Activities and instruments to assess informally

Oral production

As my oral production activity we will play a game called “I need a job” in which first we will create a personal resume, after Ss have their own resume we will arrange teams and we will pretend to be looking for a job. I will divide the group in two groups. Group number one will be the employers and team number two will be the ones looking for a job. Team 1 will be divided in 3 teams and each team will have to create a company that is hiring new personal. Ss will have to interview for different positions, meaning that they will be interviewing team number 2 in search of their perfect employees. For this activity they will use communication to decide what kind of company they want to create as well as during the interview they will be able to ask the abilities, occupations and obligations of the person they will be interviewing (in case of team 1) and they will express their abilities, occupations and necessities (in case of team 2).  Ts will provide each company with the different positions they will be looking for, so each team will be looking for different employees giving them the chance to practice different occupations and abilities as well as obligations. (20%)

Writing

 For writing, We will be playing a game called “you’ve got mail” for this game, I will divide the group in half. we will be pretending to have a huge important party. and each team will represent a role. Team one will be the ones inviting to the party to team 2. Team two will have to respond that letter with an apology/giving reasons why they will or will not attend the party. I will take a huge mail box to class. Starting with team 1 they will have 5 minutes to write down their invitation explaining why they want the other person to join the party. They will put all the letters in the mail box and team 2 will come to the mail box and choose a letter randomly, they will read the content of the letter and they will have to answer to that letter, having to use an apology or given reasons. They will also put all the letters in the mail box and team 1 will come to the mail box pick a letter randomly. In the second stage of the activity each student will provide feedback for their classmates. For this, I will provide the paper sheets they will be using for the activity, and each piece of pepper will be numbered to keep a track of who wrote each letter, so at the beginning on the class I will give a number to each Ss from 1-20 the pairs will be team 1 the nones will be team 2 to make sure they all have a number. After they all provide feedback to the letter they got, they will all put the letters with the feedback in the mailbox. I will review each of the letters and I will assess grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to each of my students from their own writing and the feedback given. (10%)

Reading

For reading, I will provide my students with an article about obligations. First they will scan the article looking to have an idea of the article given. Secondly, they will skim the article in search for certain obligations in the article and they will underline them. and finally they will be given a fill in the blank activity in which they will use the information they read in the article. (5%)

Listening

As a wrap up activity I will play an audio to the class called “who am I?” the audio basically activities related to different occupations. I will provide Ss with sheet that contains a series of occupations in which after I play the activities and the students listen to them, they will have to identify the occupation  in the sheet I provide to them according to the activities they heard. In this activity Ss will develop listening skills and I will have the chance to assess how much they understand by listening. (5%)

Oral Production: 

Grammar	Clarity	Understanding	Vocabulary	Effort
Uses grammar structure correctly with few or no mistakes at all. 4 points	Message is easy to understand.  4 points	Comprehends without difficulty.  4 points	Uses vocabulary effectively. 4 points	Willing to participate and enroles in the activity.  4 points
Has a little difficult with grammar structure and a few mistakes 3 points	message understandable but has some mistakes and sometimes forgets vocabulary.  3 points	Comprehends almost everything and sometimes has some difficulty.  3 points	Uses basic ans learned vocabulary.  3 points	Has desire to participate but has some mistakes which makes him/her not too active in the activity. 3 points
Numerous  mistakes with basic structures. Sometimes the meaning is not clear. 2 points	Message is understandable for basic information. Makes a huge effort to communicate, sometimes needs help with vocabulary 2 points	Shows confusion and struggles to understand 2 points	Has a limited/basic vocabulary. 2 points	Makes some effort but uses mother tonge to ask for help.  2 points
Lots of mistakes with grammar structure meaning is hard to understand.  1 point	Very difficult to understand, Hesitates a lot, forgets vocabulary needs lots of help and patience of the listener.  1 point	Unable to follow a simple conversation shows confusion and frustration.  1 point	has a poor vocabulary and it is imposible to understand because of the insufficient vocabulary.  1 point	Makes no effort to participate in the activity 1 point

Writing: 

Grammar structure	Vocabulary	Organization	Punctuation
Uses grammar correctly with few or no mistakes.  3 points	Uses a rich vocabulary at this level 3 points	Well organized, coherent, clear expression, easy to understand with few or no mistakes.  2 points	Uses capital letters, comas, periods. which makes the text easy to understand with few or no mistakes. 2 points
Has some mistakes and struggles a little with complex structures.  2 points	Uses basic and learned vocabulary correctly with few mistakes  2 points	Some problems with coherence but still understandable.  1 point	Miss some comas and periods but text is still understandable.  1 point
Has major mistakes with basic structures making the text almost imposible to understand.  1 point	Has a limited vocabulary which makes text hard to comprehend.  1 point	Disorganized, no coherence and really difficult to understand.  0 points	Text lacks of periods, comas and capital letters.  0 points

reading: 

Comprehension	Interpretation
Comprehends the text and has no difficulty finding information required.  3 points	Interprets the information accurately. 2 points
Comprehends most of the information but struggles finding specific information.  2 points	Has some difficulty interpreting the information given.  1 point
Struggles comprehending and finding specific information. Takes lots of time to read the text.  1 point	Unable to interpret information given. 0 points

Listening: 

Attention	identify main ideas
Payed attention throughout all the activity 2 points	Identified main ideas during the activity.  3 points
Was distracted at some points.  1 point	Has some difficulty to find main ideas and understanding the activity. 2 points
Did not pay attention or showed interest in the activity 0 points	Unable to understand the audio nor instructions. 0 points