Category Archives: Exam

Tips and documents for exam preparation.

Product presentation

As your oral exam for the summer semester, you will have to give a product presentation. We have scheduled four days for the presentations (18.-21. July), and you will have to talk for around 12 (10-15) minutes. We will test you in groups of 6 students each, so everybody will speak before an audience of five of your fellow students.

household_appliances_icons_vector_163228Here are some guidelines for the presentation.

The most suitable type of product would be one you can bring to the exam — e.g. a household appliance — because it’s easier to show how something works when you have a model at hand.

However, as the question has been raised: You may also choose a service rather than a product, just that a service may be harder to describe.

Dialogue practice

One of your exam tasks will be to listen to a dialogue and answer a couple of written questions related to what you hear. Your answers can be very short, we will be asking for hard facts only.

Here are three sample dialogues for you to practice, plus the questions.

A) A trip to New York

B) Buying a car

C) The gas bill

You may use the answer key to verify your solutions.

Making sentences

Here is a task you should do in order to prepare for the exam. The idea is to make a sentence from five words. The examples are rather difficult and not very intuitive. I can say with confidence that your exam task will be a bit easier, but have a try.

Making sentences – task

Making sentences – solutions

See also Taking a message for a listening exercise. Both of these tasks will be part of your exam.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! See you in 2016.

Daniel

Taking a message

Here are three telephone messages for you to practice. Print out a phone memo form if you don’t have one and fill it out accordingly. You may also download the transcripts of all three messages to check your notes.