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The emphasis in Paper 4 Oral Examination 1 is primarily on communication - how you get your message across to others, not on grammatical accuracy or perfect pronunciation.

In Part A, each candidate must, firstly, participate in a role play with one of the examiners, with the candidate asking the examiner a series of questions. This requires the candidate to create their own questions and make notes of the answers provided.

Then, the candidate will be asked by the second examiner to report the information he received from the first examiner. In Part B, a group of candidates are required to discuss an assigned task.

The marking scheme (on the basis of one examiner)

Part A Role Play - Tasks 1 & 2 (0-7 marks)

Individual Assessment (0-7 marks)

Five marks go to five correctly reported answers and two marks are given to an appropriate extra question and answer.

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