ELL 4B Audio Dropbox Task 1 Rubric
\nStudents record themselves using MSU CLEAR audio dropbox. Students may not use any notes or other resources.<\/p>\n
1. Read excerpt from Animal Farm (on the back of this paper).
\n2. 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.)
\n3. Explain a typical ELL 4B class period to a new student (who, what, when, where, why, routines, expectations, etc.).
\n4. 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.
\n Feedback
\nComprehensibility
\nMessage very effectively communicated
\nMessage generally communicated
\nMessage communicated with difficulty
\nVery difficult to understand message<\/p>\n
Grammar\/Syntax
\nHighly accurate use of syntax, no patterns of error
\nOccasional errors in grammar, but no significant patterns of error
\nSignificant patterns of error in grammar, interferes with understanding
\nLittle sense of sentence structure<\/p>\n
Self-correction
\nSelf-correction increases comprehensibility
\nMost self-correction is successful
\nSelf-correction does not improve comprehensibility
\nSelf-correction is unsuccessful or does not occur<\/p>\n
Fluency
\nNatural fluidity and intonation
\nHigh fluidity for level of language learning
\nChoppy speaking, but continuous
\nLittle or no fluidity
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t TOTAL______\/16 formative points<\/p>\n
Rate yourself on the following from your recording:
\nUsed complete sentences when responding, versus one-word answers\t\t4\t3\t2\t1
\nVerbs were used correctly (conjugation, form)\t\t\t\t\t4\t3\t2\t1
\nVerbs to be and to have were used correctly\t\t\t\t\t\t4\t3\t2\t1
\nAdjectives were used correctly to help create a description\t\t\t\t4\t3\t2\t1<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u2013for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it\u2013that the name “Animal Farm” had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”\u2013which, he believed, was its correct and original name.<\/p>\n
“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! ”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.
\nTwelve 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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