Foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten

Part 2

The real life situation – you’re telling a story to a friend

This is the least natural part of the test and perhaps the one that has least contact with real life. There is one possible way to think of it – if you are a story-teller. You are with a friend and describing something that happened to you. The unusual part is that you need to talk for 2 minutes – longer than you would do in life. However, thinking of it like this can help you in the exam because:

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  the questions are always framed in terms of you – the task is to talk about what you know about – just as you would with a friend
  
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  this is not really a formal speech/presentation task where the examiner wants prepared language