sábado, 29 de agosto de 2015

First Oral Evaluation Rubric

Good evening dear students

Here I send you the rubric for the First Oral Evaluation that will be next Saturday. Please, study with this blog and the documents we have worked on class.

Happy week!


UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA
ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
CENTRO DE EXTENSIÓN
PROGRAMA DE INGLÉS JÓVENES
LEVEL 2
1st oral assessment: My Family
15% of Total Grade

TASK: Individually, the students are going to present their families and family routine on Sundays. Then, they will compare their families with one of the three family flashcards the teacher will provide.

To complete this task successfully you need to:
-         Describe your family
-         Give information about you and your family (likes, hobbies, occupation, etc.)
-         Mention the activities you do with your family on Sundays (free time)
-         Compare your family with another one. (Differences and similarities)
-         Be fluent and spontaneous – confident, independence from visual aids, speak clearly and loud enough, short pauses
And use:
-         Simple present tense, verb to be, family vocabulary
-         Adjectives and comparatives
-         Full sentences to express your ideas.

INSTRUCTIONS: For this task, each student will present her/his family to the teacher. To do so, she/he will say what kind of family she/he belongs to, who the members of her/his family are, what they do, how they are, etc. Once they have described their families, the students will present a family routine on Sundays, that is, what the students do with their families in this day when they are all together. Finally, the teacher will have some flashcards about famous TV families he will offer to the students. The flashcard will be face down and the student will choose one of them. When they get their family flashcard, the students will compare their family with the TV family they got. Each student will have ten minutes to carry out this activity.

PASSING SCORE: 3.0

Student’s name:

Date:
%
Criteria / Score (number 1 is the lowest scale, 10, 20 and 30 the highest)

Poor

Needs improvement

Fair

Good

Outstanding

Total
The student is able to:
20
Fluently present her/his family structure.
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20

20
Describe a family routine.
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20

20
Use adequately the comparatives to highlight differences between her/his family and other families.  
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20

20
Display in her/his presentation the correct use of the following structures: verb to be, possessive adjectives, adjectives, word order.
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20

20
Pronounce words in a clear way that makes of her/his presentation comprehensible.
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-20

Comments: use of self-correction, asking for clarification, independence from visual aids.
Final score: _______ / 2 =

domingo, 23 de agosto de 2015

Homework for next class

Good afternoon dear students

This is the homework for our next class:

Ø Watch the video: “Using Comparatives” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkuUKX5JzrY
Ø  Compare the three minions from the image using comparatives (image 1) [5 sentences]
Ø  Compare Gru’s family with the minions group using comparatives (image 2) [6 sentences]
Ø  Work on the exercises of this web (it is only for you to practice): 


NOTE: Don’t forget to visit the post about comparatives to remember how to use them. 





domingo, 16 de agosto de 2015

Comparative adjectives summary


Do you remeber this game?

Hello dear students

Here I share with you the game we played yesterday in class.

Enjoy it!




Comparatives

Comparison of adjectives in English

Grammatical constructions used for comparing adjectives

There are three forms of comparison:
·         positive
·         comparative
·         superlative

1. Comparison with -er/-est

clean → cleaner → (the) cleanest
We use -er/-est with the following adjectives:

1.1. Adjectives with one syllable

positive
comparative
superlative
clean
cleaner
cleanest
new
newer
newest
cheap
cheaper
cheapest

1.2. Adjectives with two syllables and the following endings:

1.2.1. Adjectives with two syllables, ending in -y

positive
comparative
superlative
dirty
dirtier
dirtiest
easy
easier
easiest
happy
happier
happiest
pretty
prettier
prettiest

1.2.2. Adjectives with two syllables, ending in -er

positive
comparative
superlative
clever
cleverer
cleverest

1.2.3. Adjectives with two syllables, ending in -le

positive
comparative
superlative
simple
simpler
simplest

1.2.4. Adjectives with two syllables, ending in -ow


positive
comparative
superlative
narrow
narrower
narrowest

2. Comparison with more – most

all adjectives with more than one syllable (except some adjectives with two syllables – see 1.2.1. to 1.2.4.)
positivecomparativesuperlative
difficultmore difficult(the) most difficult

3. Irregular adjectives

positivecomparativesuperlativecomment
goodbetterbest
badworseworst
muchmoremostuncountable nouns
manymoremostcountable nouns
littlelessleast
littlesmallersmallest

4. Special adjectives

Some adjectives have two possible forms of comparison (-er/est and more/most).
positivecomparativesuperlative
clevercleverer / more clevercleverest / most clever
commoncommoner / more commoncommonest / most common
likelylikelier / more likelylikeliest / most likely
pleasantpleasanter / more pleasantpleasantest / most pleasant
politepoliter / more politepolitest / most polite
quietquieter / more quietquietest / most quiet
simplesimpler / more simplesimplest / most simple
stupidstupider / more stupidstupidest / most stupid
subtlesubtler / more subtlesubtlest / most subtle
suresurer / more suresurest / most sure

Homework for next class

Good afternoon dear students

This is the homework for next class:

Ø  Do a “mindmap” on how the family of “Good Luck Charlie” is structured (I send you an image on how a mindmap looks like).
Ø  Read the “comparatives” post on the blog
Ø  Read the “Brian’s Family” story and do a map of their house, showing the places each member of this family likes to be in. (This story is in the copy I gave you yesterday.)
Ø  Listen to the audio “Pacho’s family” and compare his family with the Brian’s family.
Pacho’s family audio: http://www.esl-lab.com/family1/fam1.htm  

Mind map Example