Hello friends,
As I promised you in my post 'My last exam and my heart', I'm going to keep you up to date on my oral exam results.
I took it on Tuesday and I'd like to say I was nervous and insecure, but this wouldn't be true. If I am sincere this has been one of my best oral exams, but this is not a coincidence. I'd like to thank Cristina, my classmate, for everything.
We went to the school on Thursday and Monday and practised our dialogue two hours each day. We studied different topics, situations and possible questions and answers. Vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation were revised and we even checked the time our conversations took, because we had to reach to an agreement in five minutes more or less.
Finally the big day arrived. Our teacher gave us the exams and told us 'You have to talk about environment, I hope you like it'. I thought 'I have to put up with it, I don't have any choice'. We had to play two roles, I was against the scientists theories and Cristina was an environmental activist.
We started talking. The conversation flowed fluently. We both felt comfortable and for a moment we forgot our teacher was checking everything we told each other. Minutes went by and, without noticing, we reached to an agreement, to change fans with air conditioning in spite of being against the environment. This is because in Alicante is usually scorching in summer and fans are not able to cool the house properly.
After our talk, our teacher congratulated us but the best thing is that we both had reached to two conclusions, the first one is that if you work hard you get everything and the second one is that even pro-environmental people like feeling cool air in summer.
Vicent
As I promised you in my post 'My last exam and my heart', I'm going to keep you up to date on my oral exam results.
ReplyDeleteI took it on Tuesday and I'd like to say I was nervous and insecure, but this wouldn't be true. If I am sincere this has been one of my best oral exams, but this is not a coincidence. I'd like to thank Cristina, my classmate, for everything.
We went to the school on Thursday and Monday and practised our dialogue FOR two hours each day. We studied different topics, situations and possible questions and answers. Vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation were revised and we even checked the time our conversations took, because we had to reach () an agreement in five minutes more or less. ( or you can say = and had to reach an agreement more or less in five minutes)
Finally the big day arrived. Our teacher gave us the exams and told us 'You have to talk about THE environment, I hope you like it'. I thought 'I have to put up with it, I don't have any choice'. We had to play two roles, I was against the scientists theories and Cristina was an environmental activist.
We started talking. The conversation flowed fluently. We both felt comfortable and for a moment we forgot our teacher was checking everything we told each other (or we were saying to each other). Minutes went by and, without noticing, we reached () an agreement, to change fans () FOR air conditioning in spite of IT being against the environment. This is because in Alicante IT is usually scorching in summer and fans are not able to cool the house properly.
After our talk, our teacher congratulated us but the best thing is that we both had reached () two conclusions, the first one is that if you work hard you get everything and the second one is that even pro-environmental people like feeling cool air in summer.
Your writing is very impressive Vicent! I am so glad the your oral exam went well. I love the humour that you put into your stories.
Katie
Thank you Katie. It's very kind of you. It's only one term left to finish what I'd call a strange year. I'm totally focussed on my studies. I hope to finish next year but what I'd like is to go abroad because, in my opinion, this is the only way to acquire a good accent and a perfect level of understanding.
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