Chinese oral test answering skills-Learn Chinese on HanTok

Many parents are worried that although their children have learned Chinese for many years, they are still dumb in Chinese and cannot open their mouths. It is difficult to get a good score in the speaking test. Many tests clearly require the teacher to have a free discussion with the students, but the recordings handed in, experienced examiners can tell that they are prepared in advance. Everyone is very happy about this. Worried, especially Chinese parents are very anxious. In addition, their oral Chinese level is limited to simple daily expressions and slightly more serious topics. The children either mix Chinese and English, or can only speak one or two sentences.

There are many reasons for the above situation. For example, less class hours, no language environment, etc. But there is another reason that cannot be ignored. Many children are still exam-oriented, so they spend most of their time memorizing model essays and explaining texts. They think the oral exam is easy, and they just need to memorize the questions at the end. In fact, most of the communication between people is done through speaking, so the importance of spoken language is self-evident. Especially for young people, their oral English has improved and they can communicate with others in Chinese, which is particularly important for improving their enthusiasm for learning Chinese. Due to class hours, many schools do not have separate oral English classes, so how to improve oral English? Let's talk about some ideas to help students improve their oral English in combination with some specific methods.

When we are studying a chapter, we can read the text aloud more, whether it is by ourselves or with classmates and friends, try to speak at the same speed, pause at the same place, and use the same intonation. Compare the text, and discuss what tone and performance method to use to perform the performance. After the performance, everyone discusses their experiences and puts forward their own opinions on whether the interpretation of the characters is appropriate.

Communicating with others around the text requires many skills: listening, elaborating, expressing different points of view politely, maintaining the balance of the conversation, advancing the conversation, asking questions, debating, empathizing, etc. These skills are not only very important in daily communication, but also the key to determining whether students get high marks in the oral test. Communication skills training can include some of the following activities:
Topic Discussion:
We can do themed topic discussions. After one person finishes, the next person is directly led to continue to elaborate on this topic or the next topic. In this way, you can not only continue what the last person talked about, but also transition to the topic you care about. for example:
also……
on the other hand……
I agree with you because...
I disagree because...
I would also like to say a little more on this...
I'm not necessarily right, but...
why do you think...
what do you think?
Some of the views of the people behind are echoed, and some are opposed, which can train students' reaction and critical thinking ability.

Expressing one's opinion – responding to, adding to, questioning or opposing:
For students to learn to communicate more deeply with their classmates, students should learn some of the following communication languages:
I heard you say... I think...
what makes you think so
This story made me think of...
At first I thought..., but now I think...
When objecting, you can say:
Maybe……
Has anyone ever thought about...
If we should think of it this way...
I don't quite agree, I think...

Many public exams now have a picture-talking session. Students often get the pictures and don’t know what to say. In fact, this requires training. We can let the children explain the illustrations, and have a free dialogue with the parents to talk about the pictures. opinion. In short, we hope that through reading, students can not only improve their reading comprehension ability, but also make reading a social behavior, so that students can communicate in a pleasant environment, so as to improve students' Chinese expression ability and communication skills.

Next, we will focus on analyzing the matters that need to be paid attention to during the speaking test, please continue to read.

1. What should be the focus of the oral presentation? How should time be allocated?

This part is generally self-introduction or expressing one's own views on a topic. Some can prepare speeches in advance, and some need to be played on the spot. After getting the exam questions, there are usually a few minutes of preparation time. Therefore, we must first analyze the examination questions, determine what topics need to be elaborated on, and do not review the wrong questions. Next, we need to determine which skills we need to use to express our views (genre, structure, writing skills, rhetoric, language strategies, etc.). It should be noted that the choice of techniques should be the most typical and most prominent theme in the text. In addition, avoid the practice of only using techniques and ignoring the center of the theme. Some students listed a bunch of rhetorical sentences, but none of them have anything to do with the theme. In the end, you will only get yourself a very low score.

2. How does the form of reading essays behave?

This kind of examination questions generally provides a reading material of about 1 minute, which is not limited in genre or form. However, students must pay attention to the tone of manuscripts in different forms. For example, press releases should be relatively serious, and some texts will involve dialogue. We It needs to be combined with the speaker's identity, emotion, etc. to show a suitable tone. Other aspects that need to be paid attention to are voice intonation, soft reading and stress reading. The questions of this kind of test are relatively simple, and there is generally no big problem if the amount of literacy is guaranteed.

3. How to deal with the teacher-student interaction?

First of all, because this is an interaction, it should be two-way. If students can play a leading role in the dialogue, the most ideal state can be achieved. The teacher usually asks questions in this session based on the previous discussion. There is also a way to answer the teacher’s questions about the video after watching the video. If your answer misses some key points, the teacher may give you the opportunity to supplement it with another question. If the students have strong comprehension ability when reading the text or watching the video, they can secretly guess what the teacher's question may be based on the content of the text or video in advance, so that they can be prepared. This type of examination generally needs to answer questions according to the writing structure of an argumentative essay, that is, "argument + evidence + argument", and the answer format is "statement of opinion + explanation of reason + summary of opinion".

The above are the strategies we prepared for you to deal with the oral Chinese test. In general, everyone should pay attention to the usual oral training and material accumulation. No amount of skills can play a role without a solid Chinese foundation. I hope Everyone can get the ideal score in the speaking test!