Foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten

Part 1

The real life situation – you’re meeting someone for the first time

This is the introduction part of the test and one way to think of it is that you are meeting someone for the first time in real life. What happens is that they ask you some questions about you to see what sort of a person you are. Are you their sort of person? Typically in real life is:

1. 
   You don’t give very short yes/no type answers – that’s rude. What you do is add some detail so that they understand a little more about you.
   
2. 
   You don’t give long answers either. That’s plain boring (and slightly anti-social) and no one likes a bore. So you don’t try to tell everything you know – that may come later in the relationship
   
3. 
   If you don’t have very much to say – you don’t say very much. You wait for a question where you have something to say
   

If you follow those real life guidelines, you shouldn’t go very far wrong in the exam.