Pre-assessment Activities

Several activities were designed and conducted by the teacher to prepare students for the assessment tasks, including a thorough introduction to the topic:

1. The assessment criteria were explained, and students and teachers jointly identified areas of oral language skill needing improvement and those language features which would be most needed for this topic; included technical terms used in describing mobile phones and linguistic structures used for making comparing comparisons, suggestions and persuading and convincing others.

2. Students did two writing tasks that were designed to help them identify areas of improvement needed, and learn and / or practice some useful language structures.
   Click here to view the instructions for the writing practice.

3. To familiarise students with the subject, they were asked to collect information on 2 or 3 mobile phones and compare them.
   Click here to view a phone comparison done by students.

4. Students then designed a questionnaire for collecting opinions of teenagers about their ideal mobile phones. They had to interview 5 teenagers using the questionnaire they designed.

Click here to view a questionnaire students used.
Click here to listen an interview conducted by a student.