This project is a brief, face-to-face conversation with your course graduate TA (GTA) based on the "En acción" section of ¡A comunicarnos! for chapter 3, page 111. Be sure to address each specified item, to communicate in complete Spanish sentences and to not use any English. You (not your GTA) will initiate and maintain the conversation. Click the "GTA Info" link on the course syllabus for GTA office locations.
- Content:
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Greet each other according to the formality or informality of the setting. |
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Ask each other what you like to do during free time. Mention at least two activities in your response and provide details about when, where, and/or with whom they are done. |
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Ask each other what other activities you like. Mention at least two more activities. For each one, say when, where, and/or with whom they are done. |
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Now tell each other that you must do something, including when and/or where. |
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Say goodbye to one another. |
- Dates: Small windows of time will be made available by your GTA between ~Tuesday, November 8 and Monday, November 14. (Actual due date is determined by final time slot in your GTA's appointment schedule.
- Sign up: Sign up for your preferred slot using your GTA's appointment calendar by Friday, November 11, 8 AM, or you will lose 6 points (see rubric below).
- Converse: On the day and at the scheduled time have the conversation with your GTA using their Zoom link.
- Time: 2-minute minimum and 3-minute maximum.
- Rubric:
- Communication: Student made him/herself understood, 6 pts
- Comprehension: Student understood instructor/GTA, 6 pts
- Accuracy: Grammar was sufficiently correct to ensure communication, 6 pts
- Vocabulary: Student's vocabulary was adequate for communication, 6 pts
- Fluency: Student's speech flowed without distracting hesitations, 6 pts
- Pronunciation: Pronunciation enhanced rather than impeded communication, 6 pts
- Failure to set appointment by deadline: -6 pts, plus an additional -6 pts. each day thereafter until you have a date/time scheduled.
- Each missed appointment: -6 pts, plus an additional -6 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, if in Zoom, or on a card for F2F: 1. Greet; 2. Free time likes; 3. Other activities; 4. Must do; 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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