OET Speaking Test - Sample Conversation

Posted by oetpractice on September 27th, 2019

Wondering how your speaking sub-test will be? How your conversation with the interviewer shall be?

Speaking sub-test is simple provided you pay more attention to speaking in a right way. 

OET Speaking Sub Test Sample Question 

Setting: Patient’s House

Role player Card 1 

You have been diabetic for over 5 years. You have visited the doctor’s clinic recently and he suggested that you shall have insulin injections. You do not understand why this has been prescribed to you. You are nervous and not sure how to inject it yourself. 

• Stress more on how you have been managing diabetes

• Explain why you are a little worried about taking insulin injection 

• Express your anxiousness about the process of self-injecting. 

Candidate’s Card 1 

The doctor at the clinic where you are working has requested you to visit a patient’s house. You are expected to teach the patient how to inject insulin himself. You observe that the patient has been managing the diabetes for over 5 years successfully and he is a little anxious about the process of injecting insulin himself. 

• Calm him down 

• Let the patient know that the process of self-injecting will be simple. 

• How this is going to be more beneficial for him?

OET Sample Conversation (speaking sub-test) 

Patient: Hi, I was expecting you, please, be comfortable. 

Nurse: Thank you. I am sent by Dr. Morris. He has suggested that I should teach you how you can take insulin yourself.  

Patient: thanks you are here. but, I really do not understand why the doctor has prescribed this insulin to me. 

Nurse: There must have been some reason.

Patient: Do you think my sugar has increased?

Nurse: Well, not all the times do doctors suggest insulin when the sugar level is higher. It is prescribed for some other reasons only the doctors know the best. 

Patient: Oh

Nurse: And you look nervous. 

Patient: Yes, I am. 

Nurse:  You do not have to be. 

Patient: It is for the first time that I am going to take insulin.  Tell me honestly, do you think my sugar level is very high and that is why this has been prescribed for me. 

Nurse: It can’t be like that. Let me take a look at you report too.

Patient: I do not have the reports now. 

Nurse: And it is sometimes good to take insulin to manage the sugar levels. And trust me, it is going to be very simple for you.

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