Testing Your English Skills! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is testing its English skills!

English proficiency tests have been around for a while and are often needed for those who want to work, live, or study in an English-speaking country.

These tests are also a common requirement for jobs with international roles. Let’s discuss the usefulness of these tests, and practice some exam-style questions!

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you testing your English skills!

The Thinking in English Conversation Club takes place every TUESDAY and THURSDAY at 12pm, 6pm, and 9pm UK time!

You can find more details on how to participate on Patreon and Discord!

Conversation Questions: Testing Your English Skills!

1. Have you ever taken, or plan to take, an English test? What is your experience/expectation?

2. Describe your hometown. What is the most interesting thing about it?

3. Are you a student or do you work? What do you like about your job/studies?

4. Do you have a lot of free time? What do you like to do in your free time?

5. Have you ever had any pets? Do you like animals?

6. Describe something you own that is very important to you.

7. Do you think advertising aimed at children is acceptable?

8. How has your country’s culture changed over the last few decades?

9. Are English proficiency tests a good way to assess someone’s English ability?

10. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

– Winston Churchill

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Experience
  • (the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or feeling things
• Expectation
  • what you believe or hope will happen in the future
• Describe
  • to say or write what someone or something is like
• Pet
  • an animal that is kept in the home as a companion and treated kindly
• Aimed at
  • If information is aimed at a particular group of people, it is made known in a way that influences them or makes them interested in something
• Culture
  • the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time
• Decade
  • a period of ten years
• Proficiency
  • the skill and experience for doing something
• Assess
  • to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
• Fatal
  •  causing death, or severe enough to produce a very bad result
• Courage
  • the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation

Model Answers:

B1 (Intermediate) Model Answers

Vocabulary:

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See you all at this week’s conversation club!

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