English in 5º in El Greco

RUBRIK FOR ASSESSING WRITING TASKS

	Outstanding! (4 points)	Good work! (3 points)	Could do better (2 points)	Need to improve (1 point)
Completion of task	You did a great job by following each one of the instructions you were given.	You forgot to write about one of the instructions you were given.	You didn’t write about two of the instructions.	The writing doesn’t follow more than two of the instructions in the task.
Organization	Your ideas, sentences and paragraphs are linked to each other, using the required structure.	Sometimes, you only make a list of ideas that have no relationship, but the structure is mostly right.	Your ideas don’t always follow each other logically, although understanding is possible.	Little or no sense of organization.
Comprehension	I understood the whole message you wanted to transmit.	I had to read some sentences twice to understand the message.	It was difficult for me to understand what you were trying to explain.	I could hardly understand the text.
Presentation	Exceptionally good, with a legible handwriting and an exquisite cleanness.	It’s a good work, but at some points you “forget” to take care.	Could be better, because handwriting is not totally legible.	Illegible handwriting and writes with laziness.
Grammar	Excellent grammar skills. Does not make mistakes with respect to sentence formation and tenses.	The grammar knowledge is known but you sometimes make mistakes (1 per paragraph).	Knows only the basic grammar and tries to learn more (2 mistakes per paragraph).	Does not know the concepts of grammar (more than 2 mistakes per paragraph).
Spelling	Has the knowledge of all the spellings and its appropriate usage.	Knows the spellings but sometimes makes/commits silly mistakes.	Gets confused with the spellings but tries to learn it.	Does not have the knowledge of the spellings of common words.
Vocabulary	You use the vocabulary you have already studied and try to enrich it with new words.	You only use the vocabulary you have already studied.	Some of the concepts you use could be more precise, but it is still comprehensible.	You don’t use the vocabulary required and it makes the text incomprehensible.
Punctuation	You have no punctuation mistakes, both in the usage of capitals or punctuation.	You sometimes forget the usage of capitals or the basic punctuation signs.	You get confused with the usage of capitals or punctuation signs.	You don’t know when to use capitals or punctuations.

RUBRIK FOR ASSESSING SPEAKING

	Outstanding! (4 points)	Good work! (3 points)	Could do better (2 points)	Need to improve (1 point)
Completion of task	You did a great job by following each one of the instructions you were given.	You forgot to speak about one of the instructions you were given.	You didn’t speak about two of the instructions.	The conversation doesn’t follow more than two of the instructions in the task.
Organization	Your ideas and sentences are linked to each other, in a coherent way.	Sometimes, you only make a list of ideas that have no relationship, but there is much coherence.	Your ideas don’t always follow each other logically, although understanding is possible.	Little or no sense of organization.
Comprehension	I understood the whole message you wanted to transmit.	I got lost once in your discourse.	It was difficult for me to understand your discourse.	I could hardly understand you, while speaking.
Effort	You did a great effort to make yourself understood.	It’s a good work, but at some points you “forget” to take care.	Could be better, because you try to use Spanish a lot.	You didn’t try to speak English during your discourse.
Grammar	Excellent grammar skills. There are no mistakes in the tenses we have studied.	The grammar knowledge is known but you sometimes make mistakes (1/2).	You know only the basic grammar and try to learn more (3/4 mistakes).	You don’t know the concepts of grammar (more than 4 mistakes).
Pronunciation	You speak with correct pronunciation.	You make few mistakes in pronunciation, which are no important.	You don’t have a correct pronunciation, but I can still understand you.	You say words in an incomprehensible manner.
Vocabulary	You use the vocabulary you have already studied and try to enrich it with new words.	You only use the vocabulary you have already studied.	Some of the concepts you use could be more precise, but it is still comprehensible.	You don’t use the vocabulary required and it makes the text incomprehensible.
Interaction	You contribute to the conversation and facilitate the discussion with the others.	You contribute to the conversation, but you sometimes get lost and don’t know what to say.	You get often confused in the conversation, but you solve it with the use of non-verbal communication.	You have real problems to follow the conversation.

We have started this year by learning a little about a country where English is spoken: South Africa. Here I attach some links to different websites for those of you who want to learn a little bit more of this exciting country:

- Time for Kids - South Africa

- Kidzworld - South Africa

- Kids National Geographic - South Africa

The Heritage Day is a national party in South Africa when they celebrate the difference and how important learning from the past is. As Ramaphosa said: "We dare not neglecti our past. We dare not ignore our heritage". Remember: I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE.

- Heritage Day

- How it is celebrated

And here you are: a link to the song that we sang in the classroom!!!

- National Braai Day Anthem

I hope that you have learnt quite a lot. Thank you!!!

English in 5º in El Greco

martes, 25 de octubre de 2016

Your first writing task in 5º

lunes, 10 de octubre de 2016

Test next week

lunes, 3 de octubre de 2016

This is how I am going to mark your writing tasks and your speaking

We have started 5º..., in South Africa??