Timetable for grammar presentations

The purpose of these 5-minute presentations is to revise grammar rules and to provide easy access for your fellow students to exercises and resources on a particular topic. Your presentations should, therefore, focus on the rules and one exercise that would test learners’ ability to apply the rule(s). See Rose and Purkis or Lutrin and Pincus (English Handbook and Study Guide).

Group	Date	Topic
1	02 March	Nouns and pronouns
2	09 March	Adverbs and Adjectives
3	16 March	Verbs: Focus on auxiliary verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs.
4	23 March	Phrasal verbs
5	30 March	Active and passive voice
6	06 April	Direct and indirect speech
7	20 April	Conjunctions
8	04 May	Conditionals/ Subjunctive mood
9	11 May	Comma splice and run-on sentences

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The presentations will be peer-assessed according to the following criteria:

	Good	Average	To be re-done
Quality of the presentation:    /10	Legible, properly spaced, well-structured. Effects (if used) support the content. Presenters talk to the slides and don’t read the slides. (8 – 10)	Font too small, use of colours makes reading difficult, dysfunctional fussiness. Presenters seem unsure of content, inaudible. (5 -7)	Presentation not ready, structure not clear, group members disorganised or absent. (0)
Quality of the explanation:             /10	Clear, logical and sufficient: explanation is succinct and covers the main points. (8 – 10)	Explanation unbalanced, partial explanation, misunderstanding/ incorrect elements. (5 - 7)	Serious misunderstanding evident. (Below 5)
Language use in presentation:    /3	Presentation was proofread, no distracting errors. (3)	Grammar/ spelling errors distracting. (2)	More than 5 grammatical or spelling errors in the presentation. (1)
Quality of exercise:    /2	Exercise tests the particular grammar point; some fill-in elements but also contextualised exercises. (2)	Fill-in, decontextualized exercise, not addressing the topic. (1)	Exercise does not deal with the topic. (0)

GROUP WORK: DIVISION OF LABOUR

In order to ensure that the grammar presentations do not become the work of only one person, you need to decide in your groups who will take on the tasks described below. Although particular people will take responsibility for certain tasks, the group will share the marks of the final product. This means that you need to work as a group and keep contact to make sure that everybody is happy with the final product. The following functions should be allocated:

1.    Organiser and time keeper who needs to find times for meetings, structure discussions, keep group on task. This can only be one person.

2.    Researchers will find grammar materials/ exercises, check sources. This could include up to 3 group members.

3.    Presenters: They will structure the information in ppt format and present the material. Depending on the size of the group, there could be overlap between the researchers and the presenters, as long as everybody in the group gets involved.

4.    Exercise hunters will find one appropriate exercise to show the class. They will find and present the exercise (by justifying the choice).

5.    Final checker: One person who will edit and check the final product to ensure that it is error-free.

Please complete the cover sheet (printable file linked here) and have it ready for me at the start of the class.

Your PowerPoint presentations and exercises will be posted on SUNLearn for use during school practice. If they are not up to standard, you will have to revise them to receive the allocated marks.