ENGLISH CONTINUAL ASSESSMENT 1
ELEMENTARY 5
Term 1 SY 2021-2022
Student’s Name
Class
Date
Score
Parent’s Signature
Writing and presenting a short
story
Framework objectives:
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5Wc1 Write, with support, about factual and imaginary past events, activities and
experiences in a paragraph on a limited range of general and curricular topics

5S5 Organise talk at discourse level using appropriate connectors on a range of
general and curricular topics
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Task Guidelines
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Write a short story called A Lesson in Life.
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Choose one of the proverbs below:
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Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
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Think of ideas and makes notes first.
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Write answers to these questions to help you prepare the notes.
1. Decide on your characters. Describe them.
2. Where is the story set? Describe the setting.
3. Explain the problem and what happens in order to resolve it.
4. How does the story end? What is the resolution?

Write your short story in paragraphs form with minimum 2 paragraphs.
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Remember to use past continuous, past simple and direct speech.
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Create a PowerPoint presentation of your short story.
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Add images and share your PowerPoint presentation of your short story to the
assignment tab.
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Keep your presentation to 2-3 minutes.
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ELEMENTARY 5
Term 1 SY 2021-2022
Rubric
CRITERIA
1
2
3
4
Content:
Student meets 1
Student meets
Student meets
Student meets

requirement.
2 requirements.
3 requirements.
4–5
Describe the
requirements.
characters.

SCORE
Describe the
setting.

Explain the
problem and what
happens in order
to resolve it.

Explain how the
story ends.

Explain the
resolution
Language Points:
Incorrect use of
Few language
Some language
All language

Past simple
language
points were
points were
points were

Past continuous
points.
used correctly.
used correctly.
present and

Direct speech
used correctly.
Use of
The student did
There is very
The student
The student
enhancement in
nothing to
little evidence
enhanced
greatly
PowerPoint
enhance the
of multimedia
his/her
enhanced
presentation
presentation.
enhancement
PowerPoint to
his/her
of the
some extent
PowerPoint
presentation
using images or
presentation
made by the
other add-ons.
using images or
student
other add-ons.
Communication
Speaks too
Usually speaks
Usually speaks
Always speaks
Skills
softly or
loudly and
loudly, slowly,
loudly, slowly,
mumbles.
clearly enough
and clearly
and clearly
Audience has
but sometimes
enough that
enough that the
trouble
speak too softly
general
messages and
understanding
or fast that
message and
details are
what the
some of the
most of the
understood.
speaker is trying
details are not
details are
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to say.
understood.
understood.
Writing
More than 4
3-4 errors in
1-2 errors in
No errors in
Conventions
errors in
grammar or
grammar or
grammar or

Grammar
grammar or
spelling that
spelling that
spelling that

Spelling
spelling that
distract the
distract reader
distract reader

Punctuation
distract the
reader from the
from the
from the
reader from the
content.
content.
content.
content.
SCORE
20
END OF ASSESSMENT
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