Oral language testing at tay nguyen university

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Appendices

Appendix 1: three achievement speaking tests used at tnu

TEST 1: ENGLISH SPEAKING TEST

Class: English K2000 – Term 1

Students are supposed to give a presentation about one of the following topics, then answer examiners’ two or three additional questions.

1. Please introduce yourself. We would like to know about your birthplace, your age, and your family. How does your family help you in your study?
2. Could you tell us about your daily activities and then your freetime activities? What are your likes and dislikes?
3. Could you tell us about your new class and your new school? How did you feel when you first arrive here?
4. Would you please describe the appearance of a special friend in your class? Why is he/she special to you?
5. Who is the monitor of your class? What’s he like? What do you think of him as a monitor?
6. Please describe your mother. Do you look like her? What kind of clothes does she often wear? Do you have the same way of dressing?
7. Please describe your father’s character. What is his job? Do you often talk with him about your study and your friends?
8. Where are you from? Could you tell us about some of the interesting places in your hometown?
9. Please talk about your hometown. We would like to know about its location, the weather and the environment there.
10. Could you tell us about life of people in your hometown? (population, their main jobs, their standard of living, their character...)
11. What do you remember most about your childhood? Did you have a happy child hood?
12. You are now a first-year student. Is there any difference between your life now and life when you were a highschool pupil?
13. When do you think Christmas season begins? Could you describe the atmosphere around when Christmas is coming?
14. Who is the most famous person at Christmas? Can you describe him? What kind of gift would you like him to give you?
15. What did you do last Christmas? (Before, on Christmas Eve, on Christmas Day.) How did you feel?
16. Lunar New Year Holiday is coming. How do you feel? What do you like most about it?
17. What do you often do before the Lunar New Year Holiday? How do you feel at the very moment when the old year is out and the new year is in? what do you often do then?
18. Could you tell us about some of the Vietnamese customs concerning the Tet Holiday?
19. Are you superstitious? Could you give us some examples of your own superstition or your family superstition or the superstition of the Vietnamese people during the Tet Holiday?
20. What do you often do on the three days of Tet? How do you feel on these days?