Foreign Perspectives

That’s what we have to do for the oral part of the exam in, worryingly, about two weeks time. In fact, it’ll all be over this time two weeks from now which is even more worrying!

It’s far from easy coming to something like that even in English but we’ve to do it in Spanish which you’d think would make it even harder to do. In some ways, it does, of course. We obviously don’t have the range of grammar or vocabulary in Spanish that we do in English naturally. However, it’s the sort of thing that we’ve been doing off and on throughout the language courses and from that perspective it makes it that little bit easier.

Not easy, though!

We’ll be given a photo of the painting in the exam and then have 10 minutes to prepare a 3 minute presentation on it and how it fits into the context of the society of the time. As with most things on the Spanish course, it’s designed to make sure that you can’t prepare the whole presentation in advance so that 10 minutes will really need to be used. Any old presentation won’t do either as it needs to be reasonably well structured.

Try doing that in English sometime to see how difficult it can be!