Placement Test: Speaking

Starter

1. What is your name? How do you spell your surname?

2. Where do you live?

3. What is your age?

4. Where are you from?

5. Do you work or study?

6. What are your hobbies?

7. What is your favorite food?

8. What colour do you like best?

9. What is your favorite animal? And why?

10. Tell me about your family.

Elementary level

1. What do you do now? Do you work or are you a student?

2. Did you learn English at school? For how many years?

3. What do you do in your free time?

4. Do you like football? What sports do you like?

5. What do you do every day? What time do you get up/start work/school?

6. What subjects did you study at school? What exams did you take?

7. Tell me something you could do well at school. And something you can do well now.

8. Tell me about the weather in  your country.

9. What are you going to do at the weekend?

10. Have you been to an English-speaking country (before)?

Pre-intermediate level

1. What kind of movies do you like? And why?

2. Tell me about your favorite movie, what do you like most about it? Who is your favorite actor? And why?

3. Let’s talk about your friends. How often do you normally see them? Tell me about your best friend. What is he or she like?

4. Tell me about something you did with your friends recently.

5. What do you think your friends are doing now?

6. What do you think your friends are going to do next weekend?

7. Tell me about your last holiday, where did you go? Who with? And, what did you do?

8. What do you do to relax? Do you relax often? Why? Why not?

9. Let’s talk about your house or home. How would you describe it?

10. How about your country/town. How is it different now from 20 years ago?

Intermediate level 

1. What kinds of things do people in your country/town do in their free time?

2. Do you like to shop? What is your favorite type of shopping? Why do you like it?

3. How do you think your country/town will change in the next 20 years?

4. What advice would you give to someone visiting your country/town?

5. Tell me about the main news stories in your country at the moment.

6. What do you think the main news stories are in the UK or America at the moment?

7. If you had been born in the UK or America, how would your life up to now have been different?

Upper-intermediate level

1. Tell me about someone you admire. What do you admire about them?

2. If you could change one thing about your life what would it be? And, why?

3. If you won a million dollars what would you do? How would it change your life?

4. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why? Who with? What would you do there?

5. Tell me about any other languages you speak, apart from English.

6. Tell me about a book you’ve read recently, either in English or in your own language.

7. Some people think everyone in the world will speak English within 50 years. What do you think?

8. How do you think the Internet has changed the way people learn English?

9. Would you say you are a practical person? What jobs can you do about the house?

10. Tell me how you imagine your life this time next year.

Advanced level

1. What, in your opinion, are the characteristics of a good friend?

2. Do you think life for young people today is easier or harder than it was for their parents and grandparents?

3. How would you improve the education system in your country?

4. We hear a lot about globalisation nowadays. What are your views on globalisation?

5. What famous person, either present or past would you like to meet and why?

6. What are the problems associated with learning a language at an advanced level? How can you continue to make progress?

7. What is your opinion of the infrastructure in your home city?

8. In your opinion are there any forms of art that should not be considered as art? Tell which ones and why?