KET Speaking: Personal Information 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: An examiner asks a KET candidate: 'Tell me about your family.' Which opening sentence is most appropriate?
- My family is consisting of four people.
- My family has four people: my parents, my sister, and me. (Correct answer)
- In my family there are parents, sister, and myself four.
- Four people is my family, parents and sister and I.
Correct answer: My family has four people: my parents, my sister, and me.
The second option clearly states the number and lists the members with correct grammar and natural structure.
Question 2: Which of the following correctly describes a person's height in a KET speaking context?
- I am tall with the height of medium.
- I am quite tall — about one meter seventy-five. (Correct answer)
- My height it is one seventy five meter.
- I have height of about 175 the centimeter.
Correct answer: I am quite tall — about one meter seventy-five.
'I am quite tall — about one meter seventy-five' uses natural phrasing and appropriate hedging with 'about'.
Question 3: In KET Speaking, why is it important to give slightly extended answers rather than just 'yes' or 'no'?
- Because the examiner awards extra marks for speaking very fast.
- Because longer answers give the examiner more language to assess. (Correct answer)
- Because single-word answers are penalised with automatic zero marks.
- Because the examiner needs at least five sentences to score each question.
Correct answer: Because longer answers give the examiner more language to assess.
Giving slightly extended answers lets the examiner hear more of your language, giving them more evidence to award marks.
Question 4: A KET candidate is asked 'What do you want to do in the future?' They want to be a nurse. Which reply is best?
- In the future I want to be a nurse and help sick people. (Correct answer)
- I am wanting nurse job in future for helping people.
- Future I want to nurse being a job.
- I will want to be a nurse that helps people in the future.
Correct answer: In the future I want to be a nurse and help sick people.
'I want to be a nurse and help sick people' correctly uses 'want to + infinitive' and adds a short reason.
Question 5: The examiner asks: 'How long have you been studying English?' The candidate started two years ago. Which answer is correct?
- I study English since two years.
- I have been studying English for two years. (Correct answer)
- I am studying English since two years ago.
- I studied English two years before.
Correct answer: I have been studying English for two years.
'I have been studying English for two years' correctly uses the present perfect continuous with 'for' to express duration.
Question 6: Which sentence correctly describes a candidate's daily routine for the KET speaking test?
- Every day I am wake up at seven and go to the school.
- I wake up at seven every day and then I go to school. (Correct answer)
- Daily I waking up seven o'clock and school I am going.
- Every day at seven I waked up and go for school.
Correct answer: I wake up at seven every day and then I go to school.
'I wake up at seven every day and then I go to school' uses correct present simple tense and natural word order.
Question 7: A KET examiner asks: 'What is something you are good at?' The candidate is good at cooking. Which reply is correct?
- I am good at cook especially Italian food.
- I am good at cooking, especially Italian food. (Correct answer)
- Cooking I am good and especially the Italian.
- Good at cooking I am, especially Italian foods.
Correct answer: I am good at cooking, especially Italian food.
'I am good at cooking' is correct because 'good at' is always followed by a gerund (-ing form).
KET Speaking: Personal Information 5
An examiner asks a KET candidate: 'Tell me about your family.' Which opening sentence is most appropriate?