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).

DEVELOP cultural awareness of Spanish speaking countries and/or communities (CO5).

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

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