PERFORMACE TASK 1 PRACTICE EXERCISE
LISTENING
SLO 1: Identify main ideas, details, purpose, and audience in written and spoken texts
SLO 6: Identify and describe cause and effect relationships
Watch the video and complete the chart below:
1. Watch the video [Link] “CNN HERO
Catalina Escobar” and complete the following chart:
HERO SERVICES SHE PROVIDES PLACE
Catalina Escobar
TARGET COMMUNITY CAUSE/REASON FOR HELPING EFFECT/CHANGE ON
PEOPLE´S REALITY
READING
SLO 1: Identify main ideas, details, purpose, and audience in written and spoken texts
SLO 6: Identify and describe cause and effect relationships
SLO 4: Infer basic points of view and attitudes
Read the text in groups, complete the chart and then socialize the
information:
1. 2016 CNN Hero of the Year: Dreaming is worth it
[Link]
[Link]
CNN) We asked Jeison Aristizábal to share what's happened since he was
recognized as the 2016 CNN Hero of the Year. Here is his open letter:
1 I used to look at life with difficulty. Through
every path I walked, I encountered barriers and
discrimination. I was a boy with dreams and
tireless perseverance, on a mission to find
opportunities for disabled children and young
people. I never wanted to others to feel pity for
me, only love and solidarity toward disabled children like me.
2 I was passionate about helping the disabled community, but this was not
easy to achieve: The system in my country, Colombia, does not promote public
policy to provide opportunities and a better life for people like us. It hurt
terribly to hear the stories of those families with disabled children; especially
because, as a child, I lived through adversity in thousands of ways, due to a
society (and a school) that excluded me for being different.
3 Despite having cerebral palsy, I came up with different ways to conquer the
world, to change the perception of disability and, before all else, to get society
to realize that we should always give, regardless of how little we have.
4 At all times, I carried my message of the value of solidarity, of recognizing
that it's the most effective way through which we can understand that helping
others is extraordinary.
5 Being nominated to be a 2016 CNN Hero was a wonderful dream come true
for me. It moved my desire to help forward. I was filled with a roller coaster of
emotion; it was days and months of new-found feelings. I would always keep
the need to create opportunities for all these children with disabilities in mind;
these children that, despite the challenges they face, always provide a hug, a
smile or a look filled with hope. All of this motivated me to keep dreaming.
6 Through the labor of our foundation, ASODISVALLE, every day we are
surprised by the capacity people have to teach us the importance of unity. How
can we not recognize its greatness? Through this recognition by CNN, people
have been moved by my message and have been spurred to act.
7 Today, because of the recognition as the 2016 CNN Hero of the Year, I have
travelled the world with my motivational speech, "Three secrets to being
happy." I am moved by the fact that families want their children to be like
Jeison. Children meet me and say that they want to be like me, and even those
who know my story through other platforms are motivated to follow the model
of a "CNN HERO." It's so gratifying to be the motivation for so many human
beings.
HERO SERVICES HE PROVIDES PLACE
TARGET COMMUNITY CAUSE/REASON FOR EFFECT/CHANGE ON
HELPING PEOPLES REALITY
What is the purpose of the author of this article? Explain
What is the intended audience of this article?
[Link] meaning: What does the term “roller coaster” in paragraph
5, imply in her sentence: “I was filled with a roller coaster of emotion.”
WRITING
SLO 3: Write a four-paragraph text describing cause and effect relationships
SLO 7: Accurately use Level 5 Grammar
SLO 8: Accurately produce Level 5 Vocabulary concepts
Students will write a paragraph related to the topic of module 1: Volunteering,
including vocabulary words from module 1 (See study guide), mixed tenses and
cause and effect words (because, because of, due to, so, as a result of, as) to
describe cause and effect relationships. (Specific instructions on exam day
SPEAKING (Q AND A ACTIVITY) (15 points) (5 points each category)
SLO 5: Express ideas in extended conversations or talks on general topics
SLO 8: Accurately produce Level 5 Vocabulary and pronunciation concepts
Instructions for teacher: Students work in pairs to ask and answer 3 to 5 questions related
to modules 1 and 2. Questions will be in different tenses (present simple, past simple, present
perfect and present continuous) so the students need to answer in the tense they are being
asked.
