B1 Preliminary For Schools: Speaking Sample Test 1

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B1 PRELIMINARY FOR SCHOOLS

SPEAKING
SAMPLE TEST 1
Contents

Part 1

General questions

Part 2 Parts 3 and 4

1A Spending time with family 1 Fun activity for the last day of school
1B Studying together in class
B1 Preliminary for Schools Speaking Sample Test 1

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.

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Phase 2
Interlocutor

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

Back-up prompts

Tell us about your journey to school in the morning. How do you travel to school?

How often do you watch sport on TV? (Why?) Do you watch sport on TV every day?

What are you going to do this evening? Are you going to do homework this evening?

What is your favourite free-time activity? (Why?) Do you like playing video games in your
free time?

Which people do you most enjoy visiting? (Why?) Do you enjoy visiting your friends?

What do you like taking photographs of? Do you like taking photographs? (Why/
Why not?)

What’s your favourite drink? (Why?) Do you like lemonade?

Tell us about your school. Do you like your school?

Thank you.

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B1 Preliminary for Schools Speaking Sample Test 1

Part 2 (2 – 3 minutes)

1A Spending time with family

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

A, here is your photograph. It shows a family spending time together.

Place Part 2 booklet, open at Task 1A, 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 person/people.
• Talk about the place.
• Talk about other things in the photograph.

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

1B Studying together in class

Interlocutor B, here is your photograph. It shows people studying together in class.

Place Part 2 booklet, open at Task 1B, in front of candidate.

A, you just listen.

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

Candidate B ………………………………………………………..
¸ approx. 1 minute

Back-up prompts
• Talk about the person/people.
• Talk about the place.
• Talk about other things in the photograph.

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

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1A

1B

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B1 Preliminary for Schools Speaking Sample Test 1

Part 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 1, in front of candidates.

A teacher wants to organise a fun activity to do with her class on the last day of
school before the summer holidays.

Here are some things the class could do.

Talk together about the different things the class could do, and say which would
be the most fun.

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 sometimes do fun things on the last day of school before a holiday?
(What do you do?)

• Do you prefer to have days out with your classmates or with your
family? (Why?)

• What do you enjoy doing during the school holidays? (Why?)

• Where would you really like to go on holiday


in the future? (Why?) Select any of the following
prompts, as appropriate:
• Which do you think is more
interesting: a holiday in a city or a holiday • How/what about you?
• Do you agree?
by the sea? (Why?)
• What do you think?
Thank you. That is the end of the test.

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