy and consistency of the construction, as well as how clearly the information is conveyed
      • linking ideas in longer utterances using a range of more sophisticated linking devices (e.g. subordinating connectives, connectives for different purposes, such as to illustrate or to sequence)
      • expanding vocabulary by generating alternative words for common adjectives or verbs (e.g. ‘nice’, ‘good’, ‘said’, ‘go’)
      • practising different aspects of pronunciation (e.g. using stress to add emphasis, rising/falling intonation, prominent stress in sentences).        

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

    • Middle level response

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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.

    • Moderator comments - middle

        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. 


    • Low level response

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      Teacher/examiner: Hi have a seat please. Shall we please start with revising some details here. Your card, err. I start by the centre number is [blank], centre name is [blank], syllabus number is 0772, component number zero three, syllabus name is English as an additional language. Today's the 8th of April 2023. The examiner name is [blank]. The candidate number is [blank]. The candidate name is [blank]. The candidate role play number 5. Correct 5. Good morning, x. How are you today?

      Candidate: I’m fine.

      Teacher/examiner: It's time to start the test.

      Candidate: OK.

       Role play - Card 5

      Teacher/examiner: You are visiting your cousin in the capital city. You are both planning to go on a day trip around the city tomorrow. I am your cousin. What time do you want to leave for the trip?

      Candidate: Er, 11, 11PM.

      Teacher/examiner: How do you want to travel?

      Candidate: Excuse me?

      Teacher/examiner: How do you want to travel?

      Candidate: I want to go to the cinema.

      Teacher/examiner: What would you like to see?

      Candidate: I see, um, an action film.

      Teacher/examiner: Why?

      Candidate: Um, I was excited, though, when I see it's a [unclear].

      Teacher/examiner: What shall we do after the trip?

      Candidate: We go to, er the home. To the home.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      What other cities have you already visited?

      Candidate: South Africa.

      Teacher/examiner: What was it like?

      Candidate: Um, excuse me?

      Teacher/examiner: How was it like, South Africa?

      Candidate: Er, I like the, the sea, er, and the mountain.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. Can we start now the topic conversation?

       Topic conversation 1: Topic 2 – Travel and transport

      Teacher/examiner: X, we are going to speak about Travel and transport. How do you get to school every day?

      Candidate: I get the some, I get some books.

      Teacher/examiner: How do you get to school every day?

      Candidate: [Slight pause]

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      How long does it take you to get to school in the morning?

      Candidate: Excuse me?

      Teacher/examiner: How long does it take you to get to school in the morning?

      Candidate: Er, three minutes.

      Teacher/examiner: When did you last go on a long journey? When was the last time you travelled somewhere far away?

      Candidate: Two days ago.

      Teacher/examiner: What did you like or dislike about that trip?

      Candidate: Um, I like, er, my friends are with me, um, also I like, er, the sea.

      Teacher/examiner: And what did you dislike?

      Candidate: Um.

      Teacher/examiner: Where did you go for this long trip?

      Candidate: Cairo.

      Teacher/examiner: So what didn't you like?

      Candidate: I didn't like, um, there are many people in the [unclear].

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      Candidate: I’m sorry.

      Teacher/examiner: What, what transport would you prefer to use in the future?

      Candidate: Er, metro.

      Teacher/examiner: Why?

      Candidate: Um, the metro, er, um, is very fast.

      Teacher/examiner: So it saves you time?         

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      Do you think people should travel less by car?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: Why?

      Candidate: Er, um, because, er, the route is very, um, have a lot of, er, cars.

      Teacher/examiner: And what is the problem?

      Candidate: Um.

      Teacher/examiner: When we use a lot of cars, what is the problem?

      Candidate: Um.

      Teacher/examiner: Take your time.

      Candidate: Can you repeat?

      Teacher/examiner: When we use a lot of cars, what does this cause as a problem?

      Candidate: The time, er of my work, um, um, when the cars, the when, when we see a lot of cars, I, I, I.

      Teacher/examiner: Can I go to another question?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: Is it a good idea for people to walk more often?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: Why?

      Candidate: Er, um.

      Teacher/examiner: Yes, what?

      Candidate: You can explain?

      Teacher/examiner: Is it a good idea for people to walk more?

      Candidate: Er, yes, er, er, walk, and er, walking is very good, er, for um, um, people of.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      Can I ask you one more question about this please? OK. Do you think that there will be something new to travel with in the future? Do you think that we can use a new way of transportation to travel within the future?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: OK. Shall we move to the next topic conversation? OK.

      Topic conversation 2: Topic 5 – People and places

      Teacher/examiner: X, we are going to speak about People and places. Where do you normally go on holiday?

      Candidate: I go to, er, see my grandfather.

      Teacher/examiner: What, who do you usually go on holiday with?

      Candidate: My family.

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

      Candidate: Um, my, um, South of here.

      Teacher/examiner: What did you do there?

      Candidate: Er, I go to see, er, the, the sea and the mountains, er, and my friends.

      Teacher/examiner: Tell me more.

      Candidate: Um, I see, er, a lot of trees, um. They are very beautiful, um.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      How many languages would you like to speak in the future?

      Candidate: Er, English and then er, sorry, er, French and er, German.

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

      Candidate: Er, to go, um, to go Italy and, um, Germany, um and er, um, I work.

      Teacher/examiner: Will it help you?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: How?

      Candidate: Um, I visit, um, a lot of, um, a lot of country. And um, when I, er go to work, er they are helping.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      What are the advantages and the disadvantages of young people living and studying abroad?

      Candidate: Um, um.

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

      Candidate: Um, no.

      Teacher/examiner: Why?

      Candidate: The family will be, um, er afraid.

      Teacher/examiner: Because you are alone?

      Candidate: Yes.

      Teacher/examiner: Can you tell me more?

      Candidate: Um, I go to, um, I go to, to another country to learn, um, but my family, er, was afraid, er, to, because, um, I was alone.

      Teacher/examiner: Can you make friends from other countries?

      Candidate: Of course.

      Teacher/examiner: Is this good or bad?

      Candidate: Er, some, some good, some bad.

      Teacher/examiner: Can you tell me about it?

      Candidate: Er, good because, um.

      Teacher/examiner: Because? Good, because?

      Candidate: Um.

      Teacher/examiner: Is there anything bad about knowing people from other countries?

      Candidate: Excuse me.

      Teacher/examiner: Is there anything bad about knowing people from other countries?

      Candidate: Um.

      Teacher/examiner: OK.

      Shall I ask you a last question please? What is the place you would like to visit one day?

      Candidate: Er, Italy.

      Teacher/examiner: Do you have something in mind about Italy?

      Candidate: Um, I, I want to er visit and learn, um, and draw, er, and see the, and see the, [unclear] and see the.

      Teacher/examiner: OK, that is enough. That is. Thank you very much x. That is the end of the exam. Thank you x. Thank you.




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        Role play - Card 5


        Topic conversation 1 - Topic 2


        Topic conversation 2 - Topic 5


    • Common mistakes and guidance

      • Incorrect response to the focus of questions: Make sure candidates are familiar with questioning formulations such as ‘Wh’ and ‘How’ questions and the different tenses that may be targeted.
      • Using phrases rather than complete sentences as well as a lack of control of sentences, particularly tense: Provide opportunities for candidates to use a range of tenses in sentences (e.g. to talk about personal experiences in the past, to discuss current preferences or to express future intentions).
      • Insufficient variety of vocabulary: Encourage candidates to learn topic-related vocabulary in lexically related sets (e.g. means of transport, adjectives to express feelings, verbs/phrases to express likes/dislikes, household chores).
      • Unclear pronunciation of some key words and noticeable fillers: Provide opportunities for candidates to practise syllable word stress and to develop fluency of expression.

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