Rubric for Assignment 3: Language skills related tasks

For this assignment, choose an authentic reading text to practise and develop your learners
reading skills. Choose a text which is suitable for one of your teaching practice classes.

Design a receptive skills lesson and describe the procedure of your lesson in prose, including the
following information:

1. Say why you have chosen the text, comment on its suitability for use in the classroom and
say which level you would use it with. Submit a sourced copy of the text with your
assignment.

2. Design a lead-in, saying how you would raise your learners interest in the topic of the
text.

3. Design an initial reading task and state which sub-skill(s) it practises. Include the task
(with answers) on a separate handout.

4. Design a second reading task and state which sub-skill(s) it practises. Include the task
(with answers) on a separate handout.

5. Design one or two productive skills follow-up tasks (speaking or writing) which
capitalise on the interest generated by the text. Include the task(s) with your assignment.

6. Provide a rationale for doing each stage and task. Reference at least one
methodology text to support your ideas.

Assessment criteria

The assignment should be written in continuous prose, with clear headings and paragraphing.

Cambridge ESOL specifies that for the Language skills related tasks assignment, successful
candidates can demonstrate their learning by:

correctly using terminology that relates to skills and sub-skills

relating task design to language skills practice
finding, selecting and referencing information from one or more sources using written
language that is clear, accurate and appropriate to the task.

Word count: 750 1000 words