Level 2 Listening and Speaking Task 2 Units 5-8

Level 2 Speaking Task 2 Units 5 - 8

As this is a Listening and Speaking course, it is important that students be able to communicate with each other in a meaningful way using language covered from the text Let’s Talk 1. Since ability levels may differ from class to class throughout level 2, we will continue to provide different testing scenarios and rubrics for teachers to chose from in order to best evaluate their classes.

Speaking Task 2

This is a more communicative speaking task than Speaking Task 1, which will allow students to exercise more conversational initiative. The student notes contain 6 possible speaking topics that they should practice intensively prior to the testing day. As a teacher, you can decide if this is too much, or not enough for your students to handle. You are free to limit the possible number of topics to what you feel is appropriate for your class’s level of ability. There is also an optional Student Notes page that teachers can give to classes that may need more help in thinking through the various topics, their potential questions and answers.

The topics are:

1. Talking about something you have recently bought.
2. Describing a place you like to go shopping.
3. Talking about your favourite foreign (or Japanese) foods.
4. Talking about a place where you would like to take a vacation.
5. Describing a really good movie that you have seen.
6. Talking about a trip or a vacation that you took.

Contents:

• Teacher Notes
• Student Notes
• Activity Explanation
• Easy Conversation Skills Guide
• Speaking Task Preparation Translation
• English Greetings and Responses
• Conversation Skills Cards

Preparation:

Students should be made familiar with ways of starting and concluding a conversation, as well as other skill areas such as asking for clarification, showing interest, reacting appropriately to information, as well as the use of follow up questions and providing extra information. There are materials available in the binder and on OEKS to build and reinforce these skills. There is also a good deal of structured practice in the text that should be used. However, as this is a communicative task, students will have to be prepared to go beyond the target structure. In this situation, it is natural to expect some grammatical deviation. However, as developing communicative confidence and fluency is the goal of this task, teachers should be somewhat forgiving when assessing students.

*A variety of rubrics can be found in the Level 2 red binder.

Level 2 Listening and Speaking Task 2 (All Documents)