ENGLISH I – 20% – WRITING TASK –

PEOPLE’S PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY

NAME: Llamile Isabel Marquez Correa ID: 1000085104 COURSE CODE: 550204015-1
DATE: 17/11/2020

PLATFORM TO APLLY THE TASK: Microsoft Teams

TYPE OF TASK: Informal e-mail
AUDIENCE: Your parents
PURPOSE: Describing people’s physical appearance and personality traits.
PROMPT: You went to live to a foreign country as part of an exchange program. After spending a week in your new
home, you want your parents to know about your host family, which is made up of a single parent and two children.
So you decide to write them an e-mail. In the e-mail, you need to include:
1. An introduction with the composition of your host family with the members’ names.
2. A description of your host family members’ physical appearance that covers at least three different aspects per
member from these options: age, height, body type, hair, face, eyes, nose, general look, complexion, and special
features.
3. A description of your host family members’ personality traits (positive and negative qualities)
4. 80 to 100 words for the whole text taking into account its basic parts: headers (recipient and subject), greeting, main
text (introductory idea, body and closing), farewell and signature.
Note: You have one hour for the test.

YAHOO MAIL
Home 
Compose 

Inbox Subject: My foreign family

(35)
Drafts
Sent X
From: Llamile@gmail.com
Archive
Spam To: AnandJuan@gmail.com CC /
(92) BCC
Dear Parents

I hope everybody is fine. I am fine. My new family treats me very well. is a father, Leo with his
two beautiful daughters, Carla and Maria.

Leo is very kind and respectful to me. is high. He has brown eyes. brown hair and it's fun.
His daughters, Carla and Maria, are sweet and very naughty girls. Carla is 10 years old. she is
tall. she has the same eyes as her father and she is very intelligent.
Maria is 5 years old. She is very shy. she has green eyes and is short.

I'll keep telling you how everything is going

I love them
Llamile.
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CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE WRITING TASK

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% Performance /Score Score

Criteria obtained
per
criterion
100 Poor Insufficient Fair Pretty Good Excellent

Content: The information provided is relevant Provides very Provides a little Provides some Provides most Provides all
30 according to the type of task, the audience, the little information information information the
purpose, the prompt, and the items requested. information with a few with some of successfully information
with a very few items requested the items with most of successfully
items requested (6 – 11) requested the items with all the
or not able to (12 – 17) requested items
do it (18 – 24) requested
(0 – 5) (25 – 30)
Text structure and organization: The text Writes a non- Writes a text Writes a text Writes a text Writes a full
20 complies with its basic structure and organization full text with with many with some with a very coherent and
of information. Its parts are unified showing lack of inconsistencies inconsistencie few cohesive text
coherence and cohesion. coherence and in coherence s in coherence inconsistencie with all its
cohesion or not and cohesion and cohesion s in coherence basic parts
able to do it and with some and with most and cohesion (17 – 20)
(0 – 4) of its basic of its basic and with most
parts parts of its basic
(5 – 8) (9 – 12) parts
(13 – 16)
Vocabulary: The scope of words is wide and Lacks an Uses a limited Uses a basic Uses a wide Uses a wide
20 appropriate to accomplish the task, and according appropriate use vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
to the level and the course contents. of vocabulary range with range with range with a range
(0 – 4) many mistakes some mistakes very few properly
(5 – 8) (9 – 12) mistakes (17 – 20)
(13 – 16)
Structure: The scope of structures is varied and Lacks an Elaborates and Elaborates and Elaborates and Elaborates
20 appropriate to accomplish the task. They are appropriate uses sentences uses sentences uses sentences and uses
according to the level and the course contents, elaboration and with many with some with a very sentences
and don’t interfere with the communication of use of mistakes mistakes few mistakes properly
ideas. sentences (5 – 8) (9 – 12) (13 – 16) (17 – 20)
(0 – 4)
Mechanics: The use of spelling, capitalization Lacks an Uses Uses Uses Uses
10 and punctuation is appropriate to accomplish the appropriate use mechanics with mechanics mechanics mechanics
task. It’s according to the level and the course of mechanics many mistakes with some with a very properly
contents, and doesn’t interfere with the (0 – 2) (3 – 4) mistakes few mistakes (9 – 10)
communication of ideas. (5 – 6) (7 – 8)
Feedback and suggestions: Total score:
Grade:

Task designer and evaluator: Arlinton Galeano S. (October 2020)