- Students' grades are made up of 70% exams and 30% projects and attitude. Exams assess oral and written production, comprehension, usage of English, and reading. - Projects include oral presentations, role-plays, and essays. Attitude reflects class participation, effort, and development. - Exams are split over two days and assess the various skills. Two literary works are read and examined each term. - Attendance, participation, and developing analytical skills contribute to the attitude grade. Missed exams can only be made up for medical or family emergency reasons per school policy.

1. Evaluation & Exams
IES TERRA ALTA
School Year 2013/14

2. 25% - ORAL
PRODUCTION
(Speaking)
5% ATTITUDE
15% - ORAL
COMPREHENSION
(Listening)
25% - WRITTEN
PRODUCTION (Writing)
15% - WRITTEN
COMPREHENSION
(Reading)
15% - USAGE OF
ENGLISH
• Students get 70% of their marks from exams.
• The remaining (30%) comes from oral/written
projects and attitude.

3. 10% - Class Assignments ()
10% - Class Observation (Speaking activities as
classwork and use of English in class)
5% - Speaking Test
()
TERM 1 (group work)
Dramatization of a literary
text
TERM 2 (pair work)
Role-play
TERM 3 (individual)
Oral Presentation
• Deadlines – 2 weeks before the end of their
respective terms.

4. 10% - Essays
15% - Test Essay
PAAU WRITING – Your written production will be
evaluated following the A Level Exams in Catalonia
(Selectivitat).

5. Evaluation criteria:
The following aspects will be evaluated separately on a scale of 0 to 10 points.
GRAMMAR (25% of the composition grade)
Two different aspects will be contemplated under this heading:
• The correct and appropiate use of morphological and syntactic structures.
• The range (variety and complexity) of structures used.
VOCABULARY (25% of the composition grade)
Two main aspects will be considered:
• The range and appropiate use of vocabulary (variety of semantic fields, richness, phrasal
verbs, collocations, idiomatic expressions, linking words,…)
• The correct spelling of words.
TEXT/PARAGRAPH BUILDING (25% of the composition grade)
Two main aspects will be considered:
• The clarity of organization of ideas within the sentence, the paragraph and the text.
• The clear and correct use of puntuation and text markers.
MATURITY (25% of the composition grade)
Aspects contemplated in this category:
• The skillful handling of the topic (clear thinking, good outline, well-reasoned ideas,
creativity,…)
Remember:
• Wrong format: If an essay does not follow the format (letter, dialogue, news report, diary, for and
against argumentation, …) of the chosen option, it will be penalized up to 1 point.
• Wrong topic: No points will be given to a composition written on a topic not included in the two
given options.)
• It will not be admissible to copy literally from the text sentences or some parts from the text in
the written comprehension provided.

6. 25% - ORAL
PRODUCTION
5% ATTITUDE
15% - ORAL
COMPREHENSION
25% - WRITTEN
PRODUCTION
10% WRITTEN
COMPREHEN.
(Reading)
10% READER
10% USAGE OF
ENGLISH

7. • TERM 2 – The Big Sleep, RAYMOND
CHANDLER. Ed. Oxford Book Worms (stage 4)
ISBN 978-0-19-479165-6.
EXAM: 1st week after Christmas break.
• TERM 3 - The Age of Innocence, EDITH
WHARTON. Ed. Black Cat/Vicens-Vives (Step 5
– B2.2) ISBN 978-88-530-0554-0
EXAM: 1st week after Easter break.

8. 1 Term exam distributed in 2 days
• DAY 1:
– Listening exam
– Writing exam
– Speaking exam
• DAY 2:
– Reading exam
– Usage of English exam
(Gram. & Voc.)
– Speaking exam

9. •
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Attendance in class.
Participation in class.
Positive attitude to learning English.
Develop a more analytic attitude to tasks such
as writing, reading or the assimilation of
grammatical rules.

10.  ACTA nº5, 2007/2008:
“En cas d’absència el dia d’un examen el
Departament d’Idiomes només acceptarà
repetir l’examen si hi ha una justificació
de pes; és a dir, per motius mèdics (amb
justificant mèdic) o motius de força major
(defunció d’un parent, etc – no per motiu
de festa major del poble, per exemple).”