English 1

Oral production activity # 1

Week: 4 Unit: 3
Course: English 1
Topic: housing, location
Communicative function: Talking about where you live
Interaction: Individual
Target language:
a. words related to the topic of housing
b. prepositions: in, on, next to, under above
c. there is/isn’t-are/aren’t
d. present simple
e. language banks from Week 4’s online sessions
Length of video: Your video should last from 1’ to 2´ (1 minute to 2 minutes).
Technical requirements:
 any video recording tool
 any video editing tool, if necessary
Note: If you use www.Youtube.com to make the video, change video privacy setting to “public” so your
teacher can view it.
Assessment criteria:
 pronunciation and intonation
 discourse management
 accuracy
 interactive communication
 task achievement (organization, clarity and use of webcam)

See the rubrics in Información General on Blackboard.

Timeline and deadline:
This task should be prepared along week 4.
You must upload your video or paste the link to your video on Blackboard (Unit 3 file) by Sunday, April
19th 2020 at 23:59 p.m.

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ORAL PRODUCTION TASK INSTRUCTIONS

Record yourself on a video telling us about your home. While speaking, answer these
questions:
a. Where do you live?
b. Do you live in an apartment or in a house?
c. Describe your house (characteristics, number of rooms, utilities, furniture, appliances)
d. Do you live alone? Do you live with a roommate? Do you live with your family?
e. Do you like where you live? Why? /Why not?

Show your house and/or photos of your house while speaking.

PROCEDURE

 Before
Reviewrecording
unit 3 on English Discoveries.
 Read and do exercises in Use of English files (unit 3) on Blackboard.
 Do exercises from unit 3 Practice resource files on Blackboard.
 Read “Home is where the community is” from English Discoveries CommunityDiscoveries
Magazine  Topics  Lifestyle  May 2017
 Read oral production task instructions carefully.
 Plan the script of your speech.
 When drafting the script, use the vocabulary and grammar structures you have learned in unit 3.
See Target language above.
You can start like this:
Hello. My name’s Ana and in this video I’ll talk about my house. I live in a
small house in Lince. It has a beautiful garden. There lots of plants in the
garden. There’s also…
(Continue.)
 Practice several times before recording the final version of your video.
 Check the rubrics with specific criteria for grading oral production activities.

While recording

 Be in a well-lit area.
 Speak as clearly as possible.
 Look at the camera while you speak.
 Smile.
 Be confident.
 Don’t just read.
 Show objects, pictures or other people doing things, if necessary.
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After recording

 Test your video works well before sending the link or uploading the video file.
 Make sure your video respects the time limit.
 Paste the link of your video or upload the video file and the script (the script is referential) in the
Assignment section (actividad in Unit 3) on Blackboard.
 Check you have submitted your assignment in Review submission history (Revisar historial de
envios).