Mid Test Material for Basic Speaking
IKIP PGRI Semarang

Procedure:

1. The mid test is a group conversation.
2. The group consist of 3 people
3. Each group must speak in proper and clear English for the duration of 3 – 5 minutes. Time management is very important.
4. If a group speaks less or more than the defined time, there will be time penalties, and the score will be reduced.
5. The scoring will cover these items:
1. Automation (How fast you response to what your partner said)
2. Creativity in your ideas in keeping the conversation going until the time is up.
3. Team work (how a group manage to speak in a fair and equal portion from each speaker)
4. Individual ability in speaking
5. Fluency

Topics:

1. An emergency call to 911/ police to report a murder in your neighbor’s house.
2. You saw an accident, and apparently the victim is one of your friends. You call an ambulance to get immediate help, but you do not KNOW THE NAME of the street. You give description of the surrounding area.
3. Call the people you met when you had your holiday in Tawang Mangu to offer a job in your office.
4. Sell something via telephone; try all possible way to sell the thing (it could be girl’s accessories, floor cleaner, bugs extinguisher, or anything else)
5. A long lost friend contact you to visit your new home where you just moved. You explain the transportation and ways to get to your home via telephone.
6. You ask for information about a drama show in an international school. Ask everything about the show, the ticket price, the actors, the theme and so forth
7. You book a plane ticket to go to Italy. Call a hotel to make a room reservation for your stay in Italy for two months.
8. Visit a travel agent to inform you about the trip to Singapore. Ask every detail you need to know. ( be creative about the questions with this topic)
9. Order some food; give important details about the food.
10. You want to visit your friend who is being hospitalized in another city and you do not know how to get there.
11. Call a friend who lives in another town to buy you a bedcover for your mattress. You give details about the bedcover you requested your friend to buy.
12. Book a room in a hotel; ask for the price, facility, bonuses, discount and many other things.
13. You plan to have a party. You take your sister to accompany you a market to buy the items for the foods. Make a haggle for every item sold in the market.
14. Invite a friend to plan a holiday in another city and spend some nights together.
15. You go to a store to get a gift for your mother. You want to buy her something special with some limited money. Try to get the items you want to buy with your money

Basic Speaking, 2008 Laily Nur Affini, S.Pd IKIP PGRI Semarang