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Task Details
Task details
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| 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
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| 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.
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Learning/Teaching Context
Learning/teaching context
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| 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: -
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| Notes |
- The assessment is done on students' first draft
- Pre-assessment activities can be extended as appropriate for students
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Task Implementation
Task implementation
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| 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
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| Assessment activity |
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| 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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Assessment Criteria
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Samples of Student Work
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