Oral *flails*
I never want to do oral again.
The theme today was on competitions. I had actually guessed correctly because the third girl that was being invigilated was speaking very loudly and we could hear her right across the hall. She mentioned about something exciting and competition and I started panicking about then because I was hoping that I wouldn't be that unlucky to get the competition theme as my views are always radical on competitions.
For most of the ten minutes that we were allocated for practicing, I was staring at the picture and wondering what I could possibly say about it. My mind went completely blank and I kept mentally canceling out whatever inference that I had just thought up of. My one stroke of luck was that I at least managed to sit down and collect my thoughts together before being invigilated, unlike that in the Chinese oral last month (which I had a Distinction for anyway).
The examination itself? I spent the time uttering complete nonsense. For picture discussion I somehow managed to repeat the same point twice and found myself having nothing to say. Reminder to self: Grass field does NOT necessarily equate to no speed-type competitions. (Apparently my mind was on Air Gear at that time.) Also, in my anxiety to find inferences about the picture, I completely forgot about the "what will happen next" question. Thankfully, I thought up of some nonsense on the spot and escaped.
Conversation was generally a disaster, despite it usually being my strongest area. The first main question was: Have you taken part in any competitions? My immediate response was "Well, I participated in a competition recently at tsubasa_battle, which is a community in the Internet portal social networking company Livejournal" and it all went downhill from there. Most of the stuff I talked about such as what I had to do there (requirements, text, image choice etc) probably went right over their heads.
Even worse was the sub-prompt: "But don't you think that participating in competitions in a group is more meaningful because we can improve out social skills rather than winning?" I said, "I do not think so because we can also improve our interpersonal skills and bond together as a group during normal days such as in a classroom setting and in society, and does not necessarily mean that we have to join competitions in a group to achieve these aims. I think that by participating individually in competitions, we would be better able to showcase our abilities to their fullest potential without distractions, as should be the aim of competitions. Also, since most of my competitions take place online, I am rarely able to participate with a group due to the time zone difference in other countries."
The theme today was on competitions. I had actually guessed correctly because the third girl that was being invigilated was speaking very loudly and we could hear her right across the hall. She mentioned about something exciting and competition and I started panicking about then because I was hoping that I wouldn't be that unlucky to get the competition theme as my views are always radical on competitions.
For most of the ten minutes that we were allocated for practicing, I was staring at the picture and wondering what I could possibly say about it. My mind went completely blank and I kept mentally canceling out whatever inference that I had just thought up of. My one stroke of luck was that I at least managed to sit down and collect my thoughts together before being invigilated, unlike that in the Chinese oral last month (which I had a Distinction for anyway).
The examination itself? I spent the time uttering complete nonsense. For picture discussion I somehow managed to repeat the same point twice and found myself having nothing to say. Reminder to self: Grass field does NOT necessarily equate to no speed-type competitions. (Apparently my mind was on Air Gear at that time.) Also, in my anxiety to find inferences about the picture, I completely forgot about the "what will happen next" question. Thankfully, I thought up of some nonsense on the spot and escaped.
Conversation was generally a disaster, despite it usually being my strongest area. The first main question was: Have you taken part in any competitions? My immediate response was "Well, I participated in a competition recently at tsubasa_battle, which is a community in the Internet portal social networking company Livejournal" and it all went downhill from there. Most of the stuff I talked about such as what I had to do there (requirements, text, image choice etc) probably went right over their heads.
Even worse was the sub-prompt: "But don't you think that participating in competitions in a group is more meaningful because we can improve out social skills rather than winning?" I said, "I do not think so because we can also improve our interpersonal skills and bond together as a group during normal days such as in a classroom setting and in society, and does not necessarily mean that we have to join competitions in a group to achieve these aims. I think that by participating individually in competitions, we would be better able to showcase our abilities to their fullest potential without distractions, as should be the aim of competitions. Also, since most of my competitions take place online, I am rarely able to participate with a group due to the time zone difference in other countries."