ENGLISH 10

ORAL TASK -20%

TYPE OF TASK: Lecture

ROLES: University student and university professor
PURPOSE: Describing and giving opinions about an academic topic
PROMPT: You are an expert on a certain field of knowledge (your current program at ITM) and you are invited to
a give a lecture for a Conference in Bogotá. The task requires the following aspects:
1. The task will be individual
2. Describe and give your opinion about a current topic, event or project you are developing in your field of
knowledge or base don an article that you rea don a academic magazine.
3. Mention the topic, event or project, a brief summary, and two reasons why you consider it really important.
4. Use the grammar structures and vocabulary required to express ideas
5. Time assigned: 4 minutes each person.

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE ORAL TASK

SPACE ONLY FOR TEACHERS
Rating scale
Poor Needs Fair Good Out- Total
Criteria and descriptor 1 improve- 5-6 4 standing per
The student is able to: ment 5 criteria
2
Communication and content: understand and complete the task
assigned by giving opinions about an academic topic; 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 opinions about an academic topic;
use a variety of word choice to make the dialogue interesting.
Structure: produce the simple present structure when talking about
opinions about an academic topic, 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 2017

STUDENTS NAME: _________________________________ ID: _______________________ DATE: _____________