Chris is doing Mandarin GCSE and will be absent from school when his class take their speaking test.  The school have kindly arranged for him to sit this test before he has his surgery so this week he is working hard on his revision.  He has to prepare answers to 14 questions and then learn his responses so that he can ‘have a conversation’ with his Chinese teacher.

He also has to prepare and learn a statement about himself and his school.  This will also be spoken to his teacher.  So, my job for the next couple of nights is to test him…not easy as I don’t speak a word of Chinese!  But I am learning how to say some of the key words and can understand what he is saying as long as I have it written down in front of me.

The test is on Thursday morning – the day we travel to Cambridge!  Fingers crossed for him.