Head Start Book 5A

Assessment Task 2 (Units 4–6)

Speaking (B)
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Answer Key
Suggested answer:
I only eat half a bowl of rice and a few pieces of vegetables every day. I drink six glasses
of water every day. My favourite food is beef. I often have five servings of beef every day.
My favourite drink is cola. I usually drink at least seven cans every week. For snacks, I like
eating potato chips. I usually have one packet every day. I think a healthy diet is made up
of food from the five food groups. I think my diet is not healthy because I eat too much junk
food. I need to think carefully and use the food pyramid as a tool to plan a healthy diet. I
should eat more rice, vegetables and dairy products. I should eat less meat and fewer
potato chips. I can eat fruit or yoghurt to replace unhealthy snacks. I should drink more
water and less cola too.

Marking Scheme

Content
Marks Scoring Guide
16–20
 Provide plenty of information and ideas relevant to the topic.
 Communicate ideas very clearly.
11–15
 Provide information and ideas relevant to the topic.

 Communicate ideas clearly.

6–10
 Provide some information and ideas relevant to the topic with

prompting.

 Communicate ideas quite clearly.

1–5
 Provide information and ideas mostly irrelevant to the topic.
OR

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 Provide limited information and ideas.

0
 Provide information and ideas totally irrelevant to the topic.
OR

 Practically make no attempt at all.

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Language
Marks Scoring Guide
11–15
 Use a range of vocabulary, sentence patterns and cohesive devices
with few grammatical mistakes.
6–10
 Use a small range of vocabulary and sentence patterns with some
grammatical mistakes.
OR

 Use a limited range of vocabulary and sentence patterns with a few

grammatical mistakes.
1–5
 Use a very limited range of vocabulary and sentence patterns with
many grammatical mistakes.
0
 Practically make no attempt at all.
Remarks:
- Do not penalise students for pronunciation or grammatical mistakes that do not
interfere with the communication of ideas.

Bonus:
- Award a score of 1 if the student has appropriate eye contact with the
teacher/assessor.

Pronunciation
Marks Scoring Guide
11–15
 Speak clearly and readily with very few mistakes in pronunciation.
6–10
 Speak quite clearly despite a few mistakes in pronunciation.
1–5
 Speak unclearly with many mistakes in pronunciation.
0
 Make no attempt at all

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