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Warm-up Questions

• What do you know about CET-SET?
• Length
• Parts
• Input
• Numbers of candidates
• Numbers of examiners
• Assessment Criteria
• Rating Scale

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Overview

• Test Format
• Input
• Assessment Criteria
• Rating Scale
• Language Functions
• How to succeed
• CET-SET inside info
• Viewing a sample test

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Test format
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Assessment criteria

• Accuracy
• Range
• Size
• Discourse management
• Flexibility
• Appropriacy

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Rating scale

• A (14.515)
• A (13.514.4)
• B (12.513.4)
• B (1112.4)
• C (9.510.9)
• C (89.4)
• D (below 7.9)

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Band descriptors-- AA (1)

• Basically correct use of grammatical and lexical
  items
• Adequate vocabulary and a fair range of
  grammatical structures for the given task
• Fairly good pronunciation though some residual
  accent is acceptable
• Able to produce extended and fairly coherent
  discourse concerning the given task, though with
  occasional pauses due to loss of words

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Band descriptors-- AA (2)

• Natural and active participation in the
  discussion
• Use of language generally appropriate to context,
  function and intention

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Band descriptors-- BB (1)

• Errors in the use of grammatical/lexical items
  that do not seriously interfere with
  communication are permissible
• A basically satisfactory range of voc. to deal
  with the given task
• Acceptable pronunciation
• Able to produce coherent and more complex
  utterances, though most contributions are short
• Frequent pauses while organizing thoughts and
  searching for words, which sometimes interfere
  with communication

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Band descriptors-- BB (2)

• Frequent contribution to the discussion but
  sometimes not to the point or without directly
  interacting with other participants
• Use of language basically appropriate to context,
  function and intention

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Band descriptors-- CC (1)

• Use of grammatical/ lexical items may be
  incorrect and sometimes impede communication
• A minimum range of vocabulary and grammatical
  structures to cope with the given task
• Pronunciation may be faulty and sometimes impede
  communication
• Mainly short utterances

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Band descriptors-- CC (2)

• Long and frequent pauses while organizing
  thoughts and searching for words, which often
  interfere with communication, though basically
  fulfilling the given task
• Less active participation in the discussion, and
  occasional inability to adapt to new topics or
  change of direction.

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Language functions assessed in CET-SET

• friendly communications
• making communications work
• attitude
• suasion
• emotions
• opinionating
• argument
• Please refer to The National College
  English Teaching Syllabus for a specification
  of other language functions.

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How to succeed (1)

• Listen carefully to all instructions.
• Ask the examiner to repeat any instructions you
  are not sure about.
• Give full appropriate answers, not just one or
  two words.
• Make good use of the preparation time.
• Keep to and complete the task. Do not talk about
  irrelevant things.

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How to succeed (2)

• Take a moment to organize your ideas before you
  speak. You can link your ideas in several ways,
  such as
• Sequence (e.g. first of all, then, after
  that)
• Importance (e.g. I think the most important
  thing is)
• Contrast (e.g. but, although)

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How to succeed (3)

• Good communication means working with and helping
  the other candidates. Remember, you are not in
  competition with other candidates.

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How to succeed (4)

• You will be marked on both accuracy and range. It
  is therefore important to show variety in your
  language.
• Speak clearly and at a natural speed.

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CET-SET inside info (1) --Tips from Yang Zhizhong

• Formatting and grading for the spoken examination
  Issue No. 511Published on 2003-06-26
• About requirements and scoring of the CET-SET

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CET-SET inside info (2) --Tips from Yang Zhizhong

• Authentic record of student responses at the exam
  
• Issue No. 513Published on 2003-07-10
• More oral exam responses
• Issue No. 515Published on 2003-07-24
• How examinees performed
• Issue No. 516Published on 2003-08-07
• Analysis of students' performances in one test

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CET-SET inside info (3) --Tips from Yang Zhizhong

• Organize your thoughts
• Issue No. 512Published on 2003-07-03
• Make your conversation meaningful
• Issue No. 517Published on 2003-08-14
• Words that help fill up oral exam
• Issue No. 519Published on 2003-08-28
• About how to improve your oral English to better
  prepare for the CET-SET

