PART I.

SOCIAL INTERACTION (2pts)

Choose three of the following questions to ask students.
Hometown
1. Where is your hometown?
2. What do you like most about living there?
3. What kinds of things can visitors to your hometown go and see?
4. Has it changed much since you were a child?
5. Do you think you will live there when you are older?
6. What are some famous foods from your hometown?
7. What kind of weather does your hometown have?

PART II. DISCUSSION (5pts)

TOPIC: Cities
Student A:
Builders are destroying historic buildings in the downtown area of your city and building
modern ones in their place.
Work with a partner. Take turns giving your opinion about the idea.
You can use the information below in your argument:
New buildings → Safe → Better living conditions
Modern design → Better for tourists → Better businesses
New houses → More expensive rents → Difficult for poor people

Student B:
Builders are destroying historic buildings in the downtown area of your city and building
modern ones in their place.
Work with a partner. Take turns giving your opinion about the idea.
You can use the information below in your argument:
New buildings → Enormous → Many apartments
More people → More drivers → Traffic
Destroying historic buildings → Culture → Bad for tourists
PART III. FOLLOW- UP QUESTIONS (3pts)
Choose three of the following questions to ask students.
TOPIC: Cities
1. Do you like the neighborhood where you are living now? Why?
2. Is it hard to find parking for your car in your city?
3. In your city, what is the most popular area where people like to visit?
4. Do you think the cost of public transportation will increase next year?
5. How old is your hometown? Does it have historic buildings?
6. What is the best time of year for tourists to visit your hometown?
7. Does your hometown have a downtown area? Is it expensive to live there? Why?
IV. MARKING CRITERIA
PART I: 2pts

Criteria Poor Developing Proficient

0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt

Pronunciation Be poor at Be relatively good at Be excellent at
0.5 point pronunciation; make pronunciation; make pronunciation; make
no effort at accent some effort at accent good effort at accent
0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt
Have a slow and Have a relatively Have a smooth
Fluency hesitant speech with a smooth speech; speech; possess few
0.5 point lot of sentences left sometimes possess to no hesitation;
uncompleted. hesitation. have no attempts to
search for words.
0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt
Make utterances that Make several errors Make very few
are so brief that there in structures that may errors in structures
Accuracy is little evidence and interfere with and the errors do not
0.5 point comprehensibility is comprehensibility, hinder
impeded. but do not affect comprehensibility.
much.

0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt

Rarely respond Frequently or Almost always
Response appropriately to sometimes respond respond
0.5 point questions/statements. appropriately to appropriately to
questions/statements. questions/statements.

PART II: 5pts

Criteria Poor Developing Proficient

0.3pt 0.7pt 1pt

Pronunciation Be poor at Be relatively good at Be excellent at
1 point pronunciation; make pronunciation; make pronunciation; make
no effort at accent. some effort at accent. good effort at accent.
 0.3pt 0.7pt 1pt
Have a slow and Have a relatively Have a smooth
Fluency hesitant speech with a smooth speech; speech; possess few
1 point lot of sentences left sometimes possess to no hesitation;
uncompleted. hesitation. have no attempts to
search for words.
0.5pt 1pt 1.5pt
Make utterances that Make several errors Make very few
are so brief that there in structures that may errors in structures
Accuracy is little evidence and interfere with and the errors do not
1.5 point comprehensibility is comprehensibility, hinder
impeded. but do not affect comprehensibility.
much.

0.5pt 1pt 1.5pt

Rarely respond Frequently or Almost always
Response appropriately to sometimes respond respond
1.5 point questions/statements. appropriately to appropriately to
questions/statements. questions/statements.

PART III: 3pts

Criteria Poor Developing Proficient

0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt

Pronunciation Be poor at Be relatively good at Be excellent at
0.5 point pronunciation; make pronunciation; make pronunciation; make
no effort at accent. some effort at accent. good effort at accent.
0.1pt 0.3pt 0.5pt
Have a slow and Have a relatively Have a smooth
Fluency hesitant speech with a smooth speech; speech; possess few
0.5 point lot of sentences left sometimes possess to no hesitation;
uncompleted. hesitation. have no attempts to
search for words.
Accuracy 0.3pt 0.7pt 1pt
1 point Make utterances that Make several errors Make very few
are so brief that there in structures that may errors in structures
is little evidence and interfere with and the errors do not
comprehensibility is comprehensibility, hinder
 impeded. but do not affect comprehensibility.
much.

0.3pt 0.7pt 1pt

Rarely respond Frequently or Almost always
Response appropriately to sometimes respond respond
1 point questions/statements. appropriately to appropriately to
questions/statements. questions/statements.