NA1 (That's English! and official): Preparing the oral exam

The first thing I must say it that the oral exam should be as similar as possible to an ordenary conversation so keep in mind these tips:

• keep a balanced performance: don't speak too much or too ittle. 
• be collaborative: if you have a problem (a word, a wrong structure, a gap and so on), ask or give some help. It`s something positive in both ways.
• make clear you're listening to the other(s) by summarizing the other's point of view. It helps you to introduce new structures like reported speech or conditionals and the other feels more confident and involved into the conversation.
• sometimes it's good to repeat a question in a different way in order to emphasize, to get to the point or even to help your mate to understand better.
• use phrases to sound more natural: to express your opinion (As I see, Personally, In my opinion...), accepting the other's opinion (You're right, I haven't thought aobut that before, Sounds interesting, I absolutly agree...) or disagreeing politely (I see what you mean but..., I don`t agree completely with that point, That's right; however,...)
• start and finish the conversation: you may introduce the topic for starting and you might have a sort of summary to indicate you've finished.
• pay attention to your pronunciation and the entonation. Be natural but if you tend to be flat it's better to overact just a bit.

Here you are some links to help you with some typical situations dring your oral exam:

• how to change the topic: click here
• how to express your opinion: click here
• how to express agreement/disagreement: click here

To finish with, bear in mind that many of these expressions and tips work perfectly well in writing skills so take them into account when writing your composition.