ENGLISH CLASS RULES AND EVALUATION

Unidad de Estudios Superiores: Teacher’s name:

Degree: Group: Semester:

1. STUDENTS’ RIGHTS

a) Be in class and participating actively in all the activities.

b) Ask the teacher to repeat any information that was not understood and you will receive feedback and support with respect.
c) Students learning A1 level are allowed to speak Spanish only if it is necessary.
d) Drink bottled water only. Eating food inside the classroom is not allowed.
e) Use cellphones for academic purposes or for emergency calls only. If a student is caught using social networks, they will be
asked to leave the classroom.
f) Enter and leave the classroom as long as you have gotten the teacher’s permission.

2. STUDENTS’ DUTIES

a) Be on time. If you arrive after 10 minutes, you can enter the classroom as long as you answer a question related to the topics
seen in previous classes. If you answer correctly, you can enter the class and the absence will be canceled. If you answer
incorrectly you can enter the classroom, but will be marked as absent and the activities won’t be signed.
b) Students learning levels A2, A2+, B1, B1+ must speak English during the class.
c) Respect all ideas given in class and do not criticize anyone’s ideas, thoughts or beliefs.
d) Respect each other’s learning and do not make fun of pronunciation or grammar mistakes.
e) Respect your own learning. If you are doing homework of any subject other than English during class, the teacher will mark
you as absent.
f) Respect the teacher
g) Bring all the necessary material such as original book, notebook, dictionary, homework, etc.
h) Tidy the classroom when finished working.
i) Deliver classwork and homework on time. In case of absence, it must be justified as soon as possible.
j) Cheating on the exam is not allowed. If a student cheats, their exam will be cancelled and they will lose their exam percentage.
k) Homework and other activities must be handed in on the date and with the characteristics that were asked by the teacher, if
they don’t meet these requirements, they will lose their initial value.

3. EVALUATION

a) Students must attend class the revision day, that is the only day to receive grades.
b) Students are responsible of verifying and making sure that their grade was uploaded correctly, if not correct, they can request the
grade correction within the next three working days after the grade was uploaded.
Attendance Percentages:
a) 80% of attendance is required in order to take the final exam.
b) 60% of attendance is required in order to take the extraordinary exam.
c) 40% of attendance is required in order to take the sufficiency exam.

Evaluation Percentages:
a) Partial Exams b) Final, Extraordinary and Sufficiency Exams

EVALUATION EVALUATION
PERCENTAGE INDICATOR PERCENTAGE INDICATOR
Grammar (10%) Grammar (20%)
Writing (10%) Writing (20%)
Exam 60% Reading (10%) Exam 100% Reading (20%)
Listening (10%) Listening (20%)
Speaking (20%) Speaking (20%)
Activities 20% Homework and Classwork
Project 20% Studying Area
TOTAL 100%

Speaking Rubric:

Inadequate (1) Fair (2) Good (4) Excellent (5)

FLUENCY Speech is slow, hesitant Speech is frequently Smooth and fluid speech; Smooth and fluid speech;
and strained except for hesitant with some few hesitations; a slight few to no hesitations; no
short memorized phrases; sentences left search of words; inaudible attempts to search for
difficult to perceive uncompleted; volume word or two. words; volume is excellent.
continuity in speech; very soft.
inaudible.

PRONUNCIATION Pronunciation is lacking Pronunciation is okay; Pronunciation is good; Pronunciation is excellent;

and hard to understand; No effort towards a good effort at accent. good effort at accent.
AND ACCENT No effort towards a native native accent.
accent.

VOCABULARY Weak language control; Weak language control; Good language control; Excellent control of language
vocabulary that is used do basic vocabulary choice good range of relatively features; a wide range of
not match the task. with some words well-chosen vocabulary. well-chosen vocabulary.
clearly lacking.

GRAMMAR Frequent grammatical Frequent grammatical Some errors in Accuracy and variety of
errors even in simple errors even in simple grammatical structures grammatical structures.
structures; meaning is structures that at times possibly caused by
obscured. obscure meaning. attempt to include a
variety.

DETAILS Description is so lacking Description lacks some Good level of description; Excellent level of
that the listener cannot critical details that all required information is description; additional
understand. make it difficult for the included. details beyond the required.
listener to understand.

Total score: ____

Writing Rubric:

Inadequate (1) Fair (2) Good (3) Very good (4) Excellent (5)

STUCTURE AND Writer makes 8 or Writer makes from Writer makes from Writer makes from Writer makes from
PUNCTUATION more errors in 6 to 7 errors in 4 to 5 errors in 2 to 3 errors in 0 to 1 errors in
grammar and grammar and grammar and grammar and grammar and
punctuation punctuation punctuation punctuation punctuation

VOCABULARY Writer uses some Writer uses a few Writer uses enough Writer uses a lot of Writer uses a wide
AND SPELLING isolated words that vocabulary to have vocabulary to vocabulary and range of vocabulary
make no sense, and a general idea of complete the task makes from 0 to 2 for detailed
makes 7 or more the text, and makes and makes from 3 errors in spelling information and
errors in spelling from 5 to 6 errors in to 4 errors in makes no errors in
spelling spelling spelling

COHESION AND Text is difficult to A few parts of the Text sometimes is Text is most of the Text is easy to
COHERENCE follow. Ideas are text are difficult to easy to follow. times easy to follow.
unclear and follow. A few ideas Ideas are follow. Ideas are
disorganized are unclear and sometimes clear generally clear and Ideas are clear and
disorganized and organized organized organized

TASK Writer does not Writer follows a few Writer follows some Writer follows Writer follows all
ACHIEVEMENT follow instructions of the instructions of the instructions almost all the the instructions
given given instructions given given

Total score: ____