Name: ________________ Date: ________________

SPEAKING ASSESSMENT

Module: Planning a Trip to Banff

Competencies: I. Interacting with Others

III. Getting Things Done

Task: Making a Hotel Reservation

Directions: For this module, we have been learning about planning a trip to Banff. For this assessment, you will be acting out a role-play in which you will need to book a hotel room. This is something that is essential to the language needed for travel. You will play the role of the hotel guest and your instructor will play the role of the front desk clerk.

3-achieved 2-some difficulty 1-not yet

Criteria for Success

Holistic:

Volume of speech is appropriate for the task 1 2 3 Seems fairly comfortable in the conversation 1 2 3

Tone of voice and rate of speech is appropriate for the task 1 2 3 Style of language is polite 1 2 3

Analytic: 1 2 3

Greets and closes conversations using correct conventions and expressions 1 2 3

Responds to small talk 1 2 3

Asks questions and makes requests politely and appropriately using modals 1 2 3

Indicates non-comprehension if needed 1 2 3

Gives details as needed with a mixture of tenses learned in class (Present and future tenses)

1 2 3

Criteria for Success Total Score: /30

Beginning Developing Completing

1-14

15-21

22-30

Comments:

Prepared by Kerry Howard and Jana Ciobanu for the TESL Canada-2015