SPEAKING SKILL PLACEMENT TESTING
I. Testing instruction
- Greeting student.
- Begin with 3 to 5 basic questions at Starter – Elementary (A0 – A1) level
- If the student’s performance was good, increase the level of questions.
✔ Pre-Intermediate = 3 questions
✔ Intermediate = 2 questions
✔ Upper-Intermediate = 1-2 questions
✔ Advanced = 1 question
- If student couldn’t pass any level, tester can stop the testing and move to evaluation step.
- When evaluating, the tester does the grading and gives comments based on the criterions:
✔ Reflex, confidence and fluency
✔ Grammar usage and range of vocabulary
✔ Pronunciation, stress and intonation
✔ Idea expanding
II. Testing questions
Level Question Evaluation standard
Starter – Elementary What’s your name? How do you spell Student can introduce his / her name
your name? and spell it
(A0 – A1)
Student can talk about his / her
Where are you from?
country and hometown
What do you do now? Do you work
or are you a student? Do you enjoy Student can talk about job
your work / study?
Student can talk about his / her free
What do you do in your free time? time activities and when he / she
does them
Students can talk about what he / she
Do you like (football / cooking/…)?
likes and dislikes.
What do you do every day? What
Student can describe his / her daily
time do you (get up / go to school / go
routine
to work / come home / …)?
What’s the weather like today? Which
Students can talk about the weather.
kind of weather do you like / dislike?
What’s the date / day today? Students can talk about date and
time.
What are you going to do this
Students can talk about future plans.
weekend?
Let’s talk about your friend. How Student can talk about how often he /
often do you normally see them? she does things
What did you do with your friends Student can describe past event with
recently? his / her friends
What do you think your friend is Students can say what people are
doing now? doing now and what they often do.
Pre-Intermediate
Tell me about your best friend. What Students can describe people’s
(A2)
is he / she like? character.
Let’s talk about your house. What’s it Student can describe about his / her
like? home and where he / she lives
Student can talk about how things
How about your country / town? How
are different now compared to the
is it different now from 20 years ago?
past
What kinds of things do people in
Student can talk about people’s free
your country / town do in their free
time activities
time?
How do you think your country / town Student can make predictions about
will change in the next 20 years? the future
Intermediate
What food / activity would you like to
(B1) Student can give / ask for and
introduce to someone visiting your
response to advice
country / town?
If you could change your work /
Students can talk about imaginary
study, what would you change to and
situations.
why?
Upper-Intermediate Tell me about a book you’ve read
Students can talk about books he /
recently, either English or your own
(B2) she has read.
language.
Student can talk about things he / she
Can you imagine your life this time
has done and will have done in the
next year?
future
Can you speak any other language Student can talk about his / her
besides English and your mother language ability
tongue? If not, would you like to
study any?
How do you think the Internet has
Student can express in detail how
changed the way people work and
things in the past connect to present
study?
Students can describe people’s
In your opinion, what are the
characters, using a range of
characteristics of a good friend?
adjectives.
Do you think life for young people
Students can make a comparison
today is easier or harder than it was
Advanced between past and present.
for their parents and grandparents?
(C1)
What famous person would you like Student can understand and use a
to meet and why? range of complex conditional form
If you could describe your life as a
Students can make a comparison and
movie, which movie would you
describe about his / her life.
choose?
