ENGLISH 8

ORAL TASK -20%

TYPE OF TASK: Short oral presentation

ROLES: Presenter and audience
PURPOSE: Describing and reporting actions and plans for the future
PROMPT: You belong to a community of English learners and each week you have to prepare a short presentation
about a topic. This week’s topic is “my future plans”.
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. Describe the long term plans you have and predict possible events in your future life (activities that will be
done, the situation in general, times, etc.)
3. Report about life stages, how people are according to the stages in life.
4. Time assigned: 2 minutes each person.

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE ORAL TASK

SPACE ONLY FOR TEACHERS

Rating scale
Poor Needs Fair Good Out-
Total
1 improve- 3 4 standing
Criteria and descriptor ment 5 per
The student is able to: 2 criteria
Communication and content: understand and complete the task
assigned by describing and report actions and plans for the future;
communicate and send messages so the audience is left with no
questions.
Fluency: produce a cohesive discourse; use short, mainly pre-
packaged utterances and link them with basic linear connectors; and
use an appropriate organization within the sentences that are according
to the level.
Vocabulary: use vocabulary about describing and report actions and
plans for the future; use a variety of word choice to make the dialogue
interesting.
Structure: produce the simple present structure when talking about
describing and report actions and plans for the future, pose and answer
information questions; use other sentence structures.
Pronunciation: pronounce and produce intonation patterns of basic
sounds that allow the audience to understand the message.
Pronounce without interfering with the meaning or communication
purpose of the task.

TOTAL OF MARKS: / 25
COMMENTS (for formative purposes, write here any ideas for students to improve his/her performance):

Evaluator: ____________________________________________________
Created by Language Center Supporting Teachers, August 2018

STUDENTS NAME: _________________________________ ID: _______________________ DATE: _____________