This outline details the requirements for the Szabó Magda Hungarian-English Bilingual Primary School. Students should be aware that more details about the exams are available in their English lessons.
Part 1-Questions and answers:
1. What kinds of vehicles are used in city transport?
What do you have to do if you want to be fit?
What is your favourite season and why?
2. What can you buy in a supermarket?
How do you celebrate Christmas?
What do you usually have for breakfast?
3. How is your room furnished?
How do you usually celebrate New Year’s Eve?
What kind of music do you like?
4. Who prepares breakfast and lunch in your family?
What kind of housework do you hate doing?
What labour saving devices do you know?
5. How many meals do you have during the day?
What is the most important family festival for you?
What kinds of summer sports do you know?
6. What are the things you have to buy every day?
What do you need if you want to go on holiday abroad?
How do we celebrate Easter?
7. What kinds of clothes do you put on for everyday wear?
What kinds of pets and other animals are there around your house?
What equipment do you need if you want to play football?
8. Which hobbies are typically for women and which are for men?
What do we eat at Christmas?
What is the weather like in Hungary in winter and summer?
9. What kinds of free time activities do students have in Hungary?
What kinds of buildings can be found in a city?
How many meals do you have a day?
10. What kinds of sports and games do you know?
What do you need if you want to make pancakes?
What types of electric gadgets are there in your kitchen and bathroom?
Part 2- Picture description
To describe these pictures you have to concentrate on the following:
What can you see in the foreground/ in the background/ on the left/on the right/ in the middle/ in the corners/ at the top/ at the bottom?
What is happening in the picture?
Do you like the picture? If so, why? If not, why not?
Part 3-Reading comprehension
During this part of the exam students are required to read out a text from their Class Books.
They have to choose one page number out of ten; the numbers are going to be put in envelopes beforehand. They can study their tasks for about 10 minutes. Only those texts are required which we have already read in class. When the candidates finish reading, they have to answer 3 simple questions about the texts.
The page numbers of the texts are not available before the exam.
Bibliography and websites, in case you need some more help:
//i-mihaly.gportal.hu/gindex.php?pg=27973206
//i-mihaly.gportal.hu/gindex.php?pg=28091548
Némethné Hock Ildikó:
TÁRSALGÁS, SZITUÁCIÓK, KÉPLEÍRÁSOK - FELADATOK AZ ALAPFOKÚ „A” TÍPUSÚ ANGOL NYELVVIZSGÁKRA , Lexika kiadó, 1998. (A könyvborító itt megtekinthető:
http://www.fo.hu/hu/konyv/tankonyv/nyelvkonyvek/tarsalgas_szituaciok_kepleirasok )