понедельник, 17 декабря 2012 г.

Спецификация административной контрольной (4 класс): "Типы вопросов"



Спецификация
демонстрационного варианта административной контрольной работы по английскому языку («Типы вопросов») для учащихся 4-х классов

1.     Назначение работы – дифференцировать учащихся по уровню подготовки по грамматике английского языка с целью промежуточной аттестации, а также выявления пробелов в области формирования языковых средств и навыков пользования ими.

2.     Содержание административной контрольной работы определяется на основе следующих нормативных документов:
·       Федеральный государственный образовательный стандарт начального образования;
·       Основная образовательная программа начального общего образования ГБОУ СОШ №1293;
·       Рабочая программа по учебнику И.Н.Верещагиной для IV класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка.

3.     Условия применения.
Работа рассчитана на учащихся 4-х классов общеобразовательных школ, изучивших курс английского языка, отвечающий обязательному минимуму содержания начального образования по английскому языку для школ с углубленным изучением английского языка.
К выполнению работы можно готовиться по учебникам, имеющим гриф Минобразования РФ.

4.     Валидность и надежность работы.
Содержательная валидность работы определяется соответствием содержания заданий обязательным минимумам содержания начального образования по английскому языку. Это соответствие обеспечивается опорой при определении содержания проверочных заданий на специально разработанный экспертами в области языкового образования перечень вопросов содержания.
Надежность работы обеспечивается стабильностью результатов выполнения включенных в нее заданий, которая установлена при их использовании в рамках соответствующих проверок подготовки учащихся.

5.     Число заданий в работе.
Работа содержит всего: 14 заданий, из них 13 обязательных и 1 дополнительное.

6.     Время выполнения работы.
На проведение работы выделяется 45 минут.

7.     Параллельность вариантов.
Параллельность вариантов достигается за счет:
·       отбора в каждую из частей работы заданий определенного для них в спецификации содержания и уровня сложности;
·       включения взаимозаменяемых, однотипных, примерно одинаковых по уровню сложности задания, расположенных в одних и тех же местах во всех вариантах.

8.     Типы заданий.
В работе используются задания открытого типа: составить вопросительное предложение к заданному утвердительному, на поиск дополнительной информации и вопросы к тексту.

9.     Оценка выполнения заданий и всей работы.

Верное выполнение каждого задания 1-12 оценивается 1 баллом, задания 13 – в 3 балла по минимальному количеству требуемых вопросительных предложений. Итого максимальное количество заданий первой части составляет 15.  Аттестационная оценка определяется по 5-балльной шкале на основе выполнения 13 заданий (за дополнительное задание ставится дополнительная оценка) и выставляется на основе числа верно выполненных заданий. Для положительной отметки «3» требуется выполнить верно более 50% заданий, для получения отметки «4» -- более 70% заданий, при этом необходимо выполнить верно некоторое число заданий из всех частей работы; для получения отметки «5» -- более 90% заданий, при этом необходимо выполнить верно некоторое число заданий из всех частей работы.
Оценивание дополнительной части работы включает как грамматическую правильность построения вопросительных предложений, так и логику выстраивания вопросов в соответствии с содержанием текста и производится по 5-балльной шкале.

10.  Распределение заданий работы по содержанию и видам деятельности.

Распределение заданий работы по блокам содержания.

№ п/п
Блок содержания
Число заданий в варианте работы
1
Вопрос к подлежащему: грамматические формы глагола the Present Indefinite, the Past Indefinite, the Present Continuous, the Past Continuous, модальный глагол can,  конструкции have got, there is(are)
2
2
Общий вопрос: грамматические формы глагола the Present, Past, Future Indefinite, the Present, Past Continuous, модальный глагол can, конструкции have got, there is(are)
2
3
Альтернативный вопрос: грамматические формы глагола the Present, Past, Future Indefinite, the Present, Past Continuous, модальный глагол can, конструкции have got, there is(are)
2
4
Специальный вопрос: грамматические формы глагола the Present, Past, Future Indefinite, the Present, Past Continuous, модальный глагол can, конструкции have got, there is(are)
3
5
Разделительный вопрос: грамматические формы глагола the Present, Past, Future Indefinite, the Present, Past Continuous, модальный глагол can, конструкции have got, there is(are) (положительное утверждение в первой части, отрицательное утверждение в первой части, особые случаи образования второй части)
3
6
Вопросы, направленные на извлечение дополнительной информации, не указанной в исходном предложении (три вопросительных предложения)
1
7
Дополнительное (необязательное) задание: вопросы к мини-тексту для составления плана текста и передачи его основного содержания
1


Работа состоит из 3 разделов:
1.     Задать вопрос определенного типа к данному предложению (12 заданий);
2.     Задать вопрос на извлечение дополнительной информации к предложению (1 задание);
3.     Дополнительное задание: составить вопросы к тексту для передачи его содержания (1 задание).

