ENGLISH SPEAKING TEST FOR GRADE 8 -THE SECOND SEMESTER

* General Notes:
A. Total score: 10 points for 3 parts
B. Criteria for evaluating students’ speaking skill:

1. Fluency, Quick and Natural Response to every question (20%)
2. Being Informative, Coherence & Cohesion (60%)
- Good & Relevant speaking content
- Use of appropriate language (connectors, structures & vocabulary, tenses,…)
3. Pronunciation (20%)
Correct pronunciation, right intonation and stress, proper punctuation,...

PART 1 – Warm up/Getting started (4points)
(Examiners ask 5-10 questions for each student)
1. What`s your name? / When`s your birthday?
2. What`s your school? / What’s your favorite subject at school?
Do you like English? Why or why not?
3. Where do you live?/ Is your house big or small? How many rooms does your house have?/What`s your favorite room in your house?
4. How far is it from your house to your school?
5. How do you go to school everyday?
6. Do you like sports?/What kind(s) of sports do you like?//What kind(s) of sports can you play?
7. Do you like watching TV?/reading?/cooking?....
What TV programme do you like best? / What`s your favorite TV programme?
8. What do you often do in your free time?/What are your favorite pastime activities?
9. Where do you usually go at the weekend/on your summer vacation?
10. What do you often do at the weekend?
11. Do you have any pets?/Is there any pet in your house?/Do you like pets?/ What pets do you have?
12. How many people are there in your family?/How many brothers and sisters do you have?
13. Who is the most important person to you? Why?
14. What`s your favorite food and drink?
15. Do you like travelling? Where do want to travel?
16. What activities do you and your classmates often do during breaktime at school?
17. What`s your favourite daily activity? Why?

PART 2 – Student`s Speaking Performance (4points)
- Examiners ask student to choose one favorite question or speaking task from the list below.
- Each student has 1-3 minutes to prepare the answer to one of the following questions and she/he is expected to speak in 2 or 3 minutes on the chosen topic/task.

I. Now I’m going to ask you some questions about the environment of place where you are living. Are you ready?
1. Are you living in a city or in the countryside?
2. How is the environment around you? Is it clean?
2. Are there many means of transport ? What are they?
3. Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?
4. How do you feel about the air?
5. Is it polluted? Why or why not?
6. What can you do to protect the environment?
II. Now I’m going to ask you four questions about foreign language. Are you ready?
1. What is your foreign language ?
2. How long have you been studying it?
3. Which skill(s) are you good at ?
4. What do you do to improve others skills?
III. Now I’m going to ask you four questions about the natural disasters. Are you ready?
1. Can you name some recent natural disasters in Viet Nam ?
2. What did people do to preevent damage from those disasters?
3. What did people do to help the local people there?
4. What sollutions do you think are helpful for them?
IV. Now I’m going to ask you four questions about your communication . Are you ready?
1. Can you name some communication forms and communication technology?
2. If you want to show your love to your family members, what ways of communication do you often use?
3. Do you like meeting face-to-face to solve your problem?
4. How do you handle ( xu ly) stress and pressure?
V. Now I’m going to ask you four questions about technology . Are you ready?
1. What social media do you use ?
2. Do you have a computer? What do you use it for?
3. Many parents complain that social networks such as Facebook, Internet, Computer games spend a lot of time and have negative impact on the children and young people. Do you agree or disagree?
4. Give some advantages of science and technology?
VI. Now I’m going to ask you some questions about life on other planets . Are you ready?
1. Which is the closest planet to the Sun?
2. Can humans breathe normally in space