Role-play
For this technique, the learner is required to take on a particular role and to imagine himself in that role in a particular situation. The learner has to converse with the assessor in a way which is appropriate to the role and the situation given. The learner is given a set of instructions before the test explaining in simple language exactly what he is supposed to do.
Role-play situations are chosen to test the learner’s general social language or to elicit particular types of language, for example, particular functions: complaining, giving directions, particular structures: narration of accident (past tenses), break- in (passive) and particular topic vocabulary: hotel, flight booking.