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Communicative task: Imagine you are attending the English drama club at school. In order to meet the rest of the participants, you are going to have to introduce your

group.

Introduce yourself to the class by writing 2 paragraphs, an introductory paragraph including a greeting, your name, personal interests related to acting (films you like,

actresses, etc), and a second paragraph including the reason why you want to participate in the drama club. Provide examples for your personal interests and the reason

participating in the drama club.

These paragraphs should include a minimum of 100 words, but no more than 150.

Age group: 16 year-old

Level of English: Upper-Intermediate

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Analytic Rubric

Levels of Proficiency

Criteria 10-9 8-7 6-5 4-3 2-0

Content Accuracy (all facts

required)

The four key elements are

included in the essay

(greetings, name, personal

interests and reasons whyparticipating)

Students give two or more

examples of interests and

reasons why participating.

Three of the elements are

included in the essay.

Students provide one or twoexamples of interests and

reasons why participating.

Two of the elements are

included in the essay.

One example is provided forinterests or reasons why

participating

One of the elements is

included in the essay.

No examples provided forinterests and reasons why

participating.

One or none of t

included in

There are noprovided for i

reasons why p

Grammar (Punctuation,

Spelling)

Students make no grammatical

mistakes.

There is no presence of

punctuation or spelling

mistakes.

Students make a few

grammatical and/or

punctuation/spelling mistakes.

Essay is still readable.

Students make many

grammatical and/or

punctuation/spelling mistakes

that may somewhat distract

the reading.

Students make several

grammatical and/or

punctuation/spelling mistakes

that distract the reading.

Students wo

grammatica

There is a lack o

and spelling m

present in eve

essay is unin

Length of the Essay

(Paragraphs and Words)

The essay includes the two

paragraphs and in between 136-150 words.

The amount of words isbalanced in each paragraph

(each paragraph has more or

less the same amount of words)

The essay includes in between

121 -135 words

Each paragraph is well

balanced (each paragraph has

more or less the same amount

of words)

The essay includes in between

101 -120 words.

Each paragraph has a few

differences in the amount of

words.

The essay includes less than

100 words.

The amount of words in each

paragraph has lack of balance.

The essay inclu

paragraph and

word

The amount of w

paragraph is no

all

Organization of the essay

and its ideas

Ideas are perfectly organizedand they are linked smoothly

and clearly.

There is a logical progress of

Ideas have a few

organizational mistakes.

There is still a logicalprogress of the paragraphs

Ideas are somehow organized

but there is little conflict of

linkage between them.

Ideas lack of an appropriate

organization.

There are still inconsistenciesin the logical progress of the

Ideas are not

cohere

There is no cl

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the paragraphs (from greetings

to the reasons whyparticipating)

(from greetings to the reasons

why participating)

Few inconsistencies in the

logical progress of the

paragraphs.

paragraphs. between ea

The essay ha

progress of the

Quality of the Information The information is clearly

related to the task.

The examples provided are

totally connected to the topicof the essay.

The information is related to

the topic of the task

The examples are connected

to the topic of the essay.

Part of the information is

related to the task

Some of the examples are

connected to the topic of theessay.

Certain information is

connected to the task.

Examples provided are not

related to the topic of theessay.

The information

to the

There are no

provided to theessa

Score

.

Total Score:_____________

Holistic Rubric

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Outstanding Good Reasonable Weak Very P

The four key elements areincluded in the essay

(greetings, name, personal

interests and reasons why participating) and students

give two or more examples ofinterests and reasons why

participating.

Students make no

grammatical mistakes andthere is no presence of

punctuation or spellingmistakes.

The essay includes the two

paragraphs and in between

136 -150 words and theamount of words is balanced

in each paragraph (eachparagraph has more or less the

same amount of words).

Ideas are perfectly organized

and they are linked smoothlyand clearly and there is a

logical progress of theparagraphs (from greetings to

the reasons why participating)

The information is clearly

related to the task and the

examples provided are totallyconnected to the topic of the

essay.

Three of the elements areincluded in the essay and

students provide one or two

examples of interests andreasons why participating.

Students make a few

grammatical and/or punctuation/spellingmistakes and the essay is

still readable.

The essay includes in

between 121 -135 words and

each paragraph is well balanced (each paragraph

has more or less the same

amount of words).

Ideas have a few

organizational mistakes and

there is still a logical progress of the paragraphs

(from greetings to thereasons why participating).

The information is related to

the topic of the task and theexamples are connected to

the topic of the essay.

Two of the elements areincluded in the essay and

one example is provided for

interests or reasons whyparticipating

Students make many

grammatical and/or punctuation/spellingmistakes that may somewhat

distract the reading.

The essay includes in

between 101 -120 words andeach paragraph has a few

differences in the amount ofwords.

Ideas are somehoworganized but there is little

conflict of linkage between

them and there are fewinconsistencies in the logical

progress of the paragraphs.

Part of the information isrelated to the task and some

of the examples are

connected to the topic of theessay.

One of the elements isincluded in the essay and no

examples provided for

interests and reasons whyparticipating.

Students make several

gramm atical and/or punctuation/spellingmistakes that distract the

reading.

The essay includes less than

100 words and the amount of

words in each paragraph haslack of balance.

Ideas lack of an appropriate

organization and there are

still inconsistencies in the

logical progress of the

paragraphs.

Certain information is

connected to the task and the

examples provided are notrelated to the topic of the

essay.

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there are

provided freasons why

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words in ea

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