Professional Documents
Culture Documents
After briefly reviewing the writing process and point of view, students will be asked to
pair up. Each couple will have 10 minutes (5 minutes each) to respond to the following prompt:
describe a perfect summer day. While one speaks the other should be taking notes. The teacher
must explain the prompt before letting students initiate the activity, suggesting ways students can
go about their response. For example, the teacher can implement a series of questions to help
students gage their answers, like: Where would you be? Who would you be with? What activities
would you be doing? After the 10 minutes are up, students will return to working individually.
They will use their notes on their peers response to the prompt to write a paragraph (no less than
5 sentences) describing what would be the perfect summer day according to their peer. They
should stick to writing in second person point of view. This activity is designed for beginner level
ESL/EFL students.
B. Next, create a rubric to evaluate the task. Your rubric should include:
A grading scale to assign point values, and a definition of what constitutes a satisfactory
response to the activity.
Score___/20
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Uses incomplete
Uses complete
sentences. Repeats
the same kind of
sentence.
same kinds of
sentences. Only
some of the
sentences are
incomplete.
completed. Uses
different kinds of
sentences.
sentences and
manages to create
fluency between
them.
Conventions
Shows some
mistakes in spelling,
capitalizing and
punctuation.
No mistakes in
spelling are present.
Capital letters and
punctuation are used
correctly.
Speaking
Before explaining the activity to students, the teacher will initiate a conversation with
students about fairy tales. Students will be asked to share their favorite fairy tale character, how
they first heard the fairy tale and if they know different versions of one fairy tale. This will be
done to acquaint students with the focal topic. Afterwards student will be divided into groups (4
to 5 students per group). Each student will pick a fairy tale character to role-play in front class.
Once students select a character, they will collectively, in their groups, choose a scenario (e.g.
supermarket, movie theatre, math class, football game, etc.). Then one by one, each group will go
up to the front to improvise a situation in which all the characters come together in given scenario
in or under 5 minutes. Each character should have verbal input of more than three lines in the
improvisation. This is an activity for advanced (or intermediate) level ESL/EFL learners. It is
designed for students with sufficient language knowledge to be able to improvise conversations.
B. Next, create a rubric to evaluate the task. Your rubric should include:
A grading scale to assign point values, and a definition of what constitutes a satisfactory
response to the activity.
The language areas in which your students are being evaluated.
The specific criteria for each area.
2
Used facial or
bodily expressions
one or two times to
accompany
dialogue.
Score____/20
3
4
Used a lot of facial
Used facial and
and bodily
bodily expressions to
expressions to
accompany dialogue
accompany
along with props and
dialogue.
changed voice to fit
the character.
Voice
Creativity
Repeated lines or
words.
Participation
Refused to
participate.
Speaking Skills