1. Oral test – “Fame!”
6th GrADE

2. Instructions: The test is composed of 3 parts: Famous People
Direct Questions
The Weekend.
The test is in pairs chosen randomly by the teacher OR volunteers.

3. Oral test rubric

4. Part 1 – Famous people:
Look at the following photos and pieces of information.
Tell your teacher who that person was and what that person did in the past.

5. Charles chaplin (Be) Born in 1889. (Be) Actor
(Make) many films such as “Modern Life” and “City Lights”
(Become) a director around 1920.
(Keep) creating interesting films in the 1930’s.

6. Marilyn monroe (Be) Born in 1926. (Be) Actress.
(Spend) Much time of her life in an orphanage.
(Have) a successful career as a model.
(Get) a Golden Globe Award in 1959.

7. Nelson mandela (be) born in 1918. (speak) Xhosa language.
(go) on to become the first in his family to attend school.
(take) classes in a one-room school.
(spend) 27 years in prison.

8. Part 2 – direct questions.
PAIR UP.
Read the words given and create a question in PAST SIMPLE for your classmate USING TIME EXPRESSIONS (you CAN’T repeat the time expression)
Your classmate has to answer to the questions using short answers.
Ex.
do / the homework ?
Student 1: Did you do the homework yesterday?
Student 2: Yes, I did.

9. Come / to school / * ?

10. See / the movie / * ?

11. hear / a strange noise/ * ?

12. Part 3 – The weekend
Ask your classmates what they did and they didn’t do at the weekend.
Use 3 of the 5 verbs given.

13. What did you do at the weekend? And what DIDN’T you DO?
BREAK
GET
RUN
SHUT
MEET
FIND
EAT
HEAR
TEACH
READ
HIT
THINK
SPEAK
BUY
SLEEP
DRIVE
FALL GO
TELL
GIVE