This project is a brief conversation via Zoom with your course graduate TA (GTA) based on the content below. Be sure to address each specified item, to communicate in complete Spanish sentences and to not use any English. Your GTA will initiate and maintain the conversation.
- Content:
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Greet one another and then ask and answer questions about your names, home towns or cities, and current residences. |
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Exchange information about family members, good friends, and pets, describing at least one physical characteristic or personality trait for each. |
| 3. |
Ask and answer questions about activities and items related to academic life. |
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Converse about other activities that you do and do not do, as well as activities that you want to do or have to do. |
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Conclude the conversation and say goodbye to each other. |
- Dates: Small windows of time will be made available by your GTA between ~Tuesday, June 7 and Wednesday, June 8. (Actual due date is determined by final time slot in your GTA's schedule; see below.)
- Sign up: Sign up for your preferred slot with your GTA by Tuesday, June 7, 8AM, or you will lose 5 points (see rubric below)
- Converse: At the appointed day/time have the conversation with your GTA using their Zoom link.
(Be sure that you verify your Google Calendar's time zone in order to avoid any confusion, and that that you have resolved any connection/technical issues prior to your time slot.)
- Time: 2-minute minimum and 3-minute maximum.
- Rubric:
- Communication: Student made him/herself understood, 5 pts
- Comprehension: Student understood instructor/GTA, 5 pts
- Accuracy: Grammar was sufficiently correct to ensure communication, 5 pts
- Vocabulary: Student's vocabulary was adequate for communication, 5 pts
- Fluency: Student's speech flowed without distracting hesitations, 5 pts
- Pronunciation: Pronunciation enhanced rather than impeded communication, 5 pts
- Failure to set appointment by deadline: -5 pts, plus an additional -5 pts. each day thereafter until you have a date/time scheduled.
- Each missed appointment: -5 pts, plus an additional -5 pts. each day thereafter until you have a new date/time scheduled.
- La rúbrica para calificar la presentación
- Note: Your GTA will provide this in the chat: 1. Greet; 2. Family/relationship/characteristics; 3. Activities/Academics; 4. Other activities; 5. Conclude; other than that, no notes, no book, no other resources; this is to be a relatively natural, flowing conversation with a beginning, a middle and an end.
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