Eigo IA Level 2 Listening and Speaking: Alternate Speaking Task 1

As the first assessed Speaking Task looms before us, I have taken the liberty of putting together an alternate task. There is a great range of teaching styles and class chemistry across all of the sections of Level 2, so we may need several structures to complete the assessed speaking task.

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Speaking Task 1 – Alternate

Have a friendly conversation with a classmate about a fun day

This assessed Speaking Task 1 should be used after completing Units 1-4 of Let’s Talk 1. The purpose of this assessment is to give students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the language studied during the first half of this term. Instructors should make time for students to practice the task in advance of the actual assessment.

Keep in mind that this is structured as a communicative task: If students succeed in exchanging information about themselves by communicating in English, they have fulfilled the basic requirement of this assessed task.

Contents

  • Overview – Instructor Notes
  • Prompts
  • Options and extensions
  • Student Notes
  • Rubrics – 3 – from more to less detailed

Task description
The basic communicative task in this assessment is for students to:
Have a conversation with a classmate about a fun day.
Some possible specific prompts are:

  • Talk about Golden Week.
  • Describe a trip with your family.
  • Talk about a school trip.
  • A weekend day with friends.
  • A good day at Obirin.
  • Your dream date.

Download individual PDFs:
Instructor Notes [pdf]
Prompts [pdf]
Options and extensions [pdf]
Student Notes [pdf]
Longer, more detailed Rubric [pdf]
Medium-length Rubric [pdf]
Short Rubric [pdf]

Or, get a .zip archive of the whole thing in PDF, MS Word, and Apple Pages formats to edit as you wish.

1 comment so far ↓

#1 Ted O'Neill on 04.24.06 at 8:21 pm

It has been remarked that this is quite similar to the second writing assignment for Level 2 this term. That is no coincidence. A little recycle of structures, language and ideas in aural and written forms doesn’t seem such a bad idea–plus, the writing task was designed with the content of Let’s Talk in mind, even if the strands are not explicitly linked.

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