4M Speaking exam Tips & Practice!!!

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo
• Leerjaar 4

4M / 4HGL 2022

 

English Speaking exam

What to do?

-Look through this lesson, incl video

-Pick a few necessary expressions for your speeech

-Start preparing, thinking, considering

-Ask questions if necessary (NOW!!! Not 2 days/hours before the deadline)

How to give a presentation

Speaking exam = a presentation/interview

What do you have to do?

• Think of a subject and prepare your presentation about this subject
• Let the teacher know what subject your presentation will be about
• Practise your presentation with your partner and in front of your parents or friends

Good Presentation

Catchy Opening 

Eye contact

Stick to the point

Expressive voice/body language

Tell good stories

Inflict Passion

Conclusion

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• Today I am going to talk to you about...

• Today we’re going to talk about …

• As you can see on the poster, my topic today is … / today’s topic is …

• My presentation is in two parts.

• My presentation is divided into four main sections.

• Firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally …

• I’m going to … take a look at… [or] talk about… [or] examine … [or] demonstrate …

• I’d like to talk about / I’d like to present to you today is …

• This morning/afternoon I’ll tell you something about the background … [or] give you some facts and figures …

Het publiek blijven boeien:

• Ok … indeed … right … sure …

• I’d now like to move on to …

• I’d like to turn to …

• As I mentioned before, we …

• That’s all I have to say about …

• Now I’d like to look at …

• So, let’s move to …

• This leads me to my next point …

• [pause for a few seconds, this will alert your audience too]

De uitleg bij je plaatjes/afbeeldingen:

• This picture shows you …

• Take a look at this …

• If you look at this, you will see …

• I’d like you to look at this …

• As you can see in this picture / chart / graph / diagram … 

• This clearly shows …

• From this, we can understand how / why …

• This picture is interesting, because …

Samenvatten:

• That brings me to the end of my presentation. I’ve talked about …

• Well, that’s about it for now. We’ve covered …

• So, that was my presentation. In brief, I …

• To summarize, I …

• Right, that’s all I wanted to say about …

Homework

Eindexamensite.nl - week 2 A & 2AA!

Finish before class Monday 17 January!