English – Bachillerato IES FUENTE LUNA
Rubric for assessing speaking
1 0.75
ITEMS
Excellent
The speech is always
ORGANIZATION organized sequentially. The
+ main ideas are shown first,
TIME and then, the secondary ones.
Time: 2 min.
There is a great variety of
correct complex sentences and
GRAMMAR students use at least 4
grammatical structures studied
in Bachillerato.
The student uses a wide range
of vocabulary and there is no
VOCABULARY
repetition. The student uses a
phrasal verb or idiom.
(Quite) good
The speech is not always
organized sequentially. The
main ideas are normally shown
first, and then, the secondary
ones. Time: 1:30 min.
Students use at least 3
grammatical structures studied
in Bachillerato. The text
contains some mistakes.
The student uses a wide range
of vocabulary and there is no
repetition.
0.5
Need
improvement
The speech is organized but not
sequentially. The main ideas are
in the logical order: first the
not shown first, and then, the
main ideas, and then the rest.
Time: 1 min.
Students use 2 grammatical
Students only use 1 structure
structures studied in
Bachillerato.
Sentences are simple and,
sometimes, they grammar
contain mistakes.
The student uses quite a wide
range of vocabulary and there is
not a lot of repetition.
0
0.25
Bad performance
Low performance
The speech isn't organized
The speech isn't organized
sequentially. The main ideas are not
shown first, and then, the secondary
secondary ones.
ones. Time: 0:30 seconds.
Time: 0:45 seconds.
Students make big grammar
studied in Bachillerato.
mistakes. Students make mistakes
Sentences are simple and
with present simple, the verb to be
contain many grammar
or have got.
mistakes.
The student uses some new
The student tends to repeat words
vocabulary and a few new
all the time.
expressions.
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The pronunciation is often nice The student makes an effort for

The pronunciation is nice and The student does not try to
and both rhythm and intonation adopting the adequate rhythm
PRONUNCIATION both rhythm and intonation match the rhythm or the
usually correspond to those and/or intonation but it does not We cannot understand what the
+ RHYTHM + correspond to those expected intonation expected in a speech.
expected in a speech, which often match that expected in a student is trying to explain.
INTONATION in a speech, which contributes Pronunciation must improve a
contributes to it being followed speech. Pronunciation must
to it being followed easily. lot
quite easily. improve quite a lot.