Oral Exam
Oral Exam Guidelines
ORAL EXAM: The oral exam assesses your communication skills in the topics covered during our course as states in the Course Goals bellow:
COURSE GOALS:
SPEAK Spanish in order to describe, narrate, and ask and answer questions about everyday topics (CO1).
1.3 Present pre-planned personal information and events. (SLOs)
DEVELOP cultural awareness of Spanish speaking countries and/or communities (CO5).
5.1 Identify cultural terms, values, beliefs, and traditions of the Hispanic world. (SLOs)
The Oral Exam is a recorded oral presentation in Spanish with a duration of up to three minutes. To prepare for this assessment, read these guidelines. You will be evaluated based on your performance with the rubric included at the end of this document.
Format and turning the assessment in
The Oral Exam is due by December 4th, 2022
You need to record/upload a video on Moodle. If you will be using these guidelines to remind yourself what information to cover, you will need to show it to your instructor at the beginning of the video (hold the paper close to the camera). Please, be properly dressed as if you were in a face-to-face meeting.
* If the video is too big, it will not upload. Double check that it is submitted on Moodle before the due date. If you cannot upload the video, you have the following options in order of preference:
1- Share it with me on Google Drive.
2- Post it on YouTube and send me a private link.
3- Send it to my email
Allowed Materials during the presentation
You might have access to these guidelines when presenting as a reminder of the topics you should cover. You will not have access to any supporting material such as the responses to the questions of these guidelines, flashcards, notes, books, etc. You need to know how to provide this information by memory.
Materials to prepare
To prepare for your presentation, use your textbook, your instructor feedback on exams, quizzes, class notes, etc.
Do not translate whole sentences with an online translator. Instead, use online dictionaries such as wordreference.com to look up specific words.
* Your instructor can ask you to retake the exam face to face if the quality of the video is not good, there is bad illumination, unnatural speed or tone of voice, video editing, etc.
You can practice as many times as you want, but make sure to upload the video you want your instructor to grade. You will be graded based on your performance.
What to include in your oral presentation?
Ch1:
- Greet your instructor
- Express how you feel today
Ch2:
- Where are you from?
- Say what the weather is like outside today where you are.
- Describe yourself using at least 2 adjectives and the verb ser.
Ch3:
- What are some of your daily activities (use regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs)
- What are some things you like to do and some things you don't like to do? (use gustar)
- What are some things you have to do this week? (use tener que + inf)
Ch4:
- Identify and describe three members of your family
- State their name, age, and physical description
- Include at least two stem changing verbs
Ch:5:
- Recall vocabulary related to food and discuss meal preferences.
- Use common expressions used in restaurants where Spanish is spoken like: ¿qué desean comer?¿qué nos recomienda?
- Be able to avoid repetition in conversation by using the direct object pronouns.
- Discuss ongoing actions in the present tense
- Describe your professional goals
Describe your daily routine, mentioning:
- At what time do you get up and go to sleep?
- Whether you have breakfast or take a shower in the morning
- Where you go
- What activities you do in your spare time
- Express if you play a sport.
- How many classes you have in a given day
- Other activities that you do
- Express what do you usually have to do over the weekend
- Use the following words to organize your description:
- Primero,
- Luego,
- Después,
- En la tarde,
- En la noche
- También,
- Por último,
Ch7:
- Mention 3 activities you like to do with your friends or family. Tell why these activities are so much fun.
- Compare your classes in High School. Describe classes that equal or different in difficulty, homework, assessments, size, quality,etc.
- Describe a place using Demonstrative Adjectives. Tell what is close or far away from you.
Ch8:
Imagine that in your last vacation, you went to one of the studied countries (Sección cultura in each chapter)
- Express that you went to one of the studied countries
- Express where that country is located
- Specifically, express that you visited one of the geographical marvels of studied places.
- What you did there, what you ate, saw, etc.
- Express how you used to be
- What you used to do then and what you do know
Reminders
Conjugate the verb based on the subject of your sentence
Conjugate your verb in the tense you are referring to (present, present progressive, future, past tense: preterite or imperfect)
When using nouns or adjectives, use their proper gender and number
Use complete sentences to convey your ideas
Use an online dictionary such as wordreference.com to look up specific words
Evaluation
This attached rubric will be used to evaluate your performance.
Maximum grade: 25 points
- August 12 2022, 11:08 AM