Today our topic of discussion is – developing Speaking Skills Review and Test

Developing Speaking Skills Review and Test

In this lesson, you will do some practice on describing a person and an object, role-playing, storytelling and describing a process.

Situation: Describing persons

List of Vocabulary and Language Points:

Height:

Tall, short, medium

Size:

Large, small, slender, heavy.

Hair:

Blond, brown, black, gray, straight, curly, long, short, medium, bald.

Eyes:

Blue, brown, black, gray, green a mustache, to wear glasses a beard Other: to have a scar La mole.

Age:

Young, old, middle-aged in his/her teens in his/her twenties, thirties, forties, etc. in his/her early/middle/etc. twenties, thirties, forties, etc. These expressions may be used while describing someone.

 

 

Review Questions : Taking help from the Language points and

vocabulary section, describe the person you meet everyday. You can start from your family. For example, describe your mother, father, elder sister and brother.

For Example:

My mother

“My mother is about 5ft 5 inches tall. She is slender. She has straight, long hair. Some of her hair have turned gray. Her eyes are brown. Her complexion is fair. She has a dark mole on the left of her neck. She is in her middle fifties.”
Now describe some other persons to your friends following the above description

You can bring picture of people from magazines or newspapers to the tutorial class. Work in small groups. Mix all the pictures together. Take turns describing one of the people in a picture to the other students in the groups. The other students must try to find the picture you describe.

Situation : Describing an object

List of Vocabulary and Language Points:
head, hair, fore head, eyes, nose, cheeks, ear, finger, elbow, wrist, waists, stomach, leg, thigh, knee, skin, ankle, foot, toe, chin, neck, shoulder, chest, back, arm, hand.
Are you familiar with the list of words in the vocabulary and language

points section? If you don’t understand any word, look for it in the dictionary.

Review Questions : Answer the following questions.

Now name a part of the body and point it on the picture in this section. Complete the picture in the following way.

For Example

My House

My house is a two-storied building. On the ground floor there are 2 guest rooms one dining, one drawing room and a kitchen. On the first floor, there are 2 bedrooms with attached bathrooms, one drawing room, 2 verandahs and a study. There is a garden in front of my house…..” Following this description describe you tutorial classroom, your room. to others.

Role Playing:

You already know that role-playing is a game in the target language in which learners act out roles that have been assigned to them in well-defined situations. You have already done some and seen examples of role-playing in Lesson 4.3 Remember, role-playing approximates natural language. Every speech situation consists of speakers, location, and topic, with purpose or function as an added dimension. Now look at the following situation and play a role.

 

 

Situation : Describing an object

List of Vocabulary and Language Points:

action-packed classic, serious-films, war-film, entertainment, short-film, art – film, comedy, exciting films, suffer, violence, shouts, massacre, why don’t you want to…? I prefer…., Wouldn’t you prefer to? What bothers you about?, Yes, But on the other hand…, That may be true, but..Khaled and Kamal are at Khaled’s house. They are discussing what they should do for the evening. They agree that they should go to the movies. Khaled is trying to persuade Kamal to watch war-film but Kamal doesn’t like war films. Kamal is trying instead, to convince Khaled to see a different movie Classic.

Review Questions : Answer the following questions.

1. Where are Khaled and Kamal now?
2. What are they discussing?
3. What have they agreed upon?
4. What does Khaled prefer?
5. What is Kamal trying to do?

Review Questions : Imagine you are Kamal. Now fill in the conversation below between you and Khaled, taking help from the language points and vocabulary section.

Dialogue

Khaled: Why don’t you want to watch….. a You (Kamal): Because, I hate to see people …… I can’t stand I ….prefer….. Wouldn’t you prefer to watch one of these kinds?

You (Kamal): I understand what bothers you about war-films. But on the other hand it projects the true would. War is there inreality.

Khaled: Why would you escape reality?

You (Kamal): That but,….. I don’t always prefer being in …..feel real ……watching this sort of movies. Just …… I can watch films, films, but won’t prefer watching or films on

Review Questions : Answer the following questions.

1. Why don’t you want to watch a war-film?
2. What do you prefer instead?
3. What is Khaled’s opinion about war-films?
4. What happens after you watch a war-film?

Review Questions : Answer the following questions.

Now think of different situations and practice role-playing in the tutorial class. You may start practicing on situations like:

1. You are at the interview board (At the interview board)

2. You have to give excuses to your teacher for being late in the class. (giving excuses)

3. You will buy a few things at the grocery. (buying things)

4. You need to use the telephone at your department. (Ask for permission)

5. You meet some foreigners. They are interested in your school. Answer their questions about it (Giving information).

 

 

Story-telling

In Lesson 4.4 you have learnt the ways of telling a story. You can remember that a story may begin in the following manners

1. A man who tried to break into a houses on Friday….

2.  Once when I was driving along the highway…

3. While I was having tea in a fast food shop last week…

4. Once, when I was going up in a lift .

5. I was walking in the town recently when… And while narrating a dream, the following questions may arise.

1. Where were you?

2. What happened?

3. Who else was in the dream?

4. How did the dream end? Let us try to tell a story of a valiant freedom fighter.

In memorial

-Salma Ainy

This is a mingled memory of the happiest and saddest moments of my life. I always project these treasures on my mental screen with the feeling that these are not t he happenings of the past rather these are the continuous moments of the present.

He is there on my mind, the full-bloomed youth, so handsome, straight both in poster and speech, so very courageous and underrating. Sarder Mahbub Niaz Humayun, the precious son of the soil was a source of joy and happiness to Mr. Monje Ali sarder and Mrs. Amina Begum.

In one of the horrible days of 1971, mejo mama, the very quiet, very artistic kind of person astonished almost everyone by declaring that he was going to the battlefields to liberate his mother land with such a mixture of softness and firmness that everyone at once knew what he meant. The apple of his parent’s eyes, he left 66C Banani, Dhaka as the height of tension mounted, to the war of liberation quite soon… (The Bangladesh Observer, January 02, 1998).