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[mrsquirrel]

What questions would you put into a middle school speaking test. Beyond the basics of what is your name, how old are you etc.

[Cracker006]

what day is it?
what's the weather like today?
what did you do yesterday?
what will you do tomorrow?
what's your favorite color?
do you like to eat icecream?
do you prefer icecream or candy?
how many students are in your class?
what's your favorite animal?
where is your teacher from?

[mrsquirrel]

Cheers

Had a huge mind blank about test questions.

[Fishead soup]

It has to follow what's in that dreadful textbook
What's your hobby? What time is it?
What's your favorite music? Who's your favorite teacher

There's sections in the textbook where they describe their family so.

Tell me about your family?

How many are in your family?

Questions about their daily schedule

What time do you get up?
What time do you go to school?

For the brighter kids have them describe their daily schedule

Show them a map and ask them for directions.
using, How do I get to______?

Prepositions
Show them a picture of an interior of a room and ask

Where is the___/

Adjectives of Frequency

How often do you study English?
How often do you play Computer games?

Can you speak English?

Bonus questions( For the bright kids)

What do you think of Imported American Beef?

What do you think of the SOFA agreement?

[D.D.]

Put 3 desks outside the class. Show a short video. Get them to work in groups to write as much as they can about the actions and content in the video. After 10 minutes start taking them outside 3 at a time and get them to explain the video. They can bring their papers with them. Ask them some questions about their sentences. Ask questions like how are you and the weather only to the weaker students. Have the co-teacher stay in the class and help them write their papers and keep them quiet. If the class is very quiet the co-teacher can also come outside and interview them with exam questions.

[TOMODACHI-KID]

[mrsquirrel]

[bish]

They've recently split our classes up according to "levels" which are judged according to the results on the ridiculous tests that were given in the mid term exams.

It's really sad that many of who I consider to be the best speaking and most active children have been put into the lower level classes. A really sad indictment of the English system and testing process in Korean Middle Schools. I am sure this is something that will knock the confidence of kids who want to learn English rather than learn useless random phrases from dire textbooks...

Today I pointed out that many of the kids who I consider better at English were in the lower level classes to which my teacher replied "no, there test level was too low, there English is not good."

I have always liked my school and known that the conditions for teaching are not ideal but in recent weeks it's really started to bug me.