воскресенье, 9 декабря 2012 г.

Звуки английского языка

 Таблицу можно скачать на сайте bbclearningenglish.com

Гласные (vowels):
"краткие":  как в big/pig; book/look; cup/but; frog/hot; безударный в mother/father; pet/pen; fat/cat;
"длинные": как в people/me; moon/noon; car/far; door/more; girl/her.
Дифтонги (diphthongs):
как в here/near; poor/sure; my/mice; boy/toy; go/no; fair/where; how/now; baby/day.

Согласные:
глухие: pig/put; ten/task; chess/chair; clever/cat; frog/fox; thing/think; soup/see; she/ship;
звонкие: box/book; dog/door; joke/jump; goat/glass; very/Victor; this/that; zoo/zebra; usually/pleasure;
man/meal; now/not; sing/song; hat/hot; lake/look; red/rat; we/wind; yes/yet.


The words: furnished by Vlad Pervakov, 4B.

вторник, 13 ноября 2012 г.

4 Form: Topic "My School". By: Liza Zinchenko, Alex Sakharchuk, Nastya Yantsevich, Mary Pashkova.

MY   SCHOOL
My name is ...... , I'm ..... . I live in Moscow, in Russia. I go to school № 1293 specializing in the English language. Let me tell you about my school.

I began to go to school at the age of six. In Russia the school year usually begins on the first day of September. Pupils don't take any books on that day, they will get them later. We wear a school uniform. In our school girls wear a white blouse and a blue skirt or a dress and boys wear a white shirt and blue trousers. As for me, I wear ......   .

We go to school six days a week from Monday to Saturday and usually have four or five lessons on our timetable. Classes begin at half past nine and are over at about one in the afternoon. We study a lot of different subjects: Russian, English, Maths, Art, Music, Reading (Literature), Handicraft, Nature Study, P.E. My favourite subjects are ............ because................ (Maths: because I like to count and do sums, English: because I like to speak English, P.E.: because I like to run and jump, Art: because I can draw beautiful pictures and so on). We learn a lot of interesting things at school, listen to the teacher, read books, write, speak English in the English class . Sometimes we have classes outdoors: when it is warm in spring or autumn we play volleyball and basketball in the school sports ground; in winter we ski.

Our school is big, there are a lot of classrooms in it. Our class is comfortable and usually clean. There are sixteen desks, the teacher's table, a blackboard and a lot of bookcases in the room.There is a big photo of our form on the wall. There are three white windows in our classroom. The teacher's table is near the window and the blackboard, which is green. Opposite the blackboard there is a brown bookcase with a lot of books, exercise books and some toys which we made in our Handicraft classes. The door is yellow and the floor is brown. There is no carpet on the floor. We haven't got any animals at our school. What a pity! It would be great if we had birds or fish in our classroom.

We always have breakfast in our classroom. Our breakfast break is at 10.10 and we can have a drink, for example a glass of juice or water and eat youghurt or an apple with a cake.

After classes I usually go for a walk with my friends. We like to play different games outdoors, run and jump, play tag. (Play football in the sports ground near my school). I come home at half past two, have dinner and watch TV. Then I do my homework. 

All in all, I enjoy going to school. I learn a lot of things here and here are my friends. My best friend is ................ and we often meet after school and play together.



4 form: Topic "My School" by Vlad Pervakov

Schooling is the most interesting time in our life. We study and learn a lot at school. We meet many people and make a lot of friends. School becomes our second home. It is one of the places you always want to come back to.

My school is a five-storied building situated not far from the metro station Molodezhnaya. I study at a specialized English school № 1293. I would like to tell you about our school life.

I go to school six days a week. Our classes start at half past eight and last till one o'clock p.m. So we have 5 lessons a day. We study many different subjects: Russian, English, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Drawing, Handicraft, Nature Study, P.E.

The school year is divided into three terms. It begins on the first of September known as a day of Knowledge and finishes in May. Every pupil nas a day-book where teachers put down marks that the pupil has got in classes. During classes pupils answer the teacher's questions, do some exercises, write, count, read. After every lesson teachers give us home assignments. At the next lesson they check them up.

Our school has many classrooms. They are very much alike. The classrooms are light but not large. There are two windows in each classroom with flower pots on the window sills. Each room has a teacher's table, pupils' desks, a blackboard, bookcases, maps and pictures on the walls. There are specialized rooms for studying English, Chemistry and Physics.

