English 6 - Speaking Task 20% - planning a trip for your next vacation with your family

INDICATOR Describe the best vacation plan for you and your family, and explain why it is the best plan, using
traveling lexicon and appropriate grammar to refer to means of transportation, cost, food, accommodation,
interesting activities and tourist places.
SITUATION You are a travel agent who is selling the best vacation plan for a family. You must perform a 3 to 5
minute discourse in which you must present your plan describing means of transportation, cost, food, accommodation,
interesting activities and tourist places. Discourses will be tape recorded under students consent to guarantee
assessment reliability. The teacher might ask questions during the presentation.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Students will be appointed by groups. Each student in each group will have a different tourist destination (Cancun,
Las Vegas, London, Beijing, and Mumbai) to prepare their plan.
2. Each student should prepare their vacation plan and practice his/her discourse before class.
3. Each student presents his/her plan in front of their group. They must present their plan describing means of
transportation, cost, food, accommodation, interesting activities and tourist places, and using traveling lexicon and
appropriate grammar (will/going to/adverbs of sequences)
Criteria

Descriptor

Poor

Min

Fair Good Excel Total

Vocabulary

Traveling-related lexicon in the description is used

accurately and appropriately.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation of words and intonation of structures are

clear.

Communication Discourse flow is constant and clear. Questions are

answered correctly.
skills

Structure

Future tense with will or going to is properly use to

describe the plan, prepositions of place and time, and
adverbs of sequence are also well used.

Task
completion

The discourse includes all the requested items (means of

transportation, cost, food, accommodation, interesting
activities and tourist places) and is well organized (time
sequence), showing understanding of the situation.

Total

REMARKS
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