Формативное оценивание по иностранному языку в 8 классе

A collection of tasks for Formative Assessment

English

Grade 8

Dear teacher! The group of teachers designed this collection of tasks as a teaching aid to assist teachers within the framework of updating the content of education. Tasks with assessment criteria and descriptors are samples for assisting teachers in providing constructive feedback to learners in terms of achievement of learning objectives; in selecting and designing similar tasks, in planning lessons and carrying out Formative Assessment.

The advisory nature of the tasks collection allows teachers to adapt, add and make changes in tasks according to learners’ capacities and requirements.

Additional materials (manuals, presentations, plans, etc.), the discussion possibility on forums and video instructions can be found on the official website of «Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools» Autonomous Educational Organisation smk.edu.kz.

We wish you creative work and success! This collection of tasks is designed for secondary school teachers, school administrations, educational departments’ seniors, regional and school coordinators in criteria-based assessment and others.

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CONTENTS Term 1 .................................................................................................................................... 4

Unit: Our World ..................................................................................................................... 4

Unit: Daily Life and Shopping ............................................................................................. 26

Term 2 .................................................................................................................................. 39

Unit: Entertainment and Media ............................................................................................ 39

Unit: Sport, Health and Exercise ......................................................................................... 48

Term 1

Unit: Our World Learning objectives 8.1.9.1 (8.C9) Use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings 8.3.4.1(8.S4) Respond with some flexibility at both sentence and discourse level to unexpected comments on a range of general and curricular topics Assessment criteria • Convey fantasy ideas and experiences including emotions and senses • Provide unprepared speech to answer a variety of questions at sentence level and in conversations with some flexibility Level of thinking skills Knowledge and comprehension

Application Task. Answer the questions about yourself. 1. Are there many people in your world? 2. What can you say about your parents? 3. Who is your best friend? 4. What do you like to do together? 5. Is your friend a good person? 6. Why do you like her/him? 7. What else do you like to do? 8. How do you spend your free time? 9. Do you like music? Which one? 10. Is computer important to you? Why? 11. What do you do with the help of the computer? 12. What is your favourite site? 13. Do you send any e-mails? Descriptor A learner • presents opinions and ideas;

• gives answers to questions, providing unprepared speech.

Unit Our World Learning objective 8.4.8.1(8.R8) Use familiar and some unfamiliar paper and digital reference resources to check meaning and extend understanding Assessment criteria • Demonstrate the ability to use a dictionary or digital methods to trace meaning and extend vocabulary Level of thinking skills Application

Task. Read the texts and fill in missing words. Use a dictionary or digital methods to trace meaning of words which you do not know. a) teacher b) well-dressed c) pilot d) put on e) volley-ball f) subject g) collect h) concert i) flowerbed j) rap k) sociable l) skiing m) equipment n) football o) smile p) beauty q) useful r) e-mails

My World Parents Hi! I’m Ella. I’m twelve and I live with my parents in Paris. My father is a 1) __ and my mother is a Math’s 2) __ .We are very friendly. We like to spend our time together. My father’s hobby is 3) __ and we often go to resorts to ski there. It is great especially in summer in the mountains where we enjoy the nature. Nature Do you like nature? Yes? So do I. My mother and I are nature lovers. I like to 7) ___ different unusual leaves and I have several copy- books of them. There are a lot of wonderful trees around us. All you need is to look attentively around you and see their 8) __. Fashion

If you look around, you’ll see a lot of 11) __ people. Their clothes are modern. I like fashionable clothes too. I often ask my mother’s advice what to 12) __. My eyes are hazel and my favourite colour is green. Look at me! I have green jeans and blue blouse on. Music I think people do love music because they go to the 15) __. My father loves classical music and my mom prefers jazz. As for me, my friends and I adore 16) ___. I think it is the music for young people. I can listen it for hours. But my mom and dad don’t like it. Friends I’m very 4) __ and I have a lot of friends. We like to go somewhere where we can talk and play. All my friend adore 5) __ and we go to the school gym to train there. I’m not a good volley-ball player. I like to watch this game more than to play myself. We also like to watch 6) __ . The boys of our class won the game yesterday. It was great! Flowers I love all the flowers, they are so beautiful. There is a 9) __ in front of our house. There are a lot of flowers there. My mother and I planted them. I want the people to 10) ___ looking at these flowers. My favourite flowers are daisies, lilies, asters. My mother likes zinnias, dahlias, and petunias. Schoo