There is an Assembly Hall on the fourth floor. It is rather large and light. We usually gather there to celebrate holidays. Before holidays we decorate the Assembly Hall with colourful newspapers, pictures, slogans, balloons and flowers. Our gym and canteen ar on the ground floor.

To do well at school one should do home assignments regularly, be active at the lessons and spend at least two-three hours every day studying. I like studying, my favourite proverb is "Live and learn".

четверг, 1 ноября 2012 г.

7 form: Topic "English -- a Language of the World" by Mary Timoshenko



ENGLISH -- A  LANGUAGE OF  THE  WORLD

            I would like to start by saying that nowadays more than 740 people all over the world speak English and use it. Of all the 2700 world languages, English is one of the richest: it has a vocabulary of about 500 000 words. German, for example, has 185 000 and French -- fewer than 100 000. There are a lot of borrowings from English in other languages, for instance, ‘bank’, ‘supermarket’, ‘department’, ‘business’, ‘office’, ‘class’, ‘career’.

            At the end of the 20th century English is more widely spoken and written than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the planet, the first truly global language. More than half of the world’s scientific periodicals and eighty per cent of the information in the world’s computers are also in English. It is the language of sports, the official language of the Olympics. English is the main language of business.           Correspondingly, people who speak English have better job opportunities. 

            I study English because my future job can be connected with the use of the English language. If I go to another country, I shall speak English fluently because I study it well at school. I have been learning the language for seven years and I enjoy it because I like speaking English, I like English songs, my friends and I listen to them quite often. I would like to use computer programs in English, travel to foreign countries, Britain, the USA; I would also like to read English and American books in the original. Besides, I’d like to watch English films, cartoons, and educational programmes. Last summer I was in an international summer camp and it was great to be able to talk to others and understand them well. I am going there next summer, too.

            In the future I would like to have a pen friend and write letters to him/her. I am also going to attend English courses to master the language. I believe it will be useful for me to communicate with my friends in an English-speaking club and communicate with British teenagers online.

            I want to master the language, keep it up and brush it up regularly. In order to do this we usually have grammar and vocabulary drills, read texts and poems, write topics, do tests and dictations, act out dialogues, translate texts into Russian, express our opinion and discuss various ideas, learn poems and topics by heart. We learn new words in context and in isolation, listen to native speakers of English at our listening classes, and discuss what we hear; listen to English dialogues and stories at home. I need to practice my English more to make it more correct and fluent.

            All in all, I am happy with the way I am taught English at school because we get a lot of useful and important information at our English classes. We have six English lessons a week and a lot of practice. We work hard in class and do a lot of homework at home. Besides, I read books in English and watch English films. I am proud when I realize that I can get the idea of what I am watching or listening to. 

            However, learning English isn’t easy. I have some difficulties while learning it. For example, phrasal verbs are hard to remember because the particle or preposition changes the meaning of the verb completely (get on, get off, get in have absolutely different meanings). To learn idioms is a complicated task, taking into consideration that we need to use up-to date ones, not old-fashioned. 

            Our world is constantly changing, and the English language is and has been changing, too. We need to keep up to date learning English and I’m sure we’ll be able to overcome all the difficulties in the process of learning.

воскресенье, 28 октября 2012 г.

8 Form: Topic "Choosing a Career" by Dan Klochkov

CHOOSING  A  CAREER

            I would like to start by saying that it is important to think over what profession to choose. I’m in the eighth form now and it’s high time I chose what subjects to specialize in.  However, it’s not easy to make the right decision even for most school-leavers.
            Part of the problem is in a numerous list of professions to choose from. Everyone should start with himself, to see where his interests lie. You must be realistic about your abilities, too. If you are good at maths, you can become an engineer or an economist, if you are a creative person, you can be a designer, an interior decorator or a photographer, if you like to work with people – teaching or social work is for you.
            There are many factors that influence the decision of young people to make their choice. Some people are encouraged by their relatives or friends, some follow in their parents’ footsteps. Sometimes it’s good, because your parents can share their experience with you. On the other hand, it can be dangerous because if you are not good at science or don’t want to serve people, you’ll never become a good doctor, like your father.
            As for me, I haven’t decided yet what profession to choose. While growing up I was interested in many things. I enjoyed painting, dancing, and sports. I also liked making models and I've always liked maths, especially geometry, and drawing.
            So I believe I might connect my future profession with architecture. A good architect needs such qualities as creativity, good imagination and accuracy. It’s a prestigious, satisfying and rewarding job. It can give you many new opportunities and chances of promotion. Besides, it’s a well-paid job.
            Of course I understand that I’ll need thorough training to become a real professional.  I am planning to study further at university; it may be Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy). I don’t mind working hard. I realize that in order to get there I’ll need to sit a lot of exams and I am going to prepare for them properly.
            I wish everyone makes up their mind and takes the best decision. Choose the right career, and you’ll be happy and contented; choose the wrong one – you’ll be unhappy and miserable. This might be a costly mistake which might need a long time to correct. That’s why we need to weigh all the pros and cons and budget our time correspondingly.

