ENGLISH 3 - WRITING TASK -20%

STUDENT`S NAME: __________________________________________

DATE: ______________ ID: ________________________

TYPE OF TASK: Writing a formal email

AUDIENCE: Human resources team
PURPOSE: Inform and describe the different professions and places where they are performed.
PROMPT: You are an entrepreneur and want to set up a new company (any company). In order to start working
you need some employees, so you must write an email to a job agency describing the positions you need to
advertise in order to hire your employees. In your text you must take into account the following:
1. Describe the positions you will have: the professions, qualifications and abilities for the job.
2. Inform about the activities you will do depending on your job: actions done by each profession.
3. Describe the places where each profession is performed
4. Write 100 to 110 words and follow the format below.
ENGLISH 3 - WRITING TASK -20%

STUDENT`S NAME: __________________________________________

DATE: ______________ ID: ________________________

 ENGLISH 3 - WRITING TASK -20%

STUDENT`S NAME: __________________________________________

DATE: ______________ ID: ________________________

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE WRITING TASK

SPACE ONLY FOR TEACHERS

Rating scale
Poor Needs Fair Good Out-
Total per
1 improve- 3 4 standing
Criteria and descriptor ment 5 criterion
The student is able to: 2
Communication and content: understand and complete the
task assigned by providing information about professions,
jobs and places where they are performed; communicate and
send messages so the audience is left with no questions.
Composing (organization): produce a cohesive text
(relationship among the parts of the text) and show evidence
of a coherent text (an appropriate organization within the
sentences that are according to the level).
Vocabulary (lexicon): use vocabulary related to professions,
jobs and places where they are performed; and use a variety
of words to make writing interesting.
Structure (syntax): produce the simple and progressive
present tenses, prepositions, articles and connectors when
providing information about professions, jobs and places
where they are performed and use other sentence structures.
Mechanics: make proper use of capitalization, punctuation
and spelling to avoid interferences with the communicative
meaning of the task.

TOTAL OF MARKS: ____________ /25 SCORE: ________________

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

Evaluator: ____________________________________________________

Created by Language Center Supporting Teachers, February 2020