Shane De Poire

And that's kind of like bulletins or kind of news sections.

like things you'd hear on the radio.

And basically you're looking for a lot of one word answers for A and C and more sentences then for B. I would typically tell students before the oral exam takes place, the night before the exam and the morning of it, go listen to last year's exam.

Don't try to answer any questions, but just listen to it.

They give you the scripts online.

You can follow the tape script and you can get yourself warmed up a little bit.

Yeah, absolutely.

Paper one, there's no real issue with time.

You have an hour and 15 minutes to write three pages.

I used to tell my students, you could probably stop, build a house and go again.

You have that much time there.

But for paper two, timing definitely is a huge issue.

So paper two is four questions.

First question is your reading comprehensions.

they are worth 100 marks, which is basically 17%.

It's 16.7%.

Paper two is the prose section.

You have to study five short stories, essentially one short film, and two of them will appear in the exam and you must answer on one of them.

So you have a choice, which makes life a lot easier.

That's worth 30 marks, 5% of the overall grade.