вторник, 23 октября 2012 г.

Linking Words

Positive Addition:

and, both...and, not only...but (also/as well), too, moreover, in addition to, furthermore, further, also, not to mention the fact that, besides

E.g. She's clever and rich.

Negative Addition:

neither...nor, nor, neither, either

E.g. Neither Barry nor Kevin knows how to drive. Barry doesn't know how to drive. Nor does Kevin.

Contrast:


but, not...but, although, while, whereas, despite, even if, even though, on the other hand, in contrast, however, (and) yet, at the same time

E.g. Riding a bicycle may not be as comfortable as driving a car, however it is much more environmentally friendly.

 Similarity:

similarly, likewise, in the same way, equally

E.g. A glass of milk before you go to bed may help you sleep. Similarly, a hot bath could do the trick.

Concession:

but, even so, however, (and) still, (and) yet, nevertheless, on the other hand, although, even though, despite/in spite of, regardless of, admittedly, considering, whereas, while, nonetheless

E.g. He carried on playing until the end of the game, even though he had a broken toe.

Alternative:

or, on the other hand, either ... or, alternatively

E.g. You could tell her the bad news, or/on the other hand/alternatively you could let her find out herself.

Emphasis:

besides, not only this but...also, as well, what is more, in fact, as a matter of fact, to tell you the truth, actually, indeed, let alone

E.g. I'm afraid you are not qualified for this job and, what is more, you are far too young.

Exemplification:

as, such as, like, for example, for instance, particularly, especially, in particular

E.g. All the performers were good, but Pavarotti in particular was magnificent.

Clarification:

that is to say, specifically, in other words, to put it another way, I mean

E.g. She's angry. Specifically, she's angry at you.

Cause/Reason:

as, because, because of, since, on the grounds that, seeing that, due to, in view of, owing to, for, now that, so

E.g. She decided to order a salad now that she had started her diet.

Manner:

as, (in) the way, how, the way in which, (in) the same way (as), as if, as though

E.g. The coach explained how the team could beat their opponents.

Condition:

if, in case, assuming (that), on condition (that), provided (that), providing (that), unless, in the event (that), in the event of, as/so long as, granted/granting (that), whether, whether...or(alternative condition), only if, even if, otherwise, or(else), in case of

E.g. The travel agency will contact you in the event that/in case your flight is changed.

Consequence of a condition:

consequently, then, under those circumstances, if so, if not, so, therefore, in that case, otherwise, thus

E.g. You may be caught by the enemy. If so, tell them nothing.

Purpose:

so that, so as (not) to, in order (not) to, in order that, for fear (that), in case, lest

E.g. Make a note of our appointment in your diary in case you forget about it.

Effect/Result:

such/so...that, consequently, for this reason, as a consequence, thus, therefore, so

E.g. He was the only child of a rich banker and, as a consequence, he was very spoilt.

Comparison:

as...as, than, half as...as, nothing like, the...the, twice as...as, less...than

E.g. Her second novel is nothing like her first.

Time:

when, whenever, as, while, now (that), before, until, till, after, since

E.g. I like to visit the cathedral whenever I'm in Durham.

Place:

where, wherever

E.g. Park your car wherever you want to.

Exception:

but (for), except (for), apart from

E.g. We had a lovely holiday, apart from that one day when it rained.

Relative:

who, whom, whose, which, what, that

E.g. There's the man whose house was burnt down.

Chronological: 
beginning: initially, first..., at first, to start/begin with, first of all

E.g. First of all, I'd like to thank my mother...

continuing: secondly..., after this/that, second..., afterwards, then, next, before this

E.g. Then, I must thank everyone involved in making this wonderful film...

concluding: finally, at last, in the end, eventually, lastly, last but not least

E.g. Finally, I want to thank you, my fans.

Reference:

considering, concerning, regarding, with respect/regard/reference to, in respect/regard/reference to this/to the fact that

E.g. Considering all the evidence, we find the accused "not guilty".
I'm writing with reference to your report on whales.

Summarising:

in conclusion, in summary, to sum up, as I have said, as (it) was previously stated, on the whole, in all, all in all, altogether, in short, briefly, to put if briefly

E.g. To sum up, the government must spend more money on public services.