KET Practice Exam: Speaking

Part 1

Answer the questions.

1. What’s your name?
2. Could you spell it for me?
3. Where do you live?
4. What is your favourite food?
5. Where did you go on holiday last summer?
6. What are you going to do next weekend?
7. Have you got any hobbies? What are they?
8. Tell me something about your family.

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Part 2

Candidate A – your answers.

Café: sandwiches, salads, drinks

Tuesday-Sunday 10 am-8 pm
For information, tel: 7682435

Candidate B – your questions.

♦ where?
♦ open / weekend?
♦ swimming?
♦ buy / food?
♦ telephone number?

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Part 2

Candidate B – your answers.

DANCE LESSONS

Helen Brown teaches all kinds of dance.

5-10 people in each group
₤60 for 12 lessons
Children from 5 years old

Candidate A – your questions.

DANCE SCHOOL
♦ name / teacher?
♦ children’s lessons?
♦ small groups?
♦ cost?
♦ learn ballet?

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Speaking Procedures

3-4 minutes (Prompt card activity)

Prompt cards are used to simulate questions and answers of a non-personal kind. The examiner
reads out instructions and gives a question card to one candidate and an answer card to the other.
After the candidates have asked and answered questions, they change roles, as in the example
below.
Example:
The examiner reads out these instructions and gives a question card to Candidate B and an answer
card to Candidate A.
Candidate A, here is some information about a sports centre.
Candidate B, you don’t know anything about the sports centre so ask A some questions
about it. Now, B, ask your questions about the sports centre and A, you answer them.
Candidate A – your answers. Candidate B – your questions.

♦ where?

♦ open / weekend?

♦ swimming?

♦ buy / food?
Café: sandwiches, salads, drinks
♦ telephone number?
Tuesday-Sunday 10 am-8 pm
For information, tel: 7682435

There is a variety of acceptable questions which may be produced using this material. For example:
Where is the sports centre?
Is it open at the weekend?
Is there a swimming pool?
Can I buy food there?
What is the telephone number?
The examiner will stop the interaction after four or five questions have been asked and answered.
A different set of prompt cards is then given out, so that Candidate A has the opportunity to ask
questions and Candidate B to answer them. In this example, the questions are about dance lessons.
Candidate B, here is some information about dance lessons.
Candidate A, you don’t know anything about the dance lessons, so ask B some questions
about them and B, you answer them.
Candidate B – your answers. Candidate A – your questions.

DANCE LESSONS DANCE SCHOOL

♦ name / teacher?

♦ children’s lessons?

♦ small groups?

♦ cost?
Helen Brown teaches all kinds of dance.
5-10 people in each group ♦ learn ballet?
₤60 for 12 lessons
Children from 5 years old