20% English II Writing Task

Name: ________________________ ID: ________ Date: ________Course Code: ________

Score: ___/50

Type of Task: WhatsApp Message

Audience: Best friend
Purpose: To provide information about city places and means of transport
Prompt: You and your best friend are planning a party for tonight. You are at school, so you
can’t go and get the things you need for the party. You text your best friend asking him/her to go
to different places around the city to get everything you need to organize the party.
Instructions:
In your text message you must,
a. Explain to your best friend why you cannot go to get the things for the party.
b. Tell him/her what specific places you want him/her to go to, and what he/she can do in those
sites.
c. Give directions and provide transport information to get to each one of the places (means of
transport, times, prices).
d. Write at least 150 words.
e. Spend 45 minutes on this task.
f. Use the following format

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Criteria for assessing the writing task- space only for teachers

Rating scale

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Criteria and Descriptor

CONTENT: Understands and completes the task assigned by complying

with all the conditions, and provides the intended message so the audience 1-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10
is left with no questions.
COMPOSING (ORGANIZATION): The text is cohesive and coherent,
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with an excellent organization within the sentences.
VOCABULARY: The text contains appropriate vocabulary related to the
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task topic and a variety of words to make the text captivating
STRUCTURE: The text contains appropriate grammatical structures, and
sentence patterns showing a great command of the structures belonging to 1-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10
their level of competence.
MECHANICS: The text shows proper use of capitalization, punctuation
and spelling avoiding interferences with the communicative purpose of the 1-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10
task.
TOTAL: / 50
Comments (for formative purposes, write here any ideas for student to improve their performance):

Evaluator:

Created by Andrés Bedoya, October, 2022

Rating scale Adapted from the CEFR