20. My ideal home

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Task Details

Task details
Name of writing assessment task	Write a text For a presentation on 'My ideal home'
EAL student stage range	B2, B3, S2, S3, S4
Text orientation	Imaginative
Task type	Extended response

Task Specification

Task specification
Purpose	To assess students' ability to use hypothetical language to describe their ideal home as a basis for a presentation
Description	Students write the text for a presentation on the topic of their ideal home
Assumed knowledge and description	Content knowledge: Knowledge of things that might belong to an ideal house: a house, a garden, a pool, a garage, a view. Knowledge of rooms in a house: living, dining, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, media room, balcony Text type, genre: Imaginative, description Linguistic structures and features: modals to describe 'my ideal home': My ideal home would be in…near…would have…There would be…If I had a…I'd be able to… Vocabulary: Nouns related to the topic of home and home technology and adjectives to describe location, view, garden, rooms in house etc.

Learning/Teaching Context

Learning/teaching context
Language Centre/mainstream class	Mainstream class – EAL Support
Subject/key syllabus objectives, outcomes	English
Topic/teaching unit	Ideal homes
Assessment conditions	Individual activity Formal/informal: Formal Time limit: One lesson period Teacher intervention: Limited to response to student request for clarification and encouragement Access to resources: Students have access to their notes. Students may use their own personal dictionaries, classroom dictionaries Scaffolding (modelled/guided/independent support): Accommodations: -
Notes	The assessment is done on students' first draft Pre-assessment activities can be extended as appropriate for students

Task Implementation

Task implementation
STAGE	ACTION STEPS
Pre-assessment activity	Teachers and students revise generic framework of a description of a home, the vocabulary for rooms/outdoors features/special features shown/home technology based on pictures shown and models/s analysed and possibly reconstructed in previous lessons Students discuss their ideal home in pairs or small groups Students make notes about their ideal home in the generic framework provided Click to view the framework for this assessment: My Ideal Home: Pre-Assessment Materials PDF
Assessment activity	Students use notes to write a text for a presentation on 'My Ideal Home' Click to view task sheet for this assessment: My Ideal Home: Assessment Task Sheet PDF
Post-assessment activity	Students present their ideal homes to each other in small groups of three or four Students do self and peer feedback Give students time to improve and write a second draft Students illustrate their ideal homes Once the students' work has been read, provide individual and whole class feedback on strengths and individual or global improvement steps

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Samples of Student Work

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