GUIDELINES FOR FINAL ORAL EXAM F10

Please bring a hard copy of your script in Spanish and English the day of the Oral Exam.
As part of your FINAL ORAL EXAMININATION, you and your partner will perform a small interaction/dialogue the last week of classes. This performance aims to make you practice your acting and easiness with a topic/topics with Spanish language and culture. You and your classmate/s will create a dialogue/interaction/interchange that focuses on a specific situation/situations focused on the objectives of one/two or various lessons covered in SPN 101-102. You are required to include SIX QUESTIONS/ANSWERS/SENTENCES (connected with the GRAMMAR ESTRUCTURAS) practiced during the semester in your final script.
What is the format for a Performance script?
Imagine a situation in which you are having problems in communication. Imagine the situation to be happening here in the US. Therefore adopt different roles (one person who speaks more English and a person who speaks more Spanish interacting in a gathering, party, class, store, doctor’s room, social services office, prison, courtroom, etc). Imagine the person to be from a country familiar to you (you researched one already; the country of your amigo, co-worker). Write a small description of the situation and the characters. Be sure that the dialogue has a flow. You are required to write a very RELEVANT, CREATIVE, and EDGY script for your performance. Imagine this performance will be posted on YouTube and you can win a PRIZE for IT. If necessary, you are also encouraged to provide some notes (in English) for situation changes, characters’ new identities and emotions, or the like to provide a sense of the interaction and why some scenes change during the performance.
What is the format of your actual PERFORMANCE?
Students are required to REHEARSE their lines prior to their final performance. In the actual oral exam, you will act out, perform, enact your momentary new identities/roles as it were a REAL-LIFE SITUATION/INTERACTION. Imagine yourself as a potential ACTOR. Your intonation, voice, and use of props are closely associated with the RELEVANCY, CREATIVITY and EDGYNESS of your performance. You won’t be able to read any lines from your script.

How are PERFORMANCES graded?
Area Total points Needs help Very Good Outstanding
RELEVANCE of performance to question/ task/ assignment. Background sections are helpful. 10 15 20
CREATIVITY Students created a difference with their performance; they acted in unique way and caught the audience’s attention. 20 25 30
SPANISH LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE
Students act, pronounce and enunciate clearly and use their acting and bodies to convey their meanings clearly. They improvise their lines if they forgot the scripts and achieved their communication goal. 30 35 40
SCRIPT QUALITY: Edited, clear sentences, accent marks, and handed in on time. 4 7 10