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Oral production activity unit 4

Topic: A restaurant in town

Dear Students,

You will participate in an assignment of making a video about your favorite restaurant in
town.

Here the steps to complete the assignment:

Step 1:
 Go to English Discoveries and read the article “New Mexican Restaurant Open in Soho”.
You can find it in Unit 4 – lesson 2.
 Do the exercises from Practice resources in Unit 4 file on Blackboard.
 Go to Community on English Discoveries. Choose Talking idioms. Find these idioms: “get a
bite to eat” and “for a song” at basic level. Read the definitions and the examples.

Step 2:
After following the instructions in Step 1, think of a restaurant in your town and prepare a
script describing your favorite restaurant in town.
Talk about:
• the kind of food served & dishes it has
• the prices: how much the food costs
• furniture and decorations it has
• when the restaurant is open
• the location/address

Step 3:
Stand in front of the camera and record yourself in a video telling us about your favorite
restaurant in town.
Practice several times before recording the final version of your video.

Sample script:
There are lots of restaurants in my town, and I think many of them are really good. If I want a
bite to eat or a good meal, I usually go to Don Mamino. They have good desserts, drinks, coffee
and a variety of fruit juice. They have delicious salads, too.
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In addition, there is always good music. Oh, and there are newspapers and magazines to read
while you drink some coffee. There are candles and comfortable chairs, too.

Visit Don Mamino soon and enjoy delicious food!

Thanks for watching.

Here are some things to keep in mind while recording your video:
 Speak as clearly as possible.
 Smile.
 Be in a well-lit area.
 Be confident.
 Look at the camera when you speak.
 Don’t just read.

Some guidelines to make your video:

 Use vocabulary and grammar structures studied in Unit 4:

 vocabulary about food and restaurants
 nouns: singular and plural
 there is – there are
 articles: a – the
 idiomatic expressions “get a bite to eat” and “for a song”
 Your video should last about 1 minute or 1 minute and a half (1’-1’30).
 Use youtube.com to make the video. Test your video works well before sending the link.
Change video privacy setting to “Public” so your teacher can view it.
 You can also use any other software to make your video.
 You have to paste the link of your video and the script (the script is referential) in the
Assignment section (Actividad in Unit 4) on Blackboard.
 Use the template below (See page 3).

Assessment criteria:
 pronunciation and intonation
 fluency
 accuracy
 task achievement (clarity and use of webcam)

This task is due on Sunday, September 15th 2019 at 23:59 p.m.

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Oral production activity unit 4

Topic: ______________________________________________

Student: ____________________________________________________________________
Course: _____________________________________________________________________

Link to video: ________________________________________________________________

Script:
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This task is due on Sunday, September 15th 2019 at 23:59 p.m.