ENGLISH 4 - ORAL TASK -20%

NAME: ____________________________________________
ID: _________________________ DATE: ________________

TYPE OF TASK: Dialogue

ROLES: Two classmates
PURPOSE: Provide information about the different places you can find in a city.
PROMPT: You are attending to the English conversation club at ITM. The tutor is asking you to speak about
places in a city. You have to select a city in Colombia or another country, describe the most important places to
visit there and provide directions to get to those places. The task requires the following aspects:
1. The task will be in pairs and you will be randomly assigned a classmate the same day the oral task is
programmed.
2. Provide detailed descriptions of the places of a city (activities you do in those places).
3. Mention the places location and how to get there.
4. Be prepared to ask and answer questions about the topic.
5. Time assigned: 3 minutes each pair.

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE ORAL TASK - SPACE ONLY FOR TEACHERS
Rating scale
Poor Needs Fair Good Out- Total per
1 improve- 3 4 standing criterion
Criteria and descriptor ment 5
The student is able to: 2
Communication and content: understand and complete the task
assigned by providing information about different places you can find
in a city; communicate and send messages so the audience is left with
no questions.
Fluency: produce a cohesive discourse, the act of speaking in
understandable, ideas are linked with basic linear connectors, organize
the sentences in a logical discourse according to the level.
Vocabulary: use vocabulary about places of the city, description of
the places of a city, adjectives to describe a place, location adverbs,
vocabulary related to the city and use a variety of word choice to make
the dialogue interesting.
Structure: produce the simple present structures, to be forms, plurals,
negative tense and auxiliaries, pronouns, prepositions of place; pose
and answer information questions and use other sentence structures to
make the dialogue interesting.
Pronunciation: pronounce and produce intonation patterns of basic
sounds that allow the audience to understand the message and
pronounce words without interfering with the message.

TOTAL OF MARKS: / 25 SCORE:

COMMENTS (for formative purposes, write here any ideas for students to improve his/her performance):

Evaluator: ___________________________________
Created by Language Center Supporting Teachers, August 2019