[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

not at all, i'm merely offering my advice that practicing one's skills at oral can only result in a stellar performance when the need arises.

True, and very charitable. As for myself I actually have been able to give her some tuition and advice regarding this, as an upstanding member, of the community would.

I hope any other young ladies in this situation, just like María, will come to me for advice and just say, as María did:

'Can you give me just one piece of advice?'
and I'll gladly say:
'Of course I'll give you one.'

YIC, McU

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Hello friends.


I did oral. I'm no sure if they liked it.

[HTannor]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

I did oral. I'm no sure if they liked it.

What!!

Are they insane?

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

What!!

Are they insane?

Well bad start was see my harlot cousin Macarena there and she speak quite good english and she laugh at me and say me that she and Julio was up practising oral all the night and so Julio was very tired but he look very relax to me so anyway Macarena she say he would be OK in exam and perhap she, Macarena, could teach me some techniques for do oral cos she a expert in these exams but I say her no thanks Macarena I prefer if it is hard for me and I manage to do it well even if it is no a piece of tart so we went in the exam.

I was very nervios and esweaty I must admit.

Well I start off good I was think cos they say hello and I say hello and 'Jau ar yu - Aym beri güel zankiu' etc etc

And they ask us a few questions and Julio was very nervios and so I decide talk more and they say 'Aaah, can you slow down, Mari, you are go too much fast' (Though I'm sure the big englishman say it in better english than me, but was something like this).

Next was a interactive thing between us and Julio don't knew what to say about the pictures cos we have to discuss and agree about a present for buy a young woman friend so I say ''a electric aplliance I don't know the name'' in the exam but I say ''it make woman happy'' (I chekced after and is called a vacuum cleaner cos it clean house very faster), and Julio was ''ahhh'' and ''ohhh", and ''ummm'', and ''yesss'' during our oral so I just keeped going faster and faster and was doing everything and they say thanks you stop - that's enough. So I stop.

Anyway they gived us photos for describe and then to talk about and then a coversation between us about what is best thing for young peoples to do in their free time and again Julio say nothing so I start to go very rapid and do it all again until they say me ''''OK thanks you can stop now, and we leaved and Julio wasn't looked too happy and I was felt a lot bad.

You see I think I should have let Julio do more interacting and participate but I was so nervios I just couldn't stop myselve so I got faster and faster until it all just came to a suddenly end!

My head was exploding at the end.

So that's why I think I didn't do good oral.

Saturday the rest of the exam. I hope is no so hard like today exam. Things like this I don't like them too hard. I'm no enjoy them hard.

YIC, Mari.

[Living_Water]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

If you we're practicing oral all night I think you'll pass. There is no way Julio can dismiss all the hard work you did.

Just relax! It must have been an okay performance.

[Didymus Much]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

...So that's why I think I didn't do good oral...

So long as your partner didn't have to finish by himself, I'm sure the judges will overlook a bit of nervous performance anxiety. It was your first time, after all, and you didn't even choke once!

[Holyfield]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

I say ''a electric aplliance I don't know the name'' in the exam but I say ''it make woman happy'' (I chekced after and is called a vacuum cleaner cos it clean house very faster

If your examinator was a proper Englishman he would prefer the name "Hoover". You vacuum clean something by "hoovering".

Anyway. What is done is done. The worst thing that will happen is that you lose €100 and have to wait for another exam. Setbacks in life happen to all people.

[Pure_Angel]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

I think that you did fine! When the person you are giving the oral to is responding but don't want to interrupt you he will just say "yes" and "mmm" and stuff like that. (or maybe he wasn't so smart so he couldn't think of anything to say? Hihi!)

I will pray that your other exam will be good too!

YIC
Elisabeth

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Well, hi again.

I did the rest of the exam today:writting part, reading, lissening, and well, I'm don't really know how did I do.

But I will say this - I'm think it was the most hard I ever had. At least I can't remember none more hard in the past, so I think it was the most hard I ever had.

And I'm exhausted.

We will see what happen.

YIC, Mari.

[HTannor]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Well, I'm glad you're through with that englishman and his demanding oral requirements.

You are rightfully exhausted from the pace of the exams, and that is to be expected.

Just be grateful the oral part wasn't administered by an American. Yanks like us routinely make it much harder than any brit.

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Well, I'm glad you're through with that englishman and his demanding oral requirements.

You are rightfully exhausted from the pace of the exams, and that is to be expected.

Just be grateful the oral part wasn't administered by an American. Yanks like us routinely make it much harder than any brit.

Well my teacher in the academia is a American. But he's no a very estrict teacher - no whit me anyway.

In fact I would say he's normaly a little soft in general. And that's no so good. Is always better if your teacher is hard I think. He do the job better if he's hard so the harder the better I say.

YIC, Mari

[HTannor]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Well my teacher in the academia is a American. But he's no a very estrict teacher - no whit me anyway.

In fact I would say he's normaly a little soft in general. And that's no so good. Is always better if your teacher is hard I think. He do the job better if he's hard so the harder the better I say.

YIC, Mari

An American that can't make it all that hard, you say. Hmm. Quite puzzling......unless he is walking a "little light in his loafers", as it were.

Should worse come to worse and he fails you in that part of the exams, I would suggest you seek a firmer tutor.

As lick luck would have it, I will be attending a conference of the American Bar Association in Barcelona in the near future. Perhaps we could link up, as it were, at that time and I guarantee you will tutored on oral to a point that will stun those testing you.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Maria, I am sure your orals will go down fine. I know it appears to be a lot to swallow, but if you take your time and do not try to gulp the entire thing at once you will find it is easy. After the first few, it will become second nature to you. Just remember to nod.

[JustGotSaved]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

Maria, I am sure your orals will go down fine. I know it appears to be a lot to swallow, but if you take your time and do not try to gulp the entire thing at once you will find it is easy. After the first few, it will become second nature to you. Just remember to nod.

I'm sure there are some movies out there that can help. WHen i used to steal computers, well, you'd be amazed at the training videos i found on them. I saw lots of women, just like you(!), engaged in practicing oral. I can EASILY imagine you succeeding!

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

Re: Prayers Please! I'M DOING ORAL this week - my first time.

I'm sure there are some movies out there that can help. WHen i used to steal computers, well, you'd be amazed at the training videos i found on them. I saw lots of women, just like you(!), engaged in practicing oral. I can EASILY imagine you succeeding!

If only I would had knew that last week.

Maybe next time you can show me some, cos I'm sure I didn't passed this.

I think this could had helped, yes?

YIC, Mari.