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CET-SET inside info (4) --Tips from Yang Zhizhong

• More tips on oral English
• Issue No. 520Published on 2003-09-04
• Adding humour to conversation
• Issue No. 523Published on 2003-09-25
• Final tips on oral English
• Issue No. 525Published on 2003-10-09

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Input (1)
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Input (2)
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Input (3)
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Good Luck!
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Tape script of a sample CET-SET session and a
brief analysis

• The topic of this sample test is "Going on Tour",
  from the 2002 June CET oral test.
• There are two examiners and three students but
  only one examiner is shown here. The other one is
  responsible for marking and doesn't speak during
  the session.
• The three examinees, Zhou Yi (A), Chen Xiaodong
  (B) and Liu Qiong (C), got scores of A, B, and A,
  respectively.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Good afternoon, everybody.A, B, C
  Good afternoon.Examiner Now would you please
  tell me your name and the number of your
  admission ticket?

• A My name is Zhou Yi. And my number is 020121 mm
  544602.Examiner OK, only the last four digits
  will do. All right! Your name, please.B My
  name is Chen Xiaodong. Er let me see my number.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Yes?A My number is er 5137.
• C OK. My my name is Liu Qiong. And my number is
  5225.

• Examiner OK. Thank you. Now would you please
  briefly introduce yourselves to each other?
  Remember you should not mention the name of your
  university.

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Part onewarm-up

• A Mm, who first?Examiner Yes, just introduce
  yourself to each other.B Er let me start
  first.C OK.

• B My name is Chen Xiaodong. And my English name
  is Norman. Mm I'm now studying in X
  University.Examiner Please don't mention the
  name of your university.B Er sorry.

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Part onewarm-up

• B I'm now er major er I major in er computer
  science and technology.C OK. My name is Liu
  Qiong. And now I'm a sophomore student major in
  finance department. Yeah.

• A Oh my major is business management and I am
  Zhou Yi. Er I like making friends with different
  people. So mm I'm very glad to meet you all here.
  And my motto is choose what I like and like what
  I have chosen. Thank you.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Er now that we know each other, we can
  do some group work. First of all, I'd like to ask
  each of you to say something about holidays.C
  Holidays? OK.
• Examiner Zhou Yi, now, do you like going on tour
  during holidays?
• A Yes, very much.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Why?
• A Because er I think mm during the trip I can I
  can relax myself, especially you know we now mm
  study very hard at school and usually feel very
  tired during my weekdays. Mm so if I have a
  chance to have to go on a tour during my
  holidays, I feel very happy and relaxed.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Now, Chen Xiaodong, what kind of people
  like touring most and why?B Like touring most?
  Er it's it's hard to say. I think the people who
  have time would like to tour most. Er as we all
  know, we students do not have much time and so er
  we won't er go out for for holidays very very
  often. Er mm maybe the people er who have a high
  salary and have much holidays in years er will go
  out for holidays very often.

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Part onewarm-up

• Examiner Now Liu Qiong.C Yeah.
• Examiner Do you think it helpful to have a tour
  guide when touring places?C Yes, I think so,
  because when you traveling to a places that you
  have never been to, it is better that someone
  will introduce you something about it and so that
  er I think it will be effective for you to get a
  travel guide when you are traveling.

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Part twopresentation

• Examiner OK, now let's move on to something more
  specific.C OK.Examiner Now, the topic for
  our discussion today is going on tours. Each of
  you will be given a card with four pictures
  showing places of interest in China.

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Part twopresentation

• I'd like you to state your reasons for visiting
  these places. And you will have one minute to
  prepare each of you will have one and a half
  minutes to give your presentation.B OK.C
  OK.

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Part twopresentation

• Examiner Don't worry if I interrupt you when the
  time is up.A OK.Examiner Now here are your
  cards....(after one minute)...Examiner Now,
  Liu Qiong.C OK.

