oral... oral... oral...

here it goes... okay... i didn't blog about our english oral which happened last wednesday (currently looking at handphone just to backtrack the date)... ah... finally... JULY 16, 2008...

oral was a lot of fun... and of course... TALKING AND GOSSIPING ARE MY FAVOURITE HOBBIES... however... we're talking about preliminaries english oral... i know that it may sound so absurd cause it's not yet the 'O' Level Orals... but of course... i'm not reluctant when it comes to studies (i can't believe i'm typing this...) yah... and we don't have one on one practice with the teachers about english oral... they always tell us that picture discussion is hard so we need to pay more attention to picture discussion... but hello??? how can we practice if you're not conducting any one on one english oral... omg... oh yah... and this made me so terrified and it also engraved into my brain that picture discussion will be sooooooo hard like hell...

anyways... boring... next...

so yah after school we're all in the hall... while waiting for our turn... ME... MIDZI... SHADIQ... AMSYAR... YUHAN AND JEREMY... had our last minute questions... so we... discuss... discuss... discuss... and discuss... but actually me and midzi we're also gossiping at the same time...

OMG!!! it was midzi's turn... and after him... it's ME!!! oh dear... my heart beated so fast like racing for formula 1... i sat down... read the passage thrice... gathered questions and answers for picture discussion twice...i was really confident for my reading because inside our outside our house... i don't use SINGLISH SO MUCH... so i think it's one advantage... so when i focused on picture discussion... the picture was quite easy than i thought... so my heart slowed down a bit...

dearest midzi went off... with a big grin on his face... so yah... my moment came... and ms. wani (our examiner)... called me... i sat down... greeted her politely... and i began reading the passage... read... read... read... read... and of course... with different intonations... read... and ms. wani told me that it was good (HAPPY ME!!!)...

moved on to picture discussion (everyone's worst nightmare)... ms. wani asked me... what do you think is happening to this picture??? omg... i was mental blocked... omg... i paused for 5 seconds... then after that i just snapped out and started to infer... explain... infer... explain... i blabbered so long for question 1... then comes question 2 and 3... yah... it went smoothly... and i can't imagine how i sustained to smile when answering ms. wani's questions...

moving on to conversation... the question was about... tell us a time when you experienced being under pressured... omg... that was an easy topic for me!!! i smiled even more... i dunnoe which one should i say... i'm deciding that time if i should talk about F&N COURSEWORK MAKING or PERSONAL EXPERIENCES??? after 2 seconds... i decided to share a personal experience... and i blabbered about my experience when i came to singapore... omfaggot... i went really emotional to it... not to gain sympathy or whatsoever... but i can't believe that i survived in all the hardships i have gone through... after all these 3 years... i can share it to other people... my goodness... i was also stunned because i managed to use most all the good english vocabularies eventhough i was panicking like hell... then next question came... i forgot what it was... so moving on to the last and final question... the question was... how important are companions or something related about that...

so i started off to say that in present times... it is very difficult nowadays to trust anybody easily... common problems such as backstabbing... competitions and fights can lead to havoc... hence... it may happen everywhere... so i blabbered about the negative side of having companions... however... i moved on to the brighter side of having companions... that everyone needed friends because "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND" it simply means that a man cannot survive independently in an island... man needed somebody especially in times of need or troubles... man also needed somebody for inspiration... a man also needed somebody to love and to care off... why??? because A TRUE FRIEND WOULD ALWAYS BE THERE FOREVER THROUGH THICK AND THIN... hence... men have 5 senses for it to be used not to ourselves but to share it with others... THAT'S WHY WE ARE UNIQUE BEINGS AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE CALLED HUMAN BEINGS...

so i finsihed up my oral... ms. wani gave me a big grin on her face... and she thanked me... so i respected her and thanked her as well... i also said that hopefully she'll have a pleasant day... i walked out and went home afterwards... while i was resting... i can't remember some part of my answers... omg... but i'm proud of myself...

so friday (JULY 18, 2008)... we finally received our examiner's remarks... and here are they...

READING ALOUD (band 1: 10-12 marks)
- good pace but can read faster...
- very fluent...
- did a good job reading, especially the dialogues.

errors: 'd' sounds (yah... i should work it our more... hayz... )

PICTURE DISCUSSION (band 2: 7-9 marks)
- offers thoughtful interpretation...
- noyices many details and able to link them together

errors: "all these stuff"... "having a curiosity in her mind"... (in short colloquial or slang words are not allowed!!!)

CONVERSATION (band 1: 13-16 marks)
- offers personal responses...
- able to articulate his emotions very well...
- intelligent and mature responses...
- mentioned about "generation gap" for question 2... (too bad i can't remember what the hell was question 2!!!)

errors: NONE!!!

so yah... i was delighted when i received my comment worksheet... in summary... i got BAND 1 FOR READING ALOUD... BAND 2 FOR PICTURE DISCUSSION AND BAND 1 FOR CONVERSATION... ^^

***ALWAYS AND FOREVER XIAH JUNSU 시아준수***