ELL Resources

ELL 4B Audio Dropbox Task 1 Rubric
Students record themselves using MSU CLEAR audio dropbox. Students may not use any notes or other resources.

1. Read excerpt from Animal Farm (on the back of this paper).
2. Who was your favorite character from Animal Farm? Describe him/her (type of animal, use adjectives to describe personality, use complete sentences to share what this character did and did not do that you liked or agreed with, etc.)
3. Explain a typical ELL 4B class period to a new student (who, what, when, where, why, routines, expectations, etc.).
4. Your friend needs to get a job. You learned in class about how to prepare for a job search. Give your friend advice on what to do in order to get a job.
Feedback
Comprehensibility
Message very effectively communicated
Message generally communicated
Message communicated with difficulty
Very difficult to understand message

Grammar/Syntax
Highly accurate use of syntax, no patterns of error
Occasional errors in grammar, but no significant patterns of error
Significant patterns of error in grammar, interferes with understanding
Little sense of sentence structure

Self-correction
Self-correction increases comprehensibility
Most self-correction is successful
Self-correction does not improve comprehensibility
Self-correction is unsuccessful or does not occur

Fluency
Natural fluidity and intonation
High fluidity for level of language learning
Choppy speaking, but continuous
Little or no fluidity
TOTAL______/16 formative points

Rate yourself on the following from your recording:
Used complete sentences when responding, versus one-word answers 4 3 2 1
Verbs were used correctly (conjugation, form) 4 3 2 1
Verbs to be and to have were used correctly 4 3 2 1
Adjectives were used correctly to help create a description 4 3 2 1

He did not believe, he said, that any of the old suspicions still lingered, but certain changes had been made recently in the routine of the farm which should have the effect of promoting confidence stiff further. Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as “Comrade.” This was to be suppressed. There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar’s skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. This, too, would be suppressed, and the skull had already been buried. His visitors might have observed, too, the green flag which flew from the masthead. If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed. It would be a plain green flag from now onwards.

He had only one criticism, he said, to make of Mr. Pilkington’s excellent and neighbourly speech. Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to “Animal Farm.” He could not of course know–for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it–that the name “Animal Farm” had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”–which, he believed, was its correct and original name.

“Gentlemen,” concluded Napoleon, “I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! ”

There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover’s old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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Vocabulary:
-Use your vocabulary word lists to review and practice new words
-Practice conjugating verbs
Vocabulix English Verbs
-The best dictionary for learners: https://www.learnersdictionary.com/

Speaking:
-Schedule time to speak with a native English speaker
-Time yourself having a conversation with a friend in English.

Reading:
-Read your SSR novel on a daily basis
-Read articles online about sports, news, and current events
-Track your reading progress by graphing how many pages you have read

Writing:
-Record daily notes in every class
-Write in a journal
-Email with a friend in English
-Post comments or thoughts on a blog or other website

Listening:
-Listen to music in English
-Watch TV and movies in English
-Listen to the radio and podcasts online
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StoryCorps

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