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Part twopresentation

• Examiner Would you please begin? And Chen
  Xiaodong, Zhou Yi, please put your cards aside.
  Listen to what Liu Qiong has to say.
• C OK. Mm there are four scenic spots on my
  picture. Mm the first one is the West Lake. Er
  you know, Hangzhou is very beautiful city and the
  beauty the beautifulest thing in Hangzhou, the
  most beautiful thing is the West Lake.

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Part twopresentation

• Er here I can er tell you an idiom in Chinese,
  that is er "there is paradise in the sky, and
  there is Suzhou and Hangzhou on the ground." So
  you can see you can say you can see from this
  idiom that how people like Hangzhou because it is
  really a beautiful place. Er and the second
  picture is Guilin scenery. Yeah. I hear I can
  also mention an idiom that is "the scenery in
  Guilin is the first in the world.".

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Part twopresentation

• Maybe er maybe er it is some something somehow
  exaggerated, but er Guilin is really very
  beautiful I know from my oral English teacher. He
  is Canadian and he has been to Guilin this mm
  this Labour Labour Holiday. And and he told me
  that er it is it was really nice to be there
  Yeah, the third one is er Mountain Taishan. Yeah.
  Mm I myself have been to Mountain Tai this er
  last summer vacation.

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Part twopresentation

• And I feel it is a magnificent mountain. But
  there is one only one drawback, that is, because
  it is too famous, so I think it is overcultivated
  somehow. Yeah. The fourth one is the Beidaihe
  seaside resort. I think it is a place that many
  many leaders of our country often go there. So I
  think it is a very good place for you to spend
  when er in summer.

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Part twopresentation

• Examiner Now Zhou Yi, please.A OK. Mm there
  are four pictures in my paper and first is Great
  Wall, second is Palace Museum. There is some (the
  examinee doesn't know what the picture is) and
  the last is Temple of Heaven. Both of these sites
  are in Beijing. And you know Beijing is a place
  where many kings lived. And mm they attract they
  are attracting many people from home and abroad
  every year. And

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Part twopresentation

• I think mm for my for myself as a Chinese,
  (cough), sorry, (When someone coughs or sneezes
  while speaking, it is best to say "Excuse me.")
  because these places show the prosperity and
  humanity of our China, mm I think if I go to
  these places, it can mm make me look back into
  the history and mm look and make me prepare
  better for my er future study. And I think if I
  visit these places, I can I can just moti
  motivate myself to study even harder to make our
  country more much stronger.

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Part twopresentation

• Examiner OK. Now Chen Xiaodong, it's your
  turn.B On my picture er there are four modern
  cities Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Dalian.
  Mm er first picture is Beijing. Er as we all know
  Beijing is our capital. And on the picture er
  there is an ancient things I do not know what it
  is. Mm mm but er compared with the other three
  cities, I think Beijing er has more mm er Beijing

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Part twopresentation

• is more er more ancient than the other three. Mm
  how to say, mm...I, can ask a question, er your
  question is er among the er four things er I
  should choose one that is most attractive and
  base my reasons on it or I should give every er
  each picture my reason.
• Examiner I think it just depends. It's not
  necessary to worry.

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Part twopresentation

• B Oh, I see, I see. Then I turn to the next
  picture Shanghai. Mm on the picture er it's there
  are many er modern buildings. Mm and I think it's
  during the APEC, and I think er er Shanghai is er
  getting er more and more ...mm... how to say...
• Examiner All right.B I'm too nervous.

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Part two discussion

• Examiner All right, now we all have some idea of
  the reasons for visiting these places, I'd like
  you to discuss the topic further and see if you
  can agree on what places college students would
  like to see most. During the discussion you may
  argue with each other or ask each other questions
  to clarify your point.You will have about four
  and half minutes for the discussion. And your
  performance will be judged according to your
  contribution to the discussion.

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Part two discussion

• C OK.Examiner Remember, during the discussion
  you should try to come to an agreement on what
  places college students would like to tour
  most.C In my opinion I think college students
  would prefer maybe scenic spots to those modern
  cities, or maybe to historic places. Because as
  far as students are concerned, er we live in big
  cities. And we don't have much chance to get in
  touch with nature, so if we

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Part two discussion

• have time to travel, and then it's better for us
  to travel to the places which is more natural
  because there you can enjoy the er beautiful
  scenery of nature. Yeah, that's my opinion. What
  about yours?A As for me, I think mm we should
  go to the historic sites. Because you know there
  are many historic sites in China. And these
  places often has experienced er experienced much
  in the past. And most of them mm saw the past of
  our country. Mm both mm both good or bad. And I
  think the places can remind us of our

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Part two discussion

• past and motivate us to mm work much harder and
  to strengthen our country. And mm I think mm if
  we work even harder, mm our country will have a
  better future.C Yeah.B Maybe maybe to tell
  you the truth, er I don't like travel anymore. So
  I can't tell many er of much of the er things.
  And I think er if the er the places the scenery
  in the places er looks beautiful, and er er we
  can relax ourself in these places mm I will go.
  And mm and I

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Part two discussion

• do not often go out for traveling. And mm what
  attract mine mm attract me most is whether there
  have good food. And that maybe to other mm people
  ...er...Let me think for a while.

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Part two discussion

• A Oh, I like I like delicious food and I think
  it's a good idea to have special food in
  different places. And you know there are many
  delicious food in China, and but I think it is
  not mm the first most important purpose if I go
  on a tour.C Yeah, yeah. Food is one thing. And
  I think the main purpose for traveling is to
  relax yourself. And I think ah well, er and here

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Part two discussion

• listening to your reasons I think that ah places
  that could combine historic stories and natural
  beauties together, combine those two things
  together. I think these places are the best
  places best choice for college students.A I
  think so.B Yeah, I think so.

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Part two discussion

• C Yeah, in my summer holiday, last summer
  holiday, I went to Qingdao and went to Mountain
  Tai, and also I went to Qufu, you know I think er
  this is a trip that combined natural beauty and
  historic stories together. Because Qufu is the
  hometown of Confucius. Yeah, there are I feel I
  have very different feeling from the feeling when
  I traveled in Qingdao and Mountain Tai. In
  Mountain Tai, er I just feel the magnificence of
  nature. And in Qufu, I felt a lot of er maybe I
  get a lot of information about the traditional
  culture of our country. And in Qingdao, I enjoyed
  beautiful

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Part two discussion

• scenery and seaside. And also I enjoyed the
  modern life and very nice city.B Thank you
  for your introduction. And I have a plan to go to
  Mountain Tai this summer holiday.C Yeah.A I
  hope I can enjoy myself there.

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Part three follow-up question

• Examiner OK, that's the end of our discussion.
  Now I'd like to ask you one last question on the
  topic of going on a tour. OK, now Zhou Yi. Have
  you ever thought of traveling abroad?A Mm yes,
  I think so, if I have much money.Examiner
  Where would you like to go first?A Mm I think
  if I like Europe. I think if I have money I will
  go to such countries as England and France.

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Part three follow-up question

• Examiner Give us your reasons.A Mm I think
  these I think mm these countries have mm have
  such a history that attract me most and mm I
  think the buildings there are very old and
  artist. And mm I like such things.

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Part three follow-up question

• Examiner OK, Chen Xiaodong. What do you think
  makes a good tour guide?
• B What makes a tour good? Mm er I think first
  of all er he should know the places very well.
  And er he should be warmhearted. And he should
  have an ability of leadership. And he should er
  er make a good preparation for the tourists. And
  may maybe I think he should be active er in daily
  lives. And as ...er... may maybe mm maybe that's
  all.

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Part three follow-up question

• Examiner OK. Now Liu Qiong. Why do people like
  to tour distant places rather than local scenic
  spots?C Well, I think there are several
  reasons. First er people are so familiar with
  their around places. So and man have the
  curiosity to er to maybe to explore new things.
  So I think er that's why people want to travel to
  distant places. The first one is people want to
  know different things, from theirselves
  themselves. So er if you travel to distant

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Part three follow-up question

• places, you will feel a different life style or
  er different people or different culture. I think
  that will be beneficial to us. Yeah, that's
  all.Examiner OK. That's the end of the test.
  Thank you, everybody.A, B, C Thank you.