Oral Exam

ok, so most of the people on here no doubt have orals coming up sooner than we would like (my first is 2 weeks tomorrow- eek!) so i thought any tips/stories (as long as they dont scare everyone!)/details we have we can just post on here, any language, any level.

would make it easier to see all advice as well

the only advice i have at the moment though is to practise practise practise. i have already learnt both of my presentations and have 2 and 3 weeks left. i learnt my german a month ago.

also learn phrases which could be useful in the exam. think of what sort of questions your teacher could ask you and prepare key phrases and some impressive ones so you can rally them off occassionally. and im planning to have a bank of stats in my head for my AS orals, so i can bump up the knowledge marks.

and if anyone has any phrases that would be impressive in the exam (i.e. subjunctive etc), that would be helpful too

Wow I'm impressed, I started my AS oral 3 weeks before it last year, and you've already finished

I don't exactly have a presentation as such- my teacher has given me a load of questions on Lorca (my topic) and i've written out specimen answers and so i'll mould some kind of presentation thing summarising the answers and then my teacher will stem off from that and ask similar questions. Oooh, I'm sure everyone knows this but if you're a little stuck and you need thinking time you could say bueno lots before you start and a little pause while you start (for spanish anyway).