Prime Time 5/6, Writing, Arbeitsheft

59 Assessment 4 4.1 Task achievement 4.1.1 Assessment criteria Key question: Did you complete the task? Make sure your text … •• fully meets the requirements of the set task type. •• has a title/a subject line/section headings/a salutation/an appropriate and precise closing. •• addresses and fully develops all content points. •• provides relevant supporting details/examples for all content points. •• evaluates different ideas/facts/graphs/solutions to a problem very well. (TSD 1 ) •• explains advantages/disadvantages very well. (TSD) •• gives very good reasons in support of/against specific points of view. (TSD) •• successfully and convincingly highlights the personal significance of events/ideas. (TSD) •• expresses news and views effectively and relates convincingly to those of others. (TSD) •• is as long as it should be (= given text length +/– 10 %). When dealing with a writing task, make sure that you fulfil all the requirements and show how good you are. To get a good grade you have to consider four aspects: Task achievement, Organisation and layout, Lexical and structural range, Lexical and structural accuracy. It is important that you do the task as it is described. Be careful when you have prepared a topic and you want to use what you have studied. The text format and all the other details must be the same as in the instructions; otherwise your text does not count at all. Prompting verbs will tell you what to do (see page 5). Prompting verbs and their meaning Which prompting verb goes with which sentence? Fill in the numbers. Look for hints in the words in bold. 47  1. compare  •  2. describe/tell  •  3. evaluate  •  4. explain why/give reasons  • 5. express one’s opinion  •  6. give examples  •  7. report  •  8. suggest People in the industrialised world prefer to buy cheap clothes even if they were produced in sweat- shops in poor countries. In the UK high-street shops offer T-shirts for less than £8.00 and jeans for less than £10.00. According to recent statistics the vast majority of people working in Third World sweatshops are women and children. People who can afford it should stay away from cheap clothes, as they would only support the present system of exploitation. People in developing countries have to produce goods for the industrialised world under appalling conditions because they have no other source of income. Whereas people in Europe and North America benefit from the system through cheap prices, people in poorer countries can hardly make a living on the low wages in the textile industry. It is appalling that the modern economic system makes it possible to exploit the poor and uneducated in developing countries. Buying cheap clothes also has a negative effect on the economy of highly developed countries. 1 TSD: Task Specific Descriptor: This descriptor applies depending on the task. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv