The A’s of OET Speaking
Your palms are sweaty, your heart’s racing… and you stare, dumbfounded, as your mind goes blank.
To avoid a situation like this happening in your OET speaking exam, you should be prepared for what to expect and how you should respond. The roleplay that you are given will require you to use appropriate language and phrases to do one or more of the following things:
- Assess the patient, the patient’s background or the current situation. This is often what you do in the opening section of the speaking – you find out (i.e. assess) what it is that the patient wants!
- Assure the patient about their particular health condition, their family member’s illness or an upcoming operation, etc. The patient is anxious and you need to calm them down… what do you say? You should use empathic language, exhibiting your understanding to the patient.
- Advise the patient about lifestyle changes, how to manage their diabetes/health disease or what are the harms/benefits. Here you need to make appropriate suggestions for the patient’s situation.
- Arrange a follow-up appointment or referral, if appropriate to the situation. You are showing the patient that you are taking immediate action to help them.
Now it’s up to you to carefully consider each of these types of speaking tasks and come up with some appropriate sentences, questions or phrases that can help you communicate these things to the patient.
-Carol, OET Teacher of SLS
Some Stories About Our Japanese Course 18
Hi everyone, 皆さん、こんにちは。
My Japanese classes/lessons included the practices to develop speaking, reading, listening, writing, interacting, constructing and creating dialogues as well as culturalskills and knowledge upon Japan. As usual, we used textbooks (our major one is Genki Book 1), pictures, ads, children’s books, magazines, CDs, videos, DVDs, songs etc.
A few high school students of the previous Beginners 2 and now in Pre-Intermediate 1, said they wish to learn the vocab related to colours and seasons. So, I used the book of FudekoReekie and taught such vocab and use of that as application exercises while also using colorful posters and pictures.
As for traditional culture and arts, I got many beautiful and comprehensive pamphlets etc from a Japanese travel agent located near to Kinokuniya, CBD. Showing them, I talked about Noh (Japanese ancient stage play), kyogen (funny talk/performance played during the intervals at Noh in Japan during the Ancient Time, Kabuki, exquisite sight of Mt Fuji and its surroundings, Japanese map with all the route of the bullet trains, Tokyo Disneyland, Universal Studio in Osaka, many gorgeous historical heritage of Kyoto and geisha/maiko of Gion (Kyoto), big and traditional festivals, Japan Rail Pass (e.g. for an adult, travelling anywhere in Japan by Japan Rail group that includes all bullet trains, its buses and ferry in Miyajima are all covered, e.g. 28,300-en for 7 days and for Ordinary Pass), very popular monkies’ hot spring in Nagano, etc.
Similarly, I informed my classes about an article in Jenta (8.3.13, p. 24). It is written by TeruGamoo who is an author of many books. He reports the recent report of “TorippuAdobaizaa” in Internet, i.e. which places/things are mostly popular for overseas tourists in Japan. The most popular one is Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; No. 2 is Mori Art Museum in Hakone (Kanagawa prefecture). The rest and up to No. 10 include Miyajima in Hiroshima prefecture, Monkey Natural Park (them in hot spring in Nagano), skiing resort in Hokkaido, “Kinkakuji” (temple built in the early samurai period) in Kyoto, “Toodaiji” (temple) in Nara (the Ancient capital city of Japan). Also, the above author informs about “Gion-maruume” in Kyoto. They offer any clients of small groupslovely time of 45 minutes with their highly trained “maiko”. Those “maiko” entertain clients with beautiful traditional dance, performance of musical instruments and gorgeous/traditional tea. Thosepleasant and distinctive services popular with esp. female clients, the article says. The price of that service is reasonably approachable and 4800-en per person.
Japanese Teacher, Toshiko Jackson
5.4.13
Should you learn Portuguese?
Do you know… that learning Portuguese is much easier than other languages? So why don’t you brush up on your Portuguese and get prepared for the WORLD CUP 2014?
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Apart from the World Cup I will tell you another reason for learning or improving your Portuguese skills:
• You may have advantage once you speak Portuguese considering the fact that Brazil belongs to BRIC, an acronym for ‘Brazil, Russia, India and China’, which means its economy has grown rapidly during the last years. Besides that, I would say that you might get competitive advantage if you speak Portuguese specially if you are looking for a job in those countries.
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OET: How to say no to test anxiety?
1. Be prepared.
How come you can be confident if you are not prepared, in everything you do, not just for exam alone? Summary the main point for each chapter can save you lots of time.
2. Study efficiently.
There is no genius, genius is trained. Therefore, don’t just begin to study three nights before the exam. You simply kill your brain with the overwhelming terminology and can’t get good result definitely. Study is a lifelong process, therefore, it is essential that you can organize your study schedule and stick with it.
3. Love your body
Treat your body well and it will pay back for sure. Sleep well and have a nice meal before you sit for the exam.
4. Group work
Study in groups for the clinical exams may be useful. You can never predict how much you can learn from others friends
5. Answer the ones you know first.
Try to answer all the questions you know, leave time for the tricky one. Never invest too much time one question, otherwise you will certainly run out of time to finish others questions.
6. Yes! Be focus!
Some students may leave early in the test but it doesn’t mean you need to be rush. Steady wins the race! Therefore, concentrate on what you are doing, ignore what others are doing. Make the most of your exam period!
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