ELC 590 – ENGLISH for ORAL PRESENTATIONS

SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
EVALUATION FORM

NAME: _____________________________ GROUP: ________________________________

MATRIC NO: ________________________ TOPIC: _________________________________

RATE THE SPEAKER ON THE FOLLOWING POINTS:

5 - Excellent 4 - Good 3 - Average 2 - Fair 1 - Poor

COMMENTS

Language Accuracy:
Spoken language is clear and content is
easily understood 5 4 3 2 1
Uses appropriate vocabulary and
grammatically correct structures
Vocal Variety:

Uses appropriate tone, speed, and volume 5 4 3 2 1

Gestures:

Uses effective physical gestures and facial 5 4 3 2 1

expressions
Audience Awareness:
Demonstrates awareness of audience
engagement and needs 5 4 3 2 1
Adapts content to suit the needs of the
audience
Content:
Engages audience with well-developed 5 4 3 2 1
content
Comfort level: Confidence level
Appears comfortable with the audience 5 4 3 2 1
Presents ideas with ease

Total

General Comments

You excelled at:

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You may want to work on:

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SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
DESCRIPTORS

Descriptors

Language 5 – Maintains consistent grammatical control of complex language, errors are rare and
Accuracy difficult to spot.
4 – Maintains very good grammatical control, occasional slips and minor errors in
sentence structure
3 - Maintains reasonably good grammatical control with noticeable mother tongue
influence, some errors in sentence structure
2 – Uses some simple structures correctly, but still systematically makes basic mistakes,
spoken language is somewhat unclear or challenging to understand
1 – Uses limited control of grammatical structures and sentence patterns, spoken
language is unclear or not easily understood

Vocal 5 – Uses the tools of tone, speed, and volume to perfection

Variety 4 – Excels at using tone, speed, and volume
3 – Uses tone, speed, and volume
2 – Use of tone, speed, and volume requires further practice
1 – Ineffective use of tone, speed, and volume

Gestures 5 – Fully integrates physical gestures and facial expressions with content to deliver an
exemplary speech,
4 – Uses physical gestures as a tool to enhance speech, good use eye contact to gauge
audience
3 – Uses physical gestures effectively, some use eye contact to engage audience
2 – Uses somewhat distracting or limited gestures, eye contact with audience needs
improvement
1 – Uses very distracting gestures or no gestures, makes little or no eye contact with
audience

Audience 5 – Engages audience completely and anticipates audience needs

Awareness 4 – Demonstrates high level of awareness of audience engagement and needs
3 – Demonstrates some awareness of audience engagement and needs
2 – Audience engagement and needs require further practice
1 – Makes little or no attempt to engage audience or meet audience needs

Content 5 – Well-develop and well-constructed content

4 – Competently constructed content
3 – Fairly-constructed content
2 – Content is interesting but not well-constructed
1 – Content is interesting but not well-constructed

Comfort 5 – Appears completely self-assured when presenting to the audience

Level 4 – Appears fully at ease when presenting to the audience
3 – Appears comfortable when presenting to the audience
2 – Appears uncomfortable when presenting to the audience
1 – Appears highly uncomfortable when presenting to the audience
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CEFR ALIGNED RUBRICS

GENERAL SPOKEN PRODUCTION FOR SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

CEFR
CEFR DESCRIPTORS
BAND

PROFICIENT C2 Can present a clear, smoothly-flowing description in a style appropriate to

USER the context and with an effective logical structure which helps the recipient
to notice and remember significant points.

C1 Can present clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on complex

subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding
off with an appropriate conclusion

INDEPENDENT B2 Can present clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range
USER of subjects related to his/her field of interest, explain a viewpoint on a topical
issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

B1 Can connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and

events, briefly give reasons, explanations, opinions, plans, and narrate.

BASIC A2 Can use a series of phrases and sentences linked into a list to describe in
USER simple terms his/her field of interest.

A1 Can use simple mainly isolated phrases and sentences.