Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Mark Scheme for Presentations

As promised, please find below the mark scheme for your presentation. They appear in ascending order, so band 3 is first.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Please note, your presentation should be based on an aspect of your main course. For example, theories of buisness management or maybe a particular disability or type of mental health. If you are not on a main course with the college, you can present infromation about your place of birth. You may include tourist attractions, cultural foods and attire etc.



·         Effectively communicate information, ideas, and feelings, promote issues and points of view

·         Adapt talk to a variety of situations and audiences, using non-verbal features to add to impact

·         Use a range of well-judged vocabulary and sentence structures to achieve different purposes, including competent and appropriate use of Standard English

 

 

·         Confidently convey and interpret information, ideas and feelings, emphasising significant points and issues

·         Adapt and shape talk and non-verbal features to meet the demands of different situations, contexts and purposes

·         Make appropriate, controlled, effective use of standard English Vocabulary and grammar

 

 

·         Highlight priorities and essential detail when communicating complex and demanding subject matter

·         Use a sophisticated repertoire of strategies to meet challenging contexts and purposes

·         Show an assured choice and flexible use of standard English vocabulary and grammar in appropriate situations

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

How to Create a Paragraph

Controlled Assessment Expectations

Dear all, 

I hope you are well and are all preparing for next week’s controlled assessment. I just want to clarify expectations for your next controlled assessment. 

 Please ensure that you do not exceed the proposed word limit. Please make sure that you do not supply a response with more than 1000 words. 

  Please note that you are expected to write ‘the text’ for a leaflet. Therefore, as explained previously, there is no need for you to concern yourself with layout or images. You will not be awarded any extra marks for following these conventions. You can of course create an image box and write a caption underneath explaining what would have been in the picture.

  Please also note that you are required to write about just one UK attraction. I know you have researched more than one, but this should enable you to make a well thought-out choice about the one you wish to write about in your controlled assessment. 

  When writing your assessment, I want you to pay particular attention to the purpose and audience for this task. Your purpose is to inform and your audience are teachers.

  You also need to ensure that you are writing in paragraphs, using a variety of sentence structures and making conscious choices in relation to vocabulary.

I hope the above information is useful. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to email me. I will also be sending this information to your email addresses. 

 Maria

Sunday, 23 November 2014

Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences Video

Hi all, Below is a video explaining simple, complex and compound sentences. This was not created by me; this was created by a colleague of mine. I hope you find this useful.