FIRST DISCOVERIES QUESTIONNAIRE

TAKE NOTE:

1. The grading range is from 0-5 (check the Speaking Rubric)

2. Questions are randomly picked.
3. At least 10 questions will be asked to you plus the possibility of 5 extras questions based from your
previous knowledge.

1 What's your name?

2 When's your birthday? SPEAKING RUBRIC
3 How old are you? 0 point
* no / totally irrelevant answer
4 When do you finish classes?
* lack of comprehension
5 What days do you have work? * cannot / lack of effort to communicate
6 Where are you from? 1 point
* responses one / two words length
7 What's your address?
**no sub. - verb agreement - structures
8 Where do you study/work? incorrect
9 Are you married or single? **vocabulary repeated
What days do you have classes at university?
* pronunciation very difficult to understand
10
* unable to express ideas fluently; many
11 What time do you go to university?
pauses/breaks, hesitant/choppy
12 When do you start classes? * communication difficult
13 Where do you live? 2 points
* limited answer
14 What time do you go to work?
**errors in basic grammar
15 How do you spell your first name/last name? **inadequate vocabulary
16 When do you start work? *pronunciation difficult to understand without
What's your phone number?
concentrated effort
17
* frequent hesitations in expressing ideas
18 When do you finish work? **overly translates questions before
19 What's your email? response
20 What do you do? **repeats question
* little communication
21 What do you do in the evening?
3 points
22 Do you live in an apartment or a house? * sentences are attempted with small grammar
23 How many floors does it have? errors and adequate use of vocabulary
What time do you go to bed?
* pronunciation mostly understandable with
24
some errors (confuse listener & require guessing
What's your father's name? at meaning)
How old is he? * able to express fluently with little difficulty
25 What does he do? (halting / hesitating)
Where's he from? 4 points
* consistent use of full sentences with few errors
26 What do you do in your free time?
** good, appropriate vocabulary
27 What time do you have dinner? ** good response
28 What do you want to do tonight? * pronunciation comprehensible, generally
correct
29 How many people are there in your family?
* can self-correct and respond to cues
30 Who are they? 5 points
What's your mother's name? * no grammatical error; vocabulary extensive
* pronunciation understandable - almost error-
How old is she?
free
31 What does she do? * able to communicate clearly with no difficulty,
Where's she from? breaks or pauses.
 What's your wife's name?

32 How old is she?

What does she do?
Where's she from?

Do you have children?

What are their names?

33
How old are they?
What do they do?

How many rooms are there?

34
What are they?
35 Describe your living room/kitchen/bedroom
36 What is your favorite room in your house?
37 What's your favorite food?
38 What month is Christmas?
39 What's your favorite fruit?
What's your husband's name?
How old is he?
40 What does he do?
Where's he from?

41 What's your favorite fast food?

42 What day is it today?
43 What day is it tomorrow?
44 Do you like meat or vegetable?
45 What kind of vegetables and fruits do you buy at the
supermarket?
46 What's your favorite day of the week?
47 What days of the week are the weekend?
48 What month is it now?
Do you have brothers or sisters? How many?

49 What are their names?

What do they do?
50 Do you go to the supermarket? Where do you go?
51 What do you buy?
52 What's your favorite drink?
53 What is next month?
54 What do you usually have for breakfast/lunch/dinner?
55 Do you like foreign food? What food?
56 What month is your birthday?
57 What's your favorite month?
58 Do you pay by credit card or cash?