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 4, page 143. Be sure to address each specified item, to communicate in complete Spanish sentences and to not use any English. You will initiate and maintain the conversation. Click the "GTA Info" link on the course syllabus for GTA office locations.
- Content:
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(Student/GTA) Greet one another, each person asks how the other person is feeling, each responds and explains why he/she is feeling a particular way. (4 pts) |
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Student responds by indicating that the apartment is messy and that the two of you need to clean it because friends are coming to visit soon. (6 pts) |
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Agreement by GTA then a statement by student that another roommate should also help but is claiming that he/ she cannot and explains where that person is and what they are doing at that moment. (6 pts) |
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(Student/GTA) Statement by each person of various household chores that the person prefers to do, plans to do, or wants to do. (6 pts) |
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Student commands that the GTA do at least two household chores based on GTA preferences, and telling the GTA to buy a major household appliance, and stating how much it costs. (6 pts) |
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Student ends the conversation politely so that the two of you can begin work. (2 pts) |
- Dates: Small windows of time will be made available by your GTA between ~Monday, November 28 and Friday, December 2. (Actual due date is determined by final time slot in your GTA's schedule.
- Sign up: Sign up for your preferred slot using your GTA's appointment calendar by Wednesday, November 30, 8AM, 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. All of the following continue to be essential components of your speaking ability and
will be what guide the scoring of each segment:
- Communication: Student made him/herself understood;
- Accuracy: Grammar was sufficiently correct to ensure communication;
- Vocabulary: Student's vocabulary was adequate for communication;
- Fluency: Student's speech flowed without distracting hesitations;
- Pronunciation: Pronunciation enhanced rather than impeded communication;
- Comprehension: Student understood instructor/GTA;
- Content: Student managed well each particular segment using correct verbs, vocabulary, structure and syntax;
- 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 in Zoom, or on a card for F2F: "Greeting, feelings, apartment, roommate, chores, commands, appliance, conclusion"; 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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