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INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES -----------------
ON-GOING TEST Test paper Date:
INSTRUCTIONS (100-score scale, equivalent to 30% of the course)
1. Purposes: ‒ Test students’ knowledge of a formal presentation (CLO 1) ‒ Evaluate students’ competence via using appropriate strategies and skills in giving a successful informative presentation (CLO 2) ‒ Assess students’ techniques in designing and presenting with visual aids (CLO 3) 2. Requirements and Instructions: ‒ Get to the test room 10-15 minutes earlier to copy your presentations to the desktop computer. Students who come to the exam 15 minutes later than the exam schedule time may result in an exam prohibition. ‒ Take USB(s) as the primary source to save your presentations. This would allow fast copying of PPT files to the desktop. Once the test starts, you are timed strictly. ‒ Dress formally and use polite language. ‒ Plagiarism in any form is strictly punished. All forms of plagiarism and unauthorised collusion are seriously regarded and could result in penalties. Plagiarism occurs when students copy or reproduce people’s words or ideas and then present them as students’ own work without proper acknowledgement, including when students copy the work of their fellow students. Plagiarism in student presentations can be detected by: · some web-based programs such as SafeAssign or Turnitin, or · examiner's judgments with evidence of originals Penalties due to detected plagiarism include: · The content score (20 pts) is deducted · The visual aid score (10 pts) is deducted
Page 1 of 3 INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AE2 ON-GOING TEST
SEMESTER 1- 2024-2025
1. Each student is expected to give a 4–6-minute informative presentation with visual aids on an award-winning person or thing that (has) contributed certain value(s) to a specific community/mankind. The objectives of the presentation are: 1/ to raise the audience’s awareness of an achievement and 2/to foster a sense of community. Students MAY take the following into consideration: (i) Background/History of the award; (ii) Features of/Reasons for the achievement/recognition, (iii) Impacts on/Values for the community and/or mankind. 1. Students should be creative with the presentation rather than just searching for the information and copying/pasting. 2. Presentations should be well organized and include a good introduction, main body, transitions, and a conclusion which summarizes the main points. 3. PowerPoint slides should be prepared. The template of the first slide is provided. Notes: ▪ Text should be limited on PowerPoint, with exceptions including keynotes and technical words, data and titles on graphs, tables, charts, and references. ▪ A list of 3-5 references is required to prove the validity of the information. Google or Wikipedia are commonly considered NOT reliable sources. Brief citations on specific slides - e.g. (Source: WHO) – are recommended. ▪ Each student is expected to print out the slides (double-sided A4) and submit the hard copy to the examiner before the presentation starts. Students who fail to submit the hard copy of the slides will get their total scores deducted by 05 pts. 4. Examiners need to keep track of the time for students’ presentations and deduct points if the presentations are too short or too long. If they run over 6 minutes, examiners must signal the students to stop.
Time in minutes Points deducted
Less than 3:00 mins -15 pts
From 3:00 to 3:29 mins -10 pts
From 3:30 to 3:59 mins -05 pts
From 4:00 to 6:00 mins
Over 6:00 mins (stop the student) -05 pts
5. Examiners need to take into consideration not only the presentation skills and English fluency of the presenters but also the appropriateness of their presentations. Students should use language appropriate to foreigners and should not use visual images unrelated to their topic or inappropriate to the audience. 6. Q & A section is NOT required for the mid-term exam. 7. The examiner IS REQUIRED to GIVE (VERBAL) FEEDBACK and SHOW SCORES to the students after all the presentations have been done. The examiner announces to the students that the scores are tentative only.
Page 2 of 3 Template of the first slide:
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY – VNU HCMC
SEMESTER 1-2024-2025 EN012IU SPEAKING AE2
[Title of the presentation]
Student name: [Nguyễn Văn A]
Student ID: [ENENIU19123@student.hcmiu.edu.vn] Group [01] – Test room: [A1.123]
