Assessment Activities Activity 3

ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

UNIT 2

Techniques to assess informally

Informal assessment. Total grade 20%

Activities to assess the linguistic factors.

Speaking

-Based on the topic of the class the students will give their opinion about why they think it will be useful or not to their learning.

Writing

-The students will write an anecdote about their childhood.

Listening

-The students will listen to a conversation about past activities they will be able to listen to it twice.

-The teacher will give the students a printed exercise related to the conversation already listened; the students will fill the blanks of the exercise based on the information of the conversation.

Pronunciation

-The students will repeat after the teacher the new vocabulary presented.

Evaluation criteria for Speaking.

Points	Considerations
5	Able to speak fluently.
4	He/she has some errors, passably speaking.
3	He/she has many errors in speaking.
2	His/her speaking is almost incomprehensible.
1	He/she is not able to speak.

Evaluation criteria for writing.

Points	Considerations
5	Able to write correctly, shows full mastery of appropriate vocabulary.
4	He/she did some errors, but those don´t affect understanding.
3	He/she did many errors, those affect understanding.
2	He/she wrote a text difficult to understand.
1	The text was impossible to understand.

Evaluation criteria for Listening

Points	Considerations
5	Able to understand complex messages and oral presentations.
4	He/she has sometimes difficulty in understanding complex messages
3	He/she has considerable difficulty with complex messages.
2	He/she is not able to understand complex messages.
1	He/she in not able to understand simple messages.

Evaluation criteria for pronunciation.

Points	Considerations
5	Completely able to pronounce all the words.
4	Able to pronounce almost all the words.
3	He/she shows some problems pronouncing difficult words.
2	He/she has several problems pronouncing.
1	He/she is not able to pronounce simple words.

Student	Speaking	Writing	Listening	Pronunciation	Self-evaluation	Final Grade	Comments
Natanael Rocha Valadez	5	4	4	4	5	22	Doesn´t have many problems
Fernanda Rodríguez Esquivel	4	3	5	3	4	20	Needs to review written vocabulary
Melissa Robles Rodriguez	2	3	2	3	3	13	Needs to practice more orally and review vocabulary.
Estrella Anaya López	3	4	4	4	4	19	Extra reading out loud exercises.
Claudia Perez Rangel	4	3	3	3	5	18	Review listening and comprehension exercises.

TEAM MEMBERS:

Esquivel Suazo Fabiola

Rocha Morelos Virgilio Josué

Valadez Acosta Leticia Yuririana

Assessment Plan Activity 2

ASSESSMENT PLAN

FORMAL ASSESSMENT

What would you assess? What linguistic and non-linguistic factors would you assess? (These are the learning objectives and the contents you have already written).

We will focus in the linguistic factors such as speaking, listening and writing because it is necessary to students to use these skills and to start using the second language. The non-linguistic factors that we will assess are:

Participation

Attendance

Cooperative work

Wiliness to work

Positive attitude

Respect

The linguistic factors that we will assess are:

Speaking activities

Intonation

Pronunciation

Coherence

Fluency

Accuracy

Writing activities

Homework

Listening activities

Conversations

Fill in the blanks

Whole class discussion

Pronunciation activities

Repetition

Anecdote

What would be assessed formally (Through tests)?

We will concentrate on the abilities that are base on the students’ development in written and oral forms.class.

-Discipline

New interchange

Level 2

UNIT I. TALK ME ABOUT YOURSELF

Objectives: At the end of this unit students will be able to express and ask about past habits, and actions using “used to” and the past tense by asking their classmates about activities that they used to do using regular and irregular verbs always pronouncing them in the correct way.

What would we assess?

LISTENING

Asking about someone’s childhood.

Listening comprehension: students will be asked to listen a conversation about past activities and to pay attention to the tenses used. The conversation is going to be listened twice, and then in group the teacher will ask them about the tenses used in the conversation.

In listening we are going to evaluate recognize ability: listening their classmates, record play and repetition

WRITING

Remembering your childhood.

Writing: Let the students remember and write about their childhood.

In writing we are going to evaluate the structure the phrases and teach them to write sentences using past and present forms. The use of regular and irregular verbs in past tenses in writing.

SPEAKING

Describing events that happen in the past.

Speaking: Encourage the students to share an anecdote about important event that happened in their past.

In speaking we are going to evaluate the pronunciation that students make in the classroom. Checking fluency, pronunciation, intonation, accuracy and the way that students use the language to express what they want to say about something that happened in the past.

What would we weight?

Informal assessment   25%

Participation                              10%

Speaking                                  15%

Formal assessment      75%

Listening                                  25%

Vocabulary                               15%

Grammar                                  10%

Writing                         25%

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                                             100%

TEAM MEMBERS:

Esquivel Suazo Fabiola

Rocha Morelos Virgilio Josué

Valadez Acosta Leticia Yuririana