Thoughts on Speaking Exams

It may well be possible that teachers hate exam time even more than the students--at least when the exams are speaking exams. You see, students have a 5-minute time of torture on one day of the week in which they have to speak English for a grade. We teachers, however, sit and listen for several hours everyday as student after student talks about the same things, making the same grammar mistakes in, sometimes, incomprehensible speech. And it is cold in those classrooms when you are sitting still for hours on end. If only I'd been as clever as Matt; he is doing his speaking exams at the nice, warm apartment.

OK... Enough complaining. :-)