B1 RUBRICS

Marking Exceeds Meets Needs Not able to

criteria expectations expectation improvement perform (49-0%)
(100-90%) (89-70%) (69-50%)

Content All Most Information Information was

information information was valid but not relevant or
was relevant relevant; some was not directly related to
and some ideas explicitly questions asked.
appropriate needed related to the
to the expansion. purpose.
questions
asked.
Vocabulary Uses appropriate Uses varied Uses limited Uses only a few
expressions and vocabulary and inadequate words or inadequate
a wide range of and vocabulary and vocabulary.
vocabulary. expressions expressions and
learned in makes frequent
class, and errors in word
makes only a choice, which
few errors in hinders the
word choice. student from
responding
properly.

Grammar Uses various The student The student Can't use

structures makes few makes frequent appropriate
depending on errors in grammatical sentence structures;
contexts, which grammatical mistakes which many grammatical
facilitate the structures make it difficult errors make the
speech even though to understand. message
comprehension. the speech is incomprehensible.
understandabl
e.

Pronunciation Pronunciation, Pronunciation, Pronunciation, Student’s speech is

rhythm and rhythm and rhythm and difficult to
intonation are intonation are intonation understand due to
clear and almost clear errors make it mispronounced
accurate. and accurate, difficult to words
but only understand the
occasionally student.
difficult to
understand.
Fluency Speech is fluent Is able to Presents Has great difficulty
and clear respond to the awkward in putting words
prompt with hesitations and together correctly in
few errors; pauses. a sentence.
presents some
hesitations
and pauses.