-Good afternoon. -Good afternoon.
My name is Jill Budgie, and this is my colleague, Ros Smith.
And your names are?
My name is Kok Wee.
-I'm Chris. -Can I have your mark sheets, please?
Thank you.
Where are you from, Kok Wee?
I'm from Malaysia.
And you?
I'm from China.
First, we'd like to know something about you. Chris
who do you spend time with after school?
I spend time with my roommates.
We cook together and do homework together.
Okay. And Kok Wee, tell us about a good teacher you've had.
My good teacher
my economics teacher, his name is Darren.
I like him because he gave us a lot of notes every single lessons.
So I find it very useful for the education or something.
And Chris, do you enjoy using the Internet in your free time?
Yes, I was doing online shopping.
I would search TV shows online, it's quite useful because
I can get everything I want from the Internet.
And Kok Wee, where would you like to go for your next holiday?
Maybe Japan?
Because during the winter season, because I like snow a lot
I might go there to ski or whatever.
Do you enjoy reading?
Yeah, I've started to read like three years ago.
I like fiction books a lot.
I read about ten every night
and recently I just started a book called Clockwork Angel.
Thank you.
In this part of the test, I'm going to give each of you two photographs.
I'd like you to talk about your photographs
on your own for about a minute
and also to answer a question about your partner's photographs.
Kok Wee, it's your turn first. Here are your photographs.
They show people trying to win in different situations.
I'd like you to compare the photographs and say
what do you think might be difficult for
the people about trying to win in these situations.
All right?
Okay. The first picture is a tennis tournament.
It's a competition between two person
and they play against each other.
For the second picture
it's either marathon or running.
It's there for like a certain amount of people
participated together to run.
And as for the question, what might be difficult for the people
about trying to win in this situation?
For the first picture
I think the opponent, like the level of skills of the opponents
is very important. And for the second picture
all you need is training and perseverance
and run until the end of the finish line.
Thank you.
Chris, which sport would you prefer to do?
Well, I prefer tennis. It's more fun
I think, because I can run a lot in the ground
and it's really... makes me feel relax
but I can't do it in the short time
because I've just twisted my ankle while playing tennis.
Thank you.
Now, Chris, here are your photographs.
They show people spending time outside in different situations.
I'd like you to compare the photographs and say
what do you think the people are enjoying about spending time outside in these
situations? All right?
Yeah. For the first picture, they are having a picnic with their friends
and their smiley face, and everybody's face. They seems very happy to
chat with each other
and spend their time with the friends in the good weather.
And for the second picture, the girls are
hang out on the streets. Then they go shopping or looking for the restaurants.
They spend their time with best friends
and enjoy
the time with each other, just like shopping with each other.
I think
because more people there
so people might more enjoy spending this
because of more fun.
Thank you. Thanks.
And Kok Wee, which of these things would you prefer to do?
The first one
like the picnic because you can socialise with people
and eat good food and enjoy the weather in the park
as compared to the second picture
because I'm not a shopping person and I don't like to walk a lot.
So, I prefer the first picture rather than the second.
Thank you.
Now, I'd like you to talk about something together for about two minutes.
I'd like you to imagine that
a school is going to start some after school classes
to encourage their students to
learn new skills. Here are some ideas for the classes
and a question for you to discuss.
First, you have some time to look at the task.
Now, talk to each other
about why students might want to learn to do these skills.
Students might want to learn another language because it's very useful
for their future.
They can communicate with other people using the certain language
and they can make more friends using the language.
If you learn another language
like the university will like be even more interested
in you because you are multilingual.
That's what I thought.
Yes, but what if the students can't speak English very well
and still learn another foreign language
the two language will mix up and they might not to speak both of it
very well, do you think?
I won't reckon that because if
the student are not capable of their first language
of what they are speaking
they won't take another thing, to learn another language. Yeah.
Students that play sports well
it's another good thing to learn
because being healthy is also very important
compared to just studying all the time.
Do you agree?
Yes, I love playing sports.
I think studying to play musical instrument is
might be popular as well because
if I was a boy and I played guitar
it's more useful to attract a girl, do you think?
I think with your point of view, I agree.
But some people learn instruments just because of their passion.
They love playing musics and they love musics.
Thank you.
Now, you have about a minute to decide which two would be
the easiest to learn to do well. Okay.
For me, in my opinion, cooking a meal and playing sports is
very simple for me.
Do you think it's simple?
Yes, and I think draw well as well
because everybody can draw and
whatever we draw, it's like a picture.
But you need to take classes in order to draw well.
We can do much more practice in our spare times.
Okay, but if practice isn't playing sport
and drawing well, both are similar because
you just need to practice for both, then you are going to do well
in each of them. Yes.
But they also need talent to do this.
Yeah, but let's not talk about talent.
Okay, thank you.
Do you think classes like these would be popular with students, Chris?
Yes, I think so. For me
I would like to go to this class after school because
I have nothing to do without doing homework at home.
So, it's better to have a class, learn some new things
and make some new friends. Do you agree, Kok Wee?
Yes, because in order to learn new things
you can use your time efficiently and not waste time and just lay
on the bed at home and do nothing
and look at the ceiling. Learning a new skill is better than doing nothing.
That's what I thought.
How important do you think it is for people to try new activities, Kok Wee?
There's a phrase that says, "no pain, no gain".
That's what I think because if you don't try new stuff, you won't know
are capable of doing that certain
thing, and just try it and you will know
and are supposed to do it. That's what I think.
Do you agree?
Yes, I think so because most of people love studying new things
because there are a lot of new things we have to learn in this world.
And it's much fun
than just doing the same thing over and over again.
Why do you think some people don't like to try new things?
In my opinion, people don't like to try new things
because they know that they are not capable of doing that thing
or either they like their current, what they are doing right now.
How about you?
Yeah, I think so.
And they might worry about someone might laugh at them
because they can't do it well. Yeah. So, they don't want to.
Yeah, maybe society will like judge them because of their weakness
or something they are lacking.
So yeah. Thank you.
A lot of people enjoy doing sport after school.
Do you think this is a good thing, Chris?
Yes, because we're doing work in the day
and it's time for us
to do some sports after school
and have some fun with friends. And
stretch out muscles, like this. Have a rest.
Do you agree?
Yes, I do agree because I think that human must be mentally
and physically active rather than just studying or memorising terms.
They must like do sports to trigger and activate some of
their body cells to be healthy.
Thank you. What do students enjoy doing after school in China?
Some of them enjoy playing computer games
but most of us don't have a choice to do this
because we've got tons of homework to do
and we might spend the whole night doing homework.
And how about in Malaysia?
In Malaysia, most students studies, that's just what's there
but we have extra curricular activities in school
so student can choose what to do between two choices.
But most of them just go home and study all night.
Thank you. That's the end of the test.
Thank you.