Informal Assessment Percentage

Informal Assessment 70%

Responsibility 10%

·         Attendance…..2%

·         Attitude……….2%

·         Team work……2%

·         Respect to teacher and classmates…..2%

·         Individual participation…..2%

Writing: Write an email to a friend telling them your vacation plans using the future tense (going to, will).

5.    The email was written in a correct form, using the future tenses and the structure seen in class. It had all the characteristics of an email and it included information about their vacations.

4.    The email was generally written in a correct form, with some errors in Capital letters and punctuation. The message is understandable and it has all the email characteristics.

3.    The email has some grammatical errors that affect the coherence of the message. The use of the future tense is included but not always in a correct form.

2.    Lack of vocabulary and a lot of grammatical errors. It has information that is irrelevant to the subject and the future tense is almost never used.

1.    The message is incomprehensible due to grammatical errors, non use of future tense, incoherence in the message, and it does not include any information about the subject.

Reading: students will read the example and identify the parts of an email (from, to, content, brief farewell), underline the modals and the future tense verbs used in the message.

5.    The student labeled each part of an email correctly and underlined all the modals and future tense verbs correctly.

4.    The student had one error when labeling the parts of an email, but all the modals and the future tense verbs were underlined correctly.

3.    The student did not underline all the modals correctly, but the parts of an email were labeled correctly.

2.    The labels were mostly incorrect and the modals and only the future tense verbs were underlined, the modals were missing (or vice versa).

1.    The student was not able to label the parts of an email and none of the modals neither the future tense verbs were underlined.

Speaking and Listening: Students will listen to a recording of a New York advertisement. They will pay attention to the important places and their descriptions mentioned in the recording and take notes of them. Afterwards they will share the information in a spoken manner with a partner.

5.    The student took notes of the recording in a complete form and shared his notes with his partner in a clear form. He used verbs in a correct manner and the places’ names were pronounced correctly.

4.    The student took notes of almost all the places mentioned in the recording and shared them with a partner with some lacks in vocabulary.

3.    The student’s notes does not have a lot of descriptions, although he tried to share what he had with his partner in a oral form, with some errors in pronunciation and a lot of lacks in vocabulary.

2.    The student only took notes of the names mentioned in the recording without any descriptions. He tried speaking with his partner but with a lot of errors in pronunciation and lack of vocabulary.

1.    The student did not take any notes at all so he was not able to share a lot of information with his partner.

Vocabulary: students will learn the following words by using flashcards. They have to create their own cards and memorize the meaning. Then they will do an exercise completing the blank with the right word (backpack, cash, credit card, first-aid kit, hiking boots, medication, overnight bag, passport, plane ticket, shorts, suitcase, vaccination, visa, windbreaker).

5.    Student made the flashcards and, when asked, they answered the meaning correctly. The completing exercise answers were all correct.

4.    Student made the flashcards and, when asked, most of the meanings were correct. Most of the completing exercise answers were correct.

3.    Student made the flashcards in an incomplete manner; when asked, a lot of meanings were answered incorrectly. When answering the completing exercise, most of the answers were incorrect.

2.    Student did the flashcards in an incomplete manner and, when asked, almost all of the meanings were answered incorrectly. The answers in the completing exercise were almost all incorrect.

1.    Student did not make the flashcards and did not know the meanings of the words. The answers of the completing exercise were all incorrect.