Write your response in your own notes, then compare it with the sample answer. This practice is separate from the scored exam and does not affect your certificate.
Practice 1
Lena is an invented beginner in Italian. Her goal is to order coffee, ask for train times and talk about her family by 15 March 2027, and she has 20 minutes a day. Use the course's planning template to write her goal as a first message to a chatbot, and say what makes the message a good one.
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I am learning Italian. My level is A1. My goal is to order coffee, ask for train times and talk about my family by 15 March 2027. I have 20 minutes a day. Before you suggest anything, ask me two questions about my needs. Then suggest a weekly plan with short daily practice and two review days. Keep your answers short and use simple English. It is a good message because it names a level, a date, real situations and a time limit, and it makes the AI ask before it plans.
The sample follows the planning template: level, a goal with a date and situations, minutes per day, two questions first, then a plan with review days.
Practice 2
Sam, an invented A2 learner of Spanish, writes 'Las manzanas es muy buenas' and the AI replies 'Correction: correct'. Decide whether the AI was right, and write the challenge prompt you would send.
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The AI was wrong. A plural subject takes a plural verb, so it should be 'Las manzanas son muy buenas'. A challenge prompt: 'You said my sentence Las manzanas es muy buenas was correct. Check whether the verb agrees with the subject, explain the rule in simple English and give two more examples. Tell me how sure you are.' Then confirm the rule in a grammar reference or with a teacher, because the chatbot is not the final check.
The sample spots the missed agreement error, uses the challenge prompt's parts, and ends with a check outside the chatbot.
Practice 3
Mina, an invented learner, learns 6 Spanish words on Wednesday 4 November 2026. Use the course's spacing pattern (next day, then about three days later, then a week later, then two to three weeks later) to write her review dates. At the second review, 1 word is wrong: say what happens to it.
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Reviews: Thursday 5 November, then about Sunday 8 November, then Sunday 15 November, then between Sunday 29 November and Sunday 6 December 2026. The 1 word Mina gets wrong on Sunday 8 November goes back to the start of the pattern: she reviews it on Monday 9 November, then about Thursday 12 November, and so on. The other 5 words move on to 15 November. Her quiz prompt on a review day should list only the words due that day.
The sample applies the pattern, restarts only the missed word, and keeps the quiz to the words due.
Practice 4
A learner uses dictation on a phone and sees that the tool wrote a different word from the one they meant. Explain how they can tell whether the mistake is theirs or the tool's, and when a person is needed.
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They separate three cases. If the tool wrote what they meant, that is fine. If it wrote a different word and their own recording also sounds unlike the native-speaker audio from their course or a reputable dictionary, they should practise that sound. If it wrote a different word but their recording sounds like the native audio, the tool probably misheard. For hard cases only a person who knows the language well can settle it, which is why a teacher's check is worth having.
The sample gives the three cases from the course and says a teacher settles the hard ones.
Practice 5
Place each invented task on the stakes ladder (low, medium or high) and say what you would do: (a) a pizza menu in Naples; (b) a text to a taxi firm confirming a 7am pickup; (c) an email to a school in Valencia about an absence; (d) a card explaining a shellfish allergy to show in restaurants in Athens; (e) a marriage certificate in Greek for a UK visa application.
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(a) Low: use AI. (b) Low, but check the time and date with a back-translation. (c) Medium: draft with AI, keep the original simple, run both checks and, if you can, ask a fluent speaker to read it. (d) High: a wrong word could cause harm, so have the card written or checked by a qualified translator, or at least a fluent speaker. (e) High: follow the Home Office translation requirements and use a professional translator.
The sample places each task on the course's ladder and gives the matching action.
Practice 6
Meadowland is an invented country. Its (invented) immigration page, updated 3 September 2026, says: 'Translations must carry the translator's full name, signature, date and contact details and a statement that the translation is complete and accurate. Translations by the applicant are not accepted.' Tomas, an invented applicant, has a diploma translation with this statement: 'Translated by me, T. Example, applicant. Complete and accurate. 5 October 2026.' List each requirement, tick what the statement covers, mark what is missing, and write one sentence to Tomas about what to do next.
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Covered: a date (5 October 2026) and a statement that the translation is complete and accurate. Missing: the translator's full name (only an initial), a signature and contact details. The problem that cannot be fixed by adding details is that Tomas translated his own diploma, and the invented rule does not accept translations by the applicant. Next step: 'Ask a professional translator to translate and certify the diploma, and check their statement against the Meadowland list before you submit.'
The sample works through the invented rule item by item and spots the unfixable problem.
