Scenario

Assessing students’ achievement of the learnt vocabulary (Unit 1-3)

Students’ target level: A1
Time allowed: 10 minutes

Summary of learning contents

(Identify the vocabularies and aspects of vocabulary students have learnt)

Explicitly learnt Aspects of Performance/ Reference

vocabularies vocabulary Cognitive
learnt level
(main focus students
only) were
required to
do
Unit Hamburger, fast Spoken form Identify the Closer look
1 food, junk food, Written form spoken form 1, page. 23
calories (4 words/ Meaning and written Learning
phrases) form, and targets in
meaning the lesson
(recognition) plans

Use the learnt

words to talk
about favourite
type of fast
food
(production)
using the
structure “I
like…. I often
have …. with
and I
Unit Go skiing, go Written form Identify the Closer look
2 mountain-climbing, Meaning meaning and 1, page. 38
go dancing, go bird Collocation the collocation Learning
watching, breath- (go + V-ing (Recognition) targets in
taking scenery, and adj + the lesson
fantastic movies (6 noun) plans
 words)
Unit Short- tall, cheap- Written form Identify the Closer look
3 expensive, heavy- Meaning antonyms of 1, page. 58
light, sour-sweet, Antonyms the words Learning
(4 pairs), (Recognition) targets in
Describe the lesson
pictures using plans
the words
learnt in
appropriate
contexts with
limited
accuracy
(production)

1. Assessment purposes
Identifying students’ progress
Assigning grades
Giving feedback to students

2. What to assess
What words/ phrases to be What aspects Reasons to include
assessed? to be these words
assessed? Relevance,
Unit 1 Hamburger, fast food (2 Written form Proportion and
Food words/ phrases) Meaning Representativeness
Use High frequency
Unit 2 Go bird watching, go Meaning, words
hobbie mountain-climbing, breath- collocation Words that are in
s taking scenery (3 words) the target level of
Unit 1 cheap-expensive, heavy- Meaning the students
City life light (2 pairs) Antonyms

3. Assessment targets

The test aims to evaluate students’ ability to:

- Recognise the written form and meaning of the words related to food (fast
food and junk food), meaning and collocation of the words related to hobbies
(Go bird watching, go mountain-climbing, breath-taking scenery), and
meaning and antonyms of the words related to city life in simple sentences.
- Use the words in the food topic (hamburger and fast food) to make a
simple sentence.

4. Assessment methods

Assessment targets Possible methods Pros and cons of

these methods
Recognise the written form … …
and meaning of the words
related to food (fast food and
junk food), meaning and
collocation of the words
related to hobbies (Go bird
watching, go mountain-
climbing, breath-taking
scenery), and meaning and
antonyms of the words
related to city life
- Use the words in the food
topic (hamburger and fast
food) to make a sentence.

 Selected methods + Rationales

5. Assessment tasks

Assessment targets Selected methods Selected tasks

Recognise the written Selected response MCQ
form and meaning of ….
the words related to
food (fast food and
junk food), meaning
and collocation of the
words related to
hobbies (Go bird
watching, go
mountain-climbing,
breath-taking
scenery), and
meaning and
antonyms of the
words related to city
life
- Use the words in the Constructed response Sentence completion
food topic ….
(hamburger and fast
food) to make a
sentence.

6. Number of items and weighting

Task 1: 7 items (7 points, each correct answer 1 point)

Task 2: Sentence completion (1 item)

7. Examples of test items (Task instruction, task input and

expected response)

Task 1. Circle the correct option.

1.
2.
Key: ….
Complete the sentences using the words given.
Favourite/ fast food/ hamburger

Key: ….