INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AE2 SPEAKING FINAL EXAM
Summer semester 2 2013

1. Students are expected to give a 6-8 minute PERSUASIVE presentation with visual aids on a species of animal that needs urgent protection.
The focus of the presentation is to raise the audience’s awareness of the poor conditions for wild animals kept in captivity, poaching (illegal hunting) of wild animals that may lead to extinction, or cruel killing of animals for food. Accordingly, the main purpose is to persuade the audience to change their action (stop eating, killing or treating animals badly) or to call for their passive agreement with the issue that you raise.

2. Students should put their critical thinking in the talk rather than just searching for the information and copying/pasting.

3. Presentations should be well organized and include a good introduction, main body, transitions, and a conclusion where they summarize the main points.

4. Text should be limited on PowerPoint, with exceptions including the title of the presentation, main points, key/technical words, data and titles on graphs, tables, charts, and references.

5. A list of references is required to prove the validity of the information. Google or Wikipedia are commonly considered NOT reliable sources.

6. 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 8 minutes, examiners must stop the students. Time in minutes | Points deducted | Less than 5:00 mins | -15 pts | From 5:00 to 5:29 mins | -10 pts | From 5:30 to 5:59 mins | -05 pts | From 6:00 to 8:00 mins | | Over 8:00 mins (stop the student) | -05 pts |

Time in minutes | Points deducted | Less than 5:00 mins | -15 pts | From 5:00 to 5:29 mins | -10 pts | From 5:30 to 5:59 mins | -05 pts | From 6:00 to 8:00 mins | | Over 8:00 mins (stop the student) | -05 pts |

7. Examiners need to take into consideration not only the presentation skills and English fluency of the presenters but also the appropriateness of their presentations. Presenters should use language appropriate to foreigners and should not use visual images unrelated to their topic or inappropriate to the audience.

8. Examiners MUST raise one question to the presenters to test their response technique. Presenters do not need to give an answer exactly as expected by the examiner. They only need to demonstrate skills in handling the question by listening carefully, thanking the questioner, paraphrasing or clarifying the question for the entire audience and then responding confidently and satisfactorily.

9. The examiner should give verbal feedback to the students after all of the presentations.