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Preliminary For Schools Speaking Sample Test 3 PDF

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B1 PRELIMINARY FOR SCHOOLS SPEAKING

Sample test 3

Examiner booklet
Confidential
BLANK PAGE
Contents

Part 1

General questions

Part 2 Parts 3 and 4

2A People doing homework together


2 School history project
2B People in a classroom

All Part 2 photos from Alamy


B1 Preliminary for Schools
Speaking Test

Part 1 (2–3 minutes)

Phase 1
Interlocutor

To both candidates Good morning/afternoon/evening.


Can I have your mark sheets, please?

Hand over the mark sheets to the Assessor.

I’m ………… and this is ………… .

To Candidate A What’s your name? How old are you?


Thank you.

To Candidate B And what’s your name? How old are you?


Thank you.

Back-up prompts

B, where do you live? Do you live in name of town, city or region?

Who do you live with? Do you live with your family?

Thank you.

And A, where do you live? Do you live in name of town, city or region?

Who do you live with? Do you live with your family?

Thank you.
Phase 2
Interlocutor

Select one or more questions from the list to ask each candidate.
Ask Candidate A first.

Back-up prompts

Do you live in a house or a flat? Where do you live?

What sort of clothes do you like? Do you like wearing jeans and a T-shirt

Tell me about your best friend. What do you like about him/her?

What did you do yesterday evening? Did you do anything yesterday evening?

Thank you.
Speaking Test 2 Part 2 (2–3 minutes)

2A People doing homework together

Interlocutor Now I’d like each of you to talk on your own about something. I’m going to give each
of you a photograph and I’d like you to talk about it.

A, here is your photograph. It shows people doing homework together.

Place Part 2 booklet, open at Task 2A, in front of candidate.

B, you just listen.


A, please tell us what you can see in the photograph.

Candidate A …………………………………………………
 approx. 1 minute
Back-up prompts
• Talk about the people/person.
• Talk about the place.
• Talk about other things in the photograph.

Interlocutor Thank you (Can I have the booklet please?) Retrieve Part 2 booklet.

2B People in a classroom

Interlocutor Now I’d like each of you to talk on your own about something. I’m going to give each
of you a photograph and I’d like you to talk about it.

A, here is your photograph. It shows people in a classroom.

Place Part 2 booklet, open at Task 2B, in front of candidate.

B, you just listen.


A, please tell us what you can see in the photograph.

Candidate A …………………………………………………
 approx. 1 minute
Back-up prompts
• Talk about the people/person.
• Talk about the place.
• Talk about other things in the photograph.

Interlocutor Thank you (Can I have the booklet please?) Retrieve Part 2 booklet.
2A

2B
Speaking Test 2 (School history project)

Parts 3 and 4 (6 minutes)

Part 3

Interlocutor Now, in this part of the test you’re going to talk about something together for about two
minutes. I’m going to describe a situation to you.

Place Part 3 booklet, open at Task 2, in front of the candidates.

A boy is doing a school project about the history of his town. He wants to
get a lot of information for the project but he doesn’t have much time.

Here are some things he could do to get information.

Talk together about the different things he could do, and say which would
be best.

All right? Now talk together.

Candidates ………………………………………………………..
approx. 2–3
minutes

Interlocutor Thank you. (Can I have the booklet, please?) Retrieve Part 3 booklet.

Part 4
Interlocutor Use the following questions, as appropriate:
• Do you enjoy studying history at school? (Why?/Why not?)

• Do you like watching TV programmes about history? (Why?/Why not?)

• Do you like visiting historical places like castles? (Why?/Why not?)

• Is it important to learn about the history of


your area? (Why?/Why not?) Select any of the following
prompts, as appropriate:
• Is it better to learn about the history of your
country or the history of other countries? • How/what about you?
(Why?) • Do you agree?
• What do you think?
• Which is better: learning things on your own
or with your classmates? (Why?)

Thank you. That is the end of the test.


Getting information for a history project

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