Smart Choice 1 Midterm Exam Questions

Talk about you. Answer the following questions:

What's your name?

Where are you from?

Talk about your parents. Answer the following questions:

What are their names?

Where are they from?

What do they do?

What kinds of foreign food do you like? (Mexican? Chinese? etc.)

What is your favorite food?

What is your favorite vegetable?

What food do you hate?

What drink do you hate?

Do you exercise?

When?

What kind?

What do you usually do at this same time on the other days of the week?

Talk about a famous person. Answer the following questions:

What's his / her name?

What does he / she do?

Where is he / she right now? (What do you think?)

What is he / she doing right now? (What do you think?)

Smart Choice 1 Oral/Speaking Midterm Question Banks

Speaking Unit 1

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: What's your name? Where are you from? Are you a teacher?

38.	Talk about a friend. Answer the following questions: What's his / her name? Where's he / she from? How old is he / she?

39.	Talk about your parents. Answer the following questions: What are their names? Where are they from? Are they teachers?

40.	Talk about Marina. Use the information in the chart. Name Marina Costa Job photographer From Brazil Age 28

SpeakingUnit 2

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: Where are you from? Where do you live? What do you do? Where do you work? / Where do you go to school?

38.	Talk about a brother, sister, or friend. Answer the following questions: What's his / her name? How old is he / she? Where does he / she live? What does he / she do?

39.	Talk about this man. Use your imagination. Include the following information: name age job works in

40.	Talk about Becky and Johnny. Use the information in the chart. Name Becky Johnny Age 25 29 Job soccer player doctor From Miami Seattle Lives Los Angeles Los Angeles

SpeakingUNIT3

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Look at the pictures. Talk about you. Do you like these foods?

38.	Look at the pictures. Talk about a family member. Does he / she like these foods?

39.	Talk about food. Answer the following questions: What kinds of foreign food do you like? (Mexican? Chinese? etc.) What is your favorite food? What is your favorite vegetable? What food do you hate? What drink do you hate?

40.	Ask your teacher or your partner questions. Include the following information: his / her favorite food a food he / she hates foreign food he / she likes

SpeakingUNIT4

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: Do you exercise in the morning? Do you exercise after school or work? Do you exercise on Saturday and Sunday? Do you exercise with a friend?

38.	Look at the pictures. Talk about a friend. Answer the following questions: What's your friend's name? How old is he / she? What does he / she do? How often does he / she do these activities?

39.	Talk about a family member. Answer the following questions: What sports does he / she like? What sports does he / she watch? How often does he / she do that? What sports does he / she play? How often does he / she do that?

40.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: Do you go to restaurants with friends? How often do you do that? Do you play sports with friends? What sports do you play with friends? How often do you do that?

Speaking UNIT 5

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Talk about the people in the picture. What are they doing?

38.	Talk about three classmates. What are they not doing right now?

39.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: What do you usually do at this same time on the other days of the week? Which of these activities are you not doing right now?

40.	Talk about a famous person. Answer the following questions: What's his / her name? What does he / she do? Where is he / she right now? (What do you think?) What is he / she doing right now? (What do you think?)

SpeakingUNIT6

Use the following to answer questions 37-40:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

37.	Talk about you. Answer the following questions: Where were you yesterday morning at 7:00? Where were you yesterday afternoon at 3:00? Where were you last night at 9:00? Were you late to school / work yesterday? (Why?)

38.	Talk about a friend. Answer the following questions: What's your friend's name? Was he / she with you last weekend? Where was he / she on Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday?

39.	Talk about Ron. Where was he last weekend? Use the information in the chart: Friday night party Saturday morning soccer game Saturday afternoon mall with Liz Saturday night concert with Liz Sunday home

40.	Talk about Carol's party in New York. Who was there? Who wasn't there? Why not? Use the information in the chart: Name Where? Diane Carol's party Joe San Francisco Hilda sick Meg Carol's party Kathryn vacation in Florida

Speaking

Use the following to answer questions 57-60:

Choose one of the speaking tasks below.

57.	Talk about a brother, sister, or friend. Answer the following questions: What's his / her name? Where was he / she yesterday? What do you think he / she is doing today?

58.	Ask your teacher or your partner questions about keeping fit. Ask about the following: exercises every day? activities to keep fit? how often? was at the gym yesterday? kinds of food he / she eats?

59.	Talk about a parent's job. Answer the following questions: What does your father / mother do? Who does he / she work for? Where do he / she work? Does he / she like his / her job? Is he / she sometimes late to work? If so, why?

60.	Talk about friends. Answer the following questions: How often do you see your friends? Do you talk on the phone or send text messages? Do you have coffee or lunch with your friends? Do you write e-mails to your friends?