By J. WilsonMadrid Spain 2014

• To go through the different parts of the exam. KET for schools.

• To share ideas on how to prepare the KET oral exam.

• To look at useful resources and methodolgy to prepare the test.

• To have a hundred (100%) pass rate in your class and be admired by all around you!!!

The KET oral exam is given in pairs it lasts 8-10 minutes It’s a

basic test to show you can understand and answer simple

questions and interact in English.

You do not need to speak perfect English

Structure• Part 1 General Questions short

answers. What’s your name? How do you spell your surname?

• Longer questions? Tell me about your town? Tell me about your best friend?

• Part 2 Information gap activity

WHAT HAPPENS FIRST?

• The examiner will ask for the mark sheet and say:

My name is Jennifer this is Maureen . She will just listen.

• There are two examiners in the room. One talks the other writes down comments and the marks.

What’s the marking criteria?

• Vocabulary and Grammar• Discourse management

• Pronunciation• Interactive Communication

• Global achievement

Information about where you come from.

• Where do you come from? Where do you live?

• What subjects do you study?

• What subject do you like best?

• What’s the most difficult subject for you?

General Information

• What did you do yesterday?

• What time did you go to bed?

• When do you watchT:V?

• What’s your favourite programme?

• How often do you go shopping?

• What do you usually buy?

• Do you often use a computer?

• What’s your favourite season? Why?

More general information

• Do you like pop music? Who’s your favourite singer ?

• What do you usually do at the weekends?

• What sports do you play?

• What do you do in your free time?

Longer Answers• Tell me about your house.

• Tell me about your daily routine.

• Tell me about your town.

• Tell me about your favourite food.

• Tell me about the weather in Spain.

• Tell me about your best friend or your best teacher.

Part 2 In this part students talk to each other

• Students are given prompt cards to stimulate conversation

• The examiner reads the instructions and gives a question card to one candidate and the answers to the other. After the candidates have asked and answered the questions they change roles.

Questions in the KET• Open/afternoon

• Is it open in the afternoon?

• Student ticket? $?

• How much does a student ticket cost?

• Car park?

• Is there a car park?

• Buy/guidebook? Where can I buy a guidebook?

More Questions• Telephone number?

• What is the telephone number?

• Name/teacher?

• What is the teacher's name?

• What/teach?

• What does he teach?

• Where/teacher from?

• Where is the teacher from?

• When/start?

• When does the teacher start?

• Play sport? Does he play sports?

• Price/CDs? $?

• What is the price of CDs?

• Address? What is the address?

• Open/evenings?

• Is it open in the evenings?

• Pop music?

• Can I learn to play pop music?

• Children's lessons?

• Can children learn to play guitar?

• Where?

• Where is it?

• Saturday afternoon?

• Can I take lessons on Saturday afternoon?

Students need to talk a lot

• Encourage student to answer questions using a wide range of structures and vocabulary.

• Tell them to use I’d prefer or I would like, at least once.

• Build up a nice vocabulary for the different topics.

• Tell kids to be a bit theatrical.

Begin part 2 with:

• Can you tell me about…….?

• Of course what do you want to know?

Good websites for KET practise• http://

learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/• http://englishaula.com/en/ket-exam-• Ego4u:com• http://www.examenglish.com/KET/

KET_vocab.htm

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/

• http://www.quia.com/pages/petvocabulary.html

• http://www.englishpage.com

How to prepare our students.• Lots of practise• Circle loop games with

questions and answers.

See my blog for detailsJenny-learningshould befun.blogspot.com

• Think of .....in 60 seconds• Work through the topics, building

up on vocabulary.

Videos on Youtube

Show your students these videos so they know what is expected.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycc2G4Ryn3Y

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCqNuIOeZw&list=PLDBCAB39E9503FFE0

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQJYbRZUrVs

Voice recordings

• Prepare voice recording of questions and answers for kids whose parents don’t speak English so they can listen and answer the questions at home:

• See Nicky’s blog

• http://nicky-iloveenglish.blogspot.com.es/

Hope it’s been useful!!

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