ENGLISH 7- WRITING TASK -20%

STUDENT`S NAME: __________________________________________

DATE: ______________ ID: ______________________

TYPE OF TEXT: Writing a report
AUDIENCE: A university professor
PURPOSE: Report the most interesting aspects about manmade wonders worldwide
PROMPT: You belong to a research group in the Faculty of Engineering at ITM. You are working on finding
out the manmade wonders worldwide and your professor has asked you to write a report on the information you
have collected. In your text, include the following aspects:
1. Provide details of the wonder: date of creation, and importance (monument, sculpture, building, etc.)
2. Report on the features and characteristics that make the wonder famous, important or relevant for
mankind
3. Describe the technologies used to build it up
4. Write 170 to 190 words in the format below. Remember to include the parts of a report.
 ENGLISH 7- 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-
1 improve- 3 4 standing
Criteria and descriptor ment 5 Total per
The student is able to: 2 criterion

Communication and content: understand and complete the

task assigned by reporting information about manmade
wonders; 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 manmade
wonders, its characteristics, use descriptors and a variety of
words to make writing interesting.
Structure (syntax): produce past tense, present perfect and
superlatives when talking about manmade wonders; 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